Alphas is a great show, and you should watch it

Re-watched the pilot at a friend's place last night. This time I wasn't weak-as-a-junkie from hospital crap, so I was able to be my normal, focused self, and I really enjoyed it. I'll finally be giving episode two a shot tonight, but I think I'm already sold.

I forgot to post in here. I finished Season 1 and am up to Episode 4 of Season 2 on Hulu. Looks like there hasn't been an episode up on Hulu for a month or so. Where are they at on TV right now? I like it the show, but it really took about 6 episodes before I started to really like it. I'm glad I stuck with it.

Enjoyed first two episodes.

Season 2, Episode 7 showed last Monday; looks like Ep8 will be day after tomorrow.

Malor wrote:

Season 2, Episode 7 showed last Monday; looks like Ep8 will be day after tomorrow.

Damn it. I wonder what the hold up on Hulu is. Sci-Fi and Hulu's relationship is a mystery to me. They have a weird licensing deal. Stuff will be PC only and often, as in this case, it won't show up at all.

Hmm, I'm starting to get a bit annoyed with this show -- they seem to just randomly drop threads and not pick them back up. It feels rather haphazard.

I caught up from the start till second season episode eleven. I actually like the show very much. There are some mistakes here and there.
But overall it is very entertaining and it scratches this super hero itch for me.

Got 'Lost Girl' ready in my queue. As it was mentioned here. Both seasons lined up already.

Anyone catch the finale? I think this season was solid, and even brought it from "What Heroes should have been" to "Better than Heroes ever was" in my mind.

Spoiler:

Unless they decided to be very hardcore and kill off everyone, the only way I see Rosen and a few others living is if Nina pushed everyone to go to sleep before the pulse hit.

3 episodes in and I'm mostly done with this show. It's got a serious case of "a wizard did it"-itis.

The narrative serves only as a vehicle to get from where one character can use their frankly ludicrous 'ability' to get to the next place where another character can do the same.

The only redeeming feature is Gary's dialogue, which has some solid laugh-out-loud lines.

I suspect that this will now be a show that I put on when I want something that I'm only half paying attention to while I do something else.

Jonman wrote:

I suspect that this will now be a show that I put on when I want something that I'm only half paying attention to while I do something else.

This is where it's ending up for me, though I think I lasted longer before it got there than you did.

Jonman wrote:

The only redeeming feature is Gary's dialogue, which has some solid laugh-out-loud lines.

Gary is without a doubt the best and easily most interesting character on the show.

TL;DR: Alphas is better than a lot of stuff but maybe that's more a function of a low bar than its quality.

I tired of the contrivances but thought a lot of the dialogue was human, lacking a lot of the closedness, the artificial succinctness of typical TV writing. I guess...I don't know why I'm not more captivated.

Actually, maybe it's me, not you, Alphas. Very few shows grab me like this anymore. I dig Fringe when I' binging on it, but I'm not a junky. And lordy I tried Supernatural but...no.

Didn't hang with Lost, either, but I'm trying Alias for the first time as I type this.

Wow. I actually doublechecked to see if I had posted in the wrong thread .I disagree completely. Far from the narrative being an excuse for powers to be used, I think the powers themselves are excuses to see how people might react in a situation. And overall the abilities seem to make the characters unhappy.

Maybe that's why I don't really care about the show-science, and maybe I just don't remember if there was an initial investment like the first episode of the week season of Fringe, but at some point this show became one of the ones I couldn't wait to see when I got home.

If you finish season 1 and still can't see anything special,we must have different tastes,but it's been awhile since I watched a show where each finale made me feel like the seasons are actually working to the story and not just "oh i guess we'll just stop here and do something BIG."

f*ck tablet typing sucks.

I feel the same unntrlaffinity. It actually took me about 3-5 episodes in for the show to hook me. The show really is not about their powers. The show is more about character development and relationships. The powers and sci fi elements are there just to further the character development and relationships. I'm enjoying it now quite a bit. I'm still waiting for season 2 - episode 9 to drop on Hulu.

I agree with the last 2 posts. The show isn't written to showcase the super powers, it's written to explore the characters and what life is like for them having these abilities. I really enjoyed this season, and I thought the season finale was pretty great. Can't wait for next year.

Seems a shame - it was far higher quality than a lot of the crap Syfy do, which is probably why it got binned. Has anyone ever seen any of their films which is even semi-decent ?

Oddly enough, Syfy channel didn't even show it here in the UK originally, though they are re-running season 1 now. Lord knows where season 2 is.

It's a shame. I can't understand how they didn't get good ratings, considering the network and quality. At least we got two seasons. Or, I could fixate that it ended on a cliffhanger. Harumphf.