Alcatraz V1- It's got that fat guy from Lost in it. - General

Alcatraz is an American television series created by Elizabeth Sarnoff. Produced by J. J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. [img]http://www.showmelinks.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Alcatraz-season-1.jpg[/img] [B]On March 21, 1963, over three hundred prisoners and more than 40 guards disappeared from the Alcatraz island prison without a trace. To cover up the disappearance, the government invented a cover story about the prison being closed, due to unsafe conditions, and officially reported that the inmates had been transferred. However, federal agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill), a young San Francisco police officer tasked with transferring inmates to the island in 1963, is one of the first to discover all inmates are actually missing and not transferred. In present-day San Francisco, the "63s" (as the missing inmates and guards are called) begin returning, one by one. Strangely, they haven't aged at all, and they have no clues about their missing time or their whereabouts during their missing years. Even more strangely, the government has been expecting their return, and Hauser now runs a secret government unit dedicated to finding the returning prisoners; this unit was set up long ago in anticipation of the prisoners' returns. To help track the returning prisoners down and capture them, Hauser enlists police detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) and Dr. Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia), a published expert on the history of Alcatraz and its inmates. The 63s appear to be returning without any memory of where they have been but with compulsions to find certain objects and to continue their murderous habits. [/B] Recap: So basically the innocent guy Clarence Montgomery gets brainwashed by the villainou Warden (Lost season 3 style) and we start to think he's not innocent when see some girls killed. They go chase after him, he ends up killed, but he's cleared of his murder, and they get the real killer 50 years later. From the previous episode, I can see that the people in question that brought them all back, made them remove access to dreams, as Jack says. I wonder why they haven't done him yet. Properly in the finale, he may end up becoming a key character near the end of the season, he seems to be more focused on, except I actually thought he was the main character. It's possibly, they were sent back to remove everyone from Alcatraz that worked there to stop anyone from being revealed about what happened in Alcatraz. The shadow operatives, as I call them, sent them back for a reason. But maybe some were sent back, just so they can stopped. Alot of theories running my mind. They were either cloned, sent back to the future, in suspended animation from a future experiment these people did. Or it's another cat and mouse game that the warden did to see how their "experiment" can do without restrictions. E.B Tiller is dead, as Sylvane killed him, I was about to say he actually is still alive, my mistake. Emerson Hauser may seem to know more then he lets on about what happened. Dr. Lucille "Lucy" Banerjee didn't age, meaning she was put in suspended animation or zapped to the future, ends up meeting Hauser in a different year. She was part of the experiment. We'll properly won't learn this straight off though. I want Jack himself to help out on their returnee missions, he seems to want to know as much as anyone else, and though want to found out why he's back. Even though he did as he was told to kill any remaining people who were at Alcatraz who worked there.. And the blood transfusion thing, gotta know what the heck is up with that. "Below the hole" meaning where every prisoner there goes if they are special, and are needed to be test monkey subjects or some shit. Inb the eye of the island. :p There was something else, but I can't remember what. That's about it, I don't want to ramble on, and just post the thread already.

Yay Sam Neill! :D

I usually lose patience with tv series but this looks like one I could watch.

Pretty terrible, it's almost a carbon copy of The 4400 but without the parts that made it compelling. And it's pretty much 100% procedural, even JJ Abrams said that he wanted it to be far more procedural than any other show he's done before. Turned me off almost immediately.

Watched til EP4, Yeah it sucks.

I'm so sad Sam Neill couldn't save this show on his own, the concept is okay, but it needs to be worked on. Also, the fat guy from Lost is terrible at acting and should be replaced asap. It's too bad I stopped watching this after the first two episodes, I thought it had much potential.

I just can't like this show. It feels so...generic.

[QUOTE=The_Marine;34974074]Pretty terrible, it's almost a carbon copy of The 4400 but without the parts that made it compelling. And it's pretty much 100% procedural, even JJ Abrams said that he wanted it to be far more procedural than any other show he's done before. Turned me off almost immediately.[/QUOTE] Yeah, they even call the missing people the "63s" (much like... the 4400) and there's the bit about them not aging since they've been gone.

