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I hope the writers search the internet for discussions like THIS and decide to kill Pope off, and have God-girl get laid.
 
I don't really hate the actor that much, but the writing's really poor for his character. But then it's poor for everyone.

YES to God Girl SLUTTING IT UP with Hal and then Karen walks in because she's just been saved and she kills Hal FOR THE SKITTERS and then Moon Bloodgood's TITS catch on fire somehow and Gruff Army Guy shoots a kid for "slowing us down."
 
I thought the tall aliens episode was the best one. It really made you think it was going to get good and that life was hell for a lot of people (that woman from Fringe) and that there were mysteries to be solved. I don't even mind the Pope stuff that much as I think the actor does a good job and at least the character has some life to him, even if they try to make him the leader of a rape gang AND a sarcastic chef who looks after kids and begrudgingly saves the day in every episode. But the finale is a total letdown. Easily the worst episode. You'll be climbing the walls.
 
I don't hate the Pope actor, but I hate the Pope character, they should have let him be more of a believably shady character (instead of comically evil and rapey), AND there's no reason he should be the only person able to come up with good ways to kill skitters and mechs (they don't teach explosives in prison). THEN there's the radio grandpa character... shit all the characters are completely one dimensional. The writers played everything so safe, and the stuff they think is edgy (like having humans selling out to the aliens already) seems totally unbelievable and silly. The crazy lady in town was the only traitor I could actually understand, because she was unhinged. They were really sloppy with the Weaver character too, he looks like a hippie, he makes terrible decisions, but the military characters all fall in with whatever he says because.. why? Humans just aren't that easy. I guess I was expecting more complexity and depth.

I think I am extra critical of this show because post-apocalyptic scenarios are probably my favorite thing to think about. I love trying to imagine what it would be like, and I REALLY love an apocalypse story that gets me thinking.

I PROBABLY SAID ALL OF THIS BEFORE :rwmad:
 
Okay, watched the last two episodes...pretty much fucking terrible. The writing and acting seemed to be even shitter than usual. Just completely full of annoying cliches and characters acting like idiots. Where to start? I fucking hate the kid soldier (Jimmy?) and his earnest eyes. He can die for a start. And the fucking terrible actor who plays the black harness kid. Holy shit. He can die. Fucking traitor. And Pope CAN DO EVERYTHING OKAY. And they kind of refer back to the rapes without saying "rape". Why is Gruff Army Guy suddenly a complete fucking spacko? Where did the total one dimensional asshole army guy who locked up Noah Wyle come from? And the speeches. The fucking speeches. Stop making speeches. Stop pointlessly mentioning historical events in a real half-assed way. Just stop. Oh and of course we don't see the big suicide battle. We just see ten mechs walking slowly then running away because of a magic radio signal or something. And no one important dies. And the cliffhanger is just "hi we're the aliens we can't kill you for some reason even though we apparently killed billions of other people easily, come with us!" and "okay!" What the fuck.
 
You know I just realised I didn't see the last episode after all. I thought Mutiny (where Weaver was back at the base but still spacko) was the last one, but it sounds like it was a double bill and I only downloaded the first part. I'm not sure I can be bothered to download the other half though. Do we find out any actual answers?
 
OMG I THINK THE WRITERS READ THIS THREAD.

God girl - not so godly anymore. She kissed a black guy and she liked it.

Hal - still terrible!

Tom - STILL TOM!

Moon Bloodgood - STILL HOT!

Ben - Most improved character, IMMMMMMO! He's kind of a bad ass now. The kid playing him is a much better actor than most of the others on this show. He was only kinda mopey last season, so we didn't get to see much, but he actually things other than looking depressed now.

Weaver - Still whistles when he talks. Still sorta unconvincing as the military commander, but not a bad character overall.

Pope - Still the creepy half criminal, half comedian. (srsly, don't get this character) apparently he's the leader of a motorcycle riding group (gang?) who go out with all the others when they're hunting aliens. He pulls guns on people, then everyone pulls their guns on him, then he puts his gun away and goes about his business! TOTALLY BELIEVABLE. It's a good thing he can do everything!

Matt - still a little kid. I think they may have him start learning to fight soon.

Maggie - might be banging Hal now.

I think Terry O'Quinn has been cast, but he wasn't in ep 1 or 2 (both aired last night). Ryan Robbins was cast, he's part of Pope's bunch (he was in Sanctuary). Now we're gonna have two wisecracking criminals!

The 1st and 2nd episodes were actually pretty good. The show still suffers from some of the same cheesiness as last season, but it kinda seems like they made it a bit more gritty. People are not happy all the time! The scenes with the aliens looked really good, but they still haven't explained why the aliens came to earth.
 
Good start to season 2. I'm glad that Ben's so central, as he's one of the best actors and an actual interesting character.

Not really interested in Tom unless he's talking about history, but the eye scene in the second ep was really good. I almost had my hands over my eyes a few times.

Very good special effects, too. But I'm not convinced that the writers know what they're doing. The motivations of the aliens are obviously going to be hard to discern, but they don't seem to make any sense at all. I can only think that they're keeping some humans alive for breeding purposes.
 
Okay, i saw the premiere of season II, iTunes freebee. The aliens appear to have been in space a long time but their artificial gravity is on the fritz. some of their sentience may be in the form of arthropods. possible. big irony. Our sister phylum, marsupials, would have difficulty? why. The joey has to be pouched no less than 4 years. Placentals don't need that long of a gestation. Big irony. Normally, egg layers, should have stupid, cold blooded killers, but if the yolk is large enough and if it can stay in the egg long enough, it can develop our alien friends. this series has possibilities but already it looks like Battlestar Galactica. no Cylons. Instead, insectoids and something that may have resembled us once. Without gravity, the body begins to whither. What do they want? The ability to live on a planet for a long time.
 
BERSERKERS! Last night's ep was a huge slice of CHEESE. BUT if that was a way to get rid of Pope and the kinda annoying kid soldier, then I'll eat that cheese. I just hope the rest of the season is more like the first two episodes and not like last night's.

I have a very bad feeling that Pope will be back, Popier than ever eventually. The actor was terribly chosen for that role. He looks like Pauly Shore.

HAHA... just figured out who Luciana Carro is playing. She's the chick in Pope's gang with the silly hairdo.
 
The Berserkers are dressed like bboys, I expect them to have a pop and lock dance off ANY DAY NOW.
 
I just can't suspend my disbelief in them hiding out in a massive aircraft hangar that must be the only thing for miles that's pumping out (TONS) of light.

Ben keeps me watching, though. The whole show should just be filmed from his point of view.
 
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