New BBC scifi series - Outcasts

NeilF · 7 Feb 2011 at 13:26

Hope it's better than Survivors... Which was fairly average generally...

Let's hope we get some good writing this time!

Cosimo · 7 Feb 2011 at 13:29

It starts tonight on BBC1 at 21:00:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x8fw4

NeilF · 7 Feb 2011 at 13:36

^ fingers crossed!

Castiel · 7 Feb 2011 at 13:38

I liked Survivors.

Hopefully it won't be as dire as Earth 2....

predator70 · 7 Feb 2011 at 13:38

looking forward to it.

sarge78 · 7 Feb 2011 at 13:42

Castiel said:
I liked Survivors.

Me too! Can't wait for this

atpbx · 7 Feb 2011 at 13:52

How awful do we think this is going to be?

The Deep awful? or just Dr Who awful?

BunnyKillBot · 7 Feb 2011 at 14:10

:/ Doesn't sound very sci-fi to me, the 'about outcasts' blurb makes it sound like Lost

NeilF · 7 Feb 2011 at 14:14

Castiel said:
I liked Survivors.

Hopefully it won't be as dire as Earth 2....

Surivors was OK, but generally it all felt a bit too safe and PC. The writers missed the entire subtle premise of the original series, and seemingly instead thought they were writing episodes from 24 or something. Worse still, you then had too many of the characters doing stupidly daft things so you ended up with unbelievable characters then in unbelievable situations. It was OK and watchable, but I always felt it missed the mark somewhat...

Anyway, let's hope Outcasts isn't as poor as the recent BBC remake of "The Triffids" which was really let down by its writing!

NeilF · 7 Feb 2011 at 14:15

atpbx said:
How awful do we think this is going to be?

The Deep awful? or just Dr Who awful?

The last Dr Who I watched was the X-mas special, which - for all its total daftness - I actually really enjoyed

Demoniser · 7 Feb 2011 at 14:36

Seen the adverts for this over the past few days, not expecting any miracles, but saw that Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama/Apollo in BSG) is in it, so ill be giving it a watch.

Antar Bolaeisk · 7 Feb 2011 at 14:47

atpbx said:
How awful do we think this is going to be?

The Deep awful? or just Dr Who awful?

Nothing could ever, ever be as bad as 'The Deep'.

Neil79 · 7 Feb 2011 at 14:52

BBC? wow i'll be prepared for more crap then

Meridian · 7 Feb 2011 at 16:24

BunnyKillBot said:
:/ Doesn't sound very sci-fi to me

It's set on another planet. That's about as Sci-Fi as it's likely to get.

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mrk · 7 Feb 2011 at 16:48

It's supposed to have lots of Sex in it according to my newsreader app.

Giggidy.

Cosimo · 7 Feb 2011 at 16:51

Neil79 said:
BBC? wow i'll be prepared for more crap then

You might be pleasantly surprised.

Cosimo · 7 Feb 2011 at 17:00

Khaaan! said:
It's supposed to have lots of Sex in it according to my newsreader app.

Giggidy.

You'll be better off watching Boardwalk Empire if thats what turns you on.

JBod · 7 Feb 2011 at 20:13

Probably not worth bothering, going to be a typical BBC series.

6 episodes... just getting into and the series ends... wait wha?

DJ_Switch · 7 Feb 2011 at 20:53

Keeping my fingers crossed for this series and hoping it's going to be substantially better than The Deep. That did leave a bad taste in the mouth so hopefully they took the criticism of that show on board.

Azza · 7 Feb 2011 at 20:56

Think I'll watch this and hope for the best...