Quote:
Originally Posted by Buff
I'm hooked on Alcatraz now. I watched the last 3 episodes last night to get up to date. I think it is a good show, but it is still missing something that makes it that "everybody must watch this" type of show. Right now what it has going for it is how it leaves you wanting to find out more. Each week you get a bit more information, but not enough to figure out what exactly is going on, not to mention the more questions that each bit of information gives you. It is good enough to get people to check it out, but the need to find out what is happening is what is keeping people to watch. How long can they keep doing this?
|
The time travel thing - both ways apparently - is a compelling mystery but, as others have noted, they're not helping themselves with out of control snipers gunning down the innocent and landmines blowing up all over the place.
That stuff just doesn't fit on the scale you're seeing. It really does require a more subtle plotline to function.
And the fat guy from Lost is a horrible, distracting actor. Kill him!! Not the beautiful Time Traveller. (Incidentally, she's exactly the face I had long ago pinned on British submarine Captain Karen Halabi in John Birmingham's Axis Of Time series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Choice ).
Cowperson