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Ah just double checked the official lore on the syfy site apparetly NOBODY likes the volge and they were in fact left to die by the votan collective. Nobody is quite sure how they wound up on earth if they came on their own ships or were smuggled on one factions arc ships.
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Signe
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I like the background of the show and some of the characters, but I don't really like the plots that much. Romeo and Juliet can diaf, especially Romeo. And take the hooker with the heart of gold with them, I'm so sick of that stereotype.
I have to agree. If they're looking to make something different, they're failing on these points. As far as I'm concerned, they can toss the new mayor into the same tub where they dumped Dexter's wife, too. I really like Lenny/Vincent Van Gogh guy and the strange looking law maker girl, though. Unfortunately, I don't much care for the main actor, either. I wish I could remember real names but you guys know who I mean, right? :( |
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Lenny? huh?
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From "This Life". I mean the Scottish guy who plays the lead albino alien. The one who's always cranky.
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Numtini
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I'm just totally loving this, but I have this deep feeling Bear McCready could score anything and I'd eat it up. The guy really is the John Williams of tv.
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You mean Bear McCreary? And yes, you're right.
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Numtini
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The joy of tapping out a message on an ipad. And yes.
What amazes me is sometimes he obviously doesn't have rights to a song and can put together something often with lyrics more appropriate to the actual scene, that totally captures the emotion of the song he's riffing on.
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Signe
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This last episode was really good.
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Ghambit
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Season finale last night:
Overall I think the show adequately exhibits potential mostly due to creative concepts and plothooks, but falls flat in production. They're going to have to put forth a bit more effort in sea. 2.
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Tannhauser
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This is the best show on SyFy since Battlestar Galactica. I'm stunned by how good it is compared to their other offerings and that it's actually scifi on their wrasslin' channel.
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Evildrider
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I think Eureka and Warehouse 13 deserve a nod.
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Hayduke
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Eh I don't know. They got the right mix of revealing enough stuff to be rewarding, but keeping enough secret to justify another season. But the whole episode seemed to be about people behaving stupidly.
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Ubvman
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I think Eureka and Warehouse 13 deserve a nod.
Warehouse 13 I'd say yes for the most part. Eureka - not so much, as the cutesy bits that they like inserting got very much annoying. |
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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I thought the annoying part was the way they rebooted the timeline every single season. "We've written ourselves into a corner? TIME TRAVEL!!!"
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Bunk
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I like this show, but man that last episode was painful. How many are they dead or not cliffhangers can we have!!?! Should we attempt to explain a damn thing about the McGuffin we've been chasing all season? Naw, we only got five minutes left - she runs in the cave, special effects and stuff happen, and um, love saves the day!
That combat scene near the end with Nolan and Irisa looked like something we filmed with a handycam in Highschool. Five minute sequence of single bad guys running in to the scene to stand there for five seconds before getting shot.
I still like the show though.
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Ard
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They explained the macguffin an episode back. They're the control units for a hidden votan warship that crashed on earth way back in time, which is what rose up out of the pit at the end there.
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And magically brought someone back to life through the power of Votan love?
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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And magically brought someone back to life through the power of Votan love?
To be fair, if the Votan tech/magic can make a dead alien sit up and hop out of an acid bath, reviving a freshly dead human isn't really a stretch. --Dave |
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And magically brought someone back to life through the power of Votan love?
To be fair, if the Votan tech/magic can make a dead alien sit up and hop out of an acid bath, reviving a freshly dead human isn't really a stretch. --Dave NANOGENES!! |
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Quick question:
I watched the first few episodes and was not impressed. After the third episode I didn't care about any of the characters, the cultures or the storyline. Do you folks think that there is anything in the later episodes that would turn me around and make me care?
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satael
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Quick question:
I watched the first few episodes and was not impressed. After the third episode I didn't care about any of the characters, the cultures or the storyline. Do you folks think that there is anything in the later episodes that would turn me around and make me care?
It got better as it went along but it didn't become a "must see"-show. Forcing yourself to watch something for many episodes just because it might get better at some distant point is rarely worth it. |
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Quick question:
I watched the first few episodes and was not impressed. After the third episode I didn't care about any of the characters, the cultures or the storyline. Do you folks think that there is anything in the later episodes that would turn me around and make me care?
It got better as it went along but it didn't become a "must see"-show. Forcing yourself to watch something for many episodes just because it might get better at some distant point is rarely worth it. Tis what I thought. The description of the show made me think it had potential, but it fell far short of that potential in the first 3 episodes. It just felt... blah. |
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Numtini
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I'd say the weakness is character identification. I don't really like or care for anyone in the show. I enjoy it, but that element is really missing.
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I liked Irissa. But that was about it.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Season 2 started last week. Tonight is the second episode. The second season starts 9 months after the first one. Most every character is doing something else instead of what they were doing before. In the first episode they travelled to LA and Chicago, but it's all going to back to St. Louis in the next one.
Two cool callbacks in the first episode of this season to the first episode of the first season:
1. Hellbugs attacking someone in the forest.
2. Dad and daughter singing in the truck.
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pxib
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Maybe that means I'll finally stop seeing the "Tick. Tick. Tick." ad.
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Bad guy trying to get a handy from the doctor was fucking hilarious.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Numtini
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Despite almost deleting the episodes unwatched, I finally got around to the first one and really enjoyed it. I know it's not great art, but it'll do.
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"You've got your hot wookiee, all you need to do is call that hand cannon a "blaster" and the fantasy is complete."
Spectacular line from hot E-Rep chick.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Signe
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Grant Bowler, whom I thought was a bit boring in the last season, has become rather more animated and I'm enjoying his part a lot more. He was good in that Kiwi series with the bloke from Banshee, but it was a different sort of acting. Mean white H.G. Wells doesn't do an awful job going from soft to hard, but I wish she'd do her flirty submissive bits without moving her face around so much. She makes me nervous. She's good at playing baddies. How come those white people aren't more wrinkly? They spend way to much time in the bath.
I'm still not inspired to pick up the game again, though.
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TV show is better than the game is why.  |
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New season is going good so far. Nice to see a bit more of the world and I agree, Grant Bowler is doing better. The 'handy' scenes were funny and I liked the scene were the poor girl is in the bath with her mother in law! It's pretty good all around, the E-Rep's are solid additons. I like how they do these little slice of life scenes, like where ERep girl is making a propaganda film. I guess I'm a bit put off by the ex-major now the cathouse owner (and sexual release provider?). Seems really out of character for her. Plus Julie Benz will be mine all mine someday!  |
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satael
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So season 2 ended with on ok story that actually had some scifi in it. No word yet on whether there's going to be season 3 but atleast it hasn't been cancelled yet. All in all I'd rather it did get a new season (especially considering the current offering on scifi tv-series front)
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