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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Wednesday, April 04, 2018 - 4:09 pm 
Anybody else? I thought it has potential. They're pushing it as a new Lost. So far I like it. We'll see where it goes.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, April 04, 2018 - 4:44 pm
I liked it! I thought I knew what it would be like, but it surprised me. Looking forward to seeing more.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Wednesday, April 04, 2018 - 11:19 pm
It was good. From the previews I thought it would be a bit like the show where the people came back from the dead, but it has a lot more than that. Good cast too.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 1:59 am
It kind of reminds me of "The 4400". I'm intrigued....but I wish that woman didn't have super powers so she could jump 75 feet and out of a second floor window. We see superpowers like that in almost every new show these days!
Maybe I'm just old, but I'd be happy with good writing and a great story more than yet another show about people with superpowers. Superpowers just can't beat an unpredictable story with great characters.
I don't see how this can be compared to Lost, though. The big draw with Lost was the huge mystery of the island. We already know the premise of The Crossing. (Even the 4400 kept us guessing for a few seasons!) My guess with this one is that these people who showed up here in the present will turn out to be the origin of the mutants who want to take over the world in the future. Could be a good show, but I'm not expecting any huge mystery.
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 5:53 am
I saw the first episode and it looks interesting. It's on my DVR so I will see what happens. It could be a very good show.
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Spunky
Member
10-07-2001
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 8:54 am
Sanfran, I feel the same, the topic is so deja vu however I am curious to see if there is a more interesting spin to this time travel and if they can explain how they travel, could they also go back into the future, and how and when did they start to change the DNA to create super humans (for once it's not robots).
It's going to take several episodes to give us an answer and I'll be patient if they can keep my attention.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 10:44 am
It seems like a fairly intriguing show. I'll keep watching.
They are big on advertising it as being by "the creators of Lost". I have a love/hate relationship with Lost. It was one of my all time favorite series but I found the ending to be very unsatisfying. Too much was left unresolved and unexplained and it just didn't fit together well.
Of course, it doesn't mean that this show will be like Lost.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 11:58 am
I liked it, will keep watching for now.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 12:19 pm
I'm okay with super-powered humans. It seems a fair leap considering technological advances.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 12:42 pm
I was interested that they evolved to not eat meat.. Or not from live animals.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 1:15 pm
They may have just run out of it or it became too expensive.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 2:28 pm
Yeah, I hope they explain the evolution of many things!
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 3:53 pm
"and how and when did they start to change the DNA to create super humans"
We know that there are now people with superpowers who traveled from the future to the present. These "super-people" must have altered genes or something. If they breed with present day humans, it could conceivably (in time travel fiction, anyhow) result in future generations that evolve into the evil mutants of the future.
Yeah, the future war is only a few hundred years away but with fictional DNA from the future, I'm sure hybrids can change drastically in just a few generations. 
And I wouldn't be surprised if we learn that women pregnant with hybrids will have babies that grow up super fast and maybe even have super short gestation times. They do that a lot in shows like this because they don't want to have a huge time jump of 25 years to get an adult hybrid character to carry plot lines. Come to think of it, that's exactly what they did on The 4400.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 4:13 pm
I knew you were out there, SFJF! I was thinking this is your type of show! 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 4:35 pm
I also thought of SFJF while watching this.
I always appreciate your insights on these shows!
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Thursday, April 05, 2018 - 6:49 pm
I thought this looks interesting...then saw it say from the producers of LOST...nope! not going to go down another rabbit hole with them
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, April 06, 2018 - 6:32 am
LOL I don’t blame you for that, Pamy. I don’t want to waste my energy there either.
Unless things change a lot and they introduce some very complex mysteries, this show doesn’t seem much like Lost at all. In fact, it seems pretty straightforward.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Saturday, April 07, 2018 - 8:12 am
It has potential but I was a bit put off by the superhuman stuff. We’re recording it for now and will watch a few more shows to see how it goes.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 07, 2018 - 8:31 am
I agree about the superhuman powers, but it was pretty awesome when she went through that window! 😎
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Spunky
Member
10-07-2001
| Saturday, April 07, 2018 - 6:11 pm
I think the superhuman spin is what kept my attention, time travel was just too much deja vu, but the new breed of humans is an interesting twist to this popular time travel theme.
Someone here said that we're already starting towards that scenario, I admit we do have technology that can replace missing legs or arms and it's getting better and better with the robotic tech to help workers lift weights or for repetitive tasks, then we have cybernetic tech and nano tech, and even microchips implanted in the hand (in Sweden they love it) even if it has high security risks since they can be hacked and privacy no longer exist, there is talk of even implanting the chip into the brain, and there are already some humans who called themselves cyborg because of such implants and do not consider themselves 100% humans anymore (this is not sci-fi, it's happening, an Italian documentary on this opened my eyes, I couldn't believe it). Ever heard about the term Transhumanism? Well, many people believe it's the near future. Sure, they also talked about a chip that would read our thoughts and that is coming very close to fiction, but it's in the works.
So, that aspect of the series is fascinating and it's quite possible that in the future it's no longer robotic, cybernetic, nano or other, but DNA manipulation and that's too close to horror sci-fi, but I hope this series is just mystery sci-fi...
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Saturday, April 07, 2018 - 8:21 pm
We decided to give it a few more episodes but so far it doesn't seem particularly fresh, new or innovative.
Lost was such a good show for the first few seasons. Very disappointing later and an anemic ending.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, April 08, 2018 - 9:11 am
I agree. Lost was brilliant until it wasn't.
I'm still giving this one a chance though it being advertised as by the "creators of Lost" isn't much of a plus for me.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Sunday, April 08, 2018 - 9:35 am
and honestly they did the same thing with Once Upon a time, imo
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Sunday, April 08, 2018 - 1:40 pm
Lost was brilliant until it wasn't.
Agree 100%, Jimmer. Although I don't think I'm as bitter about the ending as a lot of people were. It is what it is. I enjoyed watching it for many years and won't hold it against them if the ending was not what I expected. Life is too short.
Pamy, I'm with you on OUAT. I've been a faithful fan since the beginning, but this year it took a left turn with the introduction of all the new characters and the new location (Hyperion?). I've gone back and forth about dropping it, but now that I know this is the last season, I'll stick with it till the end.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Sunday, April 08, 2018 - 2:04 pm
Babyjax,I was going to do the same but I just dont care about any of them anymore.
Jimmer's line ...I also totally agreee!!
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