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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:When Phyllis was on the phone at the end she said something to the effect of "their perception of time makes them unpredictable" right? Or did I hallucinate that? Yeah that's what she said.
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That was the episode that made me go from thinking this was a good show to a must watch. Also having read some interviews with the people behind the show they always stress that the visitors have never been confirmed to be aliens, which is a weird thing to stress unless they're just trying to throw people off.
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X-O posted:That was the episode that made me go from thinking this was a good show to a must watch. Also having read some interviews with the people behind the show they always stress that the visitors have never been confirmed to be aliens, which is a weird thing to stress unless they're just trying to throw people off. I'm going through my list of sci fi tropes, and it's got to be either aliens, or people from the future sent back to prevent ~AN EVENT~. They perceive time differently.
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Holy poo poo that ending.
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Tortolia posted:Holy poo poo that ending. Yeah it's great because we're given just enough time and information to think of Phyllis as a genuine threat with enough depth of character to be a compelling antagonist, then they pull the rug out from under the viewer and kill her off. Her replacement will probably be much more ruthless and that's kinda scary
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So was Phyllis part of an advance deep cover team placed well before the invasion? What are we thinking here
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I figure her husband had already had the stroke prior to the occupation and she volunteered to head up homeland security in the bloc in exchange for allowing him to live.
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DarklyDreaming posted:Yeah it's great because we're given just enough time and information to think of Phyllis as a genuine threat with enough depth of character to be a compelling antagonist, then they pull the rug out from under the viewer and kill her off. Her replacement will probably be much more ruthless and that's kinda scary It's funny because you say you came to think of her as a genuine threat and I had the complete opposite reaction watching this episode. This episode had me convinced she was much more on the side of Will than I had thought previously. I also completely buy her "something is fishy with the resistance and they're not what they seem" pitch she gave to Katie.
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Wow that ending caught me completely by surprise. Really liking this series so far but wish we got some indication of what the 'hosts' want or their motive for taking control.
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Binary Logic posted:Wow that ending caught me completely by surprise. I actually like that they don't waste this card early on. I mean it's very tempting for a new show to use it as early as possible but then the mystery is already lost and you have to come up with more and more new stuff surrounding the aliens. With them just being in the background it's a lot easier to pace the show properly. If they handle it right every little reveal about the aliens will have a much bigger impact and hopefully won't force them to just make poo poo up as they go along because they've run out of stuff too soon (see Falling Skies as bad example).
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X-O posted:It's funny because you say you came to think of her as a genuine threat and I had the complete opposite reaction watching this episode. This episode had me convinced she was much more on the side of Will than I had thought previously. I also completely buy her "something is fishy with the resistance and they're not what they seem" pitch she gave to Katie. I absolutely had this same reaction. I was looking forward to Katie being forced to be a double agent. Poor Phyllis!
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Interesting to see that there's a whole system of higher ups who still don't see the visitors.
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"I'm Perd Hapley, and the word from Perd is that I am hearing that I will soon be reporting on a hanging right here in LA!"
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I thought this show was going to suck but I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised to really like it so far. I wanted to like it because I am openly rooting for Josh Holloway's career (I know 3 people that have met him and they all said he was genuinely cool and nice). I like that they are not doing the classic heroic resistance trope fighting visible aliens. I'm not saying nobody has ever done alien occupation this way before but Colony is doing it very well so far. I like that they are making the morality of the resistance and the collaborators as ambiguous. It's a very refreshing and realistic twist to have scumbags and heroes on both teams, with mostly everyone else caught in the lovely middle. As an Iraq veteran I'm enjoying the parallels, subtle and overt, between the situation in Colony and the events in Iraq.
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Astroman posted:"I'm Perd Hapley, and the word from Perd is that I am hearing that I will soon be reporting on a hanging right here in LA!" I mean I am glad the guy has work but that completely cut any tension the scene may have had
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Whole lotta Roland Friesler/Volksgerichtshof imagery in that courtroom scene. We get it, writers. The collaboration government=Nazi analogue.
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Watching this show within a short time of having watched Man In The High Castle is also very trippy.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I like that they are not doing the classic heroic resistance trope fighting visible aliens. I'm not saying nobody has ever done alien occupation this way before but Colony is doing it very well so far. I like that they are making the morality of the resistance and the collaborators as ambiguous. It's a very refreshing and realistic twist to have scumbags and heroes on both teams, with mostly everyone else caught in the lovely middle. Yeah, this has been my favorite part so far. They've made the collaborators real people with real reasons for doing what they are doing, while showing the nasty and dirty side of the "freedom fighters" by showing their level of violence and sometimes indiscriminate destruction. This show is very neat and I can't wait for the next episode.
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The Bowmans and all their neighbours are going to feel really foolish when they find out that no one in the Transitional Authority has actually directly spoken to any "hosts" and The Wall turns out to be a viral marketing campaign for a new JJ Abrams movie starring John "Geronimo" Cena.
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BlackJosh posted:Yeah, this has been my favorite part so far. They've made the collaborators real people with real reasons for doing what they are doing, while showing the nasty and dirty side of the "freedom fighters" by showing their level of violence and sometimes indiscriminate destruction. This show is very neat and I can't wait for the next episode. What I really like about this is how most of the collaborators are reasonable people with reasonable motivations but Snyder is a complete tool with the world's most punchable mug. It speaks volumes about what the occupiers actually want from their puppet government compared to what actually gets the job done with the least amount of casualties.
