That's what they want you to think, subby.

You're telling me that of all the billionaires in the world, not ONE has spent a few million to make a batcave for fun?

I like the show. Therefore, it is sure to be cancelled, so don't bother watching it.

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fark the Alamo.

Biggest disappointment eva

300+ people disappear and somehow their relatives, friends, lawyers, etc. don't make enough of a stink that the public notices. I'm still waiting for an explanation on the show of how that was managed.

mscleo: I like the show. Therefore, it is sure to be cancelled, so don't bother watching it.

i watched the first two episodes.
i was bored.

/And i LIKE Sam Neil.

They just need to send Vicky after all the people trying to break in, he'll take care of em.

miss diminutive: Why in the name of Zeus's BUTTHOLE would you try to break IN to Alcatraz?! I only ask because in your current situation that might be valuable information....MAYBE!

Dude, calm down. You know full well it's not a break in. It's an incursion underwater to re-take an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of US Marines in possession of 81 hostages and 15 guided rockets armed with VX poison gas.

Losers always wine about their best. Winners go home and fark the prom queen.

Everytime I see an advert for that show I hear Eddie Izzard's voice.

AL-ca-traaaaz...

jjorsett: 300+ people disappear and somehow their relatives, friends, lawyers, etc. don't make enough of a stink that the public notices. I'm still waiting for an explanation on the show of how that was managed.

In the early 60's? The government had much less oversight than they do now, it'd actually be pretty doable. Fake papers saying they were transferred to another prison, fake a disciplinary action to justify not getting visitors, wait a few months then claim they died of something infectious and you burned the body to prevent an outbreak. The only real implausibility is the number of people who'd have to be in on it for the coverup to work - I'd think several hundred at least.

I've no idea how they'd explain many of the prison staff going missing, though.

I was to lazy to change the channel last time it came on and I joined it in the middle but what the hell is the plot to that show? Is there some sort of time travel going on? Some sort of ability to change the past or something? I felt like an idiot because it didn't make much sense.

/it was an episode about a dude who took boys out to do "fun" things then murder them

/About one hour from my home in NC.

The female cop has some nice tits.

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Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a "biatch". And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or "shiv", and cut out the biatch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the biatch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria!

I love Vicky.

Wrong bay area historic landmark (new window).

People will believe just about anything if they saw it on TV.

I heard there were lizard people who once took over the earth, and it was on TV too, so it must be true.

9beers: The female cop has some nice tits.



Upon further review, I find your statement to be true on all accounts.

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fark the Alamo.

Biggest disappointment eva

You are a worthless human being. I am using the term "human" generously.

penthesilea: Next you'll tell me there's no Stargate under Cheyenne Mountain.


That was just a government misinformation campaign. The real Stargate is at Area 51.

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fark the Alamo.

Biggest disappointment eva

LOL - I grew up in San Antonio. Back in the 80s the city did a major revamp of downtown and embedded little round bronze medallions of the Alamo on every square of sidewalk. The joke among tourists was to stop, point at the little medallion and exclaim "I found the Alamo!"

The story about the battle fought there makes visitors expect something really big. It was just a little church in a remote outpost of a Spanish territory. Most of the story that we hear as "fact" is bullshiat.

I watched the pilot and was kinda liking it, in that "this is not gouging my eyes" sort of way, then I remembered it's a JJ Abrams production.
I'm not going to invest a couple of months or years only to be shived from the back with bullshiat like Lost.
Haven't looked back since.

/Plus Hurley's shtick is getting old and the chick is slightly less than hittable enough to offset it
//Not even Neill can rescue this garbage

DoblerMeyer: 9beers: The female cop has some nice tits.

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Upon further review, I find your statement to be true on all accounts.

....and I stand corrected (or erected, if you will)

/Still not watching it

I bet it was one person, maybe two, probably hired by the marketing company. I like this show but surely they can do better than planting articles (oh wait, fox)

farkingismybusiness: I was to lazy to change the channel last time it came on and I joined it in the middle but what the hell is the plot to that show? Is there some sort of time travel going on? Some sort of ability to change the past or something? I felt like an idiot because it didn't make much sense.

/it was an episode about a dude who took boys out to do "fun" things then murder them

Don't worry - the audience doesn't know what is happening yet, either. Could be time travel, or suspended animation, or cloning, or anything at this point.

