I’m the opposite. Enough boyfriend/girlfriend, more super aliens. And that’s the big problem right now is that the two storylines are barely related.
I’m jumping on here late, and have only read page 3, but I’m in the Time Traveler’s camp. I’m thinking they’re from the very far future, and have either evolved or bioengineered themselves, so that they aren’t technically human, but are indeed our descendants.
I’m guessing something in our future, their past, happened that they’re trying to set right. It must be a very sensitive thing to mention, that perhaps by merely mentioning it, humanity will go down that wrong course? Obviously none of the visitors have seen a thriving civilization, thanks to the shiv scene, so I’m guessing their future home is a very bleak place. I dunno… but I’m down with it.
Did anyone notice that the the chief alien/time traveller guy (forgot his name) says: “what’s the difference, they’re going to die anyway”, referring to the airplane passengers?
What I couldn’t help but notice was how badly the team of international assassins (people who apparently have no trouble murdering an entire small town Texas police force and obviously have access to the world’s most high-tech weaponry) bungled the hit of their primary target, who at one point was literally in thier rifle sights. :dubious:
It’s getting pretty hard to keep going, but it’s just good enough (or at least not quite bad enough to bail on) to hold my moderate interest.
(and as I said before, the brunette evil chick/super-hitwoman is a stunning young lady, though I don’t recall seeing her on TV before)
I’m leaning strongly towards time travelers, but they obviously have gone through some sort of historical discontinuity if they didn’t know the level of technology that existed in the 1940s.
I thought it was hilarious when J.D. Cooper said, “I’ve got him in my sights”, and hot evil brunette reminded him that they were supposed to keep a low profile. I guess killing an entire police station is low profile, but shooting some guy would be too big a deal.
Yeah, that cannon would’ve made a loud noise… but who the hell would’ve checked checked up on it? All the (real) cops are dead.
They could’ve ended up arriving a few decades before they planned (though that wouldn’t explain their clothes). Or they’re from so far into the future that their knowledge of the era is really vauge. And didn’t they arrive in some short of ship? 
Nothings been said so far about the wreckage; if there were that many survivors walking around the crash sight it must of crashed relatively intact.
It seems to me they were injecting the antidote BEFORE they released Alien Woman, and there was enough time to report the passengers were healing BEFORE they let her walk onto the train.
And given that the agreed on sequence was: A) release alien then B) we deliver the antidote to CDC there’s something majorly wrong with the time flow. (Maybe they ARE time travelers. Heh.)
I gave up on this one this week. I just couldn’t take it anymore.
Yep, I’m thisclose to giving up on it myself. I’m trying to hang on but each episode is more ridiculous than the last. Texas, one of the largest states in the US, and Shawn just happens to be within an hour or so from the police station Leila was taken to. Yaokay. When his police buddy said “That’s not far from here” my eyes rolled so quickly I almost severed an optic nerve.
Maybe the most ludicrous episode yet.
So you want me to buy that you can spike someone’s food with nuclear hoodoo juice and then track thier movements from afar (even if only as blips on a radar screen), yet you don’t bother to have about 400 plaincloths agents stationed at each and every possible Metro stop that your target (who is afterall, at that point, the most wanted “person” on Earth) could possibly get off at?!?
I can handle aliens (EBE’s) or time travel, or even rouge hottie FBI agents who happily engage wounded, captive murderers in trivial small talk with no real attempt at actual interrogation, but to swallow the comic ineptitude displayed before the President Of The United States’ very eyes is beyond my reach.
(and no, even after this bit of epic jackassery, I am not likely to just walk away—I am enjoying it in my own perverse way, even if for all the wrong reasons)
I’m with you, Salt Lake. Scandium isotopes would’ve worked as a marker or tag I guess, but as some sort of radioactive GPS. :dubious:
But I put that in the same camp as computers that make squigly digital noises when displaying information, and the magic enhancement software that can resolve impossible resolution. I just have to compartmentalize my brain so I can enjoy it the larger story.
I’m starting to dig the flashbacks, actually. I was really into Simon’s backstory, and eventual resolve. The stretch of time these characters have to play out, you’d have to include flashbacks.
I’m still thinking they’re time travelers from our future. Either humanity invents some technology that caused a global cataclysm (of which tech they might also use as a hail-mary to go back in time to correct)… OR… Earth went through some kind of global cataclysm, so we invented time-travel to correct it. A select group of survivors were charged with their mission and orders, for the sake of humanity. They jumped in some sort of time-ship, things went catastrophic for some reason, and overshot their arrival time by several decades too distant. Their ship malfunctioned and crash landed over Alaska. And they spent their time infiltrating our government to keep an eye on the captives, and many sectors of our civilization in order to speed up our technological advances, so they can make the parts and technology (like fission) they need to get wherever they’re going and do whatever they’re doing. And so on.
I think Simon’s still alive. He better be, he’s too good of a character.
He’s still alive…for now. In another piece of network short-sightedness, during the previews for the next episodes, they showed him all bandaged up and in a hospital bed talking to someone. I can’t fuggin’ BELIEVE they showed that. And didn’t an earlier episode show that “the visitors” have some kind of accelerated healing abilities?
And I’m assuming the singularity or whatever it was that brought the building down was NOT “The Event.” At least I’m hoping it wasn’t.
I’m thinking “The Event”, refers to some future cataclysm that happens to humanity. That’s why Thomas said in a previous episode, “What’s the difference, they’re all dead anyway.”
When he spiked the creamer at the coffee shop I was wondering how many servings they were going to get out of there. Then some CIA guy says they have 64 seperate trackers moving about. 64 servings out of one bottle of creamer? Really?
He poured it into at least two bottles.
Not that that’s much better…
64 people consuming creamer in a few minutes and nobody saw this random guy pouring a chemical into multiple bottles? :dubious:
How about the young genius, Sean, being completely baffled at the phrase “extra-terrestrial biological entities”? Did the producers really think the audience wouldn’t understand that?
I’ll still watch for now but I’m reaching the breaking point. It’s obvious the makers have no interest in delivering a plot-based mystery unraveling show and are content to merely create pointless drama with cliches and lazy writing.
It seems to me these folks are traveling back and forth from Alaska with ncredible speed. The one undercover alien dude was in DC then talking face to face with Laura innes and then back in Dc over the course of 3 scenes
Old-man faced little girls is not the Event. Also CIA director guy was married to a Russian spy & Sophia is the mother of Thomas.
Yep, I guess we now know why the CIA Director (the James Carville lookalike) is such an asshole—His hottie wife was a Russian mole who was playing him dirty.
Although this episode was a bit tighter than some of the others, I would have expected the mysterious computer-guru who helped Leila and Sean figure out the cryptic list to have the tech-savvy to not allow his calls to be traced, but on this show, I suppose just going with the flow is the best move for me…