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Almost Human - Episode 1.13 - Straw Man (Season Finale) - Promo

25 Feb 2014

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31 comments:

  1. Donna C25 February 2014 at 04:51

    Really hope that's a season finale and not a series finale. This show could do a lot if given time. Fringe sure did. Even if i wasn't overly fond of season four and disliked the fifth so much, I stopped watching after six eps.

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  2. daen25 February 2014 at 05:46

    And to think it would be doing more faster if FOX didn't want a more procedural format in the first place. If I recall correctly that seems to be a pattern with FOX's scifi shows. Fringe and X-Files for examples were very crime of the week-oriented in the first season.

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  3. Rafa_Garrafa25 February 2014 at 17:26

    I hope they do not cancel it. Just watched it in order (now that we can see it properly) and it is comparable with Firefly or the third season of Fringe. Or even the fifth of LOST.


    I'm in love with this show... I need a second season

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  4. mary9325 February 2014 at 19:24

    what's the proper order of the episodes?

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  5. Rafa_Garrafa25 February 2014 at 20:09

    1.01 Pilot (#1.01)
    1.02 “Skin”- (#1.05)
    1.03 “Are You Receiving” – (#1.06)
    1.04 “The Bends” – (#1.07)
    1.05 “Blood Brothers” – (#1.08)
    1.06 “Arrhythmia” – (#1.03)
    1.07 “Simon Says” – (#1.10)
    1.08 “You Are Here” – (#1.02)
    1.09 “Unbound” – (#1.09)
    1.10 “Perception” – (#1.04)
    1.11 “Disrupt” – (#1.11)
    1.12 “Beholder” – (#1.12)
    1.13 “Straw Man” – (#1.13)


    that's it... the relationships between the characters are pretty much normal in development and such... it is a shame that most people do not know how shitty fox is for some things

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  6. CP25 February 2014 at 21:36

    Oh but I loved the last few episodes of season 5. Not sure which season would be my favorite. I think I had favorite episodes/parts/story lines rather than seasons.

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  7. CP25 February 2014 at 21:39

    Yeah, I really wish networks would butt out of shows and take it as the showrunner writes a show (I mean whether it will be more procedural or main plot orientated). Procedural or not, I love this show though. The characters are enough for me.

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  8. CP25 February 2014 at 21:41

    Where did you here that from?


    If it's not official it's not really worth mentioning cause it's not certain until they state it is.

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  9. daen25 February 2014 at 23:08

    I totally agree like I'm the kind of person who drops off after 5 eps and maybe comes back after the box set is released but these characters and the mytharc are wonderful and the cast is phenomenal, deserves better than being the guinea pig for FOX with their all year programming.

    As for a second season, I think we will get it, what you have to worry about will they give it a better air date or a better timeslot.

    What they've done recently (for example Raising Hope, TSCC) is they grant the show a second season then they jerk it around until the ratings die.

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  10. Ashok026 February 2014 at 02:10

    Really? Almost Human doesn't even had a narrative. Outside of the Pilot and Unbound the show has no continuity. I don't think it's fractionally as good as any season of Lost or Fringe.

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  11. Rafa_Garrafa26 February 2014 at 02:15

    You do know that they're out of order, no? Try watching them in the real order they were made... It's like watching a different paced show, more human an complex...

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  12. CP26 February 2014 at 04:47

    Yeah but any kind of second season is better than none. Though yeah, in order to get past and have more seasons they'll need to be smart about scheduling.

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  13. daen26 February 2014 at 06:21

    Umm the show has mythology and continuity even watching in the order it aired.Like it was easy enough for me to follow. what about Perception and you are here that deals with the Raid??

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  14. Ashok026 February 2014 at 06:37

    None of the episodes have progressed the story with The Wall aside from The Pilot and Unbound. That's only 2 episodes out of 12. The other cases just feel like discarded CSI scripts.

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  15. Mary9326 February 2014 at 09:02

    I knew they were out of order but I didnt know the proper order, so thanks!! 😊

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  16. shiri26 February 2014 at 12:41

    woooooooooooooow the end of [romo what a cliffhanger! this show is so good ! must be renewed!

