Almost Human

[Liam_H]

I was surprised how 'fragile' the MX were. It seems all it took was a bullet to the head.

 

[Kaleb]

I thought it was a good start, like all premieres these days it moved a bit fast and had a bit of a contrived finale but I like the dynamic between Joe and Dorian and visually the show has that cool and familiar near future aesthetic.

I'm guessing Insyndicate are going to be the series overarching villain and was the woman in the box in evidence the ex that betrayed Joe? or was it Gina Carano as was mentioned in another post?

One thing that surprised me was how quickly the M-X's and the cops weaknesses were exposed, I mean the M-X's were shut down in one go and the cops anti viral inoculations were corrupted to kill them, all in the first episode.

The woman in the Box was Gina Carano, not Johns ex, I suspect Johns ex to turn up in a future episode.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Really digging this show, has a good future vibe going on and Urban rocks. I'll be tuning in for a while, lets see if they can keep me interested

 

[Pink Ranger]

I was surprised how 'fragile' the MX were. It seems all it took was a bullet to the head.

Redshirts >> Log carriers >> MX

 

[Sawyer]

Pilot was exactly what I wanted it to be, though after months of promos and trailers, I felt like I had already seen almost all of it. I'm looking forward to what's coming up, just because it'll be more of a surprise and it'll further explore the world of this future time period.

 

[MrMaooz]

Almost Human drew a 3.1 in adults 18-49 and 9.1 million viewers.

 

[chamber-music]

Good first episode. It is fun spotting the shows influences. Robocop, Blade Runner, I'Robot and Total Recall all sprang to mind.

Gina Carano would make a good android.

Seeing Karl Urban as a cop again made me long to see him as Judge Dredd again even though its probably never going to happen

 

[Warhammer]

I'm glad FOX decided to push this back while promoting the living hell out of it. Back during Comic Con, I presumed this to be a goner by the third or fourth episode.

Good pilot. I am interested.

 

[Nathan]

Never heard of it before. Didn't see a single promo. Just stumbled upon it, and watched it because of Karl Urban. I enjoyed it and will be tuning in for more.

 

[Siby]

I also really enjoyed the pilot episode. The special effects for the robots and the environmentals was really well done.

I only know Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy and I find the actor's mouth really annoying and distracting. It is so tight over his teeth and his strained speech is odd.

Dorian was great and can't wait to see more of him.

There was a lot of setup and there seems to be a richness to the back story to build upon.

 

[MrMaooz]

Never heard of it before. Didn't see a single promo. Just stumbled upon it, and watched it because of Karl Urban. I enjoyed it and will be tuning in for more.

I guess you don't much football...man.

I watched the pilot. Pretty cool.

 

[Kaleb]

1x02 Promo "Skin"

 

[Nathan]

I guess you don't much football...man.

I don't much football at all.

 

[Sawyer]

I see what you did there...

Half an hour, east coast.

 

[Mars452]

Pilot was pretty bad. None of the characters or actors really stand out and most are actively bad (Urban is the worst as factory standard gritty veteran cop, and then there's Minka Kelly's designated love interest cop and Michael Irby's *****eyCop). Michael Ealy's Robot-With-A-Soul was pretty great though. Premise is horribly derivative, and plot was downright stupid. How? Well...

You know on rewatch the driving plot of the pilot was pretty ****ing dumb and holey. So, bad guys (N-Syndicate? Well okay then) have an objective and that objective is to recover Gina Carano's robot head from evidence lockup, and being the bad guys that they are they decide that the best way to do this is to wipe out an LAPD police station. So, instead of stealing some kind of highly deadly but entirely mundane chemical (not biological, because any bioweapons that would work quickly enough for their purposes would require extensive laboratory facilities and so wouldn't be worth it) agent like sarin or hydrogen cyanide, these bad guys instead decide to whip up a completely new exotic agent to do the job that any nerve gas would accomplish easily.

And to develop this agent, they commit a highly public daytime raid of a secure biologicals transport, commit another highly public daytime abduction of a police officer, actually go through the trouble of drawing the police to the safehouse location where they have this abducted cop so that they can test the agent on their captive directly in front of the police (as opposed to testing it in a secluded and secured facility before dumping the captive's body somewhere it won't be found), and then having planted some kind of Robot-disabler inside the police station they make the excellent decision to activate the thing well before their human cop killer is actually ready. It's like these N-Syndicate folks were actively going out of their way to leave a bread crumb trail of clues for the cops, and they actually wanted to get stopped. The only reason why the plan was stopped at the final stage instead of step 2 was that future LAPD are just really damn incompetent.

What's also stupid, when the N-Syndicate's plans to (presumably) pump their exotic cop-killer agent through the ventilation system fails, they continue to use their spray cans of the agent as weapons despite the fact that it actually takes them more time to kill a cop using it than it does if they'd just use a gun. And despite it being 35 years in the future and the police having militarized significantly (following current day trends) there is no surveillance system in future LA that's worth a damn. And there's actually a common "frequency" in the MX models that can actually be jammed (you'd think that procurement would have wanted to close off that exploitable weakness).

And speaking of stupid robot design, what kind of idiot designs a combat robot and places its most vital bits (CPU) in its unarmored head rather than in its heavily armored torso? The only things that should be mounted in the head are primary sensors, especially video and audio ones, where they can enjoy an elevated field of view. Robots are not humans, and thus they should not have the vulnerabilities of humans (such as getting "killed" by a headshot).

So, beyond the derivative premise and shallow archetypical characters, the plot is pretty dumb as well. Here's hoping that tonight's is slightly better.

I do have to say that I'm sticking around until Gina Carano!bot gets put back together and gets her badass on, though. Gina Carano is never not cool.

 

[Sawyer]

You're a joy.

 

[Warhammer]

All of that was true. I can't even front.

 

[MrMaooz]

I don't much football at all.

S**t! Whoops. t:

Anyways, Dorian and Kennex's banter is pretty funny.

 

[charl_huntress]

I missed the pilot due to gorging myself on Superman movies. Is this worth checking out?

 

[MrMaooz]

So far, yep.

 

[charl_huntress]

Cools thanks! I'll check it out when it comes out ondemand.

 

[terry78]

I like Urban but I do think fanboys sometimes try too hard to make him happen, if you get me. He's probably cool doings some tv and some supporting roles here and there. I personally don't want this thing to fail because I like him and Ealy and they have decent chemistry, so basically...keep watching.

 

[Hunter Rider]

The woman in the Box was Gina Carano, not Johns ex, I suspect Johns ex to turn up in a future episode.

Ah right, so is she gonna be a regular cast member?

 

[Sawyer]

I like Urban but I do think fanboys sometimes try too hard to make him happen, if you get me. He's probably cool doings some tv and some supporting roles here and there. I personally don't want this thing to fail because I like him and Ealy and they have decent chemistry, so basically...keep watching.

Wut.

Spoiler

 

[Mars452]

Ah right, so is she gonna be a regular cast member?

I would hope, but she's probably too busy doing movies and not being Wonder Woman to commit to a TV show on a regular basis. This show desperately needs a female character who can kick ass and isn't 1) unquestioningly supportive, 2) the clear designated love interest, or 3) evil. Although she might be evil, who knows. BTS photos had her in police tactical gear, but maybe since Future LAPD are the worst cops ever the Syndicate have stolen lots of police uniforms or whatever.