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Post by Marc Graham on Sept 18, 2012 18:05:03 GMT
Anyone else been watching this show?
I've been watching the UK broadcast on.. er - FX I think it might've been. I was suprised how I kind of got into it from the middle of the first season through the end of the second. Quite a few flaws in the show, but its watchable sci-fi.
Marc.
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 18, 2012 19:27:26 GMT
I watched the first without really getting in to it, but the second season impressed me. It at least avoids the coziness and way so many invasion type shows have the heroes almost casually sneak on board the alien ship or base every week. Even when the 2nd Mass have a good week it doesnt feel like they made a serious dent in the alien war machine.
I just wonder if they have any idea of how they will finish it. Victory seems a long way off and defeat would be unusually downbeat for a US show.
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Post by Marc Graham on Sept 19, 2012 7:15:27 GMT
I dunno where they plan on taking the season 2 finale, there seems to be a degree of mileage in the concept, but how far they can go before running out of steam - who knows?
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Post by Toph on Sept 20, 2012 9:35:49 GMT
I'm not going to spoil anything for you guys, if you haven't seen the season two finale yet. But it's definately... interesting. You guys really need to see it.
I very much enjoy this show.
And I realized the other day, that this and Doctor Who are the only two hard sci-fi TV series that are on air in america. (This does not count reruns of anything, only currently ongoing/in-production shows)
Sure, there are a few soft sci-fi, like Warehouse 13, and now Revolution. But there's nothing left for us like Battlestar, Stargate, Star Trek.
It's kind of heartbreaking that scifi movies are about the only ones that reach blockbuster statis... but the genra is still virtually abscent from television. And the field seems to get more barren every year.
But yeah, back on topic. Falling Skies is good.
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Post by Marc Graham on Sept 20, 2012 11:40:49 GMT
I've seen the series 2 finalé - but it is quite open ended where they take it (similar to season 1 finalé).
I'd consider Fringe to be fairly hard sci-fi, but thats only 1 season left. Red Dwarf will be coming back and I'm sure there will be a new wave of shows at some point.
Will wait and see where Falling Skies goes, one thing is for sure - it could do with airing on a bigger UK channel in my opinion.
Marc.
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Post by Toph on Sept 21, 2012 15:47:17 GMT
Fringe deals with aliens and other spacey futurey stuff?
While I don't honestly know anything about it, it always struck me as a crime drama with gadgets.
As for Red Dwarf, I was referring to here in america. Unless BBC America or Syfy picks up the new Red Dwarf series, we won't get it. All we really have that's in the same class of sci fi as Trek or Stargate, are Doctor Who, and Falling Skies.
Also, I appologize. I missunderstood what you said. When you said you didn't know where they were taking the finale, I thought you ment you didn't know what the finale would be, not where they were going to pick it up. Wording confused me. My bad.
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Post by Marc Graham on Sept 21, 2012 16:30:56 GMT
Fringe deals with time travel and alternate universes in a clever way - imagine the X-files done with more intelligence and concentrating less on aliens (though some may confuse certain factions with aliens) and more on things beyond the fringe of actual human science.
I guess its a bit like sliders if you recall that.
Yea - my wording regarding the last episode of Falling skies wasn't well phrased, I wanted to avoid anything too spoilery in case some folk are watching via catch-up or anything. I don't know about the US - but here its on a fairly minor channel and likely gets more viewers via catchup methods (DVR/Sky+/TiVo/Whatever)
Marc.
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Post by Toph on Sept 23, 2012 13:09:42 GMT
"Ah," towards Fringe. Yeah, I'd call that pretty hard scifi. Though I didn't even know they were still making new episodes.
For me, I designate "hard scifi" as things that are truely sci-fi premises, like Time travel, space travel, hopping between realities, aliens, androids, focus on genetic manipulations... stuff like that.
Soft sci-fi I class as things that are technically science fiction, but it's a lot more subtle, like the artifacts in Warehouse 13, or advanced computers like Bones.
As for Falling Skies, here it's played on TNT, a cable channel known mostly for cop dramas. Honestly not sure if it's considered a major channel, or not. However, I do believe Falling Skies is relatively obscure here. It seems like there, mostly DVR fodder.
One thing I really appreciate about Falling Skies, is you can't really predict where it's going to go. So many things have happened through the course of the series... especially several times in the second season that I just never saw coming.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2012 16:03:14 GMT
Is there a handy guide to this show? I have never heard of it.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Sept 24, 2012 19:11:42 GMT
I don't know if there is, but here's the spoiler-free gist of it..
Stars Noah Wiley from ER fame.
The alien apocalypse happened. Mankind is facing exctinction.
Our story picks up, maybe a year later? Can't really remember. And it follows the Second Mass Resistance. The "skitters" as these inhumanoid aliens are called have been abducting children and placing them in harnesses, turning them into slaves.
it can get a little slow and laggy in places, but over all it's very good. Definately recommended to any fans of Walking Dead. Two seasons so far, and each finale so far has taken things to a whole new level.
First season DVD set is available now. And would be happy to pick it up for anyone who can watch american region dvds.
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