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This was fun and I loved the ending twist. I wonder if it is an all season thing, or just an initial arc.
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King Burgundy posted:This was fun and I loved the ending twist. I wonder if it is an all season thing, or just an initial arc. That's what I was wondering too. The episode was fantastic. Strong start - hoping it doesn't fizzle out.
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thrakkorzog posted:It's still kind of weird that the network that is apparently designed to appeal mostly to teenage girls has some of the the best genre shows out there. Genre shows that are heavily designed to appeal to teenage/twen girls and women, which also happen to be good shows though. I mean, the target audience for these ads should be pretty clear:  
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Oct 10, 2013 07:52
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I do think its kind of funny how Mark Pellegrino expects Stephen to accept that his father (who can teleport) is dead just because he got into a car that blew up a second later.
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Oct 10, 2013 12:17
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muscles like this? posted:I do think its kind of funny how Mark Pellegrino expects Stephen to accept that his father (who can teleport) is dead just because he got into a car that blew up a second later. Yeah, that's such an obvious way to fake your death as a teleporter that his dad is probably still surprised it worked.
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Oct 10, 2013 13:20
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He's a teleporter, why was he getting into a car anyway?
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Kwyndig posted:He's a teleporter, why was he getting into a car anyway? It would have worked in the original series (I skipped the 90's Nick series), they had to have a few seconds to concentrate in that. Hell, it's been a long time, but IIRC I'd swear a villain used that against them at least once to stop them from teleporting. Well that, and they needed the sparkly-buckled belts to teleport (a focusing device, I think they explained it as). As it was, yeah that moment just stunned me. And dammit, I really liked the original show as a kid. I want to like this (drastically re-imagined) show too.
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Oct 10, 2013 15:08
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Kwyndig posted:He's a teleporter, why was he getting into a car anyway? I would have thought they would have ADR'd some more dialogue about finding his charred "body" afterwards or something. It does seem an obvious issue which should have been brought up in the pilot though, and not in a later episode.
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Oct 10, 2013 15:15
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I didn't realize that this series wasn't a re-imagining of the 90s revival, but a retelling of the original UK series. This makes me like it even more, especially since all I remember about the 90s revival was that everyone washed up on shore and an alien space ship. The 90s version made them feel more alien, while this one has the nitty/gritty realism. Good call on the producers.
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Oct 10, 2013 15:51
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Echoing the interest / praise for this show based on the pilot. The only thing that kinda bothered me was how the ragtag rebels had access to the magic supercomputer. Hopefully it will be explained later because it just seems strange. Though I guess every show needs their tech wizard that can hack all the interwebs and do everything through technology.
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Oct 10, 2013 18:13
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His mother is definitely* going to turn out to be a mole working for the bad guys!  Enjoyed it more than I expected, the twist at the end was a good enough hook for me to be interested in the next few episodes despite the pretty awful lack of acting talent on the show for the most part. *Not guaranteed.
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courtney_beth posted:I didn't realize that this series wasn't a re-imagining of the 90s revival, but a retelling of the original UK series. This makes me like it even more, especially since all I remember about the 90s revival was that everyone washed up on shore and an alien space ship. The 90s version made them feel more alien, while this one has the nitty/gritty realism. Actually, it's not even remotely that, either. It's a completely new re-imagining of the core idea. Although while it's weird to see him look like a slide projector with a few wires and cables glued to it, I like that they still have a T.I.M. The original series was very much a 60's-coming-into-70's overcoming-through-peace kind of thing. There were only like 4, maybe 5 Tomorrow People around at any given time, and sometimes as low as 3 (as far as who was actually on the show, cast members did, from time-to-time leave the show or take hiatus by being shipped off to the Space U.N. whatever it was called). I was amused, however, that the 2 lead males are John and Steven though. Those were the names of the first two lead males in the original series. Strange to think that that sort of callback to a show from the 70's from the UK would find it's way into a 2013 show. I don't like the TP effect they're using though. It's too... violent and kinetic and flashy. (Edit: And I don't care how old it makes me, I wish they'd have used the original theme, because it was boss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOwX5NDJlj4) Wolvorine fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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Oct 10, 2013 20:06
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It seems a bit quick for him to be mastering his powers in episode one. He's just casually teleporting all over the place already.
