So, is anyone here watching it? Whataya think of it?
I like it. Will need to see a few episodes to know if they can keep it up.
I liked it. It would make a great setting for a RPG.
Enjoyable for the most part...i'll keep watching.
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AFAIC, it's the best show on TV. And that's just after 2 episodes.
(It's my new replacement for Fringe, the previous best show on TV.)
The writing is good, as are the actors. Still not sure where they are going with the android partner, but at least he's not a Data clone.
Liking it so far. The beginning was a little too 'I, Robot' (only with much less Will Smith), but pretty cool, regardless.
I thought that as well, but not with the word "too", and I considered it a feature, not a bug.
Seen it, loved it. Loved it more then Agents of shield. Damn.
My new favorite show on tv. And I haven't even watched it yet!
It's definitely the best thing to come out of the new season. Lots of enjoyable series hit this year, but both episodes so far have been movie-like in quality.
Indeed. With the likely excuse that it's too expensive. (And it sure looks it, AFAIC.)
Expensive shows must draw big demographics to warrant their budgets...
My first thought was it was very Blade Runner-esque, in a good way. Fox will eventually move it to the Friday death slot and that will be that. Fox just doesn't get sci-fi.
Does any network?
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Last night's episode wasn't to my taste; the SF angle was mildly clever, but didn't drive the story enough to overcome my distaste for hostage scenarios. However, I am impressed by the small background touches in panning/establishing shots--FX that don't slap you in the face but do what they're supposed to do.
Last night's episode wasn't to my taste; the SF angle was mildly clever, but didn't drive the story enough to overcome my distaste for hostage scenarios. However, I am impressed by the small background touches in panning/establishing shots--FX that don't slap you in the face but do what they're supposed to do.
This. Oh-so-this in every regard.
[snooty European] Going by the trailers I think I'll stick to the Swedish show it's based on.[/snooty European]
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[snooty European] Going by the trailers I think I'll stick to the Swedish show it's based on.[/snooty European]
You mean the one that was based on the American science fiction stories of Isaac Asimov featuring a human detective (Elijah Baley) and his robot partner (R. Daneel Olivaw)from 1953, like every other cop/robot partner story?
Except the Swedish original isn't a cop/robot partner story.
Yeah, while the Fringe approach to technology bugs me a bit, this show has all the camaraderie and humor lacking in the not-quite-awful Agents of SHIELD.
So, yes, I fully expect Fox to cancel it halfway through its first season.
This week's episode was batter than last week's, I thought--quite a bit of enjoyable banter. Once again, though, the SF of the show was marginal at best--this could have been a contemporary police drama with little adjustment. And that's a problem as I don't care all that much for procedurals--unless the SF gets amped back up, I don't know how long I'll stick with this show...
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This week's episode was batter than last week's, I thought--quite a bit of enjoyable banter. Once again, though, the SF of the show was marginal at best--this could have been a contemporary police drama with little adjustment. And that's a problem as I don't care all that much for procedurals--unless the SF gets amped back up, I don't know how long I'll stick with this show...
My guess is they are working inside a budget right now. They probably want to focus on the banter as much as possible to draw attention away from the sci-fi elements. Its working for me right now but wont forever. Hopefully this thing has a chance to get green lit so they can up the ante.
This show is awesome enough in that The Crystal Method is scoring the show's soundtrack.
They're doing (almost) everything right (as much as they can - talking a tad more about the sci-fi aspect couldn't hurt).
Making a buddy cop show with a sci-fi slant shouldn't be something out of the ordinary, but it is. Because of that, they've hit an under-used niche (and the buddy-cop thing is all over the place). This show feels kinda fresh because it's moving in the sci-fi field.
Michael Ealy was costar of Common Law, a buddy cop show on USA Network that was undeservedly cancelled after its debut season. It was solid and should have gotten another year.
His partner had a small part as a radar operator (or something like that) on the battleship in The Avengers.
