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No, we would have bitched about bad writing or something because it's very weird how Kennex acts in later episodes compared to how he acts in earlier episodes.
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JohnSherman posted:Holy poo poo, no it did not. The only noticeable result of the airing order is that Kennex is inexplicably cold to Dorian after a couple episodes of being best buds. If someone hadn't come here and told everyone that the episodes were aired out of order, nobody would have guessed. "due in part" Clearly your reading comprehension is also out of order. I eagerly await your cancellation.
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I was hoping they'd work out all the pacing and story issues in season 2. Suck it is over but what we got was nice. I'd watch a show of Kennex and Dorian eating noodles and snails at scifi bars and talking in the patrol car.
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I don't see it being picked up by a another network because of the large-ish budget. Bummer too. So since we'll never get an official answer, who and why was someone implanting dreams into Dorian? My bet is it had some long term story line with his creator who jumped over the wall.
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Were dreams being implanted or was he just accessing things from his past that hadn't been fully erased?
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Well, poo poo. Hopefully they at least put out a decent Blu-ray.
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I kind of figured it was something like the synthetic souls weren't synthetic at all. Dr. Dan Fielding found the "soul" in humans, and was able to transplant it from dying children into DRN androids. And a good chunk of them went nuts because they couldn't handle the transplant. Or something to that effect.
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^^^ - Winter was coming.jedibeavis posted:I kind of figured it was something like the synthetic souls weren't synthetic at all. Dr. Dan Fielding found the "soul" in humans, and was able to transplant it from dying children into DRN androids. And a good chunk of them went nuts because they couldn't handle the transplant. Or something to that effect. That's...that supposes quite a bit out of zero evidence. It sounds pretty awesome, but I don't remember seeing anything to suggest that idea.
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Drifter posted:That's...that supposes quite a bit out of zero evidence. It sounds pretty awesome, but I don't remember seeing anything to suggest that idea. Yeah, that's just a wild guess based on what I'd seen when Rudy was browsing through Dorian's noggin and it seemed to fit what I was thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzFUYpSRr3s Either way, for a non cliffhanger ending we're left with a whole lot of unanswered questions. 
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What was the wall for, and what were the red balls?!?  I'm super bummed this is canceled.
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Yeah, but I had made the assumption that children's memories were used in the creation of synthetic soul. It's a really common theme in science fiction that once the technology is close, people will try to replace their dead loved ones with technological resurrections of them. It wouldn't be anything new in the genre if it turned out that the guy who created synthetic souls was originally trying to bring back his dead child by implanting their brainwaves in a robot. It never worked and was never able to bring his kid back, but he did find that neural nets implanted with his child's memories exhibited natural learning and emotional behaviors. Occasionally, Synthetic Soul minds develop to the point where they CAN access parts of the implanted memories.
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My theory was the mad scientist took bits and pieces of his dead son's soul and used those to create the synthetic souls. That's why Dorian only had some small memories. I gathered that also from the very clear paternal connection he had with Dorian.
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drat you Fox, my testicles were at full capacity! My Red balls are now blue balls! And all for what? The renewal of Dads?
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Is it possible another network could pick it up, like maybe (shudder) SyFy?
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JohnSherman posted:Holy poo poo, no it did not. The only noticeable result of the airing order is that Kennex is inexplicably cold to Dorian after a couple episodes of being best buds. If someone hadn't come here and told everyone that the episodes were aired out of order, nobody would have guessed. "The only noticeable result was that the chemistry between the two leads, which is far and away the show's strongest point, was completely different for no reason." There was also an episode like halfway through the season where Kennex was still going to that memory guy despite the fact that that whole arc was dealt with way earlier. I watched this whole show in 3-4 mini marathons and the abrupt change in tone during some of the reordered episodes was very noticeable, even without having read the thread and seen that Fox was messing with the order. I mean, it wasn't as random as that one Fringe out of order episode where Charlie is just inexplicably alive, but it was definitely noticeable.
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drunkill posted:I was hoping they'd work out all the pacing and story issues in season 2. Suck it is over but what we got was nice. The hsow had really good chemistry between Kennex and Dorian. Dammit, now we must push even harder for Dredd 2.
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Did Dads get renewed? Almost Human was good and fun and has Karl Urban, Dads has midgets and racism. Terrible
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The chemistry was the only thing the show had going for it. Of course it was going to be cancelled. It was terrible in just about every other aspect.
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Bolow posted:I can't believe anyone honestly expected a Sci-Fi TV show on Fox to last more than 1 season This. SAAB was a great show. Are you guys joking about Dads getting renewed? Please say yes.
