J.J. Abrams Almost Human

[Mr. Laser Beam]

@sojourner: I still don't get it. Cancellation is cancellation.

If you're referring to a wrap-up? I'm guessing all the season 1 shows have been filmed already, before they ever knew the show's fate. So how could it GET a wrap-up?

 

[TheSeeker]

Cancellation may be cancellation, but when a show runs for 20 years it's hard to get too broken up about it. I think that's what he was getting at.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Hey, I'm plenty broken up about Law & Order ending.

 

[Forbin]

I have a friend who hates the show and hopes it gets cancelled, strictly because it's an American "rip off" of a British show.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

But aren't ALL sci-fi shows based on Doctor Who in some respect?

Mark

 

[Mister Fandango]

Does he have it confused with Being Human or something?

 

[sojourner]

I have a friend who hates the show and hopes it gets cancelled, strictly because it's an American "rip off" of a British show.

What British show?

 

[Guy Gardener]

K9 and Company.

 

[Forbin]

Yeah, beats the hell outta me, I'm not in Britain.
Neither is he, actually.

 

[Mach5]

tvbythenumbers still keeps it at "likely to be canceled".

Crap, I find myself liking it more and more each week.

 

[JD]

^Yeah it keeps improving. Honestly at this point it has potential to be great, if it sticks around for another complete season or two after this one.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Would you rather watch reruns of Hymie and Maxwell Smart teamups or new episodes of Almost Human?

English show about a robot: Metal Mickie?

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

I have a friend who hates the show and hopes it gets cancelled, strictly because it's an American "rip off" of a British show.

Almost Human is ripping off Total Recall 2070 hard, with the main difference between the two shows that they got daylight in Almost Human.

The similarities are uncanny. Total Recall 2070 was about a cop in a cyberpunkish near-future enviroment who distrusts androids after his human partner has been killed by some of them in an ambush. Against his objection, he is then partnered up with an android officer who eventually becomes his closest friend. At some point mid-season it was also revealed that the human cop's wife was in fact a plant and not who she had seemed to be up until this point. There was also a secret around the android's origins which formed the basis for the show's main arc.

However, Total Recall 2070 was a Canadian show, not a British one.

And of course Total Recall 2070 was ripping off Blade Runner hard.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Fox boss Kevin Reilly recent comments on Almost Human's future:

givememyremote.com

Given that the show has been airing considerably out of order, I asked Reilly how he felt about the show and its future.

“Really good,” he said. “That’s another crazy delivery pattern situation [like SLEEPY HOLLOW has had] and holidays and sports interruptions, and it’s been challenging. But I think the show is in a pretty good groove right now, and I really love our leads. I think there’s a show there, and I look at the cume [viewings] on the DVR, and it’s encouraging. So that’s going to be an interesting discussion [about its future].”

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

K9 and Company.

Holmes and Yoyo predates the K9 show by a couple of years.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

One of my favorite shows on TV right now. Dorian & Kennex play off each other so well. The world building is good, the supporting cast are solid, and they're setting up some interesting series arcs. I seriously hope this gets picked up. TV needs some decent sci-fi that lasts longer than a season and this show is great.

As for Stahl, my father, a cop, points out every time she's on screen that no cop in the history of Maine has ever looked like her, but he can certainly understand why the "real" cops would keep her around. She looks like a supermodel. They need to establish that she has something to contribute more than being pretty and chilling at the precinct to answer the phone 90% of the time. I might have made her a K-9 handler with a gengineered partner, play up her isolation as a Chrome and the comparison between her dog and Dorian and how one is an animal, but alive that the other cops like, while the other is a machine that looks like a man, but is considered a toaster most cops ignore. Whatever they do, Stahl has to actually DO shit beyond being the distracting hot chick they take on undercover missions into hacker dens.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What would it take for some future US Government to cede over more American soil, parts of an established city even, to a new faction unanswerable to the Federal Government?

You mean like what happened in Riverton, Wyoming?

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

What would it take for some future US Government to cede over more American soil, parts of an established city even, to a new faction unanswerable to the Federal Government?

You mean like what happened in Riverton, Wyoming?

I think in the intro for Almost Human's pilot episode it was mentioned that crime rate in the United States had risen by 400%, which of course was a direct reference to Escape from New York. In Escape from New York, Manhattan Island was walled off and left for itself.

Considering that crime rate has supposedly risen by 400%, the depiction of future society on the show seemed rather idyllic so far.

If the 400% crime rate is to be found behind "the Wall" it is maybe a bit too obvious though.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

So what you're saying is that Snake Plissken can ultimately make a cameo here?

Mark

 

[sojourner]

Or Ernest Borgnine.