Someday, someone needs to turn over a TV show to Guy's tender mercies. The resulting train wreck would be awesome to observe, and would beat the heck out of the boring sludge we're getting instead. 
How do you guys get youtube videos to show up in here?
I only can figure out how to link it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdW6mUmmZKE
I only can figure out how to link it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdW6mUmmZKE
[ yt ] your youtube link here [ /yt ]
don't include the spaces in the code above and don't try to edit your post after posting.
But hey, what do I know? I apparently haven't figured out how to use linking or google yet.
Thanks!
This show seems determined to make the whole concept of serial killers boring.
This episode didn't provide anything other than the possibility of alternate realities, but that's not saying much. Other than that, I didn't like this one at all. It's just the same 'ol same 'ol with the whole thing of poisoning a bunch of Warrior Fans. What the hell was that?
Anyway, I am afraid this show is going to be cancelled soon and we won't know the mystery and a year from now it will be a forgotten show. I'm still watching simply because I'm curious, but they really need more of a mystical episode instead of tracking another inmate. They have got to change it up and maybe add something to the format because right now it feels stilted.
Anyway, I am afraid this show is going to be cancelled soon and we won't know the mystery and a year from now it will be a forgotten show. I'm still watching simply because I'm curious, but they really need more of a mystical episode instead of tracking another inmate. They have got to change it up and maybe add something to the format because right now it feels stilted.
Still sports the cherubic blond cutey, but getting a bit boring...
Does anyone know the name of the actor who played the Mr big who got killed at the prison movie night?
It's not coming up on IMDB and it's really bugging me.
It's not coming up on IMDB and it's really bugging me.
J
Jetfire
Guest
Being a week behind...Just got finished watching "Paxton Petty"
I thought it was a pretty good ep. I am really enjoying the show, but...
Mon 2-20-2012
I thought it was a pretty good ep. I am really enjoying the show, but...
Mon 2-20-2012
Or Optimus Primal
This show seriously needs to start going somewhere soon
The Fringe format/J.J Abrams isn't doing anything
7 to 8 episodes of unrelated cases and then ramping up the main story arc around sweeps or around the finale.
I agree, I've been rapidly losing interest in this show due to its glacial pace. for the last month it's been very formulaic with very little going on in an overall plot. Well acted and directed, but no overarching story and few sci-fi elements. They may as well have started the show with a regular prison breakout and set about catching the escapees from there.
To the show's credit, it took me a while to start identifying local Vancouver actor pool members - in most shows like this all the secondaries are locals. This week we had Garry Chalk (who played a Russian guy in Stargate SG-1), Yee Jee Tso ('96 Doctor Who companion, whom I also just saw last week on "Arctic Air"), and even the Chinese shop owner played another Chinese shop owner in an episode of "Highlander" fifteen years ago. I'm sure earlier episodes have featured other locals too, and of course Gastown and various pine treed forests have been pretty evident as Vancouver tends to be...
Mark
To the show's credit, it took me a while to start identifying local Vancouver actor pool members - in most shows like this all the secondaries are locals. This week we had Garry Chalk (who played a Russian guy in Stargate SG-1), Yee Jee Tso ('96 Doctor Who companion, whom I also just saw last week on "Arctic Air"), and even the Chinese shop owner played another Chinese shop owner in an episode of "Highlander" fifteen years ago. I'm sure earlier episodes have featured other locals too, and of course Gastown and various pine treed forests have been pretty evident as Vancouver tends to be...
Mark
I saw the Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasian Child, and I said to myself "Look, it's the Aaaaaaaaaaaasian Child" which is when I realized that that movie is better than any face lift because even at 90, they're still going to be calling him The Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasian Child.
Totally missed the reference. But yes, it sucks to be not-Asian for the ageists out there. I'm 35. When I'm fifty, I might look 35. When I'm 65, I'll finally look 50. I think we catch up to Western standards at 102 or so. Last month I shaved my moustache off for a film shoot, and I was asked for ID at a place afterwards.
Mark
Mark
It's merely only what the Master (Eric Roberts being super creepy) called him.
