They're doing 13 episode seasons, and the entire first season has already been shot. In the unlikely event this becomes a major hit, it wouldn't surprise me if NBC asked for more, but 13 a year is the plan.

So I… think that I liked this, even though it feels even more like an introduction (or a mere whetting of an appetite) than most pilots. All the serial killer stuff was pretty laughably ridiculous, as it almost always is in popular fiction. So I liked the decision to go in a tone akin to fantasy, or of a hallucination.

Also lots of shots of people staring straight ahead into the camera. Though to be fair,  I think that might have been true of Silence of the Lambs as well.

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SyFy is part of NBC/Universal… so what you're saying doesn't make a lot of sense to me (I could be the one who's confused)? Wikipedia says it's produced by Gaumont International Television, but that could be wrong.

I haven't seen The Darkest Hour, but it's outlined here:

Naw, NBC makes good shows quite frequently (like Awake, inconsistent as it was). The problem is, not one watches them.

Thanks for posting that!

The writers referred to Rygel and Scorpius as the smartest characters on the show.

…So what you're saying is you're the resident AV Club expert on this show?

If translator microbes can change how the brain hears language, they could also alter how it sees lip movement… sure… why not… I guess?

@jerodast:disqus Translator microbes, at least to a certain extent, can sense intent. So, because she was trying to mimic what Crichton had said rather than trying to get across the concept of a tree-like substance.

The first half of "Friday" is probably my favorite thing the show had done to that point. But it does kind of fall apart once it has to introduce a conflict and resolve it.

Pilot's got… issues related to being the pilot of the ship. It will hopefully make more sense down the line.

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I like to think of the translator microbes as intelligent beings doing the translation, or at least the equivalent of such. There's naturally going to be some inconsistencies and weirdness. If I had to justify the space swears and space units, it'd be as a space shorthand that wouldn't exist in an unintegrated culture…

"Low" by Cracker was playing during the party scene, so I guess early 90s? I think they were mostly trying to make it vague and nonspecific, which worked for me.

"Low" by Cracker was playing during the party scene, so I guess early 90s? I think they were mostly trying to make it vague and nonspecific, which worked for me.

Not in the ratings, but it gets a ton of press and awards attention and stuff.

If these transcripts are correct, they don't.