So the second episode isn't going to be Die Hard in all but name?
Minority Report Season One
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That's not good.
I liked that episode of Dark Matter.
Although it was really a question of closing the barn door after the horse had bolted, because I'd already seen the sexbot very extremely topless for a ridiculous duration on Orange is the New Black.
Although it was really a question of closing the barn door after the horse had bolted, because I'd already seen the sexbot very extremely topless for a ridiculous duration on Orange is the New Black.
Almost Human is forgettable and will soon, hopefully, finally fade away.
I found the first episode to be a nice follow-up to the movie(which to me is the best SF movie of it's decade), the only exception being that I feel someone HAD to keep a much tighter rein on the pre-cogs, they would be much too dangerous to leave unguarded. Other than that, the tech is about what they can afford on TV but the show had a nice glossy high-tech look as opposed to the blade runner future, which I feel is much more realistic with the way things are progressing.
I'm afraid this episode didn't work as well for me as the pilot. There was some nice tech futurism (the microbiome analyzers were interesting, and the future version of a tablet is nice), but it wasn't matched on a cultural level. All that pickup artist stuff and people using slang like "negging" and "booty call" is way, way too present-day. The mystery here was really ordinary stuff -- it felt like a script for some ordinary cop show that was rewritten for this show. Which I doubt it really was, since it was written by the showrunner. But it doesn't bode well for the quality of the mysteries going forward.
Some decent character work with Dash and Vega dealing with the aftermath of Dash killing the bad guy last week. I'm glad they addressed that instead of dismissing it. But I'm finding Stark Sands rather underwhelming as a lead. And the stuff about his inept attempts at detective work is getting old really fast.
Some decent character work with Dash and Vega dealing with the aftermath of Dash killing the bad guy last week. I'm glad they addressed that instead of dismissing it. But I'm finding Stark Sands rather underwhelming as a lead. And the stuff about his inept attempts at detective work is getting old really fast.
Considering Fox's handling of 'Almost Human' - I'd say 'the treatment' from Fox for genre shows is alive and thriving
Ratings have gotten to where it's certain to be canceled - however online TV ratings wonks are saying it's likely that all episodes will be shown.
Well Fox does own Minority Report, unlike Almost Human, so they can burn the episodes off for cheap and then sell the "complete series" box set.
Also, Almost Human was not that good of a show, but people act like it was, why? Because it's sci fi? Because it was short-lived on Fox and therefore must be unconditionally equal to Firefly?
It had two leads who worked very well together for starters.
Considering Fox's handling of 'Almost Human' - I'd say 'the treatment' from Fox for genre shows is alive and thriving
The only "handling" was showing the episodes out of order, but the first half of the season was designed to be episodic and the showrunner himself said that airing them out of order didn't matter that much at that point. And according to J.J. Abrams, it was the producers' own decision to change the airing order because they felt it worked better that way. (Which is usually code for "the first few episodes were lame so we moved up some stronger ones and tried to bury the lame ones deeper in the season.")
And you can't prove a pattern with one example. Just because not every show turns out perfectly, that doesn't mean the network is evil. There are other shows that FOX has been extraordinarily generous to, such as Dollhouse and Fringe. Both shows were given the chance to complete their runs and resolve their narratives despite weak ratings that would've probably gotten them abruptly killed back in the Firefly era. Which, let's remember, was over a decade ago and under a totally different executive regime at FOX. Indeed, I think modern network executives have learned from their predecessors' mistake with Firefly and are reluctant to risk the wrath of fans by ending shows abruptly and without closure.
Yeah, it's bizarre to hear such defensiveness toward such a weak show. Everybody wants to buy into this myth that network executives are arbitrarily mean, but the fact is that most TV shows just aren't all that good, or at least aren't able to hold an audience's attention, and thus get cancelled because people just don't watch them. Cancellation is simply a natural fact of television, not an evil conspiracy.
Fox doesn't cancel more shows than any other network, they just happen to take more chances on stuff like Almost Human, Dollhouse and Sleepy Hollow, so I guess the genre fanboys take more notice... and seemingly take personal offense to The Lone Gunmen getting canceled no matter how bad it was.
Considering Fringe's ratings, what other network would keep it on for 100 episodes?
Okay we have a problem.
There are two pilots.
The pilot I watched 2 months ago didn't have any mention/appearance of the asshole brother, and ended with a different conspiracy question.
I've spent 2 months hating a show because it tried to woo me with an incomplete draft.
NOW I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST!
There are two pilots.
The pilot I watched 2 months ago didn't have any mention/appearance of the asshole brother, and ended with a different conspiracy question.
I've spent 2 months hating a show because it tried to woo me with an incomplete draft.
NOW I DON'T KNOW WHO TO TRUST!
Exactly. It's simple statistics. The network that buys the most genre shows will therefore cancel the most genre shows, simply because there are more of them. Over its history, FOX has bought more scripted genre shows as a percentage of its total than any other broadcast network, except UPN (and maybe The CW -- it was still so new when I worked this out a few years ago that there wasn't enough data for the comparison).
You want a network that's unfriendly to sci-fi, look at CBS. They've had the lowest percentage of genre shows over their lifetime, and have hardly had any over the past couple of decades -- which makes it so amazing that they have Person of Interest, one of the best SF shows on the air, and are about to do Supergirl.
I ddi like the return of the sick stick, although you have feel for the actor getting stuck by one having to spit out whatever's in their mouth. Agatha is a hard one to figure out, she's on Dash's case for leaving but Arthur is allowed to use his gift to become a rich man and seemingly with Agatha's blessing. And the idea of using computers to solve crimes is a risky as the old pre-crime system and this ep. showed that there's still flaws in the pre-crime system.
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