Because he's alien, the character didn't even realise that what he was was racist, and because he's a righteous ham Roberts sounded like he was doing Shakespeare with an American accent.
Yee, however rolled his eyes and said something like "Whatever, funny man, yeah" Completely unaware that he was dealing with amass murdering alien sociopath.
Because he's alien, the character didn't even realise that what he was was racist, and because he's a righteous ham Roberts sounded like he was doing Shakespeare with an American accent.
Yee, however rolled his eyes and said something like "Whatever, funny man, yeah" Completely unaware that he was dealing with amass murdering alien sociopath.
I live in the SF Bay Area, and I can say for certain that it would be very difficult for the team to rescue the passengers in time. I can also say that their depiction of Walnut Creek is completely wrong. (I live in that city.)
IMO, Alcatraz is a failed show. The character played by Sam Neill is unlikeable, and I feel he is hostile towards his team. This character is an enigma.
The female detective is becoming a marginal player on the team. She doesn't have a strong presence. I read a review of the show where a critic described her as passive which I agree with. This character is becoming fast a cipher.
The only strong character on the team is Doc Soto. He is the one character I can relate to. He is likable, and he is the emotional heart of this show.
The stories are becoming more preposterous. We have leapt from random murders to mass murder in just a few episodes. I would think that the police in San Francisco would begin to question what the heck is going on.
I don't see this show getting a second season. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. I think JJ Abrams is becoming a one-trick pony - he does conspiracy-based shows, and he directs mediocre films. I am beginning to think he is a hack who got lucky with LOST, and is attempting to rekindle that success.
IMO, Alcatraz is a failed show. The character played by Sam Neill is unlikeable, and I feel he is hostile towards his team. This character is an enigma.
The female detective is becoming a marginal player on the team. She doesn't have a strong presence. I read a review of the show where a critic described her as passive which I agree with. This character is becoming fast a cipher.
The only strong character on the team is Doc Soto. He is the one character I can relate to. He is likable, and he is the emotional heart of this show.
The stories are becoming more preposterous. We have leapt from random murders to mass murder in just a few episodes. I would think that the police in San Francisco would begin to question what the heck is going on.
I don't see this show getting a second season. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. I think JJ Abrams is becoming a one-trick pony - he does conspiracy-based shows, and he directs mediocre films. I am beginning to think he is a hack who got lucky with LOST, and is attempting to rekindle that success.
Par for the course I'm afraid. On the show The Glades the cops routinely go from south florida to central florida and back before lunch. In reality it's a 5 to 6 hour drive one way.
Jack Bauer went from one part of LA to another in record time. Ponch and Jon on CHiPs could be in the San Fernando Valley and then all the way down in San Pedro or where ever just by turning on a street corner. They don't even get LA right even when they write, film and produce it here so it's that much harder to make Vancouver look like the Bay Area.
This last episode was the worst for this. The characters had to travel from Alcatraz to the city, then travel to the center of the subway tunnel in less than 5 minutes. This is the amount of time it takes for a person to die who is gassed. This raises another question, how did the criminal plan to escape both this horrible death and, if successful, plan to leave the car? He had no protection against the gas.
I am not going to continue the discussion on the continuity error where the train went from multiple cars to one car, because I feel the depiction of the crime and its many peculiarities is far more interesting.
(Trivia: There is only one tube, not three tubes, connecting the East Bay to San Francisco.)
I picked up the reference to Zyklon. For those who don't know, Zyklon was a type of gas, and its variant, Zyklon B, was used by the NAZIs to kill Jews at Auschwitz. (Zyklon A had an odorant to warn individuals of its presence.)
I am not going to continue the discussion on the continuity error where the train went from multiple cars to one car, because I feel the depiction of the crime and its many peculiarities is far more interesting.
(Trivia: There is only one tube, not three tubes, connecting the East Bay to San Francisco.)
I picked up the reference to Zyklon. For those who don't know, Zyklon was a type of gas, and its variant, Zyklon B, was used by the NAZIs to kill Jews at Auschwitz. (Zyklon A had an odorant to warn individuals of its presence.)