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Doctor Butts posted:The chemistry was the only thing the show had going for it. Of course it was going to be cancelled. It was terrible in just about every other aspect. Kennex was only missing ONE leg. They needed to make room for the new Robocop series. That guy's missing BOTH legs!  Twice as good.
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Bolow posted:I can't believe anyone honestly expected a Sci-Fi TV show on Fox to last more than 1 season That show was so good. I honestly didn't expect this one to survive going into it because it's Fox so I wasn't that let down. The Blade Runner tribute at the end was a good send off I guess.
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JohnSherman posted:Holy poo poo, no it did not. The only noticeable result of the airing order is that Kennex is inexplicably cold to Dorian after a couple episodes of being best buds. If someone hadn't come here and told everyone that the episodes were aired out of order, nobody would have guessed. The biggest problem the show probably had to face was Fox promoting it quite a bit and then pushing it back at the last second.
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AH Cancelled, Helix renewed. This truly is the darkest timeline.
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strangemusic posted:AH Cancelled, Helix renewed. This truly is the darkest timeline. Helix was renewed, but Caprica was canceled on Syfy. Almost Human is canceled, and by god if Dads is renewed, we are looking at the dark age of television. One day there will only be variants of Mindy Projects and bad spinoffs of NCIS, and there's nothing any of us can do about it.
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Ravane posted:bad spinoffs of NCIS Isnt that what Almost Human was
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Ravane posted:Helix was renewed, but Caprica was canceled on Syfy. Caprica was awful. I'll never forgive Syfy for canceling SGU. gently caress the haters that show just kept getting better then got axed.
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Ah, too bad, out of the three shows I've made threads for, I was most hoping this one stuck around. Seems like it being produced by Warner Bros. hurt it something extra, as a bunch of lower rated similar shows are hanging on (some of which I guess actually do cost an equal amount to produce, but Fox doesn't get the back end) (Adults 18-49; repeats in bold; older weeks in parentheses) Every show on here except Almost Human is returning next season. 1.5 (1.6) (1.7) (1.6) (1.9) (2.0) (1.8) (1.6) (1.8) (1.7) (1.9) (2.3) (3.1) Almost Human 1.5 (1.4) (1.6) 1.5) (1.4) (1.4) (1.7) Bones 1.4 (1.4) (1.4) (1.4) (1.4) (1.4) (1.5) The Following 1.3 (1.1) (1.2) (1.3) (1.3) (1.2) (1.4) Brooklyn Nine-Nine 0.6 (1.2) (---) (---) (1.2) (0.7) (1.3) New Girl 1.0 (1.0) (1.1) (1.0) (---) (---) (---) Mindy Project 0.9 (1.0) (1.0) (0.9) (1.1) (1.1) (0.9) Glee 0.6 (0.8) (0.9) (1.0) (1.2) (1.1) (0.9) Bob’s Burgers
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NadaTooma posted:How the gently caress is Bones still a thing Because the guy with Down's Syndrome on Wheel of Fortune is more intellectually capable than Fox's Network executives.
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NadaTooma posted:How the gently caress is Bones still a thing
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Cardboard Box A posted:Angel That poo poo went off the air almost a god drat decade ago. No doubt David Boreanaz has been a marketable actor but that is most definitely not an excuse.
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Beet posted:That poo poo went off the air almost a god drat decade ago. No doubt David Boreanaz has been a marketable actor but that is most definitely not an excuse. He's wasted on Bones. It was a good show once, but like House by the time it finished, it should have been allowed to reach a dignified conclusion years ago. The finder was better, and they canned it after a season (of episodes screened out of order throwing recurring plotlines and character development into chaos.) They should find something better for Boreanaz to do. And take John Daley with him, he's awesome as well.
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Well I'll be damned. I know we've already discussed it but I decided to watch the shows in the correct order last night and after 3 episodes in it really does add a cohesive plotline.
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:I'll never forgive Syfy for canceling SGU. gently caress the haters that show just kept getting better then got axed. It got better and then went away, much like syphilis that's treated with penicillin.
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Any hopes of this getting picked up by cable or one of the streaming services? I thought that it was really good scifi for network tv, but it may have been a little too episodic for a 13 episode run in today's climate. They might have gotten away with it if they had been more serial, or done more episodes, but it felt a little disjointed week-to-week. The chemistry between the two leads was great and the writers found some clever ways to address the classic tropes that you see in the human-robot-partners sub-genre. They managed to make things feel mostly fresh to me, while pretty obviously borrowing from other sources. The world-building was pretty good, but we only really saw the first layer, so I'm disappointed we don't get to delve further into it.  Honestly? Helix gets renewed and Almost Human doesn't?
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Croatoan posted:Well I'll be damned. I know we've already discussed it but I decided to watch the shows in the correct order last night and after 3 episodes in it really does add a cohesive plotline. What's the correct order?
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