re: Alcatraz S1E2

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How did the head guy know they were in the woods? He just all of a sudden appeared and saved the day by shooting the guy?????

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I thought about that also

I'm gonna watch for a couple more weeks, but this show is on an early path to failure.

The 2nd (technically 3rd) episode is a filler episode.

I'm with everyone else here it seems. I thought the premise of the first two episodes were promising, but last night was very disappointing.

I've thought the acting has been cheesy from the start. This episode only backed that up. If its going to be more formulaic shite every week...new inmate, track inmate, catch inmate...I'm out.

The show didn't do a good enough job getting you sucked in to the mythology of the prison/island/prisoners to jump to this cops and robbers game every week already.

The actors aren't NEARLY strong enough to have 3 people try and carry the modern period of the show.

Last night's episode felt like i was watching a Criminal Minds or NCIS type show

i'll keep watching but it's kinda bland so far

To be fair, Fringe started out exactly like this and took almost the entire first season to build towards an overall storyline. Which I think is one of the reasons the show's ratings have been poor.

There are a few problems I have with this show:

1) The main chick is awful. She's terrible as an actress and not interesting at all. Why do I care about her? What makes her interesting? Nothing. At least Olivia Dunham had some stuff going on to start Fringe.

2) None of the "main" characters are one of the ones that disappeared. That would make the show interesting. Have a main character not know why the frick he has awakened, etc. Maybe he was framed for a murder and sent to Alcatraz and now doesn't know how he got here, and they need him to help with the others, while he tries to put pieces together. Whatever.

3) No one is really surprised about what is happening. Both Hurley and Blonde take it pretty much in stride. Oh people disappeared and reappeared 50 years later? Magically? And now they are murderers? And my grandfather is one of them and I chased him and he led to my partner's death? Ok. Cool. Let's get these guys.

4) The mysteries are somewhat boring. Ok, the doctor and foreign chick didn't age, so they must have been Alcatraz too. They were doing something with blood. There's some secrets? Who cares? On Lost, the mysteries were mind-bogglingly interesting. Here? Who cares?

There should be more drama. There should be more intrigue. They should do a better job on building INTERESTING mysteries. They should once in awhile abandon the procedural aspects and make things slightly more serial.

And bring in more main characters with interesting backgrounds.

I may be the only one who thought last night's epidose was better than last week. These types of shows take time to develope.

Also I think that it might actually have something to do with aliens...Hurly talked about being "taken" when he was 11. I wouldn't be surprised if he was abducted or something.

What was the doctor doing at the end???? Bringing him back to life????

He hasn't aged at all. You must be talking about the bartender, who is her "uncle".