J.J. Abrams Almost Human

[Guy Gardener]

Short answer "Voyager".

Slightly longer, we are not sure how episodic this show is or how loud it's rest button clangs, and some of us are assuming the worst.

 

[Zaku]

Did you see the sunrise today, Ivan?

Ivan (puzzled): Yes, why?

 

[Guy Gardener]

30 years ago the same thing happened on Magnum PI.

Or it happened in every episode of 24 for 7 years.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

24 has always been a bit outlandish though. A federal agency who is seemingly given discretionary power to use torture on US citizens on US soil when it deems it necessary? Basically an American version of Gestapo and KGB? Yeah sure, not even Dick Cheney advocated this. 24 was set in some form of dystopian parallel universe.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Tonight on the newest episode of Scandal...

Spoiler

The autistic reformed CIA pet mass murderer was explaining to the other main cast member who had been there since the pilot that she's not allowed to answer questions until after he's pulled out some of her teeth.

The chubby girl betrayed the cause, and now she only has 30 teeth.

The spy shit going on in Scandal when it crops up and it isn't about people in the White house sticking their penises inside the people they are not married to...

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He's giving her this super creepy speech about the week long journey to her eventual death and that because he loves her like a sister, that killing her is going to feel so much better than when he kills other ordinary people, and then he licks half her face like he's a dog. The bit about how he loves her too much to rip her toes off with pliers is... These are both principle characters who have been there for three seasons and will be there for another three seasons.

Oh! Bound and rolling about on plastic sheeting.

Dexter would be proud.

Almost human is weak and sad.

Sure Kennix did a bad thing, but did it really create complex and confusing feelings in any of us?

 

[FreezeC77]

24 has always been a bit outlandish though. A federal agency who is seemingly given discretionary power to use torture on US citizens on US soil when it deems it necessary? Basically an American version of Gestapo and KGB? Yeah sure, not even Dick Cheney advocated this. 24 was set in some form of dystopian parallel universe.

24 was in a parallel universe where the US has suffered multiple biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorist attacks on American soil. If you look back to the bending/suspension of rights just following 9/11 I don't think it's completely unrealistic to think America might have delved more into the territory of 24 in regards to torture and lack of following of Miranda rights or Geneva convention rights if the US continued to have terrorist attacks killing thousands of US citizens as well as repeated asassination attempts on key public figures.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Did you see the sunrise today, Ivan?

Ivan (puzzled): Yes, why?

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gdj62aqx-w[/yt]

 

[sojourner]

Did you see the sunrise today, Ivan?

Ivan (puzzled): Yes, why?

<BLAM!>

 

[JD]

24 has always been a bit outlandish though. A federal agency who is seemingly given discretionary power to use torture on US citizens on US soil when it deems it necessary? Basically an American version of Gestapo and KGB? Yeah sure, not even Dick Cheney advocated this. 24 was set in some form of dystopian parallel universe.

It's also worth mentioning that in later seasons they did address Jack Bauer's actions. There was a whole storyline where he was either on trial or at some kind of a hearing because of somebody he tortured. I'm pretty sure they addressed his whole history too, and were looking at it negatively.

 

[Harvey]

24 has always been a bit outlandish though. A federal agency who is seemingly given discretionary power to use torture on US citizens on US soil when it deems it necessary? Basically an American version of Gestapo and KGB? Yeah sure, not even Dick Cheney advocated this. 24 was set in some form of dystopian parallel universe.

It's also worth mentioning that in later seasons they did address Jack Bauer's actions. There was a whole storyline where he was either on trial or at some kind of a hearing because of somebody he tortured. I'm pretty sure they addressed his whole history too, and were looking at it negatively.

He was put on trial in season seven (although I believe he was being tried for actions that weren't depicted on screen there), but the whole point of that season was to justify his worldview and acquit him of any wrongdoing.

24 was at least smart enough to depict torture as a viscous, inhuman act that had a nasty effect on both the people being tortured and those committing the act, but in the end they never tortured an innocent suspect and it was always dramatized as being totally effective.

 

[JD]

I couldn't remember how it ended, but I mainly wanted to point out that it was at least addressed.

 

[Mister Fandango]

This is a series where they remembered an off-hand comment about olive oil on a squeaky leg in a later episode. I see no reason to assume they're going to gloss over something far more substantial than that, especially when the murdered character was a recognizable if not-exactly-known-by-name (Benito Martinez) actor.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Benny survived 7 or 8 years of Vic Mackey, but Doctor McCoy took him down?

 

[sojourner]

Uh oh. A Sixth Day event has been registered. Looks like they are sending in the Repo men next week.

Joking aside, this was a good episode, though there are some nitpicks to be found.

 

[Marc]

Uh oh. A Sixth Day event has been registered. Looks like they are sending in the Repo men next week.

Joking aside, this was a good episode, though there are some nitpicks to be found.

First thought on the girl with the psychic powers - oh shit no.

But she wasn't too bad and there was some explanation (the surgery she had).

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Tonight's was the first episode I saw of this. Fluff. Good-looking fluff, but fluff.

 

[Borgminister]

The Android is "fully functional", as we find out in a grade-school caliber scene. Jeezus. At least Data got it on with Tasha to answer that question. This guy just whips it out and says he does nothing with it. Discombobulating.

Rest of it was entertaining, if B-film quality, being generous. Less than what I thought it could or would be. Makes Fringe seem like Shakespeare...

 

[TheSeeker]

I enjoyed the episode, but it would have been nice if they had reversed the roles and had Kennex be the one taken hostage and had Stahl work with Dorian to free him. The damsel in distress routine is a little cliched. Next week's episode looks interesting.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'm working my way through Century City.

Turn of the century scifi lawyer show set in 2040.

Just two years ahead of Almost Human.

Compare and contrast.

 

[TheSeeker]

Wikipedia says 2030. And how the hell are you able to watch so many shows?