Alcatraz

[Cheyenne]

Anyone watch this last night? I think they saved money by using the old musical score from "Lost." It was very distracting.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Loved it!!!

I'm torn though because I really get into these night-time soaps and get to the point where I hate to miss an episode. It seems to be a knock-off from The Event - which I also loved.

 

[Cheyenne]

Loved it!!!

I'm torn though because I really get into these night-time soaps and get to the point where I hate to miss an episode. It seems to be a knock-off from The Event - which I also loved.

We liked The Event, too.

I like the story line of Alcatraz, but that "Lost" music is bothering me. Can't the producers come up with something new?

My guess is that the blood they were taking from the prisoners back in the 1960's was used for some experiment on how to freeze these people so they don't age. Then thaw them out to have them come back to life when you need them.

Of course, that doesn't explain the Indian lady who was a medical person in the 1960's and looks exactly the same now.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

a mystery, a secret, subterfuge, and deceit! ravel or unravel, it has caught my interest.

 

[bernett69]

Yes. This looks like another good one. I also had the idea of some sort of cryogenics government experiment or large rich company.

Seemed like a good story and writers. Although I think the "team" needs more muscle in the form of a badass gun fighting expert to offset the large guy and tiny women. Not that they were in capable but just to round out the team.

Over all I really liked it and the two hours went by very fast. Even with the commercials. I look forward to next week.

 

[Cheyenne]

Yes. This looks like another good one. I also had the idea of some sort of cryogenics government experiment or large rich company.

Seemed like a good story and writers. Although I think the "team" needs more muscle in the form of a badass gun fighting expert to offset the large guy and tiny women. Not that they were in capable but just to round out the team.

Over all I really liked it and the two hours went by very fast. Even with the commercials. I look forward to next week.

Having these guys frozen for decades would make sense if someone wanted to keep them around for future use of some kind. Kind of your own army of bad buys to unleash whenever you need them.

 

[neci]

crap, i missed it. i saw previews for it over and over again on a flight, and was curious about it.

 

[Cheyenne]

crap, i missed it. i saw previews for it over and over again on a flight, and was curious about it.

They will usually run the first show of a series more than once to try to bring in as many viewers as possible. Check again on the weekend as around there, that's when it normally would be.

 

[islandman]

I dvr'ed it and expect to watch it over the next few days. I also never watched Lost, so the soundtrack will be new to me.

 

[Beco]

Anyone watch this last night? I think they saved money by using the old musical score from "Lost." It was very distracting.

I missed it. But isnt it the same people who created Lost created Alcatraz?

 

[neci]

They will usually run the first show of a series more than once to try to bring in as many viewers as possible. Check again on the weekend as around there, that's when it normally would be.

it's been located and set to record. i could use a good show. thank you for posting a thread about it, or i wouldn't have realized i missed it until next year.

 

[Cheyenne]

it's been located and set to record. i could use a good show. thank you for posting a thread about it, or i wouldn't have realized i missed it until next year.

You're welcome! I think it will be a good show. I like the separate stories each week about different inmates but also an overall plot as to what happened at Alcatraz in the first place.

 

[Cheyenne]

I missed it. But isnt it the same people who created Lost created Alcatraz?

Same producers, I think.

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

I caught the last 15 minutes of last night's episode. The TV just happened to be set on that channel. Very interesting spin on Alcatrez.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

One thing that bugs me is how uncurious all the dudes from the past are about how much the world has changed. No one marvels at computers, or walking on the moon, or The Empire Strikes Back or anything. Sure, sure, they're all murderers and shit, but even killers dig the iPhone, man.