I like it. It's not the best on tv, sure, but it's something to watch when I'm bored. Much like how Terra Nova was for me last Fall.

I bet like Lost, they don't reveal what's in that room that was shown in season 3 or final season. Properly a person or something silly they'll come up with.

this show is really silly, but for some reason it's kind of enjoyable. that and it's filmed in vancouver, which makes it really funny to me because I've been to most of the places they show, and they play it off as san fransico.

We all like to know what was behind that door which E.B Tiller showed to that other prisoner. And dem keys. Four seasons later..... :suicide: Oh it's just a box, within there is another box, it keeps going further into the rabbit hole. :p

Well I'm gonna give this a try anyway because I'm up to date on everything I've been watching. Yeeeah, it's all right. But it's kind of just a crime-solving/criminal-chasing show that happens to have something of a sci-fi premise. But I was relieved that the "63s" didn't come back with super powers, otherwise it really would be a carbon copy of the 4400. But it gets a pass because it's really not that much like it. Especially since in this case all the inmates and guards were taken from the same time, not from all over history. Fuckin A though as if to challenge my acceptance of it they actually have the telepathic black dude from 4400 hahah. And he's one of the 63s just as he was a 4400 in that show. That almost seems like a borderline homage but it could just be a coincidence. Hard not to notice though when the similarities between the shows have already been connected long before he appears on the screen.

Seems pretty interesting, though there are mixed reviews. I may watch a few episodes and see what I make of it.

This has to be one of the most boring series ever imo.Every week a new char and in the end we will know how they got off the rock.

Hard to come up with ideas, they just winged it. [sp]Watched the latest episode, seems like the 63s return with some substance in their bloods, this also connects with back in the past where they were are taken needles. So, even though the Warden is now dead and all, did he want them gone far in the future to cause chaos? For what worth?[/sp]

Looks like Webb Porter was on, anyone watch it? Also the series finale is [sp]Tommy Madsen, it would be a twist if he never get caught in the end, or possibly he dies and the whole truth to his granddaughter is revealed whether or not Hauser will turn on them in the end, but like Lost, they die before a mystery is solved[/sp]

ugh, sam neil but you guys say it sucks. and [img]http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/02/hot-pocket-ben-linus.gif[/img] he's a genius actor, shut up..... ...........

It's a great show, starting too, you gonna have some haters. derp.

sam neil couldn't make daybreakers good. but it's almost like they tried to make that movie terrible. i fucking watched daybreakers high as shit and still couldn't get into it. AND I'M TOTALLY DOWN WITH THE WHOLE VAMPIRE THING, THEY KICK ASS JUST AS LONG AS THEY DON'T GLITTER.

[sp]Webb is so bad playing in prison, but in the future, he's better then ever. So the 63s were either brought back to be improved in retrospective, properly.[/sp] Oh, Lucy might be a double agent of some kind. If she's the key, but of course, when a character that knows a lot about what happened...we know how it ends. She awakens, and of course next week is the second first season finale. We might not know until then, the second last episode is gonna be a filler to ignore that. Series finale 2 hr special. [url]http://www.spoilersguide.com/alcatraz/season-1-finale-promo/[/url]

Just watched the first episode. It had all the trademarks of JJ Abrams so far.

The previous episode was just a filler, just to start up the finale. Obviously. I don't know if they are gonna make a second season, due to low ratings. Properly already revealed why they were back in the Tommy episode. [sp]It's obviously from the end, that he'll take her to Hauser to be fixed like Lucy, next season if it gets picked up[/sp]

[url]http://www.tvguide.com/News/Alcatraz-Season2-Spoilers-1045375.aspx[/url] Next season spoilers. Beware bear in a liar with a flair in your hair. Edit: It may or may not be cancelled. So we'll see what happens. Anyway, I should go watch Fringe.