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Quotes Dr. Performed by Amanda Abizaid. User reviews Review. Top review. Well Done. I must absolutely agree that this show relies more on imagination of the viewer rather than special effects. For me, I wouldn't have it any other way. I like the fact that it makes me want to watch the next episode to see what happens next.

The obvious gaping plot hole, the logic problem, was never addressed I cannot reveal what it is here, because it would be a spoiler Said storytelling did have something to offer, but not very much.

There were too many things that they seemed to never really explain. Plots and ideas were introduced, seldom developed enough, and they either were not concluded, or it was done in an abrupt and unsatisfactory manner. Acting was hit-and-miss. The symbolism was blatant, sometimes even insulting. It always seemed like it was going somewhere, bigger, smarter, better, and it just never got there. If it had some message, it lost it along the way.

The season finales got increasingly more desperate, trying harder and harder to be given a renewal, and to promise viewers more, but continually failed to deliver. They almost never seemed to handle actors being unavailable terribly well, either.

In the end, this was a mini-series that got unexpectedly high ratings, so the network decided to capitalize on that and the lack of new Summer programming by bringing it back as a series The people behind it maybe just weren't up to the task.

The behind the scenes people were of insufficient talent, I suppose. I recommend this to fans of sci-fi and the actors a certain one, perhaps known more from his horror work, who's done sci-fi before, appears This is one of those things that manages to just keep my interest enough to keep me watching but never really gets me excited.

The idea is a pretty good one and it is interesting to see people's powers develop. But it all felt a little slow moving and humorless. Also the movie falls into the standard television trap of wanting people to be bad or good. Bad guys are bad in a cartoonish way, and it seems as though everyone is either selfish and mean or noble.

I think this also suffers from being an extended pilot, meaning the most interesting concepts are just sort of introduced and are then going to presumable unfold over time. It's like seeing a domino set lined up and then not knocked over. I don't plan to watch the series when it starts up. Here was a series I remembered hearing about but never watched an episode of that ran for 4 seasons.

The premise sounded interesting. Realizing early on that this series had a storyline that carried on from episode to episode I wanted to watch the entire thing before writing about it and with so many other items to watch that meant the binge watching took a while.

I'm glad I did but unhappy that I missed this series when it aired. The show opens with a little girl named Maia on a picnic with her family in the s who runs off to gather flowers. Suddenly a light appears in the sky and shines down on her and she disappears.

Several other characters are seen disappearing as well. We are then brought to the current time in this case when the series aired.

A huge asteroid is heading towards Earth and nothing can stop it. Fearing the end is near people are stunned when the asteroid slows, shrinks in size and appears near Mount Rainier, Washington.

When the dust clears the asteroid is gone. But on the beach are the 4, people who have been missing for years, including Maia. None of them can recall where they have been or what happened to them. NTAC takes them to their local command post in Seattle and begins trying to figure out just where they have been. Was it an alien abduction? Or was it something else? The rights of the are called into question and soon they are released into the world. The story is told mainly through the eyes and actions of agent Tom Baldwin Joel Gretsch , an agent whose son was not taken but was affected by one of these abductions and who has been in a coma for several years.

Included among the is Tom's nephew Shawn Patrick Flueger who was with Tom's son the night he was abducted. It doesn't take long for things to happen. As the days progress it appears that members of the begin to develop powers. Maia has visions of the future. Shawn can heal. Rather than see this as something wonderful the government fears what the potential effects are and want to quarantine the They're saved when billionaire Jordan Collier Billy Campbell , a member himself, constructs a community just for them.

Legal maneuverings keep the government at bay. Or do they? The series develops over time and changes as the story progresses from discovery of the to government paranoia to us versus them to covert conspiracy to savior story. It flows effortlessly and takes its time to unravel the mystery of the , revealing to us just what happened to them and why they were returned to this point and location in time.

