Resident Alien on SyFy

[BobR]

I finally got around to watching it last night on the DVR. Thankfully I could fast forward through the commercials so I only gave away 42 minutes of so of my life I will never get back.

bob

[Ben]

I'm watching the last episode of The Expanse tonight and was gonna watch this show tomorrow. You guys aren't giving me a lot of hope. I loved last season, but you guys and reviews I have read are not making things sound good for Season 2.

It's only the first episode, so maybe things can improve.

[BobR]

I'm watching the last episode of The Expanse tonight and was gonna watch this show tomorrow. You guys aren't giving me a lot of hope. I loved last season, but you guys and reviews I have read are not making things sound good for Season 2.

It's only the first episode, so maybe things can improve.

That is my hope. I think they tried to cover too much ground to end last season and start this season with a bunch of weird unrelated crap thrown in, or maybe the start of an extra 3 or 4 story lines. Too jumbled to be coherent and I hope it gets better, I really liked the first season.

bob

[Ben]

So what's the deal - are they turning this into some kind of chick flick feminist series now? Episode three was over the top for me in that regard. Harry was practically a background character.

[grampster]

I am so disappointed with the series after 2 episodes, I actually forgot to watch it last night.

[K Frame]

I'm planning on watching the three episodes from this season tonight, but man, you guys are scaring me.

[Ben]

I'm planning on watching the three episodes from this season tonight, but man, you guys are scaring me.

Well, the first one was not as bad as I had anticipated after getting myself wound up here, but it was not great. The second one was completely "meh". This third one was just awful though. I did a quick check and it seemed to even get the IMDB crowd worked up. It was woker than the most woke Netflix original that I have almost shot my TV over. If this is the direction they're going, frankly, I'm done.

[Big Hairy Bee]

Did this show leave SciFi and get picked up by Lifetime?

[Ben]

Did this show leave SciFi and get picked up by Lifetime?

 

[RocketMan]

By this point of season one, Resident Alien had already been renewed for season two.  Crickets so far this season.  I think SyFy is learning the whole "Go Woke, Go Broke" thing.  I have my doubts on there being a third season.

[K Frame]

I still haven't watched any of it.

[Ben]

Last night's episode was better than last week's disaster, but still not up to season 1 par, and we still had to deal with a token gay injun, climate change, indians are better and wiser than white people, "women's feelings", etc.

[Pb]

Last night's episode was better than last week's disaster, but still not up to season 1 par, and we still had to deal with a token gay injun, climate change, indians are better and wiser than white people, "women's feelings", etc.

So, why are you watching this at all? 

[K Frame]

So, why are you watching this at all? 

It's Steve's favorite show, and Wednesday nights he controls the remote.

[Ben]

So, why are you watching this at all?

Because last season it was awesome and I have an ever dwindling hope that they're going to come to their senses.

[MechAg94]

By this point of season one, Resident Alien had already been renewed for season two.  Crickets so far this season.  I think SyFy is learning the whole "Go Woke, Go Broke" thing.  I have my doubts on there being a third season.

They haven't learned their lesson.  Not yet at least.  It is a trend with nearly streaming service that if they have a successful first season, the vultures take over and start using it as a platform for social messaging.  That takes precedence over plot/story and the show goes down hill.  I think Hollywood knows if they make a new show with their social messaging from the start, it will go no where.

[BobR]

I'll admit to watching it. I am hoping the writing somehow becomes close to what they had last season but so far it pretty much sucks. I think after the pseudo-lecturing we got last from last nights episode on how whites pretty much suck and are ruining the planet I am done. The cats will just have to watch reruns of Farscape with me.

bob

[WLJ]

Meanwhile looks like we have Lord of the Rings Woke brewing over on Amazon. Some of the preview stuff they've released so far looks bad, real bad.

[Pb]

Meanwhile looks like we have Lord of the Rings Woke brewing over on Amazon. Some of the preview stuff they've released so far looks bad, real bad.

How so?

[grampster]

I'm done with it.

[WLJ]

How so?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJbAbe2yyo

[K Frame]

I'm surprised that Utoob hasn't canceled that guy's account, erased his videos, and blown up his house and car for that.

Although a lesbian box munching sword swinging Galadriel doing hobbit trains does have a certain porno charm about it.

[WLJ]

Other YT videos going into more detail. Even one I saw by a black reviewer had serious issues with black Elves and Dwarves. The producer said she wants it to reflect the real world. 
Amazon has reportedly sunk a billion dollars into that mess and I just got an e-mail informing me of my prime member price hike. Sigh.

[Ben]

Good points in the video. Tolkien himself described elves as a "tall, fair race". With "fair" being the definition at his time of "fair-skinned". Also all dwarves, including females, are bearded. But then you might not see that the dwarf was black. As I recall, there was a big to-do about the Uruk Hai in the movies being played by minorities but you couldn't tell they were minorities because of the makeup, so that was racist.

They need to do a remake of Roots with multinational slaves.

[WLJ]

They've messed with the wrong fan base