Tonight's SERIES PREMIER Alcatraz Episodes [01-16-2012] - [Ep. #0101 & Ep. #0102]...

[Zim Hosein]

A task force comes together as a sniper starts targeting young victims in the opener of a dramatic series in which prisoners who mysteriously vanished decades ago from Alcatraz reappear in the present.
http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=319392&more=ucepisodelist&episodeid=19991581

Episode #0101, "Pilot," & Episode #0102, "Ernest Cobb."

 

[Spoooon]

I guess this is something you've been looking forward to?

I've heard nothing about the show. Sounds interesting.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

im looking forward to it too

 

[Zim Hosein]

I guess this is something you've been looking forward to?

I've heard nothing about the show. Sounds interesting.

Yep Spoooon, this and Touch which premiers later in the month.

 

[Printer Bandit]

another island...with crazy time travel...where have we seen this before?

 

[Zeze]

Never heard of it until this morning on my Google News.

The synopsis is wonky and gimmicky. I had to roll my eyes at the time travel/vanishing people for decades & reappearing present day crap.

I love SF and would've loved to a see plain REGULAR show without stupid scifi elements.

 

[Zim Hosein]

another island...with crazy time travel...where have we seen this before?

Hmmm... I'm kinda Lost!

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'm not falling for another JJ Abrahms series where they make it up as they go along.

Give me a Straczynski or Wheedon show that doesn't wander aimlessly from idea to idea.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Is this going to be another "Lost" but with pajamas?

 

[darkxshade]

Did Hurley get demoted to a smaller island?

 

[conehead433]

A bunch of inmates get Lost, and when they show back up, they haven't aged. So does this show start out with them jumping back and forth in time or some such nonsense? Yawn.

 

[SKORPI0]

Looks promising. :biggrin:
Inmates disappear March 1963 and show up late 2011. Authorities cannot explain it and so fake their transfer/death records.
Government guy wants to find out who took them and where they were for almost 50 years.

Is this like LOST meets PRISON BREAK/FRINGE? ^_^

 

[OlafSicky]

I'm not falling for another JJ Abrahms series where they make it up as they go along.

Give me a Straczynski or Wheedon show that doesn't wander aimlessly from idea to idea.

X2

 

[SSSnail]

Watching it, looking good so far.

 

[Jadow]

suckage, give me Terra Nova over this

 

[GrumpyMan]

Chick has great boobs though....

 

[Newbian]

Too busy watching the recap episodes of being human and the new episode tonight but guess I will try this show but I never got into lost so will have to hope for the best.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Looks promising. :biggrin:
Inmates disappear March 1963 and show up late 2011. Authorities cannot explain it and so fake their transfer/death records.
Government guy wants to find out who took them and where they were for almost 50 years.

Is this like LOST meets PRISON BREAK/FRINGE? ^_^

I was compelled to make a LOST + PRISON BREAK + FRINGE graphic. I won't be watching again. Villain of the week formula. Lame.

 

[bbhaag]

It was ok but nothing special. This was just the pilot though so hopefully it will get better. All in all I wasn't disappointed but I wasn't "wow'ed" either. I'll tune in next week to see what happens.

 

[Printer Bandit]

the score sounds kind of like lost, which is good.

 

[Doppel]

I don't hold out high hopes for the future of the show. I just didn't find it terribly interesting and unfortunately the main actress is severely lacking in the hotness necessary to get me to watch based on that alone.

If each episode will just be chasing around guys along with, in each episode her willingly having a guy pointing a gun at her (as happened yesterday, twice in two hours), I can't see myself getting excited for it.

Chick has great boobs though....

I noticed that.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I watched #1 and about 15 minutes of #2. Then I realized the show is just another 'bad guy of the week' type of show. I'll be honest guys, shows like 24 and Lost kind of screwed me when it comes to what kind of TV drama I crave.

 

[tboo]

I enjoyed it. It gave me the same sort of tingle Lost did. I look forward to next week.

 

[NuclearNed]

Blah. I watched the 1st hour and didn't find it very interesting.

 

[Ganeedi]

Definitely didn't have the same magic that the first season of Lost had. I kept falling asleep in the second hour... ugh.