I'm definitely not a professional critic, nor a professional writer, but my opinions on Alphas & Misfits follow...
I've only seen the pilot of Alphas so far, it seemed ok. It was good enough for me to see how it develops which, now days, seems like all most pilots are able to do. I've watched the first five episodes of Misfits; I would say the pilot was not the best episode of the bunch I've watched, I would give that honor to Episode 5. To me, Misfits feels a lot like UK Skins with superpowers. Instead of a school, they are in a court mandated work detail. It is also not as racy as UK Skins, but does have some of that. The relationships and psychology of the characters are the focus, much like UK Skins, rather than the powers themselves. Both Alphas & Misfits represent to me, so far, as what Heroes could've been. I hope neither falls into what Heroes became. -- David Risner Software Engineer MERLOT, California State University On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:11 AM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > I've heard it said that the show was of a kind with Alphas, which premiered > last week in the U.S. on that channel formerly known as Sci-Fi. Alphas is > also on Hulu. From what I've seen of the pilot, it's okay, didn't really > grab me. I'll have to check out Misfits to compare. > > David > > ________________________________ > From: David Risner <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 12:36 PM > Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Too Good To Be True > > ps: Hulu is running the UK show Misfits which, in my book, is just > fantastic. > > -- > David Risner > Software Engineer > MERLOT, California State University > > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:41 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> We have a 2 disc plan and decided to keep the discs and stop steaming. >>>> I saved my queue page as I see that people who opted for streaming >>>> only already have lost their queues. I'll go without streaming for 3 >>>> months and then decide if it's worth the money to get a streaming >>>> account. >>> >>> Why did you change now? I thought there were keeping the status quo for >>> current subscribers until September 1? >> >> I haven't changed yet. If changing the plan now will lower the monthly >> rate to $12 I'll do so quickly, if the rate will stay at $15 no matter >> what, I'll wait until the end of August. >> >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