Who took them, their mission, who each of them are, are all explained before the end of the series. Fortunately this was not left open ended. The characters are well developed and played exceptionally well by all involved. It is their story and the actors portraying them that draw you in and make you care about what happens. Each of them not only has a role here but they do so to the point you find yourself believing they are who they portray and that's the mark of solid acting.

The guest stars on this series are top notch as well beginning with Peter Coyote who plays Dennis Ryland, the head of NTAC in Seattle as the series opens and later seen working for a private firm with nefarious intent. Summer Glau is featured in several episodes as a schizophrenic young member who has the ability to influence people with her mind. Fans of that past work will delight in seeing him here holding a syringe filled with a glowing green liquid, what had to have been a homage to his earlier work.

Once you start this series and get into what is taking place you'll find yourself binge watching with pleasure. It draws you in, involves you and makes you think about so many different topics. Well made, well thought out and conceptualized to present a bigger picture, it is one series that as I said I wish I'd have found sooner. Now that it's been released as a complete series of discs in a compact case it should be easy for those of us who enjoy shows like this to have access to on our shelf whenever we want to revisit it.

Inventive and Brilliantly Evolving The is an extremely well done show. Its most important aspect is that it is very daring; it has the "guts" to have major sweeping changes take place within the story. You can never guess what's going to happen or what characters will remain in the story no matter how central they seem. It takes full advantage of sci-fi, evolving plots and strong characters. Basically, the series begins with the reappearance of people who went missing in the last century.

They reappear when a single ball of light from space impacts a mountain in Washington. After some time passes, they and the world learn that they each posses a special unique ability.

The story develops from there. And it definitely develops and evolves in amazing ways. If you think at any point that you've got the story down, forget it - you'll soon learn that the core plot and characters change. If you want to watch a great sci-fi series - here it is! Snootz 14 October As television science fiction goes, this does fairly well. It has its flaws to be sure, but compare it to a bunch of TV sci fi we've seen and this stands head and shoulders above other series.

Parents should be cautioned there is quite a bit of blood and graphic violence in this. The primary problem I had with the concept is the idea that the human species and Earth would be better off if everyone had "abilities" beyond normal. Having a super power does not overcome human nature. They did point out within the show that some would use their abilities for good, others for evil, and that each person had a choice. But its my experience that with great power comes great abuse of power.

This conceptual issue is presented all during the show, both pro and con. It is a shame the series ended early, but it probably ended well enough. They did tie up a couple of loose strings In this particular case I don't mind that. There were numerous cliches throughout this series. I don't think I've ever seen such a constantly angry lead agent in a series. I mean the guy threatened to burst a vein with almost every spoken line. The typical cowboy lawman who draws his gun first and asks questions later, that got old fairly quickly.

But then, what show doesn't have cliches these days? There's a rather vast website dealing with tropes. The more entertainment increases, the more themes reappear, again and again and again. At least this put a new slant on an old theme. Once again I find myself objecting to certain characters which I will not name falling in bed together, despite professional restrictions against such things.

Another cliche Does it happen? Sure, probably. Do I get tired of the same ol' same ol' series after series? I would love, for once, to see main characters say "Nah, this would damage our professional relationship, not to mention possibly cost us our jobs. The numerous individual stories, the personal relationships, strong family ties do at times tug at the heart strings.

The vast majority of the series is "believable" Paradoxically, my favorite part of the whole series was the "home made film" section, in which someone with some REAL talent put together some of the worst scripts, acting and directing known to man. That was true art that had me actually wanting to watch an entire movie of such horrible, horrible film making. It was hilarious.

The best part of a series is the worst part of the series-- by intent. The show won an Emmy and was nominated what It's easy to see why. Then it went downhill from there. I quit at the end of season 2. Story deteriorated because there was nothing left to tell and the acting was uniformly terrible. Everyone overplayed their part.

Hysterics when not justified. I couldn't take any more of it. What a stinker!! I had high hopes for this series when I rented the DVD. The reviews and comments have been generally positive.

