ABC's Resurrection

[Dr Lee]

Intriguing set up, but this is one of those shows that will probably get canned before we find out WTF is going on.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

Intriguing set up, but this is one of those shows that will probably get canned before we find out WTF is going on.

"Resurrection" posted strong ratings for ABC in its second episode, according to early numbers from Nielsen.

Sunday's installment of the new drama, which follows residents of Arcadia, Mo., whose dead loved ones return, drew 10.8 million viewers on average.

While that's down from the series premiere, which hooked 13.3 million people, it remained the top Sunday night show on ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox in the key 18-to-49 demographic. In that advertiser-preferred age group, "Resurrection" garnered a rating of 3.0, down about 20% from the big opener.

In 18-to-49, a ratings point equals roughly 1.3 million people.

 

[X-Ray]

"Resurrection" posted strong ratings for ABC in its second episode, according to early numbers from Nielsen.

Sunday's installment of the new drama, which follows residents of Arcadia, Mo., whose dead loved ones return, drew 10.8 million viewers on average.

While that's down from the series premiere, which hooked 13.3 million people, it remained the top Sunday night show on ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox in the key 18-to-49 demographic. In that advertiser-preferred age group, "Resurrection" garnered a rating of 3.0, down about 20% from the big opener.

In 18-to-49, a ratings point equals roughly 1.3 million people.

Nice. Not too bad of a drop from the premiere.

My theory took a dump. Seems like the dad just recently died instead of the same time as Jacob and the Aunt. He's creepy as hell. Not sure who, what he had buried. In the previews it looked like he buried a lot of them, it.

 

[Specter313]

Nice. Not too bad of a drop from the premiere.

My theory took a dump. Seems like the dad just recently died instead of the same time as Jacob and the Aunt. He's creepy as hell. Not sure who, what he had buried. In the previews it looked like he buried a lot of them, it.

The various commercials leading up to the premiere stated some of the years that had passed since the returned had died. Jacob died 32 years ago. The dad died 13 years ago. The fiancee of the reverend Tom, who we'll meet next week, died 12 years ago.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I should have been paying more attention, but where did the dad who died 13 years ago wake up?

 

[Donut]

Hmmmmmmmmm

 

[Specter313]

I should have been paying more attention, but where did the dad who died 13 years ago wake up?

Oregon.

 

[rashad]

I'm loving this show.

Resurrection - This Season Trailer
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[Teelie]

The various commercials leading up to the premiere stated some of the years that had passed since the returned had died. Jacob died 32 years ago. The dad died 13 years ago. The fiancee of the reverend Tom, who we'll meet next week, died 12 years ago.

The aunt who died, the Sheriff's wife, I'm pretty sure is back too with the man she was having the affair with.

 

[SuperBatman]

Nice. Not too bad of a drop from the premiere.

My theory took a dump. Seems like the dad just recently died instead of the same time as Jacob and the Aunt. He's creepy as hell. Not sure who, what he had buried. In the previews it looked like he buried a lot of them, it.

He may of been a serial killer before he died. I knew and it frustrates me they wasn't going to show us what they saw in the grave till probably next week.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Just watched the first two episodes. pretty good, I guess I'm hooked. Hope it stays on long enough to get some answers. Also I hope it's not aliens.

The aunt who died, the Sheriff's wife, I'm pretty sure is back too with the man she was having the affair with.

That's what I thought as well.

 

[Marvolo]

I watched the first three episodes last night and Im hooked!

 

[Big Green]

You guys have any theories yet?

I think it's gonna involve cloning of some sort.

 

[X-Ray]

Aliens. The brother, Ray, may be onto something. That entire river may be contaminated with some alien cloning, reviving juice. The opening credit outlines the river into like a tree of life.

 

[Dr Lee]

I was going to say Aliens as well.

 

[Gold Samurai]

You guys have any theories yet?

I think it's gonna involve cloning of some sort.

So all theories are up in the air

-Aliens?
-Clones?
-Military experiment where someone is giving another chance for certain people after their loved ones have died?

Sort of "Universal Soldier" spin.

Or all combined. Military is using alien DNA to clone super children.

 

[Teelie]

It's got to be something else. That shirt tag had the exact same way Jacob was spelled on it. You can't clone a shirt and handwriting like that. So cloning is almost certainly out.

I thought maybe somehow time travel is involved but dismissed it and an alternate universe; why would they remember dying (Caleb even shows he had a heart attack two days before his return)? That's somehow key to this. That the river is where so far the only two confirmed (with the wife of the sheriff being a third possible) resurrected came from is also obvious. Something in or about that river brought them back.

Why has one (perhaps two) returned after three decades and the other one after only a few years though? It isn't some kind of time-delay reviving so there has to be some event or some kind of trigger involved somehow.

This episode also had something that bugs me about people and miracles.

All too often when people or events are responsible for saving someone's life, it's attributed to a miracle from God. Never can a person just be good, God must have been involved. There was some divine intervention when happenstance prevents a person from dying. It's never just luck or skill of anyone involved.

Yet we have here an obvious miracle (we being the audience know better than to believe it was a miracle) and somehow despite the dead coming back to life there are people who are suspicious and even repulsive at those who came back to them. Distrust and malevolence. The one time that could be attributed to something being a miracle, there is immediate distrust in it. All those church-goers who believe in the resurrection of Jesus scoff that anyone else is ever going to be brought back to life by divine intervention. In their world, for all they know, this is God's doing, yet they scorn everything about the kid.

It isn't limited to just this series though, it's more a nitpick of reality and movies and television where any time a good deed is done, the human(s) involved are merely a conduit for greater good instead of the good themselves.

Although it does have me thinking (hoping) that might be intentional. That the townspeople are suspicious for a reason instead of just convienently making them disbelievers for the sake of tension.

 

[Dr Lee]

Because you can have the conflict in the episode between characters of one insisting it's God's will/blessing/grace/Whatever and the other taking the human line...

 

[Apollo]

Well that was another mind boggling episode...

 

[Specter313]

Took me a sec to realize the robbery was a new one in the current time.

Still liking the show, but I think they need to finally have a returnee do something to up the stakes because the previews always show someone, usually Omar's character, looking at something in major shock, but they never show the scene.

Other than that, I don't really have any complaints except I can't really stand that annoying old bitty who works at the church.

 

[Gold Samurai]

So the preachers girl died going off a bridge and into the river

Water is a key element in this show with the river

Jacob woke up in a field in water

The preachers former girlfriend went to a tree and by it is a bed of water.


Perhaps the storm will bring more resurrected people with the water

 

[Apollo]

The place where Kaleb died. The place were he had a heart attack digging that hole. Was that near the river at all? I cant recall.

 

[Specter313]

The place where Kaleb died. The place were he had a heart attack digging that hole. Was that near the river at all? I cant recall.

Yes, the other two found it right by the river. His ashes were also scattered in it, they said.

 

[carrrnuttt]

The place where Kaleb died. The place were he had a heart attack digging that hole. Was that near the river at all? I cant recall.

Caleb didn't die near the water, but his ashes were partially spread in the same river that Jacob, and now the fiancee who committed suicide died in.

The river has touched all of the dead bodies of the current returnees that we have met so far. So unless there's something else, the river seems to be the only common denominator between the returnees so far.

 

[Donut]

I wonder how long before the aunt returns