:rolleyes:Final scene of the second episode, I totally saw that coming.
Sure, except a whole lot of times those ‘mopes’ are cops. Wasn’t there one in NY a couple years ago where a bunch of cops unloaded at some poor immigrant. He was standing still in broad daylight, they fired a good seventy times, and hit him something like five times.
Yeah, that’s one of those “WAAAAAALT!” type moments. Dude, I know you want to save your son. I totally get it. I understand taking big risks to do it. However, getting your head blown off instantly (or, alternately, randomly running through the jungle screaming “WAAAAAALT!”) is not, in fact, going to help save your son.
-Joe
Except that, annoyingly, it DID help save his kid, who otherwise would have been left behind.
Yes, the final scene was somewhat predictable - but will still be interesting to learn more about the alien - food, weaknesses, communication, strengths. I like that the show keeps revealing more and more, instead of wasting time on little family subplots “does Mary love Bobby, is Cathy cheating on Ed, is Betty pregnant?” and instead keeps going for the the more pressing concerns.
Watched the pilot last night, and it wasn’t very good. What a surprise that they have the hard-nosed commander, the compassionate doctor, and the 2nd in command who navigates between the two. I may watch a few more episodes to see if it gets any better. The Walking Dead has a very similar premise but is soooooo much more watchable.
I’m assuming that you are referring to the Amadou Diallo shooting. However, it was at night, and it was 41 shots with 19 hits. I’ll avoid further commentary, as this isn’t the place for it.
A couple of years ago, I was in a cab driven by a (presumably, but I’m open to alternate explanations) different Amadou Diallo.
Yes, that was the kicker for me. When the black guy jumped out, I just thought ‘well I guess he’s dead now’, and then with growing disbelief watched him actually survive his own idiocy – and accomplishing what he intended to do! I though it would be one of those ‘do stupid things and you’re dead’ moments, you know, where everyone learns the tough lesson, but rather, it turned out that on this show, stupidity is being rewarded – which I guess is about the only way the survivors have any hope at all, so maybe it only makes sense.
Perhaps the aliens ignore unarmed single people.
What annoyed me is “I have to do this myself” or whatever he said. I’d take a dozen guys with shotguns with me. 
Well, having never been in that situation - I assume it would be hard to maintain composure - clearly at that point, his child (none of the children) was not in any ‘worse’ immediate danger - thing is he will really regret his decision if the previews have any merit - it will be his child that is lost while the ‘hero’s’ child will live on - if he had held his tounge, it would be the other way around.
I think the writers got htat part right tho - with him running over half cocked not thinking it thru - it takes a lot of ‘stuff’ to control yourself in those types of situations and some folks just dont have it (or lose it).
The only reason he survived his own idiocy -
a) the kid didn’t fight back
b) teacher dude thru the bomb at the approaching mech - and paid the price later.
What struck me about that scene was that it was completely predictable. Honestly, if the aim was to save a specific child, then no one with a missing child other than the rescuee’s parent should have been on that mission. Ideally you wouldn’t want the rescuee’s parent on the mission either, but I suppose there’d be an issue with identification. The better move, though would have been to send fighters without missing children to get the first child/guinea pig they could.
30% drop in viewers from week one to two, I doubt this one has very many episodes left.
Too bad, but I won’t be that sad to see it go. Still, it was nice to have something for my wife and I to watch on a schedule. Pretty much everything else is on demand when we feel like it.
Having to have all the BS done and out of the way by 9PM so we could watch was actually kind of nice. Ah well.
-Joe
Unless it continues dropping at such a high rate, I wouldn’t worry. First, it was only 25%, to 4.2 million, and it was still #12 in the cable ratings last week. What was higher? An awards show, three tv show premieres, wrestling (twice), a reality show, and 4 kids shows.
Don’t read too much in week-to-week ratings.
It needs to throw us a few curve balls to get me interested i.e. the aliens that everyone has been killing with gay abandon are, infact, have been “harnessed” by yet another set of aliens.
I can see a mile off that the mechs are controlled by harnessed kids with characters wondering about the whole two legs v. six legs things.
It would have been much more fun to set the story 30 years or so since the aliens took over. Aliens have reduced humans to a preindustrial level and are farming them for slave labour. As long as you don’t have weapons, stay in small groups and give up your tribute of fellow humans from your comunity you get to live up your life. Don’t want to give up your fellow villages, fine go raid another village for slaves, the aliens don’t care. Young characters have no experience of a prealien world, the old characters can remember the old world.
OK, I got to ask. Who’s “Walt”?
Made famous by his father’s plaintive cry on the series Lost.
His father’s best plan for rescuing him when WAAAAAALT was kidnapped was to run randomly through the (extremely dangerous) jungle while screaming “WAAAAAALT”.
It was probably the most annoying thing on a show filled with annoying things.
-Joe
Okay, so they let the Raider Rapist loose to show them the way to a motorcycle store while Dr. Moony tries to play Councilor Troy to an alien. I guess their map reading skills are kinda shaky, and only sociopaths can Lead The Way.
Dr. Moony does make one good point in this ep., though: until they get another live skitter, it’s best to stay “on mission” with the attempt to establish communications. Once they get another live skitter, if the first is less than cooperative in discussing Ultimate Alien Overlord plans, then you can proceed with the vivisection of #1. Maybe let #2 watch; you know, as a sort of incentive to develop those ol’ communications skills.
Disposable Oriental Dude needs to be disposed of for turning his back on a prisoner. And for standing out in the open while a bunch of armed Alien Zombie Kids advance on your position.
[QUOTE=ExTank;13984567 And for standing out in the open while a bunch of armed Alien Zombie Kids advance on your position.[/QUOTE]
That was outstandingly stupid of them, although the AZKs shoot on the level of Imperial Stromtroopers. 
I finally got caught up, and so far I’m merely whelmed by the show.
It does make me wonder yet again, why do 90% of non-grey aliens:
a. look like slightly modified humans
or
b. look like bugs or marine/amphibious life?
Obviously these aliens fall into catergory b, since skitters bear more than as passing resemblance to Davey Jones. Why do aliens so rarely resemble mammals? And by mammals, I don’t mean bipedal ones that look like they’d be comfortable in a furry convention…
