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Almost Human: Welcome to the Future

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11 wakey wakeyAlrighty it’s time for the much awaited start of Almost Human, a show I have been hearing about for months. My husband and I are both sci-fi nerds (we go to conventions, it’s really awesome or embarrassing depending who you ask) so I included some of his thoughts (by thoughts I mean things he shouted at the screen- anything coming from him is in Bold so you can’t blame me for those). I’m a little annoyed that this show’s premiere has been pushed around and finally landed in the middle of Sunday night football, but hey what do I know about programming demographics… Anyway,  let’s start the show! The year is 2048 – science and technology experienced a rapid evolution (uncontrollable even!) unknown drugs and weapons flood our streets and schools (unknown? Does that mean like, aliens dropped them down onto our planet? are we going to explore this or are we expected just to go with it as a premise? SO MANY QUESTIONS). the crime rate rises 400%. And every police officer is partnered with an advanced combat model android. (yes they say every police officer, take note of that, it’ll be important in about 20 seconds) I highlighted the important bit- You’re welcomeI  don’t know, 35 years from now? Is that possible? – please note my husband is grumbling already and we’re still on the black text screen, we haven’t even seen any of this mysterious technology. I’m willing to assume a lot can change in 35 years since 35 years ago we didn’t have the internet. Call me an optimist. Open – hey it’s Bones from Star Trek! He’s in some sort of fire-fight. Yes 1 second into this show and people are falling out of windows, bullets are flying, stuff is exploding, we’re in a JJ Abrams universe all right. Can you tell he’s a no-nonsense cop just looking for answers?Bones shoots a guy that has a bar graph tattooed on the back of his head. It’s hard to miss. Probably not a good guyWe hear over the radios that someone names Pelham is down – Bones appears to have a partner (teammate?) that’s a robot. The robot doesn’t think it’s worth the risk to try to save Pelham. The robot dude is then almost immediately shot in the face – take THAT Debbie downer… Bones is going rogue so he makes it outside and finds what appears to be his friend bleeding next to a police car. A robot dude is suggesting the friend would not survive (oooh Pelham is his partner.. so he doesn’t have a robot partner? Weren’t we were just told everyone has a robot partner?) Bones partner isn’t going to survive, so anonymous robot tells John not to waste time trying to help him. Bones tries to make a run for it anyway in a slow-motion action movie kind of way, there’s a big explosion and we get to see his leg has been blown off. Awesome. (that’s bad).Someone emerges from the […]

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