J.J. Abrams Almost Human

[Guy Gardener]

They caught this guy because his tech was ten years old.

But lets examine what ten years really means if it's been 3 years since Kennix was blown up in the pilot, and is Kennix supposed to be 40, because Karl is 41?

Unless this is his second career, Kennix had been on the job for 10 years when the Strawman murders first started.

So much for cutting edge crime beyond the... Stuffing kids in the back of a SUV?

Major high tech.

So... Now what?

Likely to be cancelled?

Meh.

 

[Mister Fandango]

Note that they've changed (at least I think it's changed; I remember something about not being able to keep caught up, too) the opening sequence. Now it simply states that technology advanced so fast that it can't be easily regulated, not that it's constantly being advanced faster than law enforcement can keep up.

If people were easy to forgive Firefly for making a similar blunder, I don't see why this one can't be overlooked, too. Especially since the actual show itself has been pretty consistently portrayed this way, rather than the "can't keep up" angle.

 

[Guy Gardener]

(This sounds bad.)

Weren't those homeless people TOO attractive?

Has the sexbot industry destroyed the human sexworker industry? Or maybe the drones make street trade impossible, or the diseases running around are are just crazy, or are the robots under cutting the market?

(A low end affordable sex bot is going to look like C3-PO.)

Personally would you rather sleep out side forever, slowly being eaten by rats or suck a little dick every now and then? We all do horrible things for money, but imagine if prostitution was no longer a safety net you could fall into if everything else went wrong?

I'm quite ugly, so it's not a consideration for me, but look in the mirror, you know you could put a roof over your head by wiggling that ass... Let's just imagine that I'm only talking to the guys.

 

[JD]

This was a really good episode, with some cool sci-fi stuff and nice character work. My only real complaint was the lack of momentum on the Insyndicate and/or Dr. Vaughn arcs. I was really hoping since this was the season finale that would mean we'd get more movement on one or both of them. We didn't even get to find out what was on the other side of The Wall.

 

[sojourner]

Yes we did. Kennex mentioned that his dad used to go to a restaurant in old town before the wall went up.

 

[JD]

I meant what is behind it now, that seems to have people so freaked out.

 

[sojourner]

A really bad restaurant?

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

I'm starting to suspect that the John Larroquette episode was originally intended as the season finale, until FOX messed with the episode order.

 

[Patrick O'Brien]

Strongest episode of the season. Has a look and feel all its own, and while the writing breaks no revolutionary ground, it takes potential future technological developments and wraps a human element around them.

Crossing fingers for a renewal!

Agreed, it was a great episode. I'll cross my fingers in the hope that Fox picks the show up for another season.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

This was a strong standalone episode, but a season finale it was not. At least, not in the sense we've come to expect from season ending episodes since Best of Both Worlds raised the bar. It didn't have to be a cliffhanger, but I at least wanted some progression, conglomeration, or closure on one or more of that nine hundred arcs this show has set up and left dangling.

I don't know if this episode was one of the many shown out of sequence or not, but with the emotional overtones and the review of Dorian's performance, it seemed like it was intended to be the finale, in which case, I was disappointed for the reasons above.

But just taking the episode on its own merits, it was a nice character piece. Dorian and Kennex continue to be one of the best pairings on current TV in terms of rapport and dialogue. There's a genuine sense of affection and camaraderie between the two that is refreshing and funny, even when Kennex is going out of his way to pretend that he's aloof.

The case was interesting, though I have trouble believing a 3D printer (even a "bio-printer") could replicate a human body to such exacting detail that even a medical examiner couldn't tell the difference, but then can't scale the organs correctly?

If the series gets a second season (fingers crossed), I really hope they start addressing some of the many mysteries and arcs they've built up so far and rely less on standalone stuff.

 

[TheSeeker]

I'm starting to suspect that the John Larroquette episode was originally intended as the season finale, until FOX messed with the episode order.