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  17. shiri26 February 2014 at 12:42

    i hope so

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  18. DarthLocke426 February 2014 at 15:35

    Disagree. Despite that it hasn't been heavily serialized and has a direct narritve, the themes and subject matter have been fantastic and we have started to see an accumulation of mythology indirectly. (I agree it's not as good as LOST, but Fringe's first season isn't a strong narrative either until it gets into it's second half. Once we get to Jones and Leob is really when the story comes more together. I would say that this is even true with Person of Interest. Season 2 and 3 are much more story orientated)


    Holograms:
    Customer service
    Home Security
    Can be In image of "real" people (Meyers, Maldonado, Kennex), can be multiplied and N'syn to a singular being, and stral projected to far away locaions


    Face Changing Technology (plays into Danica)
    -Are You Receiving
    -Beholder


    Chromes:
    Genetically modified beings who "allegedly" have certain "flaws" removed present dichotomy, as they do not react as "emotionally" as other people (in which you can see a relationship to MX's and certian holographic people), but yet they come off more competitive than they "should" be.
    By having a main character in this role, we have an opportunity to see how flawed and human they are.


    Andriods:
    MX-43
    Unknown model working for The Bishop in "The Bends"
    DRN (various models ours is 0167 and we met 494) -both have "child memory issues)
    "Danica"/XRN - Model seems to rely on "head"


    Memory Sensory:
    Recollectionists
    Scrubbers
    and organic Memory "implants"
    DRN's Memory verses John's with a possible parallel to John's father


    Themes:
    Children/young adults and Parents: Great Expectations
    Death/Suicide/What lies beyond
    Drugs
    Companies that start with the letter "S" and have other letters and/or technology that relates "synchronizing" (or time-control) which most likely plays into Insydicate

    Internal affairs (the struggles within the self and the struggles within "the system")

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  19. daen26 February 2014 at 15:40

    Difference of opinion then and lets leave it at that, I just don't feel that way. **shrugs.**

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  20. Ashok026 February 2014 at 16:43

    "I think we just need a second season to make up for the seemingly lack of back order we should have received..."

    I guess I can accept that, but it's a shame Wyman didn't just use his first 13 episodes to develop a strong story instead of leaving it all to chance based on FOX giving him back order. Either way, Fringe immediately developed a fascinating serialized storyline revolving around the Pattern, ZFT, Olivia's backstory with Cortexiphan, Massive Dynamic's involvement with Walter and William Bell, and all these overarching plot threads were weaved together quite brilliantly in the S1 finale. All in all, Fringe had a pretty epic first season. John Noble and Josh Jackson's father/son dynamic was touching and imho was far better written and much more interesting to watch than Kennex/Dorian.

    In comparison, Almost Human hasn't done any major "world building" outside of throwing completely random technology at the audience. But Wyman doesn't appear to ever keep track of the tech he presents to his audience, nor does he keep tabs on the perceived value of any of this futuristic technology. Most of the technology seems cheap and commonplace, yet there are many situations where this tech is unattainable for no reason except it doesn't fit the lazy "case-of-the-week" plot devices. Thematically, imho AH has been a complete mess. The opening credits don't even fit with what the show is actually about. We're told the police have been crushed by an uncontrollable crime wave due to mass escalation of technology, but the police are always very nonchalant, the cities feel peaceful, and citizens seem quite happy and content. Based on the intro, I was expecting something similar to Blade Runner, but the actual show has been nothing more than a bland CSI clone and doesn't seem to have much soul. It's universe feels sterile and lifeless. I think Wyman did BRILLIANT work in Fringe, but in Almost Human the magic seems completely gone. :(

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  21. Ashok026 February 2014 at 16:46

    I don't really think that's a good comparison though. Fringe S1 had 20
    episodes and was ~50% serialized. Almost Human was only 13 episodes and
    has been ~15% serialized.

