So what did you think? Did you watch all three episodes?
Only the first two. I like it so far.
Only the first two. I like it so far.
Third is on their website if you are interested.
I have not got a chance to watch this yet...what is it about?
I have not got a chance to watch this yet...what is it about?
An arctic research station is indulging in questionable experiments when something goes wrong. Investigators arrive to assist, and are trying to figure out what's going on.
I laughed out loud at their collection of garden gnomes.
I liked the pilot, but wasn't too keen on episode 3. Giving the main characters a common romantic history is a plot device that's become really old by now. It's distracting.
I honestly don't see how the premise can be sustained for a long-form TV series...
Watched all three episodes this week. It's okay, but I'm not seeing how they can sustain this beyond a season without the infected getting out.
I got the impression from the ads that this show is a show about Zombies. Now given that I didn't watch any of the episodes I have no idea. But nothing in the ads made me want to watch it.
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I watched the first two episodes. There are more immediate issues than the feasibility of dragging it out for a season.
1. The CDC allowed an investigator to go to the scene where his own brother was involved? Not likely.
2. And that lead investigator's ex-wife was allowed along, too? When they got divorced because he found her banging that same brother? And it is common enough knowledge for other employees at the CDC to have knowledge of it. Um, NO.
3. They make a big deal of using airtime to go through implanting RFID chips into the hands of all of the investigators upon arrival and another scene of explaining how they deactivated the brother's chip when he escapes, but when they find the corpse of the red shirt with his hand cut off, they ask why the brother would do that and do not bother to deactivate his chip. Really? Once you go to the trouble of adding in two scenes for this very reason, it's really stupid trying to use it as a plot device five minutes later.
4. The vet and army engineer venture off into the bowels of the base. Okay. Then remarks that it's been over an hour and they should probably go back to the others. The other says, nah, it's fine. Meanwhile the lead investigator remarks in a later scene that they'll move forward when the vet next checks in. It's been hours and two of your team have not checked in and a homicidal diseased maniac is attacking people! Sure, let's leave them to their business and let them get back to us at their leisure. That's plausible.
5. The vet asks security where they keep the monkeys. They answer that they don't have any monkeys. Then the vet finds monkey hair. Does she report this to her boss? Nope. She heads off on the aforementioned jaunt looking for monkeys. She gets to a door that her "all access" chip won't open. Does she tell her boss? Nope. She and the engineer break in. She finds the monkey cages. Does she tell her boss? Nope. She pokes around until a monkey attacks her. Then does she tell her boss? Nope. She decides to perform a necropsy. Then she gets attacked by a new infected scientist. Surely she contacts her boss now? Nope. She drags it back on her own straight to two of the other team members without stopping by the boss.
6. The lead investigator instructs everyone in the base not to travel alone but only in pairs. Plucky, you're not the boss of me, ex-wife heads off to the showers by herself. Gee, I wonder who she'll encounter?
Really, who cares how they can stretch this into a series? They aren't expecting it to happen. They can't put forth the effort to make the existing episodes plausible with characters who exhibit a bare minimum of common sense. This show is a feeble attempt at bad horror. Which is funny considering how often Syfy excels at crappy horror of the week movies. The problem with Helix is that they're taking themselves seriously.
The idea is a good one but the execution isnt great. It does look like syfy put some money into it which shocked me but the acting is just ok, the plot has a million holes in it. I cant see this lasting more than a year
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And yet, somehow, it's still more plausible than the way the FBI allows a consultant and a psychiatrist to run around ruining investigations in Hannibal.
Judging by how bad this has turned out online, I would have to say this will turn into another Stargate: Universe.
I miss SG:U. It was actually very intellegent series that went back to the SG:movie days where language was an issue and the crew was basically trapped with a constant alien adversary.
I'm really enjoying it so far...
...but drayen is absolutely right in every single one of his criticisms. Every one of them. (And yeah - my wife and I mentioned every one of those to each other when watching, so I did chuckle a bit upon reading drayen's post.)
(I thought this was just supposed to be a mini-series, not something of any length... Good grief, they're actually trying to make this into a series? I predict - FAIL.)