The Leftovers - Season 1 - US Pace (spoilers)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leftovers_%28TV_series%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shn1mPejr_4
2% of the population just vanish. The ones left behind, become known as The Leftovers. The show premieres on the 29th June.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shn1mPejr_4
2% of the population just vanish. The ones left behind, become known as The Leftovers. The show premieres on the 29th June.
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It premieres in less than 4 days
I don't see how that is early
There have been several threads on several other shows in the past which have been discussed at great length, even several months before airing. E.g The Flash, Better Call Saul
Bit of a silly nitpick to be honest
I think it's intrigued, if that helps
The I saw the name "Lindelof" and got wary. Then read a little more, and the subject matter is (at least for me) deeply wrong, as I have absolutely no belief in that sort of thing.
It could still be interesting, but I half expect it to be tedious, slow and quite ridiculously boring.
You can't see the relevant difference between The Leftovers and The Flash and Better Call Saul? There is a huge preexisting fanbase of comic fans and Arrow fans to discuss The Flash, and those people will have a good idea of what they will be getting. Better Call Saul is in a similar situation because it is a prequel to the popular Breaking Bad. We know very little about The Leftovers right now, there is no preexisting fanbase for it (outside of a small group of readers of the novel), and I think the audience for it is going to be something of a narrow one.
Ok, not the best examples i used but that still doesn't mean I am not entitled to open a thread a few days before it's premiere. I don't see why you have an issue with that and were quick to make a bitchy remark about it. I remember threads about Penny dreadful prior to it's premiere and I don't re call you have a problem with that. I also remember threads for Halt and Catch fire as well. Clearly it's a personal thing towards me but whatever. It was just a catty remark on your part. Don't say one thing about one thread but never remark the same thing about other threads when created in advance.
A "personal thing towards you?" You know, there are a couple of posters at DS I actively dislike. You are not one of them. Not even close. But I have noticed, over time, that you have accused a number of different people of attacking you when they clearly weren't doing anything more than disagreeing with you. Nobody is out to get you, and it is a shame that you think otherwise. Just the fact that you called my original post in this thread "bitchy" is utterly amazing.
Personally I prefer 'The After'.
Still worry that we will have to put up with human foibles rather than whatever the real mystery is, like in Resurrection.
Yes, a lot of people have gone missing (presumably because of the Rapture), so what do some people do?
They wear white, smoke and follow people around. rolleyes..
Ep2 is better than the pilot and apparently Ep3 is a blinder and the one that sucks you in. Ep3 is also the one that focuses on Christopher Ecclestone's character.
I say give it 4 episodes and then you'll know whether you're in or out for the rest of the series.
Yes, I know what you mean. It's one of those shows, perhaps like The Wire, where it's hard to see what's going on right at the beginning, or the directions the story will take. Hopefully, like that show, it will turn into something really worth sticking with.
Apparently they won't ever go into whatever actually happened to make all the people disappear, which is a major shortcoming IMO. I know that they never got into what caused the Zombie plague in The Walking Dead but as a viewer you could kind of roll with it given that Zombies were a well established genre.
Expecting viewers to just accept that 2% of the global population vanished into thin air simultaneously without ever getting into it in any more detail isn't going to fly.
Personally, I like having my attention brought to new shows on here before they air as I don't look at network's sites or watch ads etc so find most new shows listed on here, or I see one on here and then check the YouTube trailer which suggests other trailers, so I'm thankful for these threads
A little confused by the actual show and like I always do (although I got slaughtered for it in another thread) will give it 3 to 4 episodes. It does all seem a bit depressing and somehow odd to air over the summer. That there are no answers to what actually happened but it's about the 'Leftovers' literally and how they carry on?
Anyway, will stick with it for now but suspect it may not be for me.
Yes. Even Lost eventually explained most of what happened. Some peeps didn't like that explanation, but I loved it.
Not bothering to write an explanation puts me in mind of the way we're all supposed to accept things just because a scientist tells us it's so. For example, scientists told us that taking thalidomide was a good idea. Also, from a far wider perspective, scientists bandy about the Big Bang theory for the origin of the universe, telling us that this was fueled by ambient energy... but no one can tell us where that came from! So like Leftovers, we're asked just to accept and believe, in this case a reversal of something coming from nothing, where something (the people) become nothing.
Garvey and the teenage emo living with him are the most miserable people on the show.... And they didn't even lose ANY loved ones in the Sudden Departure! How are we meant to sympathise with the Garveys and their melodramatic family issues in comparison to people who lost their whole families in the disappearence? Like Nora Durst for example (the woman who gave the speech)? I couldn't sympathise with the Garveys at all for that reason.
Do any of us really care that Garvey's wife abandoned her family and is now a member of the Guilty Remnant? I don't think it worked as a twist/reveal. As viewers, we haven't invested in Garvey or his daughter long enough to even care about such melodrama in their lives. The writers would've been better off telling us about the identity of Garvey's runaway wife from the off, rather than delaying it in order to shock viewers down the line. It was hard to care when there are people who had suffered real loss in comparison to them.
That said, I did like the Guilty Remnant - most of the pilot's shining moments that I spoke of earlier came from them. They are deliciously creepy and they intrigue me very much. I like how they stalk people in total silence whilst dressed in those funny white clothes
We also learn Garvey has a son who's joined up with some mysterious armed group led by a oddball 'prophet' named Wayne (what is it with the Garveys and cults?). These scenes, along with the Guilty Remnant scenes, interested me the most. Wayne claims to see visions of his departed son who basically told him that some big apocalyptic sh*t is going to go down soon, which seemed to be obvious foreshadowing from the writers. It seems the Departure was just the beginning - and something bigger is coming. At least that's the message I took from it. Maybe the real REAL Rapture will happen this time? Maybe the Departure was just a dry run?
As for the rabid dogs, that seemed to be another obvious foreshadowing from the writers pointing to how humans will slowly start turning more primal in the post-Departure world. It was a nice little subplot. I liked it as it seemed to be pointing in the same direction as Wayne's 'vision'.
So, all in all, the potential is there. The raw ingredients are there for a cool story. But there's still a lot of rough patches to iron out. The Garveys are a weak link in my view, but hopefully they can grow into good characters.
I hate to say this for those that are coming to this show thinking that it's something else and expecting there to be sci-fi, action, thrills and spills but BIB genuinely is the whole premise of the show. It really is about the 'leftovers' and how they carry on with their lives. If you want answers then it won't be there, this isn't that kind of show. It's all about drama and tragedy and conflict and relationships and this series is exactly that. This is HBO. Everyone knows their pedigree.
I think comparing it to the style of The Returned aka Les Revenants will get you on the right path.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3219792/
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Amazon-Alpha-House-1079824.aspx
I enjoyed both pilots and will be watching the leftovers religiously.
I did hear that the after did get picked up for a full season