 

[Sean Renaud]

It has bugged me how little they seem to be suffering from WTF syndrome in the current. I expect we'll eventually find out they were somehow programmed while they were where-ever they went. Mostly cell phones to be honest. I missed the first episode so I don't know how long they've supposedly been here or even if they all showed up at once or are instead literally appearing just before we're finding out about them but I think you could easily go for quite a while in the modern world without knowing we put a man on the moon or Empire Strikes Back. We think of these things as omnipresent but they really aren't. I know if I wake up tommorow in the year 2525 I'm not gonna ask if we put a man on Mars or what movie is popular. I'm gonna be too busy worrying about those flying cars and funny headsets everybody is wearing.

I'm suddenly glad I didn't watch Lost so I don't notice the same or very similar music. Hell aside from the intro I don't even notice the music on this particular show much at all.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

You notice the music more on "Lost".

The soundtrack on "Lost" (music, effects, et al., even the room tone) is essentially another character on the show.

 

[lovetoread]

One thing that bugs me is how uncurious all the dudes from the past are about how much the world has changed. No one marvels at computers, or walking on the moon, or The Empire Strikes Back or anything. Sure, sure, they're all murderers and shit, but even killers dig the iPhone, man.

This last one did question it a bit, though he seemed a bit slow on the uptake.

 

[Johnny_Ray_Wilson]

One thing that bugs me is how uncurious all the dudes from the past are about how much the world has changed. No one marvels at computers, or walking on the moon, or The Empire Strikes Back or anything. Sure, sure, they're all murderers and shit, but even killers dig the iPhone, man.

It has bugged me how little they seem to be suffering from WTF syndrome in the current. I expect we'll eventually find out they were somehow programmed while they were where-ever they went. Mostly cell phones to be honest. I missed the first episode so I don't know how long they've supposedly been here or even if they all showed up at once or are instead literally appearing just before we're finding out about them but I think you could easily go for quite a while in the modern world without knowing we put a man on the moon or Empire Strikes Back. We think of these things as omnipresent but they really aren't. I know if I wake up tommorow in the year 2525 I'm not gonna ask if we put a man on Mars or what movie is popular. I'm gonna be too busy worrying about those flying cars and funny headsets everybody is wearing.

I'm suddenly glad I didn't watch Lost so I don't notice the same or very similar music. Hell aside from the intro I don't even notice the music on this particular show much at all.

That sort of stuff would bother me as well. Based upon my time in submarines, I experienced what it really is like to be out of mainstream society for several months at a time. You come back from sea after being gone for several months, anything that changed is immediately noticed. Yet, it is nothing new to those who experienced such things while you were gone.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

never watched it.

 

[Cheyenne]

One thing that bugs me is how uncurious all the dudes from the past are about how much the world has changed. No one marvels at computers, or walking on the moon, or The Empire Strikes Back or anything. Sure, sure, they're all murderers and shit, but even killers dig the iPhone, man.

Same here. The guy last night wanted to know how he feel asleep and woke up decades later. But he didn't ask at all about every day basic things.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Same here. The guy last night wanted to know how he feel asleep and woke up decades later. But he didn't ask at all about every day basic things.

Because falling asleep and waking up several decades later in a fucking tomb is FAR more important than figuring out how people managed to get phones that they can carry around with them.

It does bug me a little but we're shown so little of these guys that we really know nothing about them. For all we know however their getting to the present might have some kind of info dump where common knowledge is common knowledge. Frankly the show would get real old real quick if these guys kept getting captured at the public library.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

That sort of stuff would bother me as well. Based upon my time in submarines, I experienced what it really is like to be out of mainstream society for several months at a time. You come back from sea after being gone for several months, anything that changed is immediately noticed. Yet, it is nothing new to those who experienced such things while you were gone.

That's more than a little fascinating -- and exactly what I'm talking about.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

This was also my biggest problem with their last show -- "Lost". The characters were never as interested in Dharma and the Smoke Monster and all the other shit on the island as you would think they'd be. Yes, they wondered, and freaked, and screamed when they needed to. And John Locke was fascinated. And there were moments ("We're going to need to watch that again.") But for the most part there was a frustrating lack of curiosity from the characters.