Day One trailer - must see to believe!!!

[Temis the Vorta]

Nobody chortling over this one yet? Day One trailer.

Spoiler: if you really wanna know...

Bad acting + worse dialogue + alien-controlled asteroids blowin up LA real good!

NBC seems to be going for Skiffy-Saturday-night-move quality here. I'm gonna watch it just for the draaamatic acting style of Mr. "It's doesn't MATTER! They're already DEAD!" Giving Johnny Drama a run for his money, I see.

This whole series is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.

 

[RoJoHen]

Oh dear, that looks bad.

 

[sidious618]

The acting is fucking awful but the special effects aren't bad. I'll give it a pass.

 

[Trek4Ever]

I don't know about anyone else, but the trailer intrigue me, more so than that V trailer that came out a couple of weeks back.

Bad acting, things going boom, weird alien stuff, it's like something out of a Michael Bay flick. I'll give them credit for openly acknowledging the sci fi angle. Real cringe inducing is the idea of this rag tag bunch of losers including the "good cop" are going to fight back against some force that seems to be terraforming Earth. " I chose each and every one of you and together we're going to save this world." is just hilarious!

Thought it would've been more like a survivalist story but hey I'll tune in when it premieres and if the show is lucky, I'll bitch when it gets cancelled a few episodes later (something that didn't happen with junk I watched like Jericho).

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Oh, god. It's Jericho all over again. *puke*

 

[Aragorn]

Is that really the premise? Aliens are attacking the planet by terraforming it? What's with the lady who somehow "selected" all these people to fight back? I wonder if this show would been better off just being a straight copy of Jericho.

 

[Lindley]

Well, if it starts off a bit lame and slow but ultimately becomes a kickass, fast-paced adventure, then it'll be just like Jericho.

 

[watermelony2k]

i think the lady and the dramatic "this world is dead" guy are benevolent aliens in human guise. just speculation based on viewing the trailer.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

Great premise with poor dialogue. Maybe it was the editing that caused the hokey moments. Either way, looks interesting. I love alien invasion shows.

 

[Aragorn]

Maybe if this catastrophe caused Julie Gonzalo to become allergic to wearing clothing, it would be going over better.

 

[J47]

I like the premise, so I'll check it out. The preview isn't exactly awe-inspiring, and the afore-mentioned "we're all dead" guy was pretty awful, but it does have Julie Gonzalo and Carly Pope, both of whom are strong actresses.

 

[Hermiod]

I become more convinced of my decision to slowly stop watching TV every day.

 

[FreezeC77]

I'll still check it out, although I was more interested in the show when I thought it was just a natural or man-made disaster which led to the apocalypse.

You know some kind of germ outbreak like the very good remake of Survivors on UK television.

BTW to answer one question in the thread, I'm pretty sure the woman aiding them is an alien and she says something in the trailer like "don't want to let happen to them what happened to us... or our planet." something like that. So that's that. Also was that woman Carly Pope? If so wow she looks kinda hot dressed up like Rachel Leigh Cook pre-makeover in She's All That.

always like a cute brunette wearing glasses

 

[TerriO]

Oh, god. It's Jericho all over again. *puke*

No, this looks more like War of the Worlds (the godawful Tom Cruise version) meets Lost in the worst way possible.

 

[Mistral]

I'll hold judgement until I see the show itself-a bad trailer doesn't always mean a bad show. I saw the Christopher Eggleston Dr Who trailers and thought-"More of the same" but i gave it a chance and loved it. You can never tell.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The effects are nice for TV, I'll give them that. But unless NBC has sold their collective souls to the devil, they're not going to have the budget to continue them after using them in the premiere to rope the audience into watching.

Instead, they're going to switch to cheapo mode - our spunky survivors scrambling over rubble, bickering and complaining inbetween firefights. That's the point at which the acting and writing has to take over from the eye candy to give the audience a motive to stick around. Other than Xander Berkeley, I just don't see evidence that this show has the writing and the acting to carry it beyond the premiere.

That's why I'm still more sanguine about V. That at least has a solid cast. The effects will most likely follow the same cheapo pattern and be scaled way back after the premiere. But if the writers can do more than just churning out a pastiche of cliches, I'm pretty sure the actors will do their part.

With this, V, and that Spielberg series starring Noah Wylie, looks like alien invasions are the Next Big Thing. And no doubt quickly to fizzle...if one show survives, that would be more than enough.

Skiffy better hurry up and trot out their Alien Invasion series. Or are they going to be behind the times once again?

I wonder if this show would been better off just being a straight copy of Jericho.

Just bring back Jericho! A modern day Civil War was such an interesting angle...and there were three or four decent actors in the mix for that one.

Also bring back Invasion. Poor show, ahead of its time.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Oh...dear...

Yeah, there's a reason why I don't watch a whole lot of TV anymore.

 

[sidious618]

I honestly don't think I'll be checking out any of the new shows this fall. None of them look all that interesting and I have so many coming back already come September (Fringe, NCIS, House, Supernatural and Curb Your Enthusiasm) that I have no desperate need to check out a new one.

 

[Jono]

Porbably watch it if they bother to show it here.

 

[Harvey]

Just bring back Jericho! A modern day Civil War was such an interesting angle...and there were three or four decent actors in the mix for that one.

Also bring back Invasion. Poor show, ahead of its time.

Jericho had no ratings! It was cancelled, and then brought back after a grassroots campaign. And it still had no ratings! Reviews certainly weren't going to save the show, since critics were so disfavorable of it to start. Even somewhat positive reviews of the series, like this one at Slate, conclude that it is "just plain medicore."

To paraphrase your boy Anders on Galactica, "it's not coming back, accept it."