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01-16-2012 , 09:00 PM
New J.J Abrams show premieres in a minute, looks like a cool plot and J.J hasn't missed yet (outside of lolundercovers)

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When San Francisco Police Department Det. Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to Jack Sylvane (Jeffrey Pierce), a former Alcatraz Island prisoner who died decades ago. Given her family history— both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, Ray Archer (Robert Forster), were guards at the prison —Madsen's interest is immediately piqued, and once an enigmatic, government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) tries to impede her investigation, she is doggedly committed.
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01-16-2012 , 09:17 PM
First commercial break.

These either seems comically bad or a solid start.

I mean, the ex-partner dying right before as character background, that's so hackneyed.

Some of the dialogue thus far has been brutal.
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01-16-2012 , 09:56 PM
Good first hour, I do believe I been hooked.
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01-16-2012 , 10:20 PM
hmm ... this lead actress seems a little rough around the edges in regards to acting ability. plot is damn interesting ... going to be really interesting how they explain it
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01-16-2012 , 10:21 PM
this is painfully bad imo
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01-16-2012 , 10:22 PM
this is either terrible or amazing. havent decided yet
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01-16-2012 , 10:59 PM
wow what the **** was that ending
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01-16-2012 , 11:00 PM
Awesome
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01-16-2012 , 11:01 PM
**** you JJ and all the convoluted ****ing ideas running through your ****ed up cranium.

Another show with a zillion levels to try to recall, as the season runs through.
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01-16-2012 , 11:07 PM
i can't help but think of LOST while watching this. very similar.

don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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01-16-2012 , 11:07 PM
i just want to know the secret, i dont want to put in the time. it was pretty good, and better than Flash Forward and The Event, but unfulfilling just like those were for some reason
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01-16-2012 , 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by DemonDeac
i can't help but think of LOST while watching this. very similar.

don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
well its made by the exact same people

i expect to watch each episode just hoping to see people get killed, continue to learn nothing about why the **** there are prisoners jumping 50 years into the future, then be disappointed with a halfassed attempt at an ending
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01-16-2012 , 11:12 PM
lol ****ing JJ Abrams ...
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01-16-2012 , 11:19 PM
Jorge Garcia didn't want to be type-cast so his new show is about a mysterious island in the Pacific where people magically disappear and re-appear with some sort of time travel. And he's looking for Jack in the 1st episode. Ok.

Really liked it though. Sam Neal is great, but Michael Emerson would have killed in that role and made the Lost connection complete.

Last edited by OneOut; 01-16-2012 at 11:28 PM.
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01-16-2012 , 11:33 PM
He would be great but he has already a Ben Linus kind of character in person of interest.

I liked it but hopefully it's more than the bad guy of the week type of show.
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01-17-2012 , 12:15 AM
This show is going to be terrible for the very reason above...it is going to be a "bad guy of the week" type of show imo...
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01-17-2012 , 12:21 AM
meh, fringe started off similarly with people thinking it would be a crazy unexplained mystery of the week and it got awesome.

in jj i trust
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01-17-2012 , 12:32 AM
Just watched the pilot and it looks like the usual time travel/paralell universe JJ Abrams crap.
Didn't like the cast also, except of Sam Neill.
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01-17-2012 , 12:33 AM
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Originally Posted by yea buddy
This show is going to be terrible for the very reason above...it is going to be a "bad guy of the week" type of show imo...
Yeah, Fringe was the same way and any new show has to start out the same way so people will feel comfortable jumping on at any point.

And if you didn't see many overall prevailing continuity themes in these 2 episodes, I'm not sure we were watching the same show.
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01-17-2012 , 12:56 AM
I wasn't paying attention at the beginning, did they run the credits, or was the first time at the 1 hr 15 minute mark?
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01-17-2012 , 01:04 AM
Looks promising IMO, in JJ we trust.

I like the idea of prisoner a week, I thought Sylvane was going to be a main character but it looks like an recurring type of thing, I hope he gets more of a storyline.
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01-17-2012 , 02:24 AM
that cleavage 8 mins into second hour OMG!!!
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01-17-2012 , 03:37 AM
Looks like JJ's got another winner
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01-17-2012 , 09:17 AM
not great, not awful. i'll give it at least a couple more episodes.
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01-17-2012 , 09:20 AM
I loved it. Would be shocked if this isn't a winner.
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