I didn’t like it. Not enough naked girls. I could have written dozen undressing scenarios and I don´t have any imagination. They should hire the “naked chicks” staff writer that HBO has in its script supervising division.
Well, here is week 2 and not much more has been revealed. I guess you can get the symbiots off teenagers backs with a blowtorch, if you use enough morpheme, and even if you do it when one of the bugs wakes up the kid will make a jerking motion.
Yeah, giving it one more week.
Well, if the good guys can figure out one of their big hurdles in episode two, what good is that? I hope missing cute blonde girl comes back.
Executing hostages to make clear their dislike of prison breaks is pretty grim for a prime time American show.
…and maybe it’s just a matter of budget, but I am kind of impressed that they don’t hesitate to actually SHOW the aliens pretty frequently.
-Joe
Even Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan weren’t immune from Spielberg’s cute kid requirement.
Cute kids aren’t the problem with this show. Boring aliens are.
Wait until the next episode when they begin reproducing with humans to create horrific slimy non-cute hybrids! 
I don’t get where they are going with the ‘harnessing’ subplot. Collecting scrap metal by hand? Really? Why not just, you know, go to a scrap yard to pick up whatever you want with those big, powerful machines they are using to guard them?
Then we have the kid who apparently can still be harnessed directly by the aliens without the presence of the wormy thing. So what’s the need for the wormy thing in the first place?
Oh, well, it’s just TV.
Yep. None of that shit makes sense either. It isn’t just TV, it’s crappy tv.
TEH ALIENS HAVE COME FOR OUR EMPTIES!!!
Weren’t parts of the harness still sticking out of the kid, and fused with his nervous system?
Maybe they have the kids collecting scrap metal where they know the resistance will spot them, to lure the resistance into rescuing them, and then once the kids have infiltrated the resistance base they will all start killing or peeing in the oatmeal or something.
They mentioned in the pilot that the kids can resist, but it’s painful. So, [handwave] the scrap metal collecting could be part of training/breaking them to saddle, for whatever nefarious reason they’re really grabbing them[/handwave].
Finally watched the pilot and I’m less then impressed. I’ll stick with it for a few more episodes and see if it comes together into something interesting.
So far it’s kinda cookie cutter. Aliens bad, able and skilled military didn’t have a chance but those untrained morons are doing a much better job, omg think about the children.
I’m tired of attempts for the importance of children’s emotional development in a post apocalyptic setting, it made for good story the first few times, now it’s just getting old. One of these times the survivors are going to say the hell with the children they are nothing but a liability if we can come out of this OK we’ll make more.
What’s absolutely killing me is the geography. It’s supposedly set in an area I’ve very familiar with and the creative liberties taken are just silly.
So far and not even remotely important to their story the thing’s I’ve noticed:
‘Group one’s going to take Route 3 from Boston to Revere’ Yeah good luck finding Rt 3 in Boston and if you do it sure and hell isn’t going to get you to Revere.
They travel west towards Acton and plan to meet at the ‘Littleton Bridge’ Littleton is west of Acton so their plan is to march through Acton and then go back to it?
What the hell is the ‘Littleton Bridge’ that everyone seems to know as a landmark. For landmark bridges in Littleton maybe the Littleton overpass. There aren’t even any rivers in Littleton.
From Acton they are on a hill overlooking Boston. There is no point in Acton with that view. I’m trying to think of places in Acton where they might have even been able to look at their own camp from a hill.
The ‘Acton Armory’ Acton MA doesn’t have any armories I’ve ever heard of. The National Guard posts on Fort Devens might be worth looking at…
Then they are at the ‘something Kennedy school’ in Acton. Doesn’t exist.
The kids where being marched west to the Hospital from Acton. The Hospital closest to Acton is to the east. Going west the next Hospital has no clear path to it.
Even the plant life lacks a New England feel. Did they even film in MA?
At least keep your bitching sensible.
If it was accepted as logical that the aliens would cross between solar systems for beer cans, you’re right, it would be silly.
However, it is made clear IN THE SHOW and BY THE CHARACTERS that it doesn’t make sense. Therefore, it’s not necessarily poor writing, just incomplete information on the characters’ part.
Note that I’m not saying that it ISN’T necessarily poor writing. We don’t know. But you’re right that traveling a bazlillion miles for scrap metal doesn’t make sense. Good thing everyone realizes that.
-Joe
Watched the second episode last night. I’m still not sure I can get into this. On the one hand, I like the premise, and the visuals are pretty good. On the other hand the people (and the aliens) are just so stupid. They do really stupid things…and not stupid in a way that makes sense. Granted, none of these folks has any real military training, but they make very basic mistakes and they don’t seem to learn from them. They don’t plan out operations, but just sort of go out to do stuff with very vague ‘you go over here and scout, and we’ll be way over there…hope nothing happens to you or that you find anything since there is no way for you to actually tell us what your scouting mission finds’. They are constantly getting into deep shit because they don’t know what they are doing or how to do it.
Luckily the aliens are just as stupid and are seemingly immune to most human weapons unless you get ‘really close’. :rolleyes: Why would a full clip of 7.62 at less than 10 yards do nothing to the alien, while a shotgun blast at point blank kills it? Why does it take so long to figure out that the legs are the most vulnerable part?? Why don’t the resistance fighters have more explosive weapons, since they obviously work well on the mechs?
Overall the jury is still out on this one. If the people in the show start acting a bit smarter and making less really stupid and incomprehensible mistakes I could see getting into this one. I don’t mind that the aliens are stupid and do incomprehensible things…they are aliens after all, and their motivations are still obscure (scrap metal?? :p). I mind that the humans are doing stupid and incomprehensible things, however, in ways that just don’t seem realistic to me. Sure, people can be stupid, but these people are up against the wall here and aren’t reacting like they are up against the wall and fighting for their very survival. They don’t act like people who’s lives and future are on the line and who are fighting for their own survival…it’s more like a game, and a game that they not only don’t take seriously but that they are all particularly bad at playing and seemingly have no interest in even going through the motions of trying to figure out or play better.
-XT
But you’re right that traveling a bazlillion miles for scrap metal doesn’t make sense. Good thing everyone realizes that.
-Joe
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I would think that the premise of gathering scrap metal does makes sense. If it is hard and costly for the Aliens to bring enough invasion equipment, why not bring limited manufacturing capability? This could be fed with scrap metal that is already refined and you would not need refining capablity.
Perhaps the control of humans is linked to the using the best controlled to man additional robots that the aliens are able to build with the manufacturing capability.
Steve
Yeah, but they have these mile high structures towering over cities. Doesn’t seem like they are short on material.
Yeah, they said the “needles” were complete wrapped around the spine. So maybe the stuff that’s still in his body is the psychic part, while the thing on their backs is just supplying the drug/growing the needles.
Huh? Can you tell me when we were shown a full clip not hurting an alien while a shotgun would?
We saw a full clip not hurting the alien version of a mini-tank, and we saw a shotgun hurting the alien version of a naked man…
-Joe
I hate the little kid, this show would be tolerable without him.
Oh come on, a little more personal tragedy and he could become a soulless, chain-smoking, shaven-headed, self-mutilating killing machine! …But he’d still ride the skateboard.
John Connor, then?
-Joe