This really should have been shown right after the Pilot Episode, but it worked just as well here as Episode #8.
It appears that FOX has decided to treat this show like all of the other great shows they somehow get hold of - This show would have fared much better on ABC. Most likely they will move it to the Friday Night Death Slot Wasteland soon, that is if they allow more than 13 episodes.
Which is too bad - I am currently watching two shows, maybe three: Almost Human, Agents of S H I E L D and sometimes Sleepy Hollow.
As much as I like S H I E L D, this show is light years beyond that... And I have not gotten used to Walter Bishop (John Noble) showing up in Sleepy Hollow as the "Sin Eater".
Basically what we have here is the continuation of the story from just right after the Pilot Episode: Tim Kelleher makes another appearance as the head of "iNsyndicate", and he has dire warnings for Maldonado: And he will tell Maldonado exactly what they should be looking for, for a high asking price: He walks out. He will even tell Kennex where his ex- Girlfriend "Anna" is hiding.
But in the meantime, we have a forlorn human target running through Almost Human's Future Cityscape - And he is shot by what appears to be JFK's magic bullet- It Zagged and Zigged and hit the man square in the head. And Dorian is the first one to notice that the bullet actually bounced off other objects to acquire it's target - He is rewarded for this by an MX 'Bot who tells DRN that he is inferior and therefore must be wrong: And that MX becomes Kennex' second MX victim, as Kennex shoots it in the head to shut it up.
This episode sets up the Almost Human weekly gags: Each Week, Dorian gets damaged and malfunctions in some way, and each week, an MX gets destroyed, either by Kennex or by some other unfortunate turn of events: We know now, that the producers of Almost Human have kept to this each week, but as the episodes were severely shown out of order and context, it is hard to follow this running gag.
Apparently the first Victim had developed a Bullet that when fired, could hit it's target anywhere in the world as long as the target was above ground, it uses the tracking technology of the day to follow it's mark - And we see, "Targeted Marketing" much like what was shown in "Minority Report"- Before he is shot, the man keeps running into Billboards that identify him and try to sell him things.
Initially it seems that the man had developed the bullet, and the buyer had decided to wipe him out, but as the man's Girlfriend is also targeted, there is something more happening, and it is up to Kennex and Dorian to find out what - But when Dorian takes a magic bullet meant for "Kira" (Annie Monroe), he starts speaking (and singing!) in Korean.
Kira talks about being "Scrubbed" - Her mind wiped so that the woman behind the Bullets (Tatyana Forrest - "Natalie") won't want to kill her, too: And she will not believe Kennex who says it would not make any difference, "Natalie" will kill her regardless.
Kennex and Dorian use Kira's "escape" from the Safe House to find the killers, and we get to see a beautiful Blonde-Haired Russian Woman toting a machine gun, and Dorian coming after her with not one but two handguns, so he gets shot even more, this is why he needs to get a new chest-plate every other episode.
If ONLY this episode had been aired the night of the Pilot, instead of the Sleazy Sexbot story, not that the Sexbot story was not good, it was just out of place from the planned order of the show.
And by now, Fox would consider that J H Wyman has had enough experience with the success of the last two seasons of "Fringe" to determine the order of episodes for his own show, right? But Fox, they think they know something more than the producers of their own shows.
Fox did the same for Firefly and Dollhouse, ruining the continuity. But that is what Fox does - They Ruin the chances for any good show to get off the ground.
This is absolutely the best show on Television, in all of television right now. But even with it's 8-Star rating, unless Fox keeps their grubby fingers OFF, then this show will end after the 13 episodes. Fox really needs to be pumping out cash for Promotion instead of interfering with the order of episodes.
We have seen some sexual tension develop between Kennex and Detective Stahl (The incredibly beautiful Minka Kelly, and who wouldn't turn Wolf and do a little Red Riding hood on her?)- This is the first episode where this is hinted at, and as PENS are not used much in this future- Just like the Fringe episode "The Plateau" (where Anna Torv uses a Pen to solve a Crime), Kennex is shown writing down his Phone Number for Stahl at the end- With a PEN, because Kira's late Boyfriend had propositioned her by writing down his phone number - Which she had thrown away, but he saved the ripped up Numbers- So at the end of the day, she is thankful to Kennex for preventing her mind from being scrubbed. And if you watch, it appears that Stahl has also tossed Kennex' Number in the trash.
