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Believe

Gil T.Azell

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What did you think of it, I missed the Pilot, but saw last nights episode?

Will it last?

I thought it had some very good moments.

(I did do search and didn't see a thread posted)
 
Episode 2 was much better.

The introduction of the deputy from Banshee is a good choice for the cop who is hunting our heroes, but please let her have more of a brain than that Lana girl from Beauty and the Beast who gets turned on by Fugitives...

The pilot painted it more as the Illuminati vs agents of the beast, or I read it completely wrong.
 
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I get that the guy is her father and all, but if you have a child on the run from the US government and some secret conspiracy, pairing her with an escaped death row inmate who has lots of public recognition from the news is probably the worst plan in the history of bad plans. It's going to necessitate either having the girl find ways of TKing an escape for them from people who recognize them all the time, which will get repetitive fast, or for people to inexplicably stop recognizing them after a while.
 
It probably would've been better if they had faked Tate's execution because now they're stuck with people recognizing him and the cops being after him every episode. It's going to get old real fast.
 
The pilot was terrible. The second episode tanked in the ratings. They're just going to be burning off episodes at this point.
 
Well I like it so far (yes, both episodes). I think it has potential, that's too bad that it's tanking in the ratings so far.
 
Watched the Pilot last night. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. I agree that they should have found a way to fake his execution instead of orchestrating a jail break. I am a bit curious about the blue butterflies though.
 
I liked Touch for a while. Then I didn't watch it for a while and when I finally got back to it (season 2) it felt like a whole new show. Tim Kring is a horrible show runner who appears to ruin any show he starts (hello Heroes).
 
I really liked the voiceovers from Touch, and I’m not a huge voiceover fan when they’re done badly. Touch’s were nicely philosophical.
 
Until you're told that they are servants of God (even though it' more likely that religion adopted these kids when they found out how necessary they are, but they're basically Angels.) and philosophy turns into religion.
 
So, now this things actually on the air can Sky TV stop putting 2 adverts for it into every. single. fucking. adbreak?

For a month now they've been pushing this show relentlessly, it looks absolutely terrible. Is there anything at all about this show that warrents that amount of marketing?
 
It's funny, I had similar thoughts regarding Touch. I was about halfway through the second episode when I realized..."hey wait a minute, I'm watching Touch."

I actually liked Touch and watched until the end, but I'm not sure what I'll do with Believe. I think I'll give it one more episode to see how the story develops, but if it's just daddy and gifted child outrunning the bad guys every week, well, like I said, I already watched Touch.
 
So, let me get this straight. Three years after 9/11, Mr. Twin Peaks thinks it's a good idea to have a drone fly over New York City, launch an armed Hellfire missile at a skyscraper full of himself, his friend, a pregnant woman, and a room full of 20+ US military flag officers who weren't aware that they were being targeted with live ordinance (and God knows how many hundreds or thousands of others people in the building who weren't warned) and have it explode in mid-air?

Who cares if she stopped the missile, he'd be going to prison, and rightfully so. What if she had gone into labor before she stopped the missile? Or sneezed? Or feinted? What happened to the shrapnel from the missile when she compacted the explosion back into a ball? It's not just made of papier mâché that disintegrates, unless we can count inter-dimensional portal making among her talents. Can you imagine the panic a missile being launched at a skyscraper and suddenly exploding overhead would cause?

There was no safer and easier way to demonstrate her power than putting a bunch of people at risk and throwing a major city into a terror panic? I'm somewhat enjoying Touch2.0 and all, but that was one of the dumbest scenes on TV this season, and it follows up the almost equally dumb idea of pairing the little girl who's wanted by the US government, local police, and a shadowy cabal with her even more wanted escaped death row inmate father. Helix is supposed to be the most illogically written show I still watch for some inexplicable reason, so quit trying to steal its thunder, Believe.
 
I can't defend the drone scene (nor would I want to). But I think pairing her up with her father, as wanted as he is, was done because they feel her powers will be better controlled if she's with him. This was certainly explored a bit in this episode when she complained that she didn't like it that he was yelling, and then her relief a little later when she mentioned that she wanted him to always be calm.
 
See, I read these lasts two posts and had no idea wtf they were talking about. I bailed on this and Resurrection.
 
Well of course you're going to have no idea what people are talking about if you haven't watched the show. I have no idea why you even felt the need to post that.
 
Just watched the first episode.

I'm adding this show to the lengthening list of shows I've bailed on. Which includes almost every genre show to come out in since Galactica...
 
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