Alphas

[Perpetual Man]

Should be watching the last episode tonight. At last!

[Mouse]

Yay! It's good.

[Perpetual Man]

Might just be me feeling a bit under the weather, but this seemed to be a very different end of season, in a really good way. It might have been a little downbeat, but it felt fresh and different because of it.

I really liked the way the main team seemed to be on the back foot throughout, that they were manipulated, over ruled and virtually beaten. The government might have been seeing the whole operation as a success, but for our Alphas it was distinctly low key: They were over-ruled; and generally got there backsides kicked, physically or emotionally.

And the twist at the end, I'm not so sure it was what it seemed... perhaps Rosen may well have blown the lid off the Alpha's existence but it makes things really interesting for next year.

What's going to happen to Rosen? He's just seriously upset the Government...

[Mouse]

I almost cried when Anna and Gary held hands, but then when she pegged it and Gary went loopers it was horrible! Tragic. But good.

I don't get though, that if it was set up (with Rosen's daughter) then had she tricked the guy who died for her too? Or was he in on it? Was the bloke who killed him in on it?

[clovis-man]

Interesting end to the season. I would guess that the Alpha "team" will morph into a set of free agents next year. Could be interesting. Not just butting heads with the establishment, but actually working at cross purposes while still tangling with the "bad" alphas.

[rune]

I watched the first episode and couldnt get into it

[SciGeek]

Enjoyed this series, wondered when they offered Rosen anyone he wanted for his team if they were going to go into the 2nd series with new members, maybe with more dynamic powers. Then they blew that theory out of the water when Rosen did the live broadcast thing, so now wondering if they end up as a breakaway group with government & other alphas to deal with?

[Mouse]

I did think it sounded as if they were setting up for new characters to come in. Should be good.

[Winters_Sorrow]

I loved this series. It was very low key (don't remember seeing any adverts for it at all) but a friend recommended it to me and, after a slow start, it really grew on me throughout the series.

I thought the idea of each of their powers having very serious drawbacks if over-used was brilliant and gave a sense of vulnerability to every character, which is rare in superhero type tv shows. Normally those just up the ante by having even more over-powered bad guys, which is a lazy way of doing things.

Gary was by far & away my favourite character mainly because he gets all the best lines, but also the idea of a character with amazing abilities yet incredibly poor social skills is wonderfully realised. Rosen started off as a somewhat ambigious character to me - his blackmail of Hicks into joining the group in the first episode showed that he wasn't above coercing people to do what he wanted and some of the early enemies were his ex-patients who he essentially abandoned to the government when they became problematic!

As the series progressed however, he forms a closer relationship with his team and visa versa, culminating in the final end of series episode where he chooses his team over his employers.

Really looking forward to the 2nd series and hope it builds on some of the themes the first series created. Will they be the new Red Flag for instance?

[Mouse]

Just found out the Alphas series two will be back in July. Yay!

Though, I think the writers are psychic vampires... I've had this idea for ages for a character (female) who could learn new skills really quickly (say just by seeing somebody else doing something, or by reading it etc.) but she'd only have a certain amount of room in her head for the new stuff so she'd have to forget something else each time to make room. Read about the new Alphas character, thieving gits: http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/903...-season-2.html

[thaddeus6th]

Glad to hear this.

I missed episode 1 and it took me a while to get into it, but I quite like the series.

[Mouse]

I liked it very much, definitely looking forward to it coming back.

[Winters_Sorrow]

The new series starts again on 23rd July in the US. Guess I'll have to find other ways to view it...

But looking forward to what this new series will bring. From what I've read it's going to be a fairly grim start with the team largely disbanded and sanctioned by Rosen's great reveal at the end of S1. I wonder how much Stanton Parish will feature this series. I'd love to know more about his character.

[Mouse]

I watched the first ep of series two today. Enjoyable stuff again. (Not sure about the brief snippet we saw of one of the randoms face sort of... melting.)

[Perpetual Man]

Will be a few days before l get to see it, but a favourable opening if your comments are anything to go by.