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Helix premieres on SyFy tomorrow ...

25K views 187 replies 51 participants last post by  jmfreefly 
#1 ·
I don't know anything about this show, but it's got Ronald D. Moore attached, so that's enough to make me want to watch it. :)
 
#79 ·
I just watched episode 4 and
I want to throw my shoe at this show. So now Dr. Beautiful has a secret tumor and a secret infected patient and she shot herself up with morphine. And somehow Dr. Ex-Wife carved her initials in a wall apparently years ago. Then Dr. Hitake (or whatever this show's Capt. Adama clone's name is) convinces three mutineers to not kill everybody and then he shoots them. Arrrgh. I want to like this show. Heck, I want every science fiction show to be successful but come on Helix, be plausible.
 
#80 ·
I just watched episode 4 and
I want to throw my shoe at this show. So now Dr. Beautiful has a secret tumor and a secret infected patient and she shot herself up with morphine. And somehow Dr. Ex-Wife carved her initials in a wall apparently years ago. Then Dr. Hitake (or whatever this show's Capt. Adama clone's name is) convinces three mutineers to not kill everybody and then he shoots them. Arrrgh. I want to like this show. Heck, I want every science fiction show to be successful but come on Helix, be plausible.
I watched about half of it and I couldn't take it any more. I wanted sooo much for this to be a good show but I couldn't stay with it any longer.
 
#88 ·
When I care more about what happened to the frozen monkeys than any of the protagonists, the show is bad, BAD. And that's w/o any of the ongoing sci-tech absurdities and the swiss cheese all over the map plot. I should have learned my lesson from BSG, but no. I'm likely bailing in one more episode before some dead person comes back as an "angel" or some plot twist that negates the entire preceding show arises for "creative artistic value". It's ludicrous like the excellently cast, yet sadly execrable "The Following"
 
#89 ·
I thought there were some glimmers of hope, and I'm still happy that Javier Grillo-Marxuach is now involved. Yes, it's a bad show, but it could still become good...all the elements are there. They just haven't pulled them together yet, and tossed out the ones that aren't working.

OK, big order. But still, in the words of the lottery billboards, "It could happen." With maybe the same odds.

Here's a more optimistic view than we've shown here, from io9. "This show is absolutely terrible every time it tries to "do science," and is great every time it veers into capturing its characters points of view." I wouldn't go so far as to say "great," but she has a point. This is science fiction that's at its weakest when it does science.
 
#96 ·
Here's a more optimistic view than we've shown here, from io9. "This show is absolutely terrible every time it tries to "do science," and is great every time it veers into capturing its characters points of view." I wouldn't go so far as to say "great," but she has a point. This is science fiction that's at its weakest when it does science.
I'd have to say it's pretty horrible when it tries to do drama, but it is even more horrible when it does science fiction.
 
#99 ·
Coworker said "it got really interesting in episode 4" I just watched it and I'm not really seeing what he's seeing, I'm not impressed, once again, it's a group of people finding things out AND NOT TELLING ANYONE! (gawd I hate that trope)
 
#101 ·
Still enjoying it. It's television, not reality. Of course it's not realistic and the characters do stupid things.

I loved how the antiviral started to improve the patient's condition within seconds. That stuff works fast. Unfortunately, I also knew that the fast working cure had all but secured his fate to something worse.

I'm sad they killed off the blonde scientist lady. I thought she was one of the more interesting characters. Far more interesting than the other two CDC women.

My girlfriend kept asking me why they needed CO2 scrubbers and were in danger of dying due to CO2 poisoning when there's plain ordinary air right outside the door. I told her that the lab must be sealed to prevent the virus from getting out (which I think is a valid reason).

I keep trying to remember where I've seen/heard Dr. Hitaki from before. Then I looked it up. He's in the trailer for the new "Ronin" movie.
 
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