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Honestly, the only real difference between this and other procedurals is this one actually admits the science involved is sci-fi.
You don't think the whole exploration of what it means to be a person (and what it means to relate more to something that isn't considered a person than actual people) is a noteworthy deviation from the norm of procedural drama?
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Honestly, the only real difference between this and other procedurals is this one actually admits the science involved is sci-fi.You don't think the whole exploration of what it means to be a person (and what it means to relate more to something that isn't considered a person than actual people) is a noteworthy deviation from the norm of procedural drama?
Well, considering that they've barely touched on it since the first episode, really?
I was hooked by the first couple eps for that very reason, but the more recent two have been pretty by-the-numbers efforts that didn't have much to offer beyond what I could get from any cop show on TV right now.
His partner had a small part as a radar operator (or something like that) on the battleship in The Avengers.
Are you talking about Karl Urban? i.e. "Bones" McCoy from the Star Trek reboot.
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His partner had a small part as a radar operator (or something like that) on the battleship in The Avengers.Are you talking about Karl Urban? i.e. "Bones" McCoy from the Star Trek reboot.
I think he was still referring to Early's co-star from Common Law, who was indeed the blink-and-you'll-miss-him bridge dude on the helicarrier.
I think he was the only SHIELD person on the Helicarrier bridge (or the entire helicarrier, come to think of it) who had a speaking line apart from Fury and Hill.
You don't think the whole exploration of what it means to be a person (and what it means to relate more to something that isn't considered a person than actual people) is a noteworthy deviation from the norm of procedural drama?Sorry, that was more meant to be a pithy comment on the ridiculous "science" on modern cop shows than a knock on Almost Human.
That being said, we haven't seen much exploration of that dynamic yet, outside of the pilot.
It pops up every now and then (olive oil on the leg; thinking that stabbing your cybernetic leg is a cool trick to show a kid IT TOTALLY IS; risking your life to save an android about to be shot; altering speech patterns or mimicking other voices entirely in order to make the other person more cooperative; etc.). Right now it's being used as spice to flavor the social interactions, but I think it's safe to assume they'll be revisiting it in a more in-depth way later this season.
It pops up every now and then (olive oil on the leg; thinking that stabbing your cybernetic leg is a cool trick to show a kid IT TOTALLY IS; risking your life to save an android about to be shot; altering speech patterns or mimicking other voices entirely in order to make the other person more cooperative; etc.). Right now it's being used as spice to flavor the social interactions, but I think it's safe to assume they'll be revisiting it in a more in-depth way later this season.That being said, we haven't seen much exploration of that dynamic yet, outside of the pilot.
You don't think the whole exploration of what it means to be a person (and what it means to relate more to something that isn't considered a person than actual people) is a noteworthy deviation from the norm of procedural drama?
I liked the "synthetics" as a slur in the first episode, and Dorian's interactions/reactions with/toward the sexbots in the second episode.
His partner had a small part as a radar operator (or something like that) on the battleship in The Avengers.Are you talking about Karl Urban? i.e. "Bones" McCoy from the Star Trek reboot.I think he was still referring to Early's co-star from Common Law, who was indeed the blink-and-you'll-miss-him bridge dude on the helicarrier.
I think he was the only SHIELD person on the Helicarrier bridge (or the entire helicarrier, come to think of it) who had a speaking line apart from Fury and Hill.
Yes, him. I think he spoke twice in the Avengers. I meant that he was Ealy's partner on Common Law. It really was a decent show.
I think they've been using that "what is human" theme to varying degrees since the pilot. It took a back seat for a few episodes (which I appreciate; i don't want to drown in the theme), but we got shades of it again in this last episode with the sidekick's request for a place of his own.
I've enjoyed the show so far.
Anybody else a little disturbed by the casualness of a van full of clones being killed by robot? Nobody seemed to be the least bit disturbed by it, just surprised he was able to do it.