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Dills
29 Aug 2008, 10:18 AM
premiering on fox on september 9th ... it's the 4th tv series created by JJ Abrams (of lost, alias, and cloverfield fame, in case you've been living under a rock :p ).
according to the wikipedia entry, the show ...
deals with a research scientist named Walter Bishop, his son, and a female FBI agent who brings them back together. The show is being described as a cross between The X-Files, Altered States, and The Twilight Zone.
thoughts? preconceptions?
Helghallen
29 Aug 2008, 10:44 AM
Previews look good. I'm there.
Dills
09 Sep 2008, 01:21 PM
it's on tonight ... hope the contractor's done installing the new bamboo floor so i can hook my TV back up.
i hadn't realized there was so much viral marketing for this show. that said, i'm not surprised either. ;)
Hungry Dave
09 Sep 2008, 01:36 PM
To be honest, I'd be surprised if there wasn't viral marketting with JJ Abrams.
Crimson Ace
09 Sep 2008, 05:51 PM
thoughts? preconceptions?
I don't know. It seems pretty far-fetched that a trained assassin could have amnesia and a spit-personality disorder.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c101/sherrykost/junk/Image1.jpg
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QuakeAttack
09 Sep 2008, 07:07 PM
premiering on fox on september 9th ... it's the 4th tv series created by JJ Abrams (of lost, alias, and cloverfield fame, in case you've been living under a rock :p ).
according to the wikipedia entry, the show ...
thoughts? preconceptions?
Funny, I watched only a couple of Lost espisodes, no alias, and cloverfield looked like crap from the previews. Dam! I guess that I live under a rock!
Wait and see. I'm going to give Heroes one last shoot after a disapointing second season.
Helghallen
09 Sep 2008, 09:42 PM
The characters show a lot of potential. Who would have though Joshua Jackson could pull off this character. I want to see more of Broyles. And Walter looks to be quite the intriguing character certainly.
someone told me that a girl from my high school was in the show. Jasika Nicole who plays Astrid Farnsworth is said girl. Might watch it once to see how she does.
JeremyEritrea
09 Sep 2008, 11:34 PM
Wow!!!
Fantastic show.
Dante
10 Sep 2008, 12:17 AM
I really, really liked this first episode. It had a motion picture feel to it with the cinematography. I hope they can keep it up.
Did anyone else notice that the music is straight out of Lost.
So far, favorite new show of the season.
MLSNHTOWN
10 Sep 2008, 01:09 PM
I really, really liked this first episode. It had a motion picture feel to it with the cinematography. I hope they can keep it up.
Did anyone else notice that the music is straight out of Lost.
So far, favorite new show of the season.
Yeah I didn't like the music being straight out of Lost. IMHO that bothered me alot. But all in all, I liked the show.
riverplate
10 Sep 2008, 02:23 PM
I didn't pay the slightest attention to any music. I almost never do when I'm watching a movie or TV show -- unless they're musicals to begin with.
Anyway, I enjoyed it, but I thought it would only be an hour. It kind of started going on and on.
Murcer68
10 Sep 2008, 05:59 PM
Did anyone else notice that the music is straight out of Lost.
Normally I don't really hear music while I'm watching a tv show, but the Lost music is so distinctive, that I picked up on it too.
When they were going to the mental institution, part of me was wondering if they would run into Hurley there.
Motterman
10 Sep 2008, 07:30 PM
Missed it, but they're replaying the pilot on the 14th....
spejic
10 Sep 2008, 09:38 PM
I didn't care for it. You need some kind of coherent system behind the unreal stuff (like the mythology of Buffy or psudoscience of Star Trek) to allow suspension of disbelief. If the only thread holding the "fringe" stuff together is that it is "fringe", then you are just going to keep getting easy deus ex machina solutions to problems such as the brain LAN and cure to Boston Legal guy's condition.
wcgcapone
10 Sep 2008, 11:42 PM
They're certainly not afraid to put money behind this show; that was a $10M pilot. It looks like it could be a really fun show.
"Excellent, let's make some LSD!"
FabFiveFigo
11 Sep 2008, 09:57 AM
The concept is right up my alley to start with, so I'm on board. The one thing I see coming that may bother me is I can envision the crazy scientist turning into the guy who did amazing, groundbreaking work in every field imaginable, and is an absolute expert at everything.
I dig the location identifiers being integrated into their surroundings.
TheSlipperyOne
11 Sep 2008, 11:52 AM
I have to admit this was much better than I expected it to be. The acting was decent. The plot was a good set-up and it's one that I think could go to some interesting places with The Pattern and the Big Ominous Company tying in so it's not just one off random happenings. A possible bigger (worldwide) conspiracy.
I didn't care for it. You need some kind of coherent system behind the unreal stuff (like the mythology of Buffy or psudoscience of Star Trek) to allow suspension of disbelief. If the only thread holding the "fringe" stuff together is that it is "fringe", then you are just going to keep getting easy deus ex machina solutions to problems such as the brain LAN and cure to Boston Legal guy's condition.
That would be The Pattern and the BOC whose founder worked with the mad scientist.
spejic
11 Sep 2008, 05:44 PM
That would be The Pattern and the BOC whose founder worked with the mad scientist.That isn't the same thing. The Pattern is the evidence that someone is working on "fringe" stuff and using it in public. What I'm looking for is some reason that "fringe" stuff actually works, and why no one except these few people know about it, and how all the fringe stuff is interconnected so that one person can be an expert in brain downloads and chemicals that make you invisible and every crackpot idea of the week they are going to throw into the series. They have not shown one, and from what I have seen they are not going to have one. It is unfathomable to me that two people that have perfectly matched skills in an extremely wide array of disciplines, all of which are completely unknown to all other researchers, are fighting each other for the fate of the world. It's all way too convenient. Everything about the series is just way too convenient.
TheSlipperyOne
11 Sep 2008, 06:22 PM
They have not shown one, and from what I have seen they are not going to have one.
How many episodes have you seen? I've only seen one and it seems pretty obvious to me they're going to be building a mythology behind the series to me.
It is unfathomable to me that two people that have perfectly matched skills in an extremely wide array of disciplines, all of which are completely unknown to all other researchers, are fighting each other for the fate of the world. It's all way too convenient. Everything about the series is just way too convenient.
I find it funny you say this yet in your prior post you reference Star Trek's pseudo-science being okay.