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J.J. Abrams Almost Human

I noticed my error at the beginning of episode 3 that started a few minutes ago.

How do I watch so so much stuff?

With a spoonful of sugar is how.
 
So is everyone dumping this show? No comments about the last episode?

I thought it had some nice future tech stuff in it like the universal translator, and I liked the extortion angle of the artificial hearts.
 
Well they figured out how to map genome for personality traits and characteristics, so parents could pick and chose from a variety of babies before they were artificially inseminated... Cool Ha? Problem was that this couple the focus of the story was suing their Doctor becuase he frakked up the lab work and hadn't warned them that their son was going to be gay. Then things got really weird (The Doctor was played by John Boy Walton) becuase the doctor didn't make a mistake and had intentionally left the findings on the "gay gene" out of the prognostication of the child. He wilfully gave them a gay child. Obviously a crazy person. They they go through his files to find out that he had done this a hundred times before. This Doctor was in charge of secret gay baby factory. So you're thinking! "OH NO! The gays are going to take over the planet!" (Not really.) Until Johnboy finally admits what's going on. Given the choice, the absolute choice with chosing between gay and straight, ALL parents seem to be chosing straight, but not because it's better, just becuase it's easier, I mean the vice president is gay for gods sake! (The President is Oprah Winfrey.) So really, John boy isn't a psycho with an agenda, he's one lonely guy standing between the world and a gay apocalypse, because at the rate, how things are going, in two or three generations, there wil be no gay people any more.
 
I didn't see it because my DVR didn't record it, even though I set it to record the series. Maybe for some reason it wasn't flagged as NEW.
 
Well they figured out how to map genome for personality traits and characteristics, so parents could pick and chose from a variety of babies before they were artificially inseminated... Cool Ha? Problem was that this couple the focus of the story was suing their Doctor becuase he frakked up the lab work and hadn't warned them that their son was going to be gay. Then things got really weird (The Doctor was played by John Boy Walton) becuase the doctor didn't make a mistake and had intentionally left the findings on the "gay gene" out of the prognostication of the child. He wilfully gave them a gay child. Obviously a crazy person. They they go through his files to find out that he had done this a hundred times before. This Doctor was in charge of secret gay baby factory. So you're thinking! "OH NO! The gays are going to take over the planet!" (Not really.) Until Johnboy finally admits what's going on. Given the choice, the absolute choice with chosing between gay and straight, ALL parents seem to be chosing straight, but not because it's better, just becuase it's easier, I mean the vice president is gay for gods sake! (The President is Oprah Winfrey.) So really, John boy isn't a psycho with an agenda, he's one lonely guy standing between the world and a gay apocalypse, because at the rate, how things are going, in two or three generations, there wil be no gay people any more.

Um, were we watching the same episode?
 
Well, I'm still watching the show and quite enjoy it. Karl Urban is a pleasure to watch. The "buddy cop" team-up is very entertaining. For all the toilet humor tossed in, it's entertaining. Even though it's basically any cop show on the air right now with scifi window treatment, I still enjoy the banter and character interplay. They just need to work on better utilization of littlemisshottencop. Her character and role in the show needs a bit of work, too little screen time, very one dimensional, not much to do. I'll probably hang around until the plug gets pulled.

Q2UnME
 
That whole "breaking the rules" speech he cave his robot... What ever was actually said, this is what I heard: "Hey why don't you break the rules some times? Hell, every now and then just cause I feel above the law, I kill people, it's fun, you should try it."
 
So if this was in the correct order that why don't you break the rules sometimes is foreshadowing of Kennix taking the law into his hands with that execution?
 
Well, I'm still watching the show and quite enjoy it. Karl Urban is a pleasure to watch. The "buddy cop" team-up is very entertaining. For all the toilet humor tossed in, it's entertaining. Even though it's basically any cop show on the air right now with scifi window treatment, I still enjoy the banter and character interplay. They just need to work on better utilization of littlemisshottencop. Her character and role in the show needs a bit of work, too little screen time, very one dimensional, not much to do. I'll probably hang around until the plug gets pulled.

Q2UnME

Have to agree. Next to "Elementary" and "Arrow", this is the current American non-Pay-TV-show I'm enjoying the most. And this last episode even was a real scifi story, one that could not work on a regular cop show.
 
Well, I'm still watching the show and quite enjoy it. Karl Urban is a pleasure to watch. The "buddy cop" team-up is very entertaining. For all the toilet humor tossed in, it's entertaining. Even though it's basically any cop show on the air right now with scifi window treatment, I still enjoy the banter and character interplay. They just need to work on better utilization of littlemisshottencop. Her character and role in the show needs a bit of work, too little screen time, very one dimensional, not much to do. I'll probably hang around until the plug gets pulled.

Q2UnME

Have to agree. Next to "Elementary" and "Arrow", this is the current American non-Pay-TV-show I'm enjoying the most. And this last episode even was a real scifi story, one that could not work on a regular cop show.

And they didn't take a short cut. They could have had the mortuary guy reset the counters so people didn't die (have to admit I was hoping his conscience would kick in and he would).

I'm assuming also the blood found in the house/apartment was from "Karen" and she was the one on in the crematorium unit when he was arrested at the end?
 
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...
"Suspension" implies they've resumed. 12 years on they haven't. It was a termination of rights.
 
Seriously?? :wtf:

Not in Almost Human, in Century City, a show about Lawyers made 10 years ago, set in the year 2030.

Compare and contrast, y'know.

except there doesn't seem to much of that - merely incoherent ramblings about episodes of Century City.that don't have any relation.

I thought that was Guy's modus operandi. I always imagine that when he types his posts there were originally bullet points and that he's omitting great swathes of text in between them - that's the only way I can account for the lack of connectivity between each line typed. :p
 
Marc, you have all of Almost Human in you head, I've given you a little Century City (Which you should have seen ten years ago.), everything else, your brain should do automatically, and me belabouring the point would only be redundant and annoying.

But if your brain is already on holiday, not that there's anything wrong with that...

Both shows explore emerging technology in the 2030s, and how it is exploited, abused and twisted.

One show deals with decent humans trying to capitalize on the future, and other puts bullets into anyone who tries to make a buck the government can't figure out how to tax.

It's not rocket surgery.
 
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