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Post by gremlin on Feb 22, 2011 14:55:53 GMT 1
Has anyone been watching the new BBC science-fiction series Outcasts? The first few episodes were a bit slow but it's got better as it has gone on and I'm really enjoying it now. Last night's episode was awesome. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x8fw4
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Post by futurepredator on Feb 22, 2011 21:21:41 GMT 1
It's a good show.
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Post by gremlin on Feb 22, 2011 21:23:57 GMT 1
The one thing I'm worried about is the series ending on a cliffhanger because I don't think it'll get recomissioned.
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Post by futurepredator on Feb 24, 2011 22:48:21 GMT 1
I agree. Nothing gets recommisioned these bloody days.
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Post by mrthermopreacher on Feb 24, 2011 23:11:11 GMT 1
I quite like this show, i like how after Doctor Who and Primeval we've got this show where something like this could actually happen in around a century.
I'm adding it to Doctor Who, Primeval, Robin Hood and Merlin in the Pantheon, proving British TV isn't dull since 2005.
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Post by gremlin on Feb 24, 2011 23:35:18 GMT 1
What do you guys think Julius is up to?
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Post by mrthermopreacher on Feb 24, 2011 23:41:31 GMT 1
Apparently Juliet Aubrey is in the next episode, maybe they're having a Primeval crossover. Berger is Helen's new Leek. ;D
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Post by gremlin on Feb 24, 2011 23:48:38 GMT 1
Apparently Juliet Aubrey is in the next episode, maybe they're having a Primeval crossover. Berger is Helen's new Leek. ;D I know, I saw her in the next time trailer looking very Helen-esque. ;D The next time trailers are really annoying. They don't really show anything apart from a series of random 1 second clips from the episode. Also, what do you think the bones were?
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Post by AC on Feb 25, 2011 21:55:52 GMT 1
Apparently Juliet Aubrey is in the next episode, maybe they're having a Primeval crossover. Berger is Helen's new Leek. ;D I know, I saw her in the next time trailer looking very Helen-esque. ;D The next time trailers are really annoying. They don't really show anything apart from a series of random 1 second clips from the episode. I prefer that sort of next-time to the Primeval sort. Primeval's teasers really give too much away. In fact, I avoided all the teasers this series, and have been much better without it - everything is a surprise.
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Post by mrthermopreacher on Feb 25, 2011 23:05:51 GMT 1
Apparently Juliet Aubrey is in the next episode, maybe they're having a Primeval crossover. Berger is Helen's new Leek. ;D I know, I saw her in the next time trailer looking very Helen-esque. ;D The next time trailers are really annoying. They don't really show anything apart from a series of random 1 second clips from the episode. Also, what do you think the bones were? I know, they look weird, they aren't in the same resolution as the actual show. It looks like they're showing screenshots from a blockbuster movie.
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Post by gremlin on Feb 27, 2011 15:35:55 GMT 1
The next episode is on tonight since it got moved to Sunday nights because of poor ratings. This basically means there is zero chance of a second series, and I can't see them tying up all the loose ends in three episodes. If there's a cliffhanger at the end of episode 8, we're screwed.
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Post by mrthermopreacher on Feb 27, 2011 15:55:03 GMT 1
The next episode is on tonight since it got moved to Sunday nights because of poor ratings. This basically means there is zero chance of a second series, and I can't see them tying up all the loose ends in three episodes. If there's a cliffhanger at the end of episode 8, we're screwed. That's a terrible shame. It seems like an interesting show, and aside from Spooks, what will we be looking forward to in the 9:00 Monday timeslot when this is gone.
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Post by mrthermopreacher on Feb 27, 2011 22:54:45 GMT 1
I don't think i can watch it tonight, but i'll watch it on iPlayer soon.
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Post by Seanchaidh on Feb 27, 2011 23:43:44 GMT 1
Questions:
Am I the only person who thinks Outcasts is running with the pace of a novel rather than a TV show?
Am I the only person who sits and goes: ooh, they've nicked that from Dune (the "whiteouts" and the ACs (like the Fremen)/Dune Messiah (Pak)/Primeval (Juliet turning up/Odd fossils in odd places)/Battlestar Galactica (the slight Cobol feel to the planet/the primate/human fossils)/Lost (the weird hallucinations)?
Am I the only person sitting here going "how did you pick your scientists for this colonisation trip? Where are your Botanists, Zoologists, Ecologists, Meteorologists, Chemists, Geologists, Physicists? What good exactly are a Neurologist and a Geneticist in this environment?" all the time?
Other than that, I'm liking it though. Especially Cass and Fleur.
