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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 30, 2015 16:37:37 GMT -5
And now it looks like CNN does indeed have Johnny Napier on the Hunt front page now.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Jul 30, 2015 16:41:41 GMT -5
Megan Everett and Johnny Napier are both listed at the top of the official website but only Megan has an article. Johnny Napier has a video still on the site so it looks he is in fact getting aired.
I'm more than happy that Johnny Napier was caught last year and wasn't able to victimize any more children before his The Hunt profile, but surely there were other cases that could have been filmed in the numerous months after November 2014. Kevin Diaz and Marcos Robles are both somewhat recent fugitives wanted for killing children and could have easily been featured over the arrested Johnny Napier.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 30, 2015 17:10:01 GMT -5
On a positive note, they finally fixed the tip link and it now says Margaret and not George Smith lol. (I can say it now, in private I told HeadMarshal the Hunt would be crazy to air a case even the FBI closed and couldn't rule a homicide over a fugitive. Turns out I got all livid over just an error and thankfully it is Margaret Smith lol)
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 31, 2015 17:14:11 GMT -5
Just found out CNN is not airing a Paul Jackson repeat tonight at 9 PM ET as planned so they can re-air the flight 370 special?
Are you f-ing kidding me? I understand the case is in the news again but do you really have to re-hash an old segment and replace an airing that could lead to the capture of a dangerous fugitive because of it?
Last year I was afraid CNN's obsession with flight 370 would somehow interrupt the Hunt even in the months after it wasn't found. I had no idea it would actually be an entire year and a half later when I'd really have to worry about that.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 31, 2015 19:29:31 GMT -5
Ok so maybe I'm grasping here but I just thought of a reason that *might* justify The Hunt airing Napier despite his capture.
On his FBI profile, it says Napier is believe to have possibly molested other young girls besides the two victims who came forward.
So perhaps the Hunt is airing his case anyway in case more victims come forward, thereby ensuring them justice and ensuring Napier gets put away for good?
Still doesn't explain if they air Paul Winklebleck anyway but it's a plausible explanation for Napier at least.
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Post by Scumhunter on Jul 31, 2015 20:37:52 GMT -5
Or maybe not, since an article came out that just talks about the case and four alleged victims he's accused of molesting.
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 2, 2015 13:26:41 GMT -5
Here is the case description for the August 23rd episode of The Hunt:
"After allegedly murdering his parents in a drug-filled haze of rage and anger, a young father then abandons his child and flees South."
Although I wasn't aware of the "drug-filled haze" aspect or that he had a kid, this does sound like Matthew Dion. (Who killed his parents in New Hampshire, and then fled South).
In this case, unlike with Johnny Napier, The Hunt really didn't have much time to replace Dion. So while I can't put too much blame on them airing an already captured fugitive in this instance, this does mean an entire hour without a fugitive to be potentially captured by viewers.
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 2, 2015 13:31:56 GMT -5
So we have Johnny Napier, Matthew Dion, Alexander Hill Jr., and Paul Winklebleck likely to be aired this season. Last season The Hunt had 11 fugitives (not counting Jacob Wetterling's abductor). If the Hunt even has 20 fugitives this season, that's still only five more unresolved cases for viewers to potentially capture this season considering the already resolved cases. I thought a 16-episode season would solve the problem of the 1-2 cases an episode dilemma, but while I'm thankful for the captures (or Winklebleck's case- that we discovered he died), it's pretty much the same problem as last season after all. This might be an anomaly and season 3 most of the cases won't be resolved, but who knows. CNN needs to not delay the season debut for so long to make sure that doesn't happen again. (I am of course assuming there is a season 3- which I don't see why there wouldn't be).
Part of it is just The Hunt's bad luck that CNN delayed the season as Dion and Hill at least wouldn't have been caught yet if the show debuted when it was supposed to. But with AMW, when they would air an already resolved case, they at least had other cases on the show to fall back on. If they feel even a 15 seconds of shame type thing would still affect the story, I propose The Hunt does just one "multiple fugitive" episode a season, which shouldn't affect the format too much (like a 50 States, 50 Fugitives type deal or at least one fast-paced episode a season). It wouldn't be weekly, so it wouldn't affect telling the entire stories of other cases they want to air.
