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Alcatraz picked up to series by FOX

Temis the Vorta

Temis the Vorta

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JJ Abrams' new sf/f series, Alcatraz, will be airing this fall. Here's the description:

Drama about a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear in the present day and the efforts of a team of FBI agents to track them down and unravel the mystery behind their disappearance 30 years prior.
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The cast includes: Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Parminder Nagra, Robert Forster, Sam Neill, Paul McGillion and Santiago Cabrera.

Amazingly enough, the series is being filmed in San Francisco as well as being set there. :rommie: I'll do my best to ignore the gunfire.
 
I guess they won't be running into Christopher Chance then since his San Francisco is north of the border. I hope they won't be needing any mediators either. :)
 
It sounds potentially interesting--My favorite genre is mystery.and you can't beat a good mystery. I've tried googing info on it but it doesn't say if it is going to be serialized or a mix of standalones with myth episodes here and there. It sounds like it might be a LOST wannabe with a limited premise surrounding these time travelling prisoners/guards and why they were moved through time--kind of like The 4400--which makes me a little wary of it given the recent track record of such shows. They start okay but turn into a big unsatisfying convoluted mess because the writers didn't bother to map it out and have answers. I've come to appreciate dramas that have a more open premise then craft season long storylines each year around it. But we'll see.

I'm just hoping for some kind of renaissance next season where tv is good once again. After nearly a decade of crap it'd be nice to see something really entertaining and well written.
 
Right but a Lost wannabe by the very creator that brought us Lost! Maybe Bad Robot can learn from the things they did wrong on that show and do them right on this one. it's just that it will be a different story to tell. Are Cuse or Lindelof on this one in any capacity?
 
Temis the Vorta said:
JJ Abrams' new sf/f series, Alcatraz, will be airing this fall. Here's the description:

Drama about a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear in the present day and the efforts of a team of FBI agents to track them down and unravel the mystery behind their disappearance 30 years prior.
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The cast includes: Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Parminder Nagra, Robert Forster, Sam Neill, Paul McGillion and Santiago Cabrera.

Amazingly enough, the series is being filmed in San Francisco as well as being set there. :rommie: I'll do my best to ignore the gunfire.
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What are the odds viewers will get no answers whatsoever even though mystery upon mystery will pile up and the last episode will pretty much say, "None of that really mattered anyway, so here's a poignant and thought-provoking ending that doesn't connect to the tone of the entire series at all."
 
Aragorn said:
I guess they won't be running into Christopher Chance then since his San Francisco is north of the border. I hope they won't be needing any mediators either. :)
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If you mean Human Target, it's been cancelled. Hope you weren't counting on it coming back...

it doesn't say if it is going to be serialized or a mix of standalones
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The premise doesn't lend itself to the standalone format, so I'm thinking it has to be serialized. It's about the people uncovering the mystery of why Alcatraz inmates and guards from the 30s (or thereabouts) re-appeared.

Might as well start the guessing game now: secret tunnels to Ghiradelli Square, where they ate massive amounts of youth-enhancing chocolate. :D
 
Fox'll likely cancel it before the premise plays out. Not enthusiastic about "Terra Nova" telling its story either.
 
ObiWanShinobi said:
Right but a Lost wannabe by the very creator that brought us Lost! Maybe Bad Robot can learn from the things they did wrong on that show and do them right on this one. it's just that it will be a different story to tell. Are Cuse or Lindelof on this one in any capacity?
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The problem though is I heard for years from the LOST people that they had studied The X-Files and Twin Peaks and learned what went wrong however LOST clearly demonstrated that was utter BS--so I don't have much confidence in any promises that this will be different.

And really how many passes does it take before something is done right? Just look at all the producers/writers who have tackled mythologies and tried to cash in on LOST's style over the years and have failed over and over and over and over again? Heroes, Life on Mars, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, The 4400, Heroes post S1, LOST, Persons Unknown, VANISHED, The Nine, Kidnapped, The Event, Flash Forward and in my opinion Fringe.
Temis the Vorta said:
The premise doesn't lend itself to the standalone format, so I'm thinking it has to be serialized. It's about the people uncovering the mystery of why Alcatraz inmates and guards from the 30s (or thereabouts) re-appeared.
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Yeah but so did FF and The 4400 and Threshold but they did standalone stories.
 
Yeah but so did FF and The 4400 and Threshold but they did standalone stories.
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From what I remember, all the episodes Threshold aired did tie in to the main story in some way. Alcatraz just doesn't seem like an X of the week kind of show. What would X be?
 
You can have shows tie together to a main storyline, but still be stand alone to a point. It sounds like a cop show, or Chase mixed in with The 4400. I just don't see this lasting long.

I rather have Chicago Code.
 
Honestly, I'm more interested in the fact that JJ Abrams is producing it, and the cast than I am in the actual premise. It just doesn't really sound all that original to me at this point. Now, I'm not saying it won't be good or very original when it actually airs, but from what little we've heard it doesn't sound like anything we haven't seen countless times on other sci-fi and fantasy shows.
 
This type of premise feels too overdone at this point. This one will have to really rise above the pack to draw me in.
 
ObiWanShinobi said:
Right but a Lost wannabe by the very creator that brought us Lost! Maybe Bad Robot can learn from the things they did wrong on that show and do them right on this one.
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Well... they'll probably have thirteen episodes to do it in. :rofl:
 
Asbo Zaprudder said:
I think I'll wait until the final season is in the can before committing myself to watching this.
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So you will be watching in September? ;)

We need to learn more about the show, hopefully next week they release a little more info. I hope it's not a two part pilot and we have to wait a week for the second part.
 
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