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What makes Snyder a great character is how willing he is to appease 'The Hosts' while constantly loving up, like claiming to have caught Geronimo. Kind of like Col. Klink in Hogan's Heroes. "No one has ever escaped from the GZ!" CUT TO: kids calmly walking around outside the wall, collecting coffee and having a great time. LinksAuge posted:I actually like that they don't waste this card early on. I mean it's very tempting for a new show to use it as early as possible but then the mystery is already lost and you have to come up with more and more new stuff surrounding the aliens. With them just being in the background it's a lot easier to pace the show properly. If they handle it right every little reveal about the aliens will have a much bigger impact and hopefully won't force them to just make poo poo up as they go along because they've run out of stuff too soon (see Falling Skies as bad example). I agree it’s more interesting that ‘the hosts’ are not seen by us or the people of Colony. Might not be aliens. Could be something along the lines of Colussus: the Forbin Project or even Terminator, in that an AI has gone rogue and decided the best plan for humanity is to take complete control and subjugate the population before they wipe themselves out. Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Binary Logic posted:
It's made pretty clear an entity/entities arrived to earth from space and conquered the planet, so it's certainly "aliens". Whether or not they are an AI, organic or whatever else doesn't really change that but it's really not ambiguous in that regard.  The big unanswered question is what motivation they have for a) conquering earth, b) keeping human colonies and c) leaving humans in charge of the occupation. The whole "factory" thing is obviously a huge hint to the answer to all of this and there also seems to be going something on in earth's orbit because that whole telescope subplot has certainly a reason for existing. LinkesAuge fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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Feb 14, 2016 01:58
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This show got amazing fast. Looking forward to this more than Lucifer.
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I'm hoping that they'll get that telescope up and running before the finale (or the episode leading into it for a sufficiently huge cliffhanger) but there's no way that's going to happen is it? That said I'm enjoying the show, they really did go hard on the Nazi imagery during the trial stuff but it at least exposed just how desperate Snyder is.
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LinkesAuge posted:It's made pretty clear an entity/entities arrived to earth from space and conquered the planet, so it's certainly "aliens". Whether or not they are an AI, organic or whatever else doesn't really change that but it's really not ambiguous in that regard. Really? Because we've heard basically bugger all. We know they're operating in orbit, but that's about it. I mean, that is probably the case, but they've been irritatingly unspecific on setting details that all the characters presumably know.
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LinkesAuge posted:It's made pretty clear an entity/entities arrived to earth from space and conquered the planet, so it's certainly "aliens". Could be people from the future. Hell, could be people from the past. Really the only thing we've seen them take an interest in collecting is humans, and quite honestly there aren't a lot of reasons to do that. Some silicon based life-form from Alpha-Gofuckme is unlikely to need a single drat thing from our biology.
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The glimpses of screen prints looked really cool. They should've put them up in places like they did for the original V.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I thought this show was going to suck but I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised to really like it so far. I wanted to like it because I am openly rooting for Josh Holloway's career (I know 3 people that have met him and they all said he was genuinely cool and nice). Also even with the parallels to American occupation in Iraq there are definitely a lot of visual homages to German-occupied Paris, Nazi uniforms and iconography notwithstanding.
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Just started watching this show and it rocks. I'm really liking how the main character is basically forced to become a Quisling but is trying to escape the situation.
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I really can't believe more people aren't watching this. The fact that outside the wall is totally empty and the wall itself is incredibly thick making tons of noise is really interesting. Also really curious to see what the factory really is.
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The pilot didn't do much for me but a lot of you guys like the same poo poo I do so I'm gonna give it a shot.
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pahuyuth posted:The pilot didn't do much for me but a lot of you guys like the same poo poo I do so I'm gonna give it a shot. Similar to the Expanse it takes a few episodes for world building and start increasing the acceleration of the plot. Watch a few more episodes, it's worth it etalian fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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pahuyuth posted:The pilot didn't do much for me but a lot of you guys like the same poo poo I do so I'm gonna give it a shot. I felt the same and felt it even stronger after the 2nd episode. Then I didn't have anything else to watch, saw the praise in here and watched 3 and 4 and I was sold enough to keep going.
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This show makes the perfect companion to the latest Xcom game.
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etalian posted:Similar to the Expanse it takes a few episodes for world building and start increasing the acceleration of the plot. I always give a show 3 episodes before I decide if I am going to continue watching it for that reason. etalian posted:This show makes the perfect companion to the latest Xcom game. It's got a Half Life 2 vibe for me.
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Colony got renewed for another season https://deadline.com/2016/02/colony-renewed-season-2-usa-1201696580/ quote:The project, from Legendary Television and Universal Cable Prods. stars Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies and centers on one family’s struggle to survive and bring liberty back to the people of an occupied Los Angeles.
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Sweet. It really seems they have a good plan behind all of this.
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It's sort of BSG ish in that even though it has lots of science fiction elements the whole setting is more relatable to the audience and also focus on things like relationships instead of amazing technology.
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JEEVES420 posted:It's got a Half Life 2 vibe for me. Yeah, this show seems very obviously inspired by HL2 to me.
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