Eleventh Hour

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Anyone else watching this?  I just watched episode 2, and that was a very well done mystery story.  It looks like the series is also based on real science and features stories that could happen, even if they haven't.

Anyway, ep 2 was one of the few mystery stories where I didn't have a clue what was actually going on, even though it all made perfect sense.

[bredon7777]

Hows it compare to Fringe?

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

I'd say it's more CSI than X-Files.  It deals so far only with things that could happen today.  Dr. Hood, is, however, a scientist rather than a regular detective.  There is so far no overall plot, and I doubt we'll see any giant conspiracies that reach across episodes.  The characters are let well defined than Fringe, though.  There's only two and Dr. Hood recieves most of the attention, but even then both are an avenue to telling the story rather than the characters that drive it, which also reminds me of CSI.

Personally, I like it more than Fringe, because the individual stories/mysteries seem well thought out and are frighteningly real.

EDIT:  I should add that, while I keep comparing it to CSI, it does not depend on an abundance of psuedo-scientific test and fancy CGI illustrations.  There is none of either.

[daglob]

I watched most of the first episode, around half of the second, and managed to watch all of last night's show. It is decent enough, entertaining, and does pose mysteries that can be solved (provided you have the correct knowledge) by the viewer. Generally, I like it.

I would call it more of an Anti-X-Files, in that seemingly mysterious happenings all have a reasonably mundane scientific explanation, instead of alien intervention. I'm not discounting alien involvement (one of my favorite stories of all time is Eric Frank Russel's "Sinister Barrier"), but I like the way that the "impossible" is rendered "possible" by th end of the story.