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Is anyone else watching this?
" A team from America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention travels to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic Circle to investigate a possible virus outbreak. As the company's dangerous experiments come to light, the scientists find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that could hold the key to mankind's salvation or total annihilation. "
Sounds interesting.
" A team from America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention travels to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic Circle to investigate a possible virus outbreak. As the company's dangerous experiments come to light, the scientists find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that could hold the key to mankind's salvation or total annihilation. "
Sounds interesting.
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Reading the blurb it looks like it could be based on a Michael Creighton book I read that I forget the name of.
Warnings for violence, gore and horror. Right up my street then!
Off to an intriguing start.
The Andromeda Strain?
Anyways, I'm recording it so I might give it a chance.
Good pedigree...Ronald Moore creation..(battlestar galactica) and seemingly quality cast....could be slow burn intelligent series...watching 1st one
No, Prey but reading further its not the same but the similarities are there.
The white suits reminded me of Alien also.
The white lab suits? Really?
I liked the first two eps but it did little to distinguish itself as anything more complex than a re-do of Andromeda Strain, via Alien and The Thing, as almost everyone's pointed out! It's all rather cheesy, silly and far-fetched, but then most TV scifi is far-fetched so that doesn't necessarily go against it. I felt it did well for an opening episode and will watch more to see how the characters get along, and if the blatant signalling of who is good and who is bad subsides.
Based on the chronic over-reactions you've had to Sherlock, no, please don't watch this and spoil it for anyone who dares to enjoy it for what it is.
Cheers.
He's just producing, it's not his creation or story.
Ok-I wasn't being too picky & precise in that it was solely Ron Moore's, granted.....he didn't actually invent battlestar itself of course but adapted concept...
granted it's a first time writer but pitched to syfy concept with Moore who had helped develop it....I meant it has some pedigree with it....maeda experienced showrunner & obst good background in various tv and film projects.....so between them I meant should have some potential to be a good one...
Funny though....media has pushed it as a Moore project in the first rather than fresh new writer....
I quite enjoyed it for what it was. The cliffhanger in the shower was a surprise so I'll be interested to see how things develop. Yes, it's rather cliched and far-fetched but I've seen worse.
I've seen the double pilot and is it just me or did the script writers just pinch a lot of this from Prince of Darkness, Doom, 28 days and 28 Weeks after plus about three or four really bad mid 1980's b movie sci fi horror flicks.
It's not so much that it's bad it just isn't very good.
There are some ideas that are almost original except that they aren't and have been done better elsewhere.
We have all the stock elements of a standard sci fi horror plus a fairly reasonable sci fi thriller but they just can't seem to find the right set up.
Maybe episode two will pick up. As I think I was geared up up for a film length show that a series when I watched the first two parts so need to reset for a slower burn.
It does have a good pedigree so should improve. I need to think of this in isolation, no pun intended, rather than comparing it to other films or shows.