Unfortunately, it seems as if I watched a different series. The writing was awful The special effects were not even good enough to be "skimpy". Come on! You couldn't afford to put two characters in front of a REAL cabin and photograph them? You had to superimpose them rather poorly on a photograph of a cabin?

By now you must know the gist of the plot. So we have "returnees" showing up in a ball of light from what appears to be a comet. Naturally, all news coverage and websites concentrate on the returnees. There's virtually no discussion of ETI or how they got back or what exactly is going on. Then the DHS which I gather is charged with handling alien abductee returns decides that the best they can do is put TWO investigators on it.

One is a flaky FBI agent who happens to be closely related to one of the returnees yeah, the government is real keen on putting relatives in charge of investigations. The other is a CDC investigator I gather that being abducted by aliens is also considered some sort of disease. As far as you can tell from this show, the Federal government can only spare a couple people to investigate the whole darn event.

None of the characters act in any way that can be considered the least bit natural, plus, the writers have this dedication to making social commentary through the script. This ends up being heavy-handed and totally out of place.

The creepy little girl is the final straw. You start yelling at the screen, "Hey, dimwit! You might STAY with foster parents if you quit telling them about the future and making remarks about their deaths! All in all, this series royally deserved to be canceled. The began as an odd mix of several other themes from SciFi shows and movies, then placed its own unique twists on the theme The underlying mystery is always, was it Aliens who abducted these people, or was it something else I liked the series, and watch it frequently on Netflix.

I think the reason the show failed after only about 3 and a half years, is that they began to recycle plots, as if they ran out of fresh ones In the beginning, each individual episode tells an interesting story. But this quickly becomes a massively decompressed mess where each episode simply slightly progresses the overarching story. And boy what a confused and confusing overarching story it is! Don't even bother with the first season as it will tempt you to stick with this to the bitter end of the fourth season.

A far better alternative is Travelers , if you want to watch something in a similar vein. Decided to watch,all episodes online. Worth checking out,if you haven't yet. A fascinating concept, thoroughly explored and glazed with real world allegory, "" is top notch pulp sci-fi liquidcelluloid-1 4 September Proceed with caution.

A massive ball of light appears in Earth's atmosphere, parks itself over a lake and blasts open leaving behind 4, people that had disappeared in the past century. They haven't aged a day and have no memory of what happened to them. The government releases "the ", as the media calls them, back into society - only to learn later that they now possess superhuman powers which may either cause "ripple effects" for the future or spark a war with the rest of the population.

All of the adjust to a world that has moved on during their lost time. The major players include little Maia Conchita Campbell, both creepy and cute who can see the future, Tom's nephew Shawn Patrick Flueger who can give and take life-force as a healing power and uses it to wake his son Chad Faust from a coma, Richard Mahershalalhashbaz Ali a black Korean War Air Force pilot adjusting to life in the new millennium and Lily Laura Allen who returns with an immaculate pregnancy.

Jordan Collier Billy Campbell steps up as the leader of the , giving them private housing free from the prying of the outside world and a center to study their power. The suspiciously motivated Collier believes that Richard and Lilly's child, Isabelle, is the savior of the world. Not only is this show best viewed from the beginning, but its reality is subject to change any moment as it takes full advantage of a limitless concept, writing itself a free pass to do anything in and out of the realm of possibility.

At first, each episode introduces us to another member of this group and their new power. Like a serial killer who returns with an amplified ability. The terrific "Weight of the World", revolving around a man whose saliva causes weight loss, would make Rod Serling proud. Truly, the premise is so fascinating "" could have coasted along for quite a while on that alone. But it isn't long before show-runners start twisting things up in a big way. Season 1 was billed as a mini-series and under the threat of cancellation Peters offers a knock-out twist at the end that redefines the story.

