John Doe 9/27/02 (1 Viewer)

I finally sat down and watch both episode of John Doe. They were a couple of the fastest moving episodes of TV I've seen in quite a while.
I don't know how much longer the audience can believe how much stuff JD knows at the drop of a hat, and still make it plausible. I'm wondering if he's a government project that went awry and he got out, but not before getting a persona mind erase. I guess there's that form of amnesia that affects the details of one's identity, but they retain the rest of their knowledge bank.
I was chuckling when he instantly knows languages. Why hasn't the CIA picked up this guy?
Anyhow, I'll stick around for at least another 10 episodes to see how long they can string the audience along without resorting to cheesy plot devices to keep his identity this big mystery.

Of course, that's what the last scene was about (the place from where he was part of a covert operation for super-smart agents).

Some of reminds me of the Matrix where a person can drive/fly things be getting a download of the instructions into their brain. John Doe just happens to have a lot of those operational instructions in his head.

Some of it does stretch incredulity, and makes for lazy teleplay writing. But for now, it's still fast-moving and enjoyable.

But you have to admire that not only does he know facts, but he's able to use those facts in order to test for other conclusions to solve crimes.

What I like is that the premise allows the writers to make cases that wouldn't appear on an normal police drama. Such cases would be labelled as unsolved and stay on the books forever. The scifi element makes it so much more interesting.

The solutions to his background could be Alien,Divine, government experiment,etc. It seems like the last 2 scenes from each of the episodes is showing different possible answers to his background.

1-In the Pilot episode we see the woman calling him "Tommy". So he could just be some guy, who had something happen to him.

2-In the second episode we see a group in the middle east scanning the worlds newspapers for something. Being from Jerusalem (A hub for 3 or the world's religions). Maybe, they are searching for someone who is devinely sent. Possibly a messiah, messanger???

Who knows the next episode may show some clue that he is not of this planet.
In any case I enjoy the show and hope Fox doesn't cancel it.

Don't forget that he was able to speak Vietnamese and the other Asian Language (in the pilot) just by hearing it, there's no reason why he couldn't be speaking English the exact same way. He could be from anywhere.

My only issue is that what kind of ultra secret foreign intelligence operation gets their information from newspapers? He had reported himself missing in 150 Police departments, any "Secret Television Cabal" worth their salt would have tapped the police and Interpol (which was also mentioned) years ago.

Yeah, I thought Istanbul too. Probably the Hagia Sophia.

Isn't Istanbul a bit green for what we saw, though?

I thought it was Jerusalem.

Me too! I could have sworn that they had shown 'The Temple on the Mount'. At least I think that is what they call it.

Glenn

It definitely was Jerusalem. The Temple Mount was in the background.

Sorry guys, that is definitely not the Temple Mount, which has a gold dome and no spires around it, but it's the Link Removed, like Jon said.

It certainly looks more like the Hagia Sophia, but if it is then that picture is old or 2 spires have been misplaced.

Or if done in CGI, it could have been Nowherestan