I feel like the format for this show is more sustainable than the format for Lost. Both feature an overarching mystery. But there were episodes of Lost where the characters had nothing to do but hang out at camp, and the mystery was not advanced. In this show, if the writers don't feel like advancing the mystery, they can do a "catch the bad guy of the week" episode to keep the action going. They can mix up the formula by having civilians reappear (new civilians, anyway. There seem to be a couple of the old prison staff working with for the New Alcatraz warden). And, once the cop and Hurley figure out what's going on, instead of chasing criminals, they can chase Boss characters.

Well, they are the type that would want to visit San Francisco, so you can't expect a whole lot from them to begin with...

Oh, you better believe there's a bat cave... (Now with more "Kill da' wabbit")

Hmmm...a show set on an island...created by JJ Abrahms...starring Hugo Reyes...and involving an over-arching mystery and (possibly) time travel?

Spoiler: Everyone's dead and in purgatory. There. I just saved you about 200 hours.

We all know when it's all said and done the last episode is going to explain everything happened inside one of JJAbrams wet dreams and we've just been staring at the inside of his creamed-in shorts the whole time.

Seriously though. Prisoners of alcatraz are coming back out of the blue, hitching rides on the tourist barge, and killing people in san francisco? How about you close alcatraz to tourists (for maintenance, or due to a non-specific terrorist threat or some such baloney) and stop running a convenient boat out there that allows people to mingle with 1960's serial killers?

I guess a bunch of 1960's inmates drowning in the san francisco bay or starving to death on the rock wouldn't make for good TV....

jjorsett: 300+ people disappear and somehow their relatives, friends, lawyers, etc. don't make enough of a stink that the public notices. I'm still waiting for an explanation on the show of how that was managed.

What really irks me about the show is that Sam Neil is absurdly incompetent at his job, and yet by episode's end he's the one talking down to Hugo about growing up.

/The show's alright, but it doesn't have that Bush-era paranoia that fueled the Lost writers and the imaginations of the audience.

ncinerate: We all know when it's all said and done the last episode is going to explain everything happened inside one of JJAbrams wet dreams and we've just been staring at the inside of his creamed-in shorts the whole time.

Seriously though. Prisoners of alcatraz are coming back out of the blue, hitching rides on the tourist barge, and killing people in san francisco? How about you close alcatraz to tourists (for maintenance, or due to a non-specific terrorist threat or some such baloney) and stop running a convenient boat out there that allows people to mingle with 1960's serial killers?

I guess a bunch of 1960's inmates drowning in the san francisco bay or starving to death on the rock wouldn't make for good TV....

Oh, and how do the inmates integrate themselves so well with being 50 years into the future in a city they probably didn't know that well in the first place? And are all of them going to be serial killers...because I have a feeling that you survey the prison population and it'll turn out that most of them have done boring crimes like armed robbery or 2nd degree murders.

Wait a minute. It's the prisoners magically getting access to the present? Are you serious?

I like this show.

After the plethora of "America's Best" contest to be a singer, dancer, pole-vaulter or whatever. Or, dear god, "Please watch me, I am an attention whore with a specific twist", I am ready for something that is at least trying to make me use my brain to figure out what is going on.

If people don't support this type of show, we are all doomed to an eternity of Whitney, Survivor, and Tyler Perry Stares At The Camera.

Approves

Jonathan Hohensee: And are all of them going to be serial killers...because I have a feeling that you survey the prison population and it'll turn out that most of them have done boring crimes like armed robbery or 2nd degree murders.

Wasn't the dude in the first episode convicted of robbing a post office?

ncinerate: I guess a bunch of 1960's inmates drowning in the san francisco bay or starving to death on the rock wouldn't make for good TV....

I don't think all of them are popping into existence on the island. The subject of the first episode did, but the sniper and the child killer from episodes 2 and 3 were apparently out and about in the world, as is the cop's grandfather, with no indication as to the location of their arrival in the present day. There will be some explanation, I am sure, as to why they all return in the SF Bay area, but knowing the show runners it might not be until the series finale.

ncinerate: We all know when it's all said and done the last episode is going to explain everything happened inside one of JJAbrams wet dreams and we've just been staring at the inside of his creamed-in shorts the whole time.

Seriously though. Prisoners of alcatraz are coming back out of the blue, hitching rides on the tourist barge, and killing people in san francisco? How about you close alcatraz to tourists (for maintenance, or due to a non-specific terrorist threat or some such baloney) and stop running a convenient boat out there that allows people to mingle with 1960's serial killers?

I guess a bunch of 1960's inmates drowning in the san francisco bay or starving to death on the rock wouldn't make for good TV....


What the hell are you doing being logical? This is Fark!!! What is wrong with you? Just leave now, go!

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Oh, one more thing, what farking sense does it make to have your super-secret headquarters on an island only accessible by ferry?