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new SF TV series.....Almost Human

50.46.128.204

Bad Robot productions
creator: JH Wyman
J.J. Abrams is in there somewhere.

I caught the 1st installment last night on Fox. Part 2 airs tonight prime time.

Detective/police series in the near future....2048. Evidently the cops have lots of help from androids in their work. but some can be trusted more than others...etc. Lots of 2dimensional crooks to prosecute.

The environment seems like a cross between PKD's "Do Androids Dream of electric sheep" and 1/2 dozen other SF environs. Fortunately, there's not a hint of Judge Dredd to be found. Considering the series' lead star, Karl Urban, this is probably for the best. On the subject of Urban, he seems at home in this small series. Must be hungry for work.

The effects department seems within control here. Not too much cgi eye candy. Vehicles look like modified cars from today. I saw some 2013 Fords in there, mildly disguised. This is interspersed with some obvious CGI backdrops showing flying cars ala Bladerunner, etc.

Does not seem anything like another JJ Abrams series: Fringe

I'm withholding judgement. This customer (me) wants all the sci-fi this customer (me) can get.

-Steve

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Previews looked good, we dvr'd it. Looking forward to it (Heck, I even liked Caprica)^ - Road Warrior 18:46:31 11/18/13 (4)
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- Caprica could have been great. Started with a terrific thought-provoking premise.. - free.ranger 15:17:45 11/21/13 (3)
  But like a lot of television series, the writers couldn't maintain the loft. Happens more often in scifi than other genres because thinking outside of the box doesn't last. Example: Star Trek Next Gen and their damn holodeck.
  - New Cap City and the whole religious thing was its undoing - Road Warrior 16:19:29 11/21/13 (2)
    they should have left Zoe alive, showed more Greystone and Adama interaction and fully developed the creation of the Cylons. For the life of me I don't understand why they didn't make that the main plot line
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    - RE: New Cap City and the whole religious thing was its undoing - user510 10:55:11 11/22/13 (1)
      I enjoyed the Caprica episodes quite a lot. As a "prequel" to Battle Star Galactica, it served to illustrate the origins of the Cylon race and how the Cylons came to their own religion.
      
      I think this short lived series did establish that some Cylons were in fact alive. A new life form.
      
      The virtual world scenes made excellent 'cyber-punk' drama. A new kind of intelligent life can be sustained and develop within the silicon chips of Caprican technology. Death in the corporal world does not necessarily mean the end of human existence....provided one can find entrance to the Caprican virtual world. We saw that Zoe Greystone did.
      
      This is something that has been explored in other 'cyber punk' novels. There were some Gibson ideas within this series.
      
      Fwiw, that made for TV movie; Blood and Chrome, was a good precursor to the Battle Star series. It documents the beginnings of Adama's military career. Good action movie there. Worth seeing if you haven't.
      
      -Steve
      - I guess I prefer my sci fi more down to earth! I'll look for the - Road Warrior 14:27:33 11/23/13 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: New Cap City and the whole religious thing was its undoing posted by user510 on November 22, 2013 at 10:55:11
        
        Blood and Chrome movie as long as New Cap City isn't in it or Clarice Willow (altho she and her twins were pretty easy on the eyes).
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