Alphas: use a dictionary!

The misuse of words on Alphas is beginning to wind me up. So far we've had synaesthesia, hyperkinetic, and now proprioception, that all jumped out as being totally misapplied. Proprioception is not the sense that someone is looking at you, proprioception is the sense of one's own body. It's right there in the roots of the words. It's about your own internals. It's totally misapplied to use the other way. And when the main guy who is allegedly a really smart doctory type person keeps misusing the words? It makes him look like an idiot. This isn't like Starfleet and warp drive - though once you've invented a made up label you have consistent rules about it or you make your characters look stupid again. This is real words from the real world and they're being wrong wrong wrong about them.

It's possible I'm reacting disproportionately. A teensy bit.
I stopped the episode in teh middle to write this.

Also today I watched one with Peter Wingfield and one with Summer Glau and one with that guy that was a Terminator. I liked the plots that didn't involve evil crazy people. I was kind of frustrated with the one that started with a guy saying he'd never fired a gun. ( Read more... )

Gary's continued assertiveness and competence and being right quite a lot, mixed in with perfectly reasonable amounts of error, I like. ( Read more... )

Okay, so nine episodes in, that's what I'm thinking on. Lots of interesting stuff going on.

But I stopped half way through the episode because they really need to learn the right words.


Finished episode and ( Read more... )

Wait, the announcer guy said 'Next, more Alphas' but there is no more Alphas. My box didn't get it? :-(

Hang on, maybe it was clever and it was one of the eps it has already. There's two left 'New' from other weeks, if they're actually new that would be the whole season. *watches*

Alphas season 1

Have finished watching 11 episodes = season 1 of Alphas.
The we're not who we are ep wasn't very interesting. It pulled threads together nicely but it wasn't much newness. It was good structurally because it reminded all the players and the stakes and what everyone can do right before the big ending.

The final episode ended with a nice scene, I'm just a bit puzzled. ( Read more... )

Alphas took almost all the stuff that made me think it was creepy and turned out to actually be meaning to say it's creepy. Which is kind of a relief. And it's doing murky shades of grey stuff. Which I like. And it did shift around on who the bad guy of the day is, so it isn't all crazy people be crazy danger. Just quite a lot. But I think on balance it's doing interesting stuff. I'll watch season 2 when it happens.

I don't think the show or characters will live in my head much when I'm not watching though. Maybe they would have if I'd watched it every week instead of on catch up weekend. I don't know.