Invasion (starting Oct. 22 on Apple TV+, starring Sam Neill, Shamier Anderson)

I remember seeing the first trailer when it first came out (maybe posted in a different thread here?) and thought it looked curious. The second trailer helps with that curiosity, if only a little. Looks like it'll be worth checking out and Sam Neill certainly helps!

 

I still miss that we never got an end to the old invasion series from 2005ish.

 

Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.

We need Jack Bauer.

 

The alien homeworld would be 10 minutes away by way of SoCal freeway.

 

The first three episodes made their debut today. Reviews make it out to be a middle-of-the-road kind of show.

 

I am sorry and i just finished all three episodes. The show was so slow that i was literially begging the aliens to nuke major cities just to speed things along towards the end of episode three.

 

Welcome to modern event shows lol

 

I'd love to see a real-time Trek episode or movie. No, JJ, a starship can't just warp from Earth to Vulcan in an afternoon, but people can beam from one continent to another in moments, and starships can go from one solar system's planet to another in minutes. (Probably? I'm not an expert on how impulse engines work.)

As for this show, it certainly seems like Apple is determined to green-light some of the most boring concepts they can find. A show about dull morning news/talk shows, and it vastly overpaid Teleprompter readers? "Make it our flagship series!" The Space Race, only fictionalized, and a bit more diverse, but without aliens or anything really out there? "Yes, please!" An intergalactic sci-fi saga, where the whole point of the series is that the actions of individuals don't matter much if at all in the long run, so there's not much reason to care about the actual characters and stories at hand? "It'll be our game-changing prestige project!" The same generic alien invasion plot we've seen a thousand times before, only a bit more diverse, and without any particularly interesting characters or situations? "Throw money at it, now!"

 

I'm watching the first episode now, a little more than halfway through. Haven't read any posts because I don't want to be spoiler, but just popped in to say:

I really hate Sam Neil's voice in this. It's so fake.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Edit:. Whelp, maybe that problem just solved itself . Is Sam Neil the new Robert Patrick, showing up in pilot episodes for name recognition and then kicking the bucket?

 

How do the ships look—if any?

 

Spoiler: Ships

So far we've only seen one and it may not even be a ship. It looked like a giant starfish.

 

I welcome our new alien overlords

Spoiler

 

Oh, he totally agrees with you. He's always poked fun at knowing he can't do an American accent.

"[Steven Spielberg] wanted an American accent for it, and I don’t particularly like doing American accents… Are you going to say ‘no’ to a Spielberg film? I don’t think so. … And it’s got dinosaurs."

and

“Steven comes up to me and says, ‘You know, Sam, that American accent you’re doing, why don’t we just forget it? Just do your own voice’. I said, ‘Steven, that’s great! I will!’. And then on day three, he came up to me and he said, ‘You know that voice you’re using, can we sort of go halfway?’. I’ve had 30 years of people going, ‘Sam Neill’s American accent isn’t very good’.”

 

Yup, if you watch the first Jurassic Park trilogy one after another you can really notice he just gave up and didn't even try for the 3rd movie. It's actually kinda jarring

 

Where's Polka Dot Man when you need him?!?!

 

wow....i had the complete opposite reaction of you guys rearding Sam Neill. Now, mind you, did NOT know the cast coming in. With the scarggly look, and the accent, he was VAGUELY familiar to me. But i felt his performance was just so .... VULNERABLE, that i thought it was Emmy worthy work.

I have only seen the first epsiode with my wife so far....so i think we will at least do #2 so far.

 

I fell asleep.

Was it in "real time" like 24?

If so, then there's something wrong with the sun.

 

Didn't look like it to me.

 

This show was so bad, I'm going to watch the original V instead.