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by **TROY** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:18 am

IvCNuB4 wrote:Tomorrow, Tuesday, 10-11PM CST on SyFy

Thanks!

by **KingPagla** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:44 pm

MrBlack wrote:My wife watched a bit of the show and got sick of the constant spectre of grief very quickly.

dairydead wrote:does there need to be?

Strict31 wrote:
Yeah.

If you have a show that is otherwise grounded in normal reality, and then just say, "Oh yeah, this guy is living in two alternate realities at once" then it begs the question: what the fuck is up with that alternate reality business? Because that's not a thing that happens in normal reality.

So, has he just been driven crazy by the loss of his family, and he's fashioned two separate dream worlds in his head to cope?

Or did the Large Hadron Collider explode and shatter reality as we know it?

And this is why the show, as good as it is, will fail.
It's too depressing for people like Mrs. Black, and too existential for people like Mr. Strict.
Large chunks of the audience are gonna get fed up with the "mystery" of which world is real.(if either is or if both, why) and give up watching. Or the writers are going to answer these question which would be jumping the shark.

by **Rockman** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:07 pm

Having a show about "normal reality" where weird stuff happened all the time worked pretty good for Lost.

You may not have liked it yourself, but to pretend like it wasn't popular would be silly.

I know that's not really the argument here. But to attack the premise of show seems off. Obviously there is a market for this type of show, though it's not for everyone.

And Pagla you do bring up a good point. I think the nature of the beast is going to drain people in time.