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  22. DarthLocke426 February 2014 at 17:01

    I don't find the technology random for 3 reasons:


    1. If you were Fringe fan, it's easy to see allusions and to make GREAT comparisons to Fringe (and really in both cases, there's a bit of Alias there as well.) It's a story that feels like a companion piece, but also like it's riding on the back of what we didn't see/get explained on fringe.
    Shapeshifters and Observers are like Chromes and Andriods (including a war about to waged from 'the other side'), Insyndicate and the "timing theme" is similar to ZFT and The Pattern, a story agian that partially relies on family (John and his father, DRN and his creator, Valerie her sister/father, our precinct of characters) in relation to duty and politics (this was the heart of Olivia's over all story).


    2. I don't think it's hard to figure out that all of that 'other' technology is building to the creation of the Androids/artificial intelligence/synthetic soul. It's through that technology we can come to understand how they came to be and if they should of...


    3. I think it's also easy see that the technology is not just mythology building, but also a vice to move the human stories forward. (If the episodes would be in order, it would be easier to see the subtle progression of DRN and Kennex' relationship). The value of the story is that people are flawed--emotional and this is what drives us to do what we do with our knowledge, beliefs, and/or tools. It's the human motivations, so often featured in most Bad Robot works, that is at the heart of the technology story. So far all of their works have ended bitter-sweet with a hopeful and pro-humanism silver lining so I think it's not hard to speculate emotionally where it is going, just more over how we get there and what the exact story is, is what we don't have yet.

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  23. DarthLocke426 February 2014 at 17:07

    Actually in "You Are Here" (the aired episode 8) Maldonado and Kennex interrogate Reinhardt, where he wants full immunity, because he tells them that the thing they were searching for in the evidence room is something that not just "they" (Insydicate") want.


    Additionally

    The wall, even though no progress has been made, has been mentioned (and seen) in several episodes.

    http://almost-human.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wall

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  24. Ashok026 February 2014 at 17:13

    Idk, I went back and re-watched Fringe S1 and found many of the scripts to be absolutely brilliant i.e. 'Safe', 'Bound', 'Ability', 'Inner Child', 'Bad Dreams', 'The Road Not Taken', 'There's More Than One of Everything', etc. Fringe seemed beautifully written and sure of it's identity to me (I loved all the Loeb/DRJ stuff), and AH just seems to lack any sense of intelligent writing.

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  25. DarthLocke426 February 2014 at 17:18

    Right, but a good chunk of those more cohesive bigger story episodes are in it's second half.

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  26. Ashok026 February 2014 at 17:30

    I guess my problem with AH is that I don't think the show does anything well. It doesn't work as a serial because it's not 20 episodes and doesn't have a strong serialized element like the back half of Fringe.

    But I also don't think it's a very good procedural either. It's stories feel very cliche, and if you took away the glossy technology, most of these stories just feel like run-of-the-mill cases that CBS already airs every week. Imo other procedural dramas from the past like NBC's Life or Chris Carter's Millennium told far more creative stories than AH, and despite being episodic I felt those shows were far more nuanced a better layered than AH. AH needs to either be a GREAT procedural or a GREAT serial, and thus far it just seems like it's a very half-baked show that does neither well.

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  27. DarthLocke426 February 2014 at 18:10

    I can understand your sentiment and to some degree, I agree, but I also think because of Fringe, it's easy to get anxious about what Almost Human isn't yet.


    It's the age old standby where only time can tell and I just hope we get more time.

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  28. CP26 February 2014 at 21:48

    I'm in it for the characters. And I still find it's still a different take on things.

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  29. Ashok026 February 2014 at 21:52

    Yeah, well the good news is FOX canned X-Factor and The Following is trailing AH. So that should bode well for this series survival.

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  30. CP26 February 2014 at 21:55

    I don't remember Fringe being that serialized. Almost Human doesn't have a lot about The Wall and Insyndicate yet but it has some interesting stories going on for the characters (like the DRN issues/concerns, etc.). I consider character background and concerns in non-procedural stuff.

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  31. Boris Breynin27 February 2014 at 01:43

    This is literally the baby of our beloved series Fringe lol

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