It appears that FOX has decided to treat this show like all of the other great shows they somehow get hold of - This show would have fared much better on ABC. Most likely they will move it to the Friday Night Death Slot Wasteland soon, that is if they allow more than 13 episodes.
Which is too bad - I am currently watching two shows, maybe three: Almost Human, Agents of S H I E L D and sometimes Sleepy Hollow.
As much as I like S H I E L D, this show is light years beyond that... And I have not gotten used to Walter Bishop (John Noble) showing up in Sleepy Hollow as the "Sin Eater".
Basically what we have here is the continuation of the story from just right after the Pilot Episode: Tim Kelleher makes another appearance as the head of "iNsyndicate", and he has dire warnings for Maldonado: And he will tell Maldonado exactly what they should be looking for, for a high asking price: He walks out. He will even tell Kennex where his ex- Girlfriend "Anna" is hiding.
But in the meantime, we have a forlorn human target running through Almost Human's Future Cityscape - And he is shot by what appears to be JFK's magic bullet- It Zagged and Zigged and hit the man square in the head. And Dorian is the first one to notice that the bullet actually bounced off other objects to acquire it's target - He is rewarded for this by an MX 'Bot who tells DRN that he is inferior and therefore must be wrong: And that MX becomes Kennex' second MX victim, as Kennex shoots it in the head to shut it up.
This episode sets up the Almost Human weekly gags: Each Week, Dorian gets damaged and malfunctions in some way, and each week, an MX gets destroyed, either by Kennex or by some other unfortunate turn of events: We know now, that the producers of Almost Human have kept to this each week, but as the episodes were severely shown out of order and context, it is hard to follow this running gag.
Apparently the first Victim had developed a Bullet that when fired, could hit it's target anywhere in the world as long as the target was above ground, it uses the tracking technology of the day to follow it's mark - And we see, "Targeted Marketing" much like what was shown in "Minority Report"- Before he is shot, the man keeps running into Billboards that identify him and try to sell him things.
Initially it seems that the man had developed the bullet, and the buyer had decided to wipe him out, but as the man's Girlfriend is also targeted, there is something more happening, and it is up to Kennex and Dorian to find out what - But when Dorian takes a magic bullet meant for "Kira" (Annie Monroe), he starts speaking (and singing!) in Korean.
Kira talks about being "Scrubbed" - Her mind wiped so that the woman behind the Bullets (Tatyana Forrest - "Natalie") won't want to kill her, too: And she will not believe Kennex who says it would not make any difference, "Natalie" will kill her regardless.
Kennex and Dorian use Kira's "escape" from the Safe House to find the killers, and we get to see a beautiful Blonde-Haired Russian Woman toting a machine gun, and Dorian coming after her with not one but two handguns, so he gets shot even more, this is why he needs to get a new chest-plate every other episode.
If ONLY this episode had been aired the night of the Pilot, instead of the Sleazy Sexbot story, not that the Sexbot story was not good, it was just out of place from the planned order of the show.
And by now, Fox would consider that J H Wyman has had enough experience with the success of the last two seasons of "Fringe" to determine the order of episodes for his own show, right? But Fox, they think they know something more than the producers of their own shows.
Fox did the same for Firefly and Dollhouse, ruining the continuity. But that is what Fox does - They Ruin the chances for any good show to get off the ground.
This is absolutely the best show on Television, in all of television right now. But even with it's 8-Star rating, unless Fox keeps their grubby fingers OFF, then this show will end after the 13 episodes. Fox really needs to be pumping out cash for Promotion instead of interfering with the order of episodes.
We have seen some sexual tension develop between Kennex and Detective Stahl (The incredibly beautiful Minka Kelly, and who wouldn't turn Wolf and do a little Red Riding hood on her?)- This is the first episode where this is hinted at, and as PENS are not used much in this future- Just like the Fringe episode "The Plateau" (where Anna Torv uses a Pen to solve a Crime), Kennex is shown writing down his Phone Number for Stahl at the end- With a PEN, because Kira's late Boyfriend had propositioned her by writing down his phone number - Which she had thrown away, but he saved the ripped up Numbers- So at the end of the day, she is thankful to Kennex for preventing her mind from being scrubbed. And if you watch, it appears that Stahl has also tossed Kennex' Number in the trash.
