Flashbacks, mysterious characters, air planes, confusion. Didn't LOST just end? The whole story is based on a bundle of characters all connected to the attempted murder of the president using an air plane. !SPOILER ALERT! in the end they are transported in some black hole type thing, which may or may not be "The Event". It is definitely not as good as the pilot for LOST. The directing style seems to be a copy of 24, even the president looks like a young Dennis Haysbert. So really this show is just a bunch of shows rolled into one. The performances are great but it doesn't help the unoriginality. Overall, I'll probably keep watching it, only because nothing else is on, on Mondays. Also I would be lying if I said it wasn't interesting.
4 Reviews
Promising start
echobase3 October 2010
I've only seen the first two episodes and so far the show is holding on pretty well. Yes, it might be a mixture of Lost, Flashforward, The X-files, 4400 and even 24 with a black president (which is actually not such a far fetched possibility anymore...), however it seems like the makers behind this show have understood what is it that frustrated viewers with shows like LOST: lack of answers. Thus, even though we do get constant flashbacks, these are always intended to answer questions straight away and they don't seem to hold the real story too much. I hope they carry on doing that. The cast is pretty solid, the production value is all there on the screen: big scenes, special effects, lots of extras, locations, helicopters and so on. The pace of the editing is pretty impeccable and it all moves pretty fast. I hope they'll be able to keep these standards and advance the story forward on every episodes. It's all quite promising, but please don't stretch it too much.
Too erratic
grafxman28 September 2010
The constant jumping back and forth in time appears to be the new gimmick for crappy TV shows. This show does it to excess. It's 8 months ago, then it's 2 weeks ago, then it's 3 months ago, then it's 10 minutes ago, etc.
ENOUGH ALREADY!! If the writers, producers and network are too stupid and out of touch with the general TV watching audience to realize this is a major turn off then I can only hope this show is promptly canceled. This is the clear and definitive mark of an incompetent story teller. In a way, it's pity. The cast is OK and the story line, what I could make of it, seems promising. However the methodology of the story telling is total crapola and ruined the show for me. I couldn't take any more and quit watching after 45 minutes.
ENOUGH ALREADY!! If the writers, producers and network are too stupid and out of touch with the general TV watching audience to realize this is a major turn off then I can only hope this show is promptly canceled. This is the clear and definitive mark of an incompetent story teller. In a way, it's pity. The cast is OK and the story line, what I could make of it, seems promising. However the methodology of the story telling is total crapola and ruined the show for me. I couldn't take any more and quit watching after 45 minutes.
Starts off bad and only seems to get worse.
jessefelt16 November 2019
The opening moments of this episode presents some sort of terrifying event taking place, but the footage on screen denies that. It's just people running and screaming. There is no hint of anything that would suggest "what is that?" For all intents and purposes, it appears to be a lovely day that people are just running and screaming during.
Now, this does seem a bit nit-picky I realize, but this is just the beginning of an episode of television that seems directionless and intentionally obfuscated. It has all the hallmarks of some low budget schlock that was greenlit as the result of some kind of nepotism. The acting seems fairly standard for network television. Nothing too amazing or egregious happening here. The camera work is likewise pretty standard network television fare. Nobody is going to be winning any awards for this series, but not everyone has to be a winner.
The real problem is the writing (and maybe some blame can fall on everyone else for agreeing to be a part of this). The most obvious issue is the erratic time jumping that the show does. This can work, but the story needs to work before you toss it in the blender first. The result here is that you never have a solid grasp on what is happening when other than some (definitely not all) of the major plot beats. This also results in the characters never getting enough time on screen to start to give a crap about any of them (assuming you can even figure out who they are).
There's plenty of plot convenience and holes as well as multiple instance of "are the writers aliens who have never been to earth before?" level conflicts with how reality works.
Overall, I will not be watching beyond this episode and can not recommend anyone else does.
Now, this does seem a bit nit-picky I realize, but this is just the beginning of an episode of television that seems directionless and intentionally obfuscated. It has all the hallmarks of some low budget schlock that was greenlit as the result of some kind of nepotism. The acting seems fairly standard for network television. Nothing too amazing or egregious happening here. The camera work is likewise pretty standard network television fare. Nobody is going to be winning any awards for this series, but not everyone has to be a winner.
The real problem is the writing (and maybe some blame can fall on everyone else for agreeing to be a part of this). The most obvious issue is the erratic time jumping that the show does. This can work, but the story needs to work before you toss it in the blender first. The result here is that you never have a solid grasp on what is happening when other than some (definitely not all) of the major plot beats. This also results in the characters never getting enough time on screen to start to give a crap about any of them (assuming you can even figure out who they are).
There's plenty of plot convenience and holes as well as multiple instance of "are the writers aliens who have never been to earth before?" level conflicts with how reality works.
Overall, I will not be watching beyond this episode and can not recommend anyone else does.
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