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DSLiverpool said:
Anyone notice a few Lost traits of red herring and inconsequential muttering.
After being time mugged by Lost I will only watch this recorded so at least I can skip through the adverts and boring bits
oh no - not the L word, was hoping for great things but that has put me right offAfter being time mugged by Lost I will only watch this recorded so at least I can skip through the adverts and boring bits
A two hour episode was far too long for such a confusing mess with ridiculous token casting. The bulls
t meter was spiking continually as well. The guy who slips over backwards and yet has a bruise on his forehead. A sinister sheriff who appears to be everywhere at once. Yeah, it's Lucas Buck from American Gothic. The research institute has obvious "The Thing" overtones. That woolly mammoth better turn out to be an alien with a nasty shape shifting virus or I will be disappointed.
Stanley Tucci is a great actor, but the way they've written him in just to appeal to the American market is so damn tenuous. A jack of all trades American who's a British police officer / forensics expert / pathologist / air crash investigator. Yeah... right; Pull the other one, it has a wind chime on it.
Hopefully the writers got into gear after this, as it has potential. At least normal episodes will be a more polar bearable 1 hour long as well. I'll keep watching, but it's on thin ice.
t meter was spiking continually as well. The guy who slips over backwards and yet has a bruise on his forehead. A sinister sheriff who appears to be everywhere at once. Yeah, it's Lucas Buck from American Gothic. The research institute has obvious "The Thing" overtones. That woolly mammoth better turn out to be an alien with a nasty shape shifting virus or I will be disappointed.Stanley Tucci is a great actor, but the way they've written him in just to appeal to the American market is so damn tenuous. A jack of all trades American who's a British police officer / forensics expert / pathologist / air crash investigator. Yeah... right; Pull the other one, it has a wind chime on it.
Hopefully the writers got into gear after this, as it has potential. At least normal episodes will be a more polar bearable 1 hour long as well. I'll keep watching, but it's on thin ice.
Beati Dogu said:
A two hour episode was far too long for such a confusing mess with ridiculous token casting. The bullst meter was spiking continually as well. The guy who slips over backwards and yet has a bruise on his forehead. A sinister sheriff who appears to be everywhere at once. Yeah, it's Lucas Buck from American Gothic. The research institute has obvious "The Thing" overtones. That woolly mammoth better turn out to be an alien with a nasty shape shifting virus or I will be disappointed.
Stanley Tucci is a great actor, but the way they've written him in just to appeal to the American market is so damn tenuous. A jack of all trades American who's a British police officer / forensics expert / pathologist / air crash investigator. Yeah... right; Pull the other one, it has a wind chime on it.
Hopefully the writers got into gear after this, as it has potential. At least normal episodes will be a more polar bearable 1 hour long as well. I'll keep watching, but it's on thin ice.
I've been wondering what to say about it, i was looking forward to it for ages and was disappointed....what you have said sums it up perfectly. t meter was spiking continually as well. The guy who slips over backwards and yet has a bruise on his forehead. A sinister sheriff who appears to be everywhere at once. Yeah, it's Lucas Buck from American Gothic. The research institute has obvious "The Thing" overtones. That woolly mammoth better turn out to be an alien with a nasty shape shifting virus or I will be disappointed.Stanley Tucci is a great actor, but the way they've written him in just to appeal to the American market is so damn tenuous. A jack of all trades American who's a British police officer / forensics expert / pathologist / air crash investigator. Yeah... right; Pull the other one, it has a wind chime on it.
Hopefully the writers got into gear after this, as it has potential. At least normal episodes will be a more polar bearable 1 hour long as well. I'll keep watching, but it's on thin ice.
Beati Dogu said:
A two hour episode was far too long for such a confusing mess with ridiculous token casting. The bullst meter was spiking continually as well. The guy who slips over backwards and yet has a bruise on his forehead. A sinister sheriff who appears to be everywhere at once. Yeah, it's Lucas Buck from American Gothic. The research institute has obvious "The Thing" overtones. That woolly mammoth better turn out to be an alien with a nasty shape shifting virus or I will be disappointed.
Stanley Tucci is a great actor, but the way they've written him in just to appeal to the American market is so damn tenuous. A jack of all trades American who's a British police officer / forensics expert / pathologist / air crash investigator. Yeah... right; Pull the other one, it has a wind chime on it.
Hopefully the writers got into gear after this, as it has potential. At least normal episodes will be a more polar bearable 1 hour long as well. I'll keep watching, but it's on thin ice.
+1 fully agree.t meter was spiking continually as well. The guy who slips over backwards and yet has a bruise on his forehead. A sinister sheriff who appears to be everywhere at once. Yeah, it's Lucas Buck from American Gothic. The research institute has obvious "The Thing" overtones. That woolly mammoth better turn out to be an alien with a nasty shape shifting virus or I will be disappointed.Stanley Tucci is a great actor, but the way they've written him in just to appeal to the American market is so damn tenuous. A jack of all trades American who's a British police officer / forensics expert / pathologist / air crash investigator. Yeah... right; Pull the other one, it has a wind chime on it.
Hopefully the writers got into gear after this, as it has potential. At least normal episodes will be a more polar bearable 1 hour long as well. I'll keep watching, but it's on thin ice.
If this goes down the horror route, (and with all the visual references to The Thing that seems likely.) I don't why but I feel one word is going to turn up in the future of this programme.
Cannibalism.
I both did and yet didn't enjoy it.
It's a suitably wacky place for an island with only 700 odd people living there.
Perhaps the litmus test is that I will certainly be watching next week. We have learnt over the years to only watch Sky Atlantic after recording it as the ability to zip through ads etc is an essential.
It's a suitably wacky place for an island with only 700 odd people living there.
Perhaps the litmus test is that I will certainly be watching next week. We have learnt over the years to only watch Sky Atlantic after recording it as the ability to zip through ads etc is an essential.
bigee said:
just kept watching thnking 'it will make sense in a minute'...to be fair when the the London detective arrived it got a bit more 'normal', lots of odd bits though !
That's when it took a turn for the weirder! As stated, by I think the woman doing the postmortem, how did he have time to catch a flight there when the professor had only been dead for a short while?Think this will turn into gaping plot hole city when it tries to be too clever but time will tell.
My folks gave up on it half way through. Surprising as they usually watch more of this sort of stuff than I do: Wallander, The Bridge, The Killing, even they gritty French drama, Spiral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hotel
wolfracesonic said:
Watched it, enjoyed it, will tune in next week, though it was sometimes difficult to tell when it stopped and the Volvo ads started. The biggest mystery to me though was how do build a hotel complex on a glacier? Build it at the top and watch as it slides down the mountain
The model looked like an ice hotel, which is rebuilt every year... from ice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hotel
We watched it and... I'm still not sure what to think.
On the one hand I did enjoy it and am looking forward to the next one. Visually it was lovely.
But there were just too many wtf monents. And not in a good way, where you might expect an answer to a question in the future, just plain wtf/ I don't get it it/ that's just fking stupid moments.
The OH was getting very 'I wash something would happen' about it. But she too is keen to see more.
Odd but compelling.
On the one hand I did enjoy it and am looking forward to the next one. Visually it was lovely.
But there were just too many wtf monents. And not in a good way, where you might expect an answer to a question in the future, just plain wtf/ I don't get it it/ that's just f
king stupid moments. The OH was getting very 'I wash something would happen' about it. But she too is keen to see more.
Odd but compelling.
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