[vikingchick]

Any comments? I'm finding it crushingly boring myself. But I'll tune in tomorrow for the next episode, just in case this first episode's snoozefest is a fluke.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Lame. Boring. Goofy. Pointless.

I turned it off.

Would have preferred if they'd just ran with a Monday night Stargate-a-thon.

I was just mentioning, in another forum, that SciFi is pulling a 'MTV':  it was cool when it started, then it peaked, and now it just sucks.

[Swordmaker]

He pays homage to the grays but changes the Boy Scouts into a generic "pioneer scouts" - That is grating.

[Reagan Man]

Enough about the fictitious aliens of Steven Speilberg's imagination. Speilberg needs to do a miniseries on aliens crossing the bordering and illegally entering the US. Now that would be an important endeavor.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Being on the Sci-Fi Channel email list, I have been inundated by emails urging me to watch "Taken", so I had to take a gander. I ordinarily like science-fiction, but this was just plain confusing. I found it hard to distinguish between the different families and some of the male leads (aside from Michael Moriarty). I tried my best to pay attention, but I just don't know where they're attempting to go. It looks good from a visual standpoint, but it's too bad they didn't bother to make it better story-wise (and clearer) and more compelling acting. *Sigh* Give me any episode of the original 'Twilight Zone' any day for top-notch writing and production (with the added bonus of grainy black and white helping a creepy atmosphere).

[sonofatpatcher2]

Tobe Hooper may have directed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but it is evident he never has been in Lubbuck, Texas. I've lived in Lubbuck several times and I never saw any part of it, or the Panhandle, that looked like the ranch/farm shown in the series.

Otherwise the production was high standard, but I was somewhat disappointed in the initial episode's plot. Still I will give it a chance to do better.

[judgeandjury]

"It's the coolest thing that I've ever seen," says Tobe Hooper of the series.

I think Tobe Hooper is cool for saying that he thought that the series was cool, and it was cool of him to share his cool opinion with the cool reporter, who included Tobe's cool statement in the cool article so that all of us cool FReepers could read it and share it with our cool families, cool neighbors, and cool co-workers. Cool, I think. Or maybe not. Who cares?

[Caipirabob]

This may sound wierd, but I tossed this around in my mind... Do I want to waste my time in front of the ube subsidizing someone I find detestable, or spend time focusing on my family instead? It was a no brainer. I'm glad I didn't miss anything.

[KeyWest]

SiFi cancelled Farscape but put this on? Their programmers have a problem.

[avg_freeper]

The only entertaining program I've ever seen on the Sci Fi Channel was MST3K. And they dumped that a long time ago.

[Movemout]

I'm sure that I am not a fanatical sci-fi fan but I enjoy a good sci-fi show. This hasn't been one so far. I fell asleep after the first hour. Maybe it gets better.

[7thson]

I was thinking about watching this and then I started reading the reviews. All the reviews gave it a thumbs up but pointed that the main villian is a military man. I thought - typical. So, I am not going to watch it. Like someone stated in another post - why subsidize someone whom I find detestable.

[kidd]

I watched it. Not bad. Might be tough to make it through 20 hours though. Sheesh.

[2sheep]

There sure is a lot of media hype lately for aliens and Roswell.

[chilepepper]

I'd say Spielberg's science fiction tend to be his worst:

i found 'Close Encounters" and "E.T." to be rather boring and suspect these are in the same league...

for alien abduction movies, i can't think anyone can top the movie Fire in the Sky which i found terrifyingly believable and nightmarish...

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Dull, slow, cliched.

Home Shopping had a more lively lineup.

[mgc1122]

Boring is an understatement. It was deadly dull.

[Publius6961]

But I'll tune in tomorrow for the next episode, just in case this first episode's snoozefest is a fluke.

Definitely a slow start.
The editing is jarring... and they will "character develop" the audience right to sleep.

[scoopscandal]

Gosh...I guess I'm the only one who liked it.

It's definately slow, epics don't usually take off running. I'm going to save my judgement until the end.

Best Regards,

[scoopscandal]

I should have added...did you get a chance to catch any of the alien X-Files episodes on Thanksgiving?

I thought only running the alien episodes was fabulous.

This whole alien/ human hybrid concept is fascinating. If I'm not mistaken, this same thread is going to run through Taken...and I'm very interested to see where Speilberg takes it.

I thought the sepia tone cinematography was beautiful...when that girl was at the crash site among all the burning debris, where she recovered that unknown alloy...that huge tree in the background, where the alien was hiding, with the smoke all around it, the color was so rich, it was beautiful, I thought. Then again, I sometimes am impressed by the strangest things.

I also found that the male characters are much more handsome than the women...that was odd, I thought.

Best Regards,

[dljordan]

Like yourself, I'll tune in one more time. I think most people who weren't familiar with the story would be confused about what's going on when. I kept switching to the Wings channel more and more because I was bored.