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how did jj abrams ever think of jorge garcia for this role?
i actually liked the 2 hour premier of alcatraz... aside from enjoying (aka making fun of) the usual jj abrams plot devices, this seems like a pretty cool set up....you should definitely check it out, billy bob.
the mystery is plainly stated at the very beginning.. in 1963 all the prisoners and guards vanished form alcatraz.... to cover it up, it was reported that they were all transferred. (this qualifies as a 'wolverine and sabertooth are brothers' level spoiler.... aka, it's how every episode starts)
extremely mild spoilers below
present day, the prisoners form 1963 alcatraz are showing up one at a time. they have not aged a day since 1963 and they are going on killing sprees.
each show flips back and forth between 1963 and present day (yes, extremely similar to the 5th season of 'Lost') showing the back story of each of the alcatraz 63'ers.
an added 'inception style' bonus was one of the prisoners we meet in the 2nd hour is named ernest cobb... just a plethora of 'cobb's being tossed around... betweeen this show and watching cobb return kicks on sunday for green bay, i really need to start compiling a database of this sound-cobbs... the best one was hurley saying "if i was cobb, i'd be pissed!"...
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there is a good deal of blood and a higher body count than i anticipated (always a good thing). the key for the show is how they answer the questions... i think the show can maintain my interest for at least 3 or 4 more episode based solely on the developed back stories of the various 63'ers - but with such a clear set up of the main mystery of the show they have to be much more forthcoming with answers than "Lost" was.
i'll be tuning in for now... hopefully it turns out to be a good one.
What are you...you checked this out, and it was actually good?? I laughed every single time I saw the previews for this show. Hugo runs around San Francisco tracking down criminals from the 60's? This sounds like an Austin Powers plot.
ReplyDeleteI don't know Cobb..I am very tired of Abrams just jamming time travel into every show/movie he can get his hands on. Not sure if I can handle this. At the very least JJ could have cast Miles or Charlie to accompany Hugo.
yeah, i liked it enough to tune in for at least a few more showings.... i think this show is trying to find a way to have a overlying mystery, but also be a show where the main plot device is somting you dont htink about.
ReplyDeletethey more or less tell the audience to get that through their heads. hurley asks indian soccer player how she can cope with the fact murderers frm the 60s are now running around in 2012... and she more or less says, 'whats the point' ... thats huge red flag.
if it falls into the classic 'will they ever reveal any info' zone, like the disastrous 'flash forward' i will not be long for the show... but if they actually make an entertaining weekly show, with a mysterious plot looming in the background - i can definitely be had.
flash forward had a crazy mystery and literally never answered anything.. and at the same time had zero interesting characters...
lost had many vague mysteries, and developed a slew of awesome characters... so even if some of the answers were disappointing, the show was still entertaining...
my hope is that the show winds more like lost, but at the same time gives a much more specific answer than lost... a tall order, but i am giving it a shot.
Glad I wasn't the only one who was strangely turned on by the hot cop lady cleaning blood just north of her own small islands.
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