Series/Alphas

Because we are going to need a thread for this. Kicks off 11 Jun at 10 Eastern time on your Sci Fi Channel signal interceptor.

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You sure know the demographic here.

I'll definitely be watching it.

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Looks interesting, I'll check it out.

Hell I got nothing else on the books for tonight. Cousin bailed on the plans to hit up the Locker Room Saloon's weekly Monday Night Beer Pong tournament, so...

The concept is interesting, but I'm not liking this so far. Not really liking the characters, and the guy who sees signals is gettin' on my damned nerves.

edited 11th Jul '11 8:17:30 PM by MarkVonLewis

I thought it was pretty good. The shooter (Hicks?) reminds me of Jack.

edited 11th Jul '11 8:42:05 PM by stingerbrg

That guy is like Matthew Fox's long-lost brother.

I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency

The big tough black guy whose power is getting sweaty and super-strong is pretty damn abrasive. I'm not seeing a lot of unit cohesion here, but if the show progresses well we could get some good bits. I should keep watching this.

I made a page.

I rarely visit the forums to avoid the cynicism ooze.

Saw it. Liked it a great deal. Probably going to be adding this to the list of, what, five shows I'm watching this season.

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I caught the first twenty minutes of it and quickly lost interest. It was very dry in my opinion, and I didn't really see any good chemistry between the characters (not romantic chemistry, they just seemed really flat when interacting with each other).

That and the little introductions that gave each person were causing quite a few facepalms in my living room because of the "explanations" they gave for the powers. Synaesthesia does not work that way. They were all Stock Superpowers, I would be perfectly fine with them except that the producers decided to try and justify those powers using reasons that don't make sense.

I don't know, it may improve, but I don't think I'll be tuning in to find out.

Corgis are a Welsh bread. I'm delicious.

I just had to howl "That's not what synesthesia means! How is hearing the colour blue going to help them solve crimes? Or smelling the texture of a fabric?"*

at that point. I think it's because, gods forbid some kinda geeks watch Sy Fy, the writers had to rename all the powers to make them sound non-comic-y. It's not mind control - or suggestion - it's "hyper induction" (or something). The guy doesn't have super strength, he has "enhanced" strength. Then they apparently came up blank, since they already had enhanced strength and couldn't come up with something for enhanced senses (could have been hyper focus, which it kind of is, but I guess they already had hyper once), so one of them picked up his iDevice, looked up "senses" on Wikipedia and thought, "Hey, look, there's a weird word, and it's connected with senses, I bet we could use this. And hey, we're using it too; that's gonna piss off all the nerds. The boss'll give me pay rise for sure." And then they just pulled a word out of a bag, because mechanical empathy and "the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by means of a virus" (courtesy of Dictionary.com) a.k.a. transduction are not even in the same scientific field.

EDIT: Incidentally, with Leoben looking almost as good as ever after 150,000 years (there is some wear and tear), could that mean that Six and the rest of the rebels are in Alphas verse too?

edited 12th Jul '11 1:13:15 PM by Birion

Part of the premise is that each of them has a severe emotional problem that prevents them from working in a group together well. It's like somebody mixed a little bit of House with every character.

I can't remember what their names are so I'm going to call them by their powers.

Super-Strength: personal space issues. Also seems to be a bit of a control freak.

Super-Senses: confrontational issues. (BTW, do we have a subtrope where you can only use one super sense at a time and it cancels out all of your other senses?)

Techno Mage: general inability to not be annoying.

Hypnotic Eyes: sociopath (I think).

New guy:?

Touch hypnosis: OCD.

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The technomage dude is a somewhat-high functioning autistic, I believe.

edited 12th Jul '11 3:22:14 PM by SweetMadness

Corgis are a Welsh bread. I'm delicious.

Eh, the concept was interesting enough, but none of the characters really appeal to me. And on the whole it was rather... dull.

I think I'm going to pass on this show.

I think I'll give it a few more episodes.

And it's apparently Techno Path. Didn't it have an open Image Pickin'? Should we try to dig up a screen shot?

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Damn, has this started already?

I just slapped myself becuase I realized upon seeing this thread that I missed the premiere, which means I missed this and eureka.

edited 13th Jul '11 3:21:01 PM by MousaThe14

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Fuck; now I have stuff to watch Monday nights.

And Warehouse13 if you watch that show.

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I'll catch up with t when I feel like it. I love the concept but it isn't worth getting dedicated to it just for Artie.

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Claudia.

60% of the women i've been with.

I like he concept. It's like Heroes, except not as good. It needs better characters, really. The shooter was a good character, and so is the mind control girl.

Otherwise it feels,jarring.

At least it has Noah Wilson in it.

Yeah I feel like most of the characters are writing mis-steps.

I mean the idea of powers coming with flaws is decent, I suppose, but the characters really ain't all that interesting, aside from the shooter guy.

I think I MIGHT give it a couple more episodes. But I don't really have high hopes.

Just watched it. I'll give it a chance like I gave No Ordinary Family a chance. I mean I thought that show was going to suck but I liked it more than expected.

However, the characters aren't all that interesting and I can barely like anyone. So far it's just one big meh. It's like watching Warehouse13 again only without the laughs or Artie.

edited 14th Jul '11 9:43:35 PM by MousaThe14

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The most jarring thing was synthesia... Just watch Heroes's and you'll know what a synesthesia based superpower looks like.

It's not as good as Heroes was but it's still a pretty good idea. I'm just hoping they introduce more interesting powers/characters.

Yeah synthesia in Heroes was fascinating. Chances are they couldn't think of the right word for what she could do so they went with something people are familiar with.

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