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12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: July 16, 2014, 9:39 pm
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[center]12 Monkeys (Season 1)
Episodes
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: July 16, 2014, 9:43 pm
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[center]Trailer (SyFy)
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I had no idea that this was even in the works as a series.
Pretty cool. Bonus points for having both Aaron Stanford and
Noah Bean in this. Anyone knows me knows I'm a huge fan of
Nikita. So, to get these two cats working side by side is
awesome. Adding to the awesomeness of the cast is the addition
of Kirk Acevedo and Zeljko Ivanek. Can't wait!
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: January 23, 2015, 11:59 am
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[center]Episode 1
Splinter (aka The Pilot)
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It's only one episode, but I think SyFy finally has gotten back
on track to producing quality stuff on par with Battlestar
Galatica and I'm very happy with what I just watched. It's
definitely the series for me to tune into this season. The setup
(or plot) if you will is still the same: To go back in time and
stop the plague that will decimate the world. But the execution
of how we get there is where things differ drastically from 12
Monkeys
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/>and it's a good thing that it does. I don't want to see a
carbon
copy of the movie. I want to see stuff that hasn't been done
yet. Nothing could be worse than sitting through an entire
season and saying "this is where such and such happens". Where's
the fun in that. I love that they jump right into it from the
start. No setup or overlong explanation of things to come. This
gets you hitting the ground running. The ending of Splinter
pretty much shows you how different things are and how the
series will be forging it's own path from the movie.
If you are a fan of the movie this is based on, or Terminator
itself, or anything related to Time Travel. you're gonna dig
this. There is more emphasis on Time Travel which tells me that
they already have a wider canvas to play with here for the show.
Add in a stellar cast and you can see why my enthusiasm is very
high for this. Even though I was looking forward to checking
this out and even though it's got a couple of players from
Nikita, I still went into this with low expectations given
SyFy's recent track record of producing garbage. I highly
recommend this for sure. I'm on board for as long as this takes
flight. I hope that people tune in and give it a shot so that
the ratings are good and they keep it going. I know, it's only
one episode, but still......
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Mac
Date: January 23, 2015, 1:42 pm
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You are far more optimistic than me.
I have found SyFy now sub-par on every level. Especially story
telling. And with such a complicated story as 12 Monkey's I
didn't even make an attempt to start it.
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Neumatic
Date: January 23, 2015, 2:19 pm
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I am definitely curious. Mac. my friend, you're right to be a
grumpy gus about Syfy channel, they've been lousy for a long
time... I wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt, but after
the president of Syfy mirrored your thoughts, I think I share
Chip's optimism.
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: January 23, 2015, 5:34 pm
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Dude, you both need to check this out. It will make you forget
the dreadful years of sh*t that SyFy has force fed down people
throats for so many years. I actually had to double check and
make sure this was in fact produced by SyFy. 12 Monkeys itself
actually reminded me a lot of Nikita and it had nothing to do
with the actors in it. The look and feel was very reminiscent of
current day and from what we get in the future scenes in the
Pilot, I like what I'm seeing so far. It's subtle for right now.
But I expect it to expand as the series carries onward. There
was one moment in the Pilot that I really dug aesthetically
because it was a nod to a particular camera move from the movie.
I won't say what or where it happens. Gonna leave that to you to
point out should watch this.
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Mac
Date: January 23, 2015, 10:16 pm
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Ok boys, I'll give it a shot.
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: January 30, 2015, 1:32 pm
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[center]Episode 2
Mentally Divergent
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Any worries I had about content and quality of the show for the
second episode are now erased. Yeah, I am definitely on board
for this one for sure. Solid episode and I love that they have
casts Tom Noonan as Pallid Man. He has made a career of playing
these odd, creepy whack jobs. He's gonna fit right in here. I
also like the casting of Emily Hampshire as Jennifer Goines. We
only saw her for a split second in the first episode. But in
this one we get a lot of her back story. For those keeping
score, the Goines character was played by Brad Pitt in the
movie. I like that they changed the characters gender for this
one just for mixing it up. One thing that kept making me grin
from ear to ear in her portrayal of the character is that she
was more or less channeling Ally Sheedy's Allison character from
The Breakfast Club. It was a bit more extreme here since she was
locked up in a Mental Ward, but you can clearly see the
similarities.
Another reason to check out the series is that we get even more
proof they are in fact forging their own path. I love how the
Time Travel mechanize is not perfect and doesn't always send
Cole to the right place or time and in this case it sends him to
North Korea. This little "throw away" scene actually plays a
huge role in the current timeline, allowing Cassandra the
necessary information she needs to track Cole's location a few
years after the fact. Also loved the inside-joke about
Terminator. As they were setting up the joke (which you have to
read between the lines), you immediately think of Terminator and
are wondering if it is a joke. When they get to the "punchline",
you definitely know they are paying a little tribute to
Terminator itself, which was very cool. If you want to know what
the joke is, you're just gonna have to watch it.
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: February 1, 2015, 4:51 pm
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[center]Episode 3
Cassandra Complex
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Pallid Man is gonna be popping up everywhere it seems. Kinda
cool that last week we see that he has a scar on his face when
he was introduced to the viewer and in this one we see how he
got the scar in the "past". This is one of the things I'm really
going to like about the series. So many small, throwaway scenes
come back later in the same episode with the answer. It keeps
you on your toes. So, you definitely have to be paying
attention. Not a show that you can just 'have on'. Cole is not
messing around. As soon as he gets whatever information he needs
to track the person behind all this, he takes you out.
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Re: 12 Monkeys (Season 1 - 2014)
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: February 10, 2015, 12:29 pm
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[center]Episode 4
Atari
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Kind of a trippy episode and executed pretty well. So far,
everything has been primarily set in the Present Day in 2015.
But in this one the marjority of it was set in two different
time frames in the future. One was how Cole and Ramse come to
"join" the gang of thieves and the other time frame was set
during the Time Machine era. This episode was one giant loop
where Ramse is executed, along with everyone else, but not
before Cole could go back in time and basically rewrite his
future by altering the outcome of their deaths. What was
fascinating to see was that everything had already happened and
he was basically listening to it all and would come to find out
that he was the one that gave the bad guys the secret entrance
to the compound and the bullets he heard killing his brother
were in fact his own. Hard to explain and not make it sound more
confusing than it already seems. Just watch it. It's good.
Also...I like Romina D'Ugo as Max. I guess you could call her
another Nikita alum. She didn't have a big role in that series.
Just a couple of episodes.
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