Right... The hotels are totally fine with accepting someone bleeding with a gunshot wound without calling the police or ambulance if they are accompanied with someone. That makes total sense.
I have watched the movie, long ago. I don't remember specifics about it so in many ways I'm approaching this fresh. While I enjoyed this, there's a high body count on episode one. I guess the intention was to demonstrate that 'fixing' the issue is not going to be easy. Pull one thread and something else appears, previously hidden.
The way he showed her the scratch appearing on the watch has me extremely worried about this show but it's been recommended enough for me to keep going. Hopefully it all makes sense.
Such pandemic days, seeing another pandemic
AFter i finished season 1 of medium series, i came here. I watch series season by season. So, after finishing season 1 of this, i will move to another series.
I chose 12 monkeys because i needed to watch some different science fiction.
I hope i can enjoy.
EPISODE REVIEW
I did not watch movie. I like the intro. It is exciting and there are lots of action.
Seeing Kirk Acevedo as José Ramse is good. I know him from oz and arrow. Nice actor.
That 2 years from 2013 to 2015 is not shown. Must be really hard for cassandra
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starting the series with a gud feel
I'm predisposed to think that a television version of Terry Gilliam's stellar 12 Monkeys (1995) is a horrendous idea. After all, where do you go from the conceptually flawless and necessarily self-contained film? But there is no denying this is a solid episode of TV.
Where 12 Monkeys (2015) succeeds is dispensing with many of the elements that would be frustrated for viewers of a serialized thriller. Because the audience knows that Cole is a time traveler according to the logic of the plot, both Cassandra and Goines being convinced of this fact is not annoyingly belabored. But this and many other alterations to the plot of the original film also dispense with the most thought provoking themes of the 95 version.
For the film, paramount concerns were the circularity of time, the impossibility of altering such a hermetically sealed circularity, and perception versus reality. Unlike the plot-oriented narrative expediencies the TV series employs, the film makes a great deal of calling into question whether Cole is sane. Did he, in fact, travel through time? Or is the future just a hallucination? The audience is unsure, just as the characters who encounter Cole in the "past" are unsure. Additionally, those who watched the film know the army of the twelve monkeys served as an enormous red herring. While Gilliam delivers a taut, fascinating plot, the crucial point is that the plot has already unfolded once before. In Gilliam's universe, even Cole's time travel is accounted for in creating the apocalyptic future.
Those who posed questions about the logic of time travel in the 95 version (there wasn't much of a logic other than to serve the thematic provocations) are those who "missed the point(s)" of Gilliam's masterpiece. And it is precisely that audience for which this television series seems tailor made.
In the first episode, Cole weaponizes paradoxes, has a clear understanding of what it would look like for him to change the past, and is cast as a clear-headed, sane individual. Rather than foregrounding the meditations on time, sanity, and cinema that Gilliam is concerned with, the TV series is riddled with exposition and sci-fi rules to make sense of how the plot will proceed. Plot, then, as opposed to substantive inquiry, is the primary concern of the TV series in its first episode.
Still, I did enjoy what I saw. Although my gut impulse is to reject a lobotomized version of the brilliant 95 film, how the TV series works with plot remains fascinating. Because the plot seems poised to diverge with that of the film quickly and all of the themes of the film have been forcefully jettisoned, I anticipate a number of other philosophical concerns to emerge in the context of this series. If it turns into a substantively bankrupt, soulless thriller, I might abandon the series. But as of now, I give it my qualified approval.
Nossa perfeito, é o tipo de série que eu me amarro igual Orphan Black cheio de mistérios e teorias.
os personagens protagonista são bons, ainda mais sendo o Cole interpretado pelo Aaron Stanford o Birkhoff de Nikita.
História que tem Vírus apocalíptico dificilmente é ruim, mas tem a exceção de The Last Ship, lixo que só fica a história se passando no mar e num navio da Aeronáutica, super sem graça.
Shout by knarf3BlockedParentSpoilers2015-01-24T20:18:25Z
First of all, I've never seen 12 Monkeys the film, which makes it infinitely easier for me to judge the TV series with an open mind.
The pilot episode is really well done. It's always tough to do a pilot episode, because the showrunners need to cram a lot of information but still be able to set a compelling narrative. This pilot does that. The viewer gets the big picture and feels the high stake from the beginning.
I've read some reviews complaining about the supposedly convoluted timeline, which misses the point, because works that deal with time-travel is supposed to be messy. And really, so far into the series, anyone can keep track of the past, present, and future events.
The pilot, of course, is not perfect, like the much too convenient NSA contact Railly has, but Schull and Stanford's great chemistry helps the viewer to shift focus away from the elements that aren't great.
Very eager to see the next episode!