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Aatrek posted:It seems a bit quick for him to be mastering his powers in episode one. He's just casually teleporting all over the place already. I thought so too, until he decided to side with the enemy. He's been established as a legitimate threat to the rebels. Could be very interesting but I'll need to see a few episodes.
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I grew up on the 70's series. The pilot here is following "Slaves of Jedikiah" somewhat. Definitely needs more belt buckles though. I also found myself hoping they'd refer to their teleporting as "Jaunting"
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Oct 10, 2013 20:54
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Well, this convinced me that Amellsdays will be amelltastic. As someone who watched no prior version of the Tomorrow People, I like this show. Teleportation as a super power is seriously underused, you can have so much non-combat fun with it, and teleport spam battles are awesome (see Naruto). So, has he joined his evil uncle for real, or just as a front to protect his mother and brother, seeking a way out? Will his brother develop psychic powers as well? And is the basic premise of the "rebels" faulty? They seek their paradise were the normals cannot follow. Isn't this admitting that they cannot live in peace with the non-psychics?
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Oct 10, 2013 21:05
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It felt like a TV version of the movie Jumper. I wanted to see a silver haired Samuel Jackson
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TheChad posted:I thought so too, until he decided to side with the enemy. He's been established as a legitimate threat to the rebels. Could be very interesting but I'll need to see a few episodes. Oh, and I wasn't the biggest fan of the way they established the organization as evil. Agent screwed up? Guess we'll execute him for causing a problem that we've already fixed.
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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I expected this to be terrible, and watched it just because I had an hour to kill between Arrow and American Horror Story. ..uh, I was definitely surprised. It was fairly good. Somewhat cheesy, I guess- but good. I'm hoping the teleportation fights are going to be as awesome as they seem to be so far.
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Oct 10, 2013 21:40
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Phummus posted:I grew up on the 70's series. The pilot here is following "Slaves of Jedikiah" somewhat. Definitely needs more belt buckles though. I also found myself hoping they'd refer to their teleporting as "Jaunting"  Yeah I kind of missed the 'jaunting', and I actually assumed John was the leader, the oldest, and the first break out for a good half of the friggin' episode.And yes, it appears that it will indeed be Amell of a good time. (my personal favorite of the bunch)
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Talon Karrde posted:It felt like a TV version of the movie Jumper. I wanted to see a silver haired Samuel Jackson That movie was a piece of poo poo and an insult to the original book (which was actually pretty good).
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Am I right to think that John was Mark Pelligrino's son or did I totally misread the "John, you've come home?" line.
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Rarity posted:Am I right to think that John was Mark Pelligrino's son or did I totally misread the "John, you've come home?" line. Yeah, I was kind of wondering that too. Or it could be that John used to be one of the Ultra Tomorrow People.
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, I was kind of wondering that too. Or it could be that John used to be one of the Ultra Tomorrow People. John specifically said "Again" when they were talking about being captured earlier in the episode which every other character seemed to ignore as something they already knew about.
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Wolvorine posted:(Edit: And I don't care how old it makes me, I wish they'd have used the original theme, because it was boss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOwX5NDJlj4) Came here to post this. High five fellow homo superior.
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I watched the 90's show, but don't remember much. This is off to a decent start. Can't wait for the brother bad guy to start teleporting and say "SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!" e: The superior song is clearly the 90's one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ5yEKWzkLw Come at me 
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hellbastard posted:Came here to post this. 
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Echoing the interest / praise for this show based on the pilot. The only thing that kinda bothered me was how the ragtag rebels had access to the magic supercomputer. Hopefully it will be explained later because it just seems strange. Though I guess every show needs their tech wizard that can hack all the interwebs and do everything through technology. Yeah, TIM didn't feel at all like he belongs in this show's world, at least not as it was established in the pilot. He only seemed to be there as a concession to the source material.
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misguided rage posted:
Yeah that was a very hamfisted way of showing several show rules. I'm not going to worry about it as many pilots suck in comparison to the actual show.
