1x02 You Are Not Alone

I am really trying to "like" this show, but it seams to me like it's a really low budget film.
It has so much potential, but there is just so much wrong with it!
Like the DOP just doesn't care about all the little "mistakes" in the film.
The actors also come across as trying so hard but just don't have what it takes...

If this show actually gets to the end of Season 1, that will need to be seen...

Also, if this is from the Directors of Fringe, then I really think they have lost the plot. Fringe was a fantastic show, this one... I'm not sure.

There's just something missing to make this show any good.

There's weird stuff happening, yes, but it's all just so ... empty. There's just no shocking twist, or follow through. Like this episode: oooooh, the dude is getting cloned, but they die off really quick , and so that's it. They weren't even more than an inconvenience fixed by a bullet between the eyes .

How about explore the consequences of having a bunch of 1:1 copies roaming the world or locked in a Area 51 facility , now that's morally ambiguous and gets you thinking !

In the end the story was just a sad schmuck who missed his girlfriend ... ok, who gives a shit, lol.

That's what I mean, in the end it felt more about some rando dude and his GF , than about mysterious space junk. Even the way they deal with the UFO junk is just so tepid ... they click a tablet and increase the "power levels" and it just ... shuts it down. Wow, alien technology is conveniently simplistic, it even has Bluetooth connectivity !

I guess the Nattering Nabob's of Negativity have never heard of a "filler" episode, that is, one that doesn't add much to the advancement of MAIN the storyline, but, (if you look closely) does add to the information we currently have. To wit:

The Debris has cloning capability, thus a potential explanation for Finola's Papa being corpus vivum, rather than corpus mortuum.

The Debris DOES NOT have to come into contact with you to generate a clone.

The Clones are IMPERFECT segments of the whole personality of the original.

The Debris can manipulate and move surrounding metal materials to create primitive constructs as needed, although unfortunately, they shut it down before it actually did what it was trying to do. (heal the original, or transport him elsewhere???)

Transcription errors (e.g. Brundlefly) can occur if multiple data sets are introduced at the same time.

There are agendas WITHIN agendas on both the CIA and MI6 sides of the "cooperative" arrangements, with plenty of duplicitous liars all around.

Bryan (for now) is willing to play along, but, it looks like he may have a line he won't cross.

And last but not least,........ PEEPS!!

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This felt a bit stronger than the pilot episode, but I’m still on the fence. It felt more like a jumble of disparate (but good) story ideas than a cohesive whole. I think the problem I have with this series, so far, is that we are joining it in media res. That’s an okay storytelling device sometimes, but with this series I think the story would have been better served if it had just started six months back with debris falling for the first time. Or with the first sighting of the ship. Having the story set at a time when there’s already an Orbital organization with a team ready and able to test debris levels and (somehow) shut them down via an app just feels like it cheapens things a bit too much. You shouldn’t be able to disable the weekly McGuffin with the press of a button.

No better or worse than the first. I'll stick with it. It might get really good.

Mathematically perfect circle? You are aware that materials are made of atoms and molecules, correct. In such a framework, is it possible to have a perfect anything?

They need a new lead Brian. This guy can’t even deliver convincing lines.