Alphas renewed for season 2

[PsychoPere]

According to Deadline, Syfy has renewed Alphas for a second season of 13 episodes.

This news makes me rather happy, because the show has been steadily improving since its first few episodes (which, naturally, I attribute to the influences of Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe). It's becoming an interesting show, providing entertaining standalone episodes while slowly building up a background mythology that feels like it could come into its own by the season finale.

If anyone held off on trying out the show due to concerns it would get cancelled in season, you don't have to worry about that any longer. Give it a shot!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I never watched it because it didn't look very interesting-- but knowing that RHW is involved may make me change my mind.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Yeah I stopped watching after the 2nd episode. Maybe I'll give it another shot sometime down the line.

 

[PsychoPere]

The second episode was the first one where Behr and Wolfe had joined the show - Behr as EP and showrunner, Wolfe as co-EP. The first episode either one has a writing credit on was episode 3, for which they both have a credit.

 

[Snaploud]

I've enjoyed season one, so I'm glad it will continue.

 

[JD]

Glad to hear it's coming back, I've really enjoyed it.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I'm waiting until it gets three seasons. It doesn't really matter whether or not I stall like this anyway since I have no cable and no subscription service. My numbers mean virtually nothing.

I don't trust SyFy not to axe it next year.

 

[Caliburn24]

Huzzah, now I just hope they take the show in the direction they they have been hinting at in almost every episode. Namely that the team is on the wrong side of things.

 

[Professor Zoom]

It's good news. I've enjoyed the show. It's also, oddly, gotten me into Warehouse 13.

Someday... and of course, Eureka going bye bye complicates it, but, it would be nice to have a Eureka/Alphas/Warehouse 13 story cross over... now that they all three take place in the same universe. Would be fun.

 

[Caliburn24]

I'm fine with Warehouse 13 and Eureka sharing a universe, but Alphas is too different tonally for me to like it sharing that universe. I'm going to keep pretending that Lindsay Wagner's character was just a random doctor.

It would have been like BSG crossing over with Stargate, it just would have felt wrong.

Although there is potential there to have Pete find out he's an Alpha at some point.

Eww, its still icky and wrong.

 

[JD]

^Yeah, as much as I love all three of them I have agree. The tone of Alphas is just way to realistic to really fit in with the almost comic book/cartoon world of Eureka and Warehouse 13.

 

[Professor Zoom]

^Yeah, as much as I love all three of them I have agree. The tone of Alphas is just way to realistic to really fit in with the almost comic book/cartoon world of Eureka and Warehouse 13.

I see what you're saying, but still, it's nice if the "world" has other tones, so it doesn't bother me. Maybe if there was a direct cross over it would, but...until then...

 

[USS Kongo]

Interesting to hear that it's been renewed, since from what I've seen of it, Alphas struck me as being warmed over Heroes. Maybe I'll give it a second chance now.

Sean

 

[Professor Zoom]

Interesting to hear that it's been renewed, since from what I've seen of it, Alphas struck me as being warmed over Heroes. Maybe I'll give it a second chance now.

Sean

It's WAY better than Season 3 and 4 of Heroes...

Maybe even Season 2.

But, it's a different show than Heroes, the only similarity is that people have powers.

 

[USS Kongo]

The episode I saw had them talking about a special prison for metas (people with superpowers) and there was an unseen person screaming in the background. When I saw that, I thought: 'been there, done that' and stopped watching. But I'll give it another shot.

Sean

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Interesting to hear that it's been renewed, since from what I've seen of it, Alphas struck me as being warmed over Heroes. Maybe I'll give it a second chance now.

Sean

It's WAY better than Season 3 and 4 of Heroes...

Maybe even Season 2.

But, it's a different show than Heroes, the only similarity is that people have powers.

When it's as good as S1 of Heroes, then I'll start watching.

My main problem with the show is that there's nobody on it that grabs me like, say, Peter and Sylar did. Note that I'm not saying the actors should be great (Peter doesn't qualify) or the character writing should be great (that knocks out Sylar), but there's gotta be one character who makes me think, "I want to see what he/she does next." Someone who seems to have interesting potential. Having one character on a show like that is my absolute minimum requirement for continued viewing.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Interesting to hear that it's been renewed, since from what I've seen of it, Alphas struck me as being warmed over Heroes. Maybe I'll give it a second chance now.

Sean

It's WAY better than Season 3 and 4 of Heroes...

Maybe even Season 2.

But, it's a different show than Heroes, the only similarity is that people have powers.

When it's as good as S1 of Heroes, then I'll start watching.

I think S1 of Heroes was a special thing. More luck than skill--at least if judged by later seasons.

Will Alphas get there? i don't know. it's a low budget show, doesn't have a built in season arc like Heroes, etc, etc.

But, yeah... that's fair I suppose.

Of course, if you don't watch, how will you know?

My main problem with the show is that there's nobody on it that grabs me like, say, Peter and Sylar did. Note that I'm not saying the actors should be great (Peter doesn't qualify) or the character writing should be great (that knocks out Sylar), but there's gotta be one character who makes me think, "I want to see what he/she does next." Someone who seems to have interesting potential. Having one character on a show like that is my absolute minimum requirement for continued viewing.

David Straitharn does for me. As the show progresses, he's finding himself boxed in...his ideals, his beliefs, what he's been told, etc. He's leading a group for the government, and as someone up thread said, he might be finding himself on the wrong side of an upcoming "war."

He's a man of peace, but something is coming, and you can see his growing unease. The ground he thought he was on... isn't as secure and sure as the thought.

So, he does it for me.

 

[Caliburn24]

I like Dr. Rosen, but Gary is by far the standout character. Almost every scene he is in gold, and they have tossed in a surprising amount of character development for him.

On the flip side the scruffy guy and hot girl are exceptionally boring.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I like Dr. Rosen, but Gary is by far the standout character. Almost every scene he is in gold, and they have tossed in a surprising amount of character development for him.

On the flip side the scruffy guy and hot girl are exceptionally boring.

the hot girl is growing on me, but... yeah, not that interesting.
The scruffy guy... it's disappointing, I like his power, but there's kinda not much going on, so, yeah.

 

[JD]

Yeah, but I'm pretty fond of the FBI guy and the girl with super senses myself. But for me the interest lies more in the arc than the characters. I'm curious to see exactly where they're going with things, because they do seem to be building towards something big and I'm curious exactly what it will be.