Almost Human

When he got the gun, turned and shot him I was like "okay, that looks like a shot that would eventualy kill him- did he want him dead? or...oh nm"

Potential is being squandered fast.

Nah, I think it is just finding its footing. I do hope they can get back on to the "main plot" however.. but I think we are all hoping that this is not going to be another example of Fox messing things up.

Well, it has already been confirmed that the first seven episodes or so are aired out of order.

And it's kinda obvious when you see the protagonist warming up to his android in the hostages episode and this it looked like their relationship took a step back.

Why do they do that? I mean seriously?

well, really should not be noticeable yet

1.01 Pilot (#1.01)
1.02 ?Skin?- (#1.05)
1.03 ?Are You Receiving? ? (#1.06)
1.04 ?The Bends? ? (#1.07)
1.05 ?Blood Brothers? ? (#1.08) (December 9)
1.06 ?Arrhythmia? ? (#1.03) (December 16)

Click to expand...

xadion_sl said:

Why do they do that? I mean seriously?

Click to expand...

Because there are times (usually when you are trying to build an audience at the beginning, or trying to get the best ratings for sweeps) when not airing a clunker is the #1 goal.

Personally, that Fox execs thought "Skin" was the best option out of at least four episodes (2, 3, 4, & 5) makes me cringe.

It also explains the sudden two week delay of the launch - "go make some better* episodes, now".

*better in exec-speak not necessarily meaning anything like quality, mind you.

Probably irrelevant in any case, as the numbers have dropped below what Bones did, AND Fox has Gang Related (basically Fast & Furious the TV show) waiting in the wings. I would guess 13 is all you get, and Gang Related takes over after the Olympics are over.

So there is an actual storyline with this show but they are choosing to air things out of order so that's why it doesn't seem like it?

I don't think there's a storyline. It's truly episodic. It'll probably get canceled which is too bad. Its easily one of the better network sci-fi shows to come out in years. Which isn't saying much because when was the last network sci-fi show? Was itactuallyfirefly? But this one is adequately written, well acted, and itlooksreally nice.

DS9 also was entirely episodic for the first two seasons. And a show like this would probably need an storyline if they hit season2 or season3. Think of S1 as pure exposition. It's presenting the characters, detailing the environment, and showing the conflicts. Later seasons deal with resolving the conflicts.

Iannis_sl said:

when was the last network sci-fi show? Was itactuallyfirefly?

Click to expand...

Dollhouse, Terminator, Flashforward, Terra Nova, Eleventh Hour, Threshold, Invasion, (arguably) Lost, (arguably) Chuck, (questionably) Journeyman - and that's just off the top of my head!

Of course, few of those shows even lived for two seasons...

Well, every detective-type show has a female cop with big titties. (Speaking of which, add Alcatraz to the list! Mmm, Sarah Jones' boobs...)

But I was referring toEleventh Hour (TV Series 2008-2009) - IMDb, which ran on CBS, Thursdays @10pm I think. Premiering the same season as Fringe (though an adaptation of a British show with Patrick Stewart that ran a couple years earlier), it was essentially Season 1 of Fringe without the mythology.

Ah yeah, there have been quite a few.

I think Terminator and Fringe are the only two that really count. But that's entirely a matter of opinion and tbh I barely watched any of those that you listed so I'm probably wrong to begin with.

I suppose the elements were there but they felt more like set pieces than story elements. For this one, the black dude is an android so that's a pretty solid scifi story element.

All I mean it takes more than pew pew lazers to be scifi.

think Defying Gravity was the last network scifi in space show which don't think abc aired the full season.

Show is quickly getting too self-contained for my tastes. All the world-building and characterization and scene setting is great, but good writers can do all these things while telling a 'main' story. Not to mention all these things are pretty fucked anyhow because of showing everything out of order. In theory, the world and characters were presented in order, to create order, and out of order things are quickly feeling less like progression of any kind, which makes the characters feel stereotypes of themselves and everything that came before that we'll compare them to as we fill things in for ourselves that aren't being filled in by a sense of progression in any singular direction.

In short, I feel like I'm watching a pilot over and over, and even with the high production value, good acting, and decent self-contained writing, am not really eager to ever see the next episode until I have nothing better to do.