MONDO EXTRAS

We are introduced to the (ahem) high-concept Night Visions with an aerial shot of a Aidan Quinn's bald, bloated body hooked up to myriad machines, which are keeping his aforementioned bald, bloated body alive. A voice-over fills in the radio audience: "Can you imagine? He can't move, speak, or hear. He can't even close his eyes." Another voice tells us, "But there is activity in his brain. It's like the plot of one of his books. The famous horror writer imprisoned in his own flesh." FYI: he had to say flesh because it's a way creepier word than "body," and they're trying for creepy, in case you couldn't tell from the dramatic lighting. As the camera swoops down and zooms into his unblinking eye, the voice-over continues, "All those stories trapped in his mind. I wonder what he's thinking right now?" I know what I'm thinking right now: The network knew what it was doing when it decided not to launch this series. Anyway.

I guess what Aidan Quinn is thinking right now is that he (with a full head of hair and a frumpy brown corduroy jacket) is walking through a forest littered with the still-burning pieces of an airplane. As he bends down to examine a piece of the plane, his beeper goes off But it's not a beeper. It's a Palm Pilot of sorts with perfect text messaging capability. Maybe if I actually read my Wired magazines instead of immediately depositing them in the recycling bin I would know if that was a real gadget or not. I'm going with it being a figment of the bald, bloated Aidan Quinn's imagination. So the imaginary palm pilot beeper thing tells him to "Call Command ASAP re: Major Aircraft Accident." As he dials Command, two paramedics arrive. "There's one! You're going to be all right, sir, can you lie down please?" Aidan Quinn fills them in that he wasn't on the plane, but is instead the National Transportation Safety Board investigator. While he talks with Command, we find out that he actually saw the flight go down. And in case you didn't catch that, the paramedics spell it out: "You're with the NTSB and you saw the plane go down? What are the odds of that?" "About the same odds of anyone surviving this thing," replies Aidan Quinn. The camera pans across the wreckage and moves up to the trees, where we see a body hanging halfway up. Or is it halfway down? The paramedics cough and look uncomfortable. "First plane crash, guys? Well, keep looking for the living, 'cause you never know. Anything's possible. " We get another shot of the body in the tree, but this time we get a good look at her shoe. Which is leopard print. Because animal prints are all the rage for fall. ["Yeah -- fall of 1998." -- Sars] Then Aidan Quinn surveys the wreckage some more. And even the tough, seen-it-all NTSB investigator gets a little misty-eyed when he spots a burning teddy bear.

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We are introduced to the (ahem) high-concept Night Visions with an aerial shot of a Aidan Quinn's bald, bloated body hooked up to myriad machines, which are keeping his aforementioned bald, bloated body alive. A voice-over fills in the radio audience: "Can you imagine? He can't move, speak, or hear. He can't even close his eyes." Another voice tells us, "But there is activity in his brain. It's like the plot of one of his books. The famous horror writer imprisoned in his own flesh." FYI: he had to say flesh because it's a way creepier word than "body," and they're trying for creepy, in case you couldn't tell from the dramatic lighting. As the camera swoops down and zooms into his unblinking eye, the voice-over continues, "All those stories trapped in his mind. I wonder what he's thinking right now?" I know what I'm thinking right now: The network knew what it was doing when it decided not to launch this series. Anyway. I guess what Aidan Quinn is thinking right now is that he (with a full head of hair and a frumpy brown corduroy jacket) is walking through a forest littered with the still-burning pieces of an airplane. As he bends down to examine a piece of the plane, his beeper goes off But it's not a beeper. It's a Palm Pilot of sorts with perfect text messaging capability. Maybe if I actually read my Wired magazines instead of immediately depositing them in the recycling bin I would know if that was a real gadget or not. I'm going with it being a figment of the bald, bloated Aidan Quinn's imagination. So the imaginary palm pilot beeper thing tells him to "Call Command ASAP re: Major Aircraft Accident." As he dials Command, two paramedics arrive. "There's one! You're going to be all right, sir, can you lie down please?" Aidan Quinn fills them in that he wasn't on the plane, but is instead the National Transportation Safety Board investigator. While he talks with Command, we find out that he actually saw the flight go down. And in case you didn't catch that, the paramedics spell it out: "You're with the NTSB and you saw the plane go down? What are the odds of that?" "About the same odds of anyone surviving this thing," replies Aidan Quinn. The camera pans across the wreckage and moves up to the trees, where we see a body hanging halfway up. Or is it halfway down? The paramedics cough and look uncomfortable. "First plane crash, guys? Well, keep looking for the living, 'cause you never know. Anything's possible. " We get another shot of the body in the tree, but this time we get a good look at her shoe. Which is leopard print. Because animal prints are all the rage for fall. ["Yeah -- fall of 1998." -- Sars] Then Aidan Quinn surveys the wreckage some more. And even the tough, seen-it-all NTSB investigator gets a little misty-eyed when he spots a burning teddy bear.

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