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This title sounds familiar. Did the Nickelodeon show have a story arc involving a... glass cylinder with a wasp in it? And they would put a person in that cylinder and watch them swat at the wasp until it stung them? Man, I have the faintest memory of this show. I think you could keep people from teleporting by putting a colander covered in circuitry on their heads?
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The 90s version was kind of weird in that there weren't quite as many "Tomorrow People" altogether. Also whenever they would gain their powers they would automatically teleport to some South Pacific island where there was a crashed psychic alien spaceship.
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PaganGoatPants posted:e: The superior song is clearly the 90's one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ5yEKWzkLw Oh God, Naomie Harris. Years later, watching 28 Days Later with some friends, she got chased by a bunch of zombies and I kept saying "Teleport, Amy, teleport." I'm still a huge dork.
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Here. Have an awesome sizzle reel with a poo poo ton of  SPOILERS.Beware. I warned you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGeyVOxNbcI Apparently this covers the first eight episodes of the series. So yeah, in true CW fashion this show is going to accelerate it's storytelling because there's a ton of stuff in this reel. X-O fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Oct 12, 2013 |
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Oct 12, 2013 01:33
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Looks like it's worth sticking with the show to see if it turns into something really worthwhile, although to be honest I don't find the whole double agent angle all that interesting. I think it would be more interesting if the main guy had chosen to completely side with Jedekiah, rather than hedging his bets like he seems to be from that trailer . Looks like a good amount of action and plot all the same so the it should be an entertaining watch. I don't think the actors are particularly good, though they are mostly passable aside from the John character who is painfully bad.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:This title sounds familiar. Did the Nickelodeon show have a story arc involving a... glass cylinder with a wasp in it? And they would put a person in that cylinder and watch them swat at the wasp until it stung them? Aatrek posted:I remember something about it raining rice? This was from the episode "The Culex Experiment." Someone invented a machine that could clone organic material, demonstrating it with the rice. Then some psycho doctor who calls herself Dr. Culex used it to clone some sort of super mosquito that basically puts people in a coma and eventually kills them. Dr. Culex wanted to use the mosquitoes in some sort of world domination plan. The episode is a little better than the synopsis sounds. Then there's the one with a crazy Kentucky Colonel type who wants to use a weather machine to destroy competing corn crops so his corn crops will be the only ones left. He basically wants his Corn Crinkles to be the number one cereal. That one was a little out there. Overall I'm optimistic about this show. I'm a sucker for anything with Men-in-black types. I like to think of Ultra as some sort of Tomorrow People section 31.
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Wandle Cax posted:Looks like it's worth sticking with the show to see if it turns into something really worthwhile, although to be honest I don't find the whole double agent angle all that interesting. I think it would be more interesting if the main guy had chosen to completely side with Jedekiah, rather than hedging his bets like he seems to be from that trailer . Looks like a good amount of action and plot all the same so the it should be an entertaining watch. I don't think the actors are particularly good, though they are mostly passable aside from the John character who is painfully bad. I know the double agent thing is nothing new, but it is entirely believable. He wants to protect his mother and brother, he does not to deliver the other Tomorrow People to his evil uncle and he wants to find out more about his father. Being a double agent is his best bet. That was a pretty good trailer, seems like it will be quite interesting and fast-paced. Do we know how many episode there are in the first season?
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I've just watched the first episode and that was an awful lot better than I was expecting. It had it's creaky pilot moments, but not too many. And while I thought the "can't kill people because of evolution" thing was just fundamentally idiotic given that they clearly express aggressive tendencies I'll overlook that because this is essentially Jumper the TV series. And god do I love Jumper.
Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Oct 15, 2013 |
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:I'll overlook that because this is essentially Jumper the TV series. And god do I love Jumper. Just don't ever read the book, it will totally ruin the movie. That movie was poo poo in comparison. The book was really, really good though. Gould also wrote Wild Side which is also worth reading.
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New episode tonight: "In Too Deep" Ultra tries to probe Stephen's brain so he looks to his fellow Tomorrow People for help. Meanwhile, Ultra tracks down the identity of a new break-out who uses his powers to commit crimes and John tries to convince Stephen to spy on Ultra.
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