Salvation (new tv show about an asteroid)

[Locutus of Bored]

I gave up watching this show 3/4ths of the way through the first season when it turned turned into some half-ass spy thriller, minus the thrills.

Is the asteroid any closer to actually hitting? Because that's the only thing I'd tune in to see, is the entire cast looking up helplessly as the asteroid slams into Earth and solidifies its place as the hero we deserve for putting this miserable show out to pasture.

 

[kitik]

I'm pretty sure they're just throwing stuff at a dartboard to figure out what happens next. Perhaps spinning some random wheel with crazy things written on it.

 

[Timewalker]

I've given up. There were a few interesting ideas, but this is a mess.

 

[kitik]

Okay, looks like we're finally getting a reason for the COPE storyline on this show: they're going to be a doomsday cult that wants to sabotage the railgun.

I've given up. There were a few interesting ideas, but this is a mess.

I hear ya. I've made it this far, and I'm really hoping that we'll get some sort of resolution in the last 3 episodes of season 2. I'm not sure I could last through a third season.

The fact that the solar sail has now apparently launched successfully, along with the flow of time in general, means that we must be getting close to an asteroid resolution, right? If something goes wrong with the current plan, there's really not enough time left for anything other than the Ark. (Unless, of course, the writers say otherwise.)

But yeah, a lot of this other stuff they're filling time with can be a real drag, whether it's Cope or Q17 or even Darius disguising himself as world-famous Doctor Enrico Matassa. (Okay, I got a little kick out of that disguise bit, as corny and obvious as it was.) Who would have thought that a Civil War could be a time-waster?

 

[Timewalker]

I haven't seen the last 3 episodes, and I don't even care. I think it's still programmed to record on my PVR, so maybe I'll get around to watching it some day. Maybe the series makes more sense if binge-watched, as I have trouble remembering who most of the characters are.

They should have just gone with the Ark idea from the get-go.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Grace's sleeveless green dress with the black shoulders at the start of the latest episode gave me Dr. Crusher flashbacks.

 

[Scout101]

Still rooting for the asteroid, want this to Pivot into a space survival show so bad...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Still rooting for the asteroid, want this to Pivot into a space survival show so bad...

With the railgun payloads missing the asteroid last night, I began wondering if there really is an asteroid, if maybe it's all a scheme concocted by Nicholas Tanz and Q-17 to take over the world. The world's leaders escape into bunkers to ride out the impact while the rest of the world goes to hell and dies, leaving Bass Shepard as some sort of messianic prophet the masses can rally around and believe in when the impact never happens.

Darius' "hail mary" isn't going to work. I can't imagine there's enough depleted uranium in the world that he could put in Salvation to even make a dent in the asteroid.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Let me quote what I wrote on Facebook this morning, since there's really nothing else to say.

One thought on last night's Salvation finale (which, frankly, is/was a deeply stupid yet strangely compelling show).

I'm not sure if it was a deliberate acting choice on Santiago Cabrera's part, but he was channeling Matt Smith as the eleventh Doctor throughout the episode.

His strange manic energy, the speech patterns, the seemingly random speeches about hummingbirds, even when he placed his hands on the Secretary of Defense's shoulders, paused, and said, the way Matt Smith would have said it, "It's not an asteroid."

Across this series, his character has gone from Elon Musk to Jack Ryan to Jed Bartlet and finally the eleventh Doctor.

If this is Cabrera's audition tape to replace Jodie Whittaker when she leaves Doctor Who, I can absolutely see Santiago Cabrera as the Doctor, based solely on last night's Salvation.

 

[Scout101]

doubt this one comes back, but now it appears to be an alien/first contact show, so finally a pivot at least! Unless we skip out on Earth and tag along with the cult nutjobs that stole the titular space ship, then I get the show I was looking for. Although without much planning and time to load on supplies, not sure that show would be a long one. they used a bunch of supplies (and sabotaged others) in the bunker between seasons, so may not be enough to even make it to Mars, much less set up a colony and survive.

 

[kitik]

so finally a pivot at least!

Yeah there's that, but I'd also be surprised if this comes back.

First, comments on the finale: holy crap, a 6-week coma to get us right up to the asteroid! I'll admit, I didn't see that coming. I loved how there were multiple lines in the episode saying something along the lines of "this is not a dream", which were almost certainly aimed at fans watching the show who suddenly had a 6-week coma dumped in their lap. (I thought it might be some sort of trick for the bad guys to get the launch codes out of Darius.)

The stupidity on the finale certainly lived up to this show's high standards of such. The incredible relationship-swapping was at it's height in this episode (sure, let's just leave Alicia literally all alone crying, while Liam runs off with high treason terrorist girl). The lack of simple observation of the asteroid (as it changed course) is just another in the long line this-is-not-how-shit-really-works garbage that this show asks the viewers to swallow. Oh yes, and of course there was the jaw-dropping reappearance of Harris Edwards' dead son. Who knew exactly where to walk into the abandoned Pentagon and find his dad.

Anyways, if there is a 3rd season, let's just imagine how it will play out. There will be 12 and a half episodes of the not-asteroid just sitting there hovering, while everyone down on earth argues about what to do about it. And then the show will spend 10 episodes focused on various other arguments from earth-based folks. Drama. And if we're lucky, Uncle Tanz and the Cope guy will come back and explain that they just slingshotted around Mars and decided to head back to earth. Easy Peasy.

 

[marillion]

All I can say is that i’m pissed that Ondemand won’t let me watch this without upgrading to CBS HD or paying 2 bucks for the SD.. wtf?????