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Post by HeadMarshal on Aug 2, 2015 16:47:33 GMT -5
Here is the case description for the August 23rd episode of The Hunt: "After allegedly murdering his parents in a drug-filled haze of rage and anger, a young father then abandons his child and flees South." Although I wasn't aware of the "drug-filled haze" aspect or that he had a kid, this does sound like Matthew Dion. (Who killed his parents in New Hampshire, and then fled South). In this case, unlike with Johnny Napier, The Hunt really didn't have much time to replace Dion. So while I can't put too much blame on them airing an already captured fugitive in this instance, this does mean an entire hour without a fugitive to be potentially captured by viewers. Why are we still getting so many one-hour episodes dedicated to one case instead of two? Some of the two-case episodes have been the best episodes of The Hunt so far, Dan Hiers/Tomas Gonzalez and Thayne Smika/Frederick "Rick" McLean come to mind. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 2, 2015 17:22:49 GMT -5
I sort of technically disagree about the Tomas Gonzalez/Dan Hiers, while a good episode as usual, I wouldn't call it one of the best, but that's besides the point and just my opinion.
I think Matthew Dion's case did deserve an entire hour at the time he was still on the run- but the problem is now he's been caught.
And so far, Yaser Said and Paul Jackson were both very good one-hour episodes.
But yeah, not EVERY case needs to be one hour. I felt both Victor Barnard and Guillermo Ballesteros's cases last years could have been cut down to 40 minutes. Even Shane Miller, the debut episode, was a bunch of talking about how beautiful the neighborhood was for like the first 10 minutes so one could argue even his episode could have been shortened as well.
The Hunt is a very good show, but they should take "unnecessary filler" situations into mind in order to air more cases.
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 2, 2015 21:06:45 GMT -5
Ok, review time. Megan Everett segment was good. And I think NOBODY- not even the idiots who always say a mother can't be a kidnapper- is on Megan's side after it. We saw pictures of Lilly around live ammunition and even Megan's own mother and sister against her. Although I'm not a psychiatrist, based on Megan's said jumping around from different groups of friends, I feel her mental illness may be some sort of bipolar disorder. Regardless, Lilly is in danger if she's hanging out with these flaggers. And in addition to that, if she gets sick, Megan probably isn't going to take her to a doctor for treatment. Johnny Napier segment was good considering the circumstances (already captured). And out of all the Hunt re-enactments so far, I think the actor may have been the most dead-on accurate in portrayal of what the fugitive seemed to be like and looked like. If he hadn't been caught already, he would have been after The Hunt.  |
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 3, 2015 18:15:12 GMT -5
Just wanted to say we can now call this season a success now that we've had a capture from it. I was getting worried season 2 might not see any direct results since this was the fourth and if you count the season 1 preview technically fifth episode. Great job viewers, but our work isn't done. We need to get two-in-a-row and get Prakashanad Saraswati next week. |
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Post by HeadMarshal on Aug 8, 2015 9:49:44 GMT -5
The 9th episode on August 30th is titled "The Disappearing". No synopsis but perhaps Timothy Pitzen's case will be aired since he's a missing child.
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Post by Scumhunter on Aug 8, 2015 10:37:54 GMT -5
I'd say that's probably Timmothy Pitzen, since he's mentioned in the tip link and every other case in that tip link would have been aired by then. I am concerned if the entire hour is on him though. The Hunt is a fugitive show and there should be at least one fugitive case on every show to increase the odds of capture. (As I always said, I'd rather recover a missing child, but those cases are much harder to solve. The reason The Hunt solved the Lilly Baumann case was they had a known abductor. Having a fugitive case on the episode as well increases the odds for at least one case to get solved from it.)
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Post by HeadMarshal on Aug 8, 2015 10:57:48 GMT -5
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