I found this list with the airing order and production order in brackets. I'm not sure how accurate it is but if it's the real deal they really screwed with the airing order. However, it appears the final three episodes aired in the correct order.

1. Pilot (1)
2. Skin (5)
3. Are you Receiving?(6)
4. The Bends (7)
5. Blood Brothers (8)
6. Arrhythmia (3)
7. Simon Says (10)
8. You Are Here (2)
9. Unbound (9)
10. Perception (4)
11. Disrupt (11)
12. Beholder (12)
13. Straw Man (13)

 

[Corran Horn]

The final three were probably so tied into a narrative they couldn't mess with them.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

That, or those moustache-twirling Fox network people stopped bothering to pick the "better " / more action packed / sexier episodes to try to bolster ratings at key points. It's no surprise at all that following the pilot the put in the episode with the sexbots. It's FOX, after all.

Mark

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

I'm starting to suspect that the John Larroquette episode was originally intended as the season finale, until FOX messed with the episode order.

I found this list with the airing order and production order in brackets. I'm not sure how accurate it is but if it's the real deal they really screwed with the airing order. However, it appears the final three episodes aired in the correct order.

1. Pilot (1)
2. Skin (5)
3. Are you Receiving?(6)
4. The Bends (7)
5. Blood Brothers (8)
6. Arrhythmia (3)
7. Simon Says (10)
8. You Are Here (2)
9. Unbound (9)
10. Perception (4)
11. Disrupt (11)
12. Beholder (12)
13. Straw Man (13)

Yeah, I know.

However, the production order isn't necessarily identical to the broadcast order as intended by the showrunner.

Although the production order probably comes much closer to the intended broadcast order than the actual broadcast order.

 

[Yanks]

This series just gets better every time they put up a new episode!

I would challenge anyone to find a better job of casting than Michael Ealy as Dorian.

He completely makes this show IMO.

 

[Corran Horn]

I wonder how many things they changed (maybe via ADR) to make the episodes make a little more sense since they were out of order. Or could you watch them in production order and have (presumably) the originally-intended experience w/o confusion?

 

[Guy Gardener]

What if they thought that Kennix was going to be in a coma forever, so in honour of the greatest police man ever... They used his face as a template for a new class of robot.

So, really, what if Dorian was also played by Karl Urban?

That bit where Dorian showed Kennix his Penis?

"Hey! they gave you a bigger dick than me!! Why did they give you a bigger dick!?

"How much smaller is your penis John?"

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

The casual viewer would likely have little issue. I barely noticed things out of place, and the bigger problems I had were more around character usage (the two episodes featuring Officer Hottie were in the latter half of the season, etc.), rather than the little things like where Dorian was living. The only real arc stuff was kept pretty much in order - Kennex finding out about his girlfriend, the evidence and then Dan Fielding going over the wall, etc.

I'm hoping that if the show gets renewed, that they would revisit some of the tech they introduced before it piles up too much. Practically every episode introduces some awesome technological stuff that should be in common enough usage by criminals. DNA bomb? Face shimmer stuff? Combat androids? That sort of thing ought to be seen again IMO unless or until they figure a way to combat it. Otherwise we'll be wondering why every criminal with a few dollars lying around isn't using this stuff that should work more than one episode. One common piece of tech is the home printing of stuff (we've seen drugs, flowers, and people so far), and that's not surprising because it's in the audience's common knowledge right now. I'd like to see more imagination of how criminals of the future will use the really cool stuff we're just thinking up today for evil.

Mark

 

[Mach5]

tvbythenumbers.com changed Almost Human's renewal prediction from "likely to be canceled" to a "toss up". There's hope!

 

[Yanks]

tvbythenumbers.com changed Almost Human's renewal prediction from "likely to be canceled" to a "toss up". There's hope!

One of my favorite series. We can only hope Fox sees the light.

They could end the season with a huge cliff hangar... something dealing with the "Wall" or something like that. Make them bring the series back