Peters uses the opportunity beautifully, not just fleshing out the story but drilling deeper and deeper into it, pulling back and exploring every conceivable layer of this sci-fi concoction. It almost feels restless. By the 2nd and 3rd season the powers of "the s" have been broken down to a specific liquid in their brains "promysin" and scientists begin an arms race to develop characteristics in humans.

Humans are never able to look at a miracle without dissecting it. It is fascinating to watch every twist and turn. The dialog is expository but the stories are smartly unfolded. All of the threads, even the most inconsequential, are brought together at the end.

The second season finale has no less than 3 head-slapping cliffhangers. From then on, the over-arching story involving governmental conspiracies, renegade terrorist groups and power struggles within the center itself fully takes hold. Now the negatives. The show does have a serious issue with pacing. It's almost feels like the characters are unable to stand on their own without a knockout twist or action scene backing them up, which results in a loss of steam and severe lag in the 1-hour running time - and sometimes the season as a whole.

It doesn't pick up urgency until the bookends. For the most part the acting is "TV movie quality". Exceptions include Ali, who conveys more on his face than a paragraph of dialog would and is fun to watch go from confused fish-out-of-water to step-up leader and Flueger who at the same time seems strong and buckling under the weight of leadership.

Best of all is Jacqueline McKenzie who, whether haunted by her ex-husband, fighting for custody of Maia or trying to resist a relationship her psychic daughter says is inevitable, makes every crazy thing given to her completely convincing. We are with Diane every step of the way. Despite how the premise might sound, "The " is a science fiction series that doesn't behave like one.

But creators Scott Peters and Renee Echevarria break away from easy comparisons quickly and forge their own path. This show works so well because it is more concerned with exploring the social and personal ramifications of the s integration into society.

It is filled with intelligent social satire and real world allegory as great pulp sci-fi is. It does this all on planet Earth with minimal special effects and without slimy aliens.

As the seasons progress it gets deeper and deeper into it's own universe. It subversively deals with terrorism, privacy issues, and racial tensions wrapped in a thrilling, crowd-pleasing tale of interstellar xenophobia or is it? Plus, any show that delivers an opening like "Lockdown", where our two heroes come face to face in a John Woo-style gun-draw, is worth a recommendation in my book. Shaggy-dog production values and all, "The " may be the most creative and intelligent science fiction shows on TV today that isn't called "Battlestar Gallactica".

TheEmulator23 1 July Man I hope it's not just me, but Season 3 was terrible, and even though Season 4 just started my hopes that it would be better this year have been dashed so far. It's not just me that thinks that is it? The 1st season was great mini-series included and even the second was pretty good. But now it just seems to be lost!

I don't know what the hell the deal is with it, but it seems like the writers are snoozing or maybe they are off on other more important projects, I don't know. It is a real shame because there is nothing else to watch during the summer. I really wish they would get with program and make it enjoyable to watch again. If this keeps up, I doubt we will see a fifth season. In this weeks, when no decent Sci-Fi in offer I looked for something older.

Seen some recommendations for this serial. First episode was really good. Even if there was no detail what was really original, basic premise was it in some way. Good acting, plot what was at some level more social than Sci-Fi. Could say that was more family movie - so main actress adopted one of s, young girl, there was divorce in progress by main actor First season was only 6 episodes.

Second and 3th, 4th episodes. For me, it indicates that it was success, so now some more money getting invested, and they need to write bunch of new episodes, introduce new characters.

And yes, right in first couple episodes of S2, some of usual soaping, adding unnecessary side subplots, and like happened. But it was still fine, better than usual. It begun to be really bad when Isabelle started to do some nasty things.

All it was so obviously forced - they made many really forced twists, some made really no sense. But they took same idea in last episodes, stretched it until last one, and all it was really downfall. Whole idea of promicin was pretty poorly developed. I guess that it was simply cancelled after season 4 - there was no real finale. But that's good - it did not lead anywhere anyway.