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Post by gremlin on Feb 28, 2011 16:25:21 GMT 1
Questions: Am I the only person who thinks Outcasts is running with the pace of a novel rather than a TV show? Am I the only person who sits and goes: ooh, they've nicked that from Dune (the "whiteouts" and the ACs (like the Fremen)/Dune Messiah (Pak)/Primeval (Juliet turning up/Odd fossils in odd places)/Battlestar Galactica (the slight Cobol feel to the planet/the primate/human fossils)/Lost (the weird hallucinations)? Am I the only person sitting here going "how did you pick your scientists for this colonisation trip? Where are your Botanists, Zoologists, Ecologists, Meteorologists, Chemists, Geologists, Physicists? What good exactly are a Neurologist and a Geneticist in this environment?" all the time? Other than that, I'm liking it though. Especially Cass and Fleur. I did think the pace was slow in the first few episodes, but I think it has sped up alot in recent episodes. And tbh the only shows you mentioned above that I have seen are Lost and Primeval. They haven't really stolen anything plotwise from Primeval though, and I'm hoping Outcasts doesn't turn out like Lost and end with more questions than it started with. I hope the hallucinations etc are explained by the end of the series. And I presume there are other scientists working offscreen that aren't really needed for the episodes' plots. I agree that a neurologist/geneticist isn't the most useful of professions on a new planet but it was basically a plot device to use the deep brain visualisation, and Stella is turning out to be useful in discovering what's going on on Carpathia. And tbh I find the Cass and Fleur scenes quite annoying.
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Post by mrthermopreacher on Mar 2, 2011 18:07:09 GMT 1
I know that they'd say it'd be ripping off Primeval but one thing i'd have liked to see is this. Those early Hominid fossils on Carpathia were a thousand years old right, whereas on Earth they lived millions of years ago. So they could have had prehistoric creatures appear on Carpathia, not Dinosaurs of course, but you could have the team discover Smilodon, Mammoths and Terror Birds sieging Forthaven.
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Post by gremlin on Mar 2, 2011 18:42:55 GMT 1
I know that they'd say it'd be ripping off Primeval but one thing i'd have liked to see is this. Those early Hominid fossils on Carpathia were a thousand years old right, whereas on Earth they lived millions of years ago. So they could have had prehistoric creatures appear on Carpathia, not Dinosaurs of course, but you could have the team discover Smilodon, Mammoths and Terror Birds sieging Forthaven. Well, it's unlikely that those creatures would evolve exactly like they did on Earth but they could have had Carpathian equivalents. But maybe the mysterious force living on the planet wiped them out like it did to the hominids.
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Post by Seanchaidh on Mar 2, 2011 22:44:07 GMT 1
Anyone slightly worried that Juliet Aubrey might be getting typecast...
Primeval: mad missing woman turns up with shady agenda all dressed up in brown fatigues with hair in distinct need of a wash.
Outcasts: mad missing woman turns up with shady agenda all dressed up in brown fatigues with hair in distinct need of a wash.
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Post by gremlin on Mar 2, 2011 23:20:55 GMT 1
Anyone slightly worried that Juliet Aubrey might be getting typecast... Primeval: mad missing woman turns up with shady agenda all dressed up in brown fatigues with hair in distinct need of a wash. Outcasts: mad missing woman turns up with shady agenda all dressed up in brown fatigues with hair in distinct need of a wash. Yes lol. She plays the part well though. I thought she was quite creepy in Sunday's episode of Outcasts.
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Post by mrthermopreacher on Mar 3, 2011 22:29:19 GMT 1
Does anyone else think that Rudi and Patrick Quinn would make a good pyschotic double act.
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Post by futurepredator on Mar 4, 2011 18:38:02 GMT 1
Does anyone else think that Rudi and Patrick Quinn would make a good pyschotic double act. Hmm. I smell a fanfic.
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Post by mrthermopreacher on Mar 20, 2011 5:20:55 GMT 1
I've just had a cool interesting idea. Outcasts and Primeval can be reconciled into the same universe.
In the future of Primeval, the anomaly catastrophe damages the Earth, endangering humanity. They set up a space programme to create a fleet of colony ships that will send thousands of humans to a planet in the Goldilocks zone, Carpathia, so Humanity can survive the destruction of Earth.
Also cloning technology exists in both Outcasts and in Primeval. The cleaner clones are created in the Future, and in Episode 1, Cass shows Stella a cloned piglet.
CT-1 arrives on Carpathia and the colonists are overjoyed to find that there are no anomalies on the planet, so far. In Episode 1, Kellerman gives Tate news of Earth, "anyone still down there is not having such a good time of it". Meaning that the anomalies have rendered Earth sterile.
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