Raul3

The Pilot is already out in OnDemand, also online in abc.com, and all the streaming sites: Hulu, YouTube TV, etc.

We watched it tonight, sci-fi, a lot of mysteries, questions, etc. Yeah, if we have a second season we will be really lucky!

Edit: Official Start Date is Monday April 2 at 10pm

DJariya

I saw it's on Hulu, but it doesn't officially air until April.

I like the promo...."From the network that brought you Lost"

Raul3

I laughed at that too.

But watching the pilot I can see why they decided to go with that line.

DJariya

I watched this today on Hulu. I was pleasantly surprised by it. Has a very interesting concept.

I won't go into detailed plot points since it hasn't officially aired on TV yet, but it's definitely a high concept science fiction serial mystery like Lost.

I noticed it was directed by Rob Bowman, who directed The X-Files movie and many episodes of Castle. I thought he did a good job creating this atmosphere.

I'll keep my expectations in check in see how it goes. But, I haven't seen a high concept serial show that was successful in years. There have been many failures....cough FlashForward, The Event, Day Break etc. etc.

I'm glad the Sheriff is Zahn as supposed to some hunky stud these show usually cast. Zahn seemed to work well with the material.

Raul3

Agree, it's only the pilot but it was good.

And same, keeping low expectations but crossing fingers.

Geofferson

The leading sentence in the show's description above is hilarious.

"Refugees from a war-torn country seek asylum in a small American fishing town, only the country these people are from is America – and the war they are fleeing hasn’t happened yet."

I may have to check this out.

SmithsGuy

How similar to Travelers on Netflix?

dex14

Premieres tonight.

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Inhumans99

I also watched the pilot on Hulu a couple weeks back thanks to this thread and I am definitely in. It could easily go off the rails quickly or just end up quickly pulled from the air due to low ratings but here's to hoping. It is so different from so many other shows out there that I currently watch that I am rooting for it to succeed.

I tend to give shows like this a chance but a high concept show like this may not survive long enough to make it through the May sweeps period.

I watched a lot of the shows DJariya noted in his post but oftentimes I would get less than 6 episodes in before learning the show was cancelled and even if the network let the shows already produced episodes air I usually moved on to something else before finishing things up (the remaining eps that would be aired would often leave the viewer hanging anyway as actions in episodes would be left adrift with no chance of threads being pulled together for a partial resolution of a story).

It is always good when a show that is not another medical/police/law drama or procedural makes it to the air.

RenHoek

We watched this last night and I think I'm in. Just enough twists and mystique to it to hopefully keep things entertaining.

Flatlander

Definitely has my interest and the Pilot moved along at a good pace. Hoping they can keep to a tight story and not lose themselves. So hard for these type of shows to succeed. Do you write for a season story with a hint to season 2 or do you write from the get go for multiple seasons.

DJariya

Now that this has aired, I am interested in seeing how these survivors traveled back in time. I am also interested in seeing the circumstances in the future that led them to traveling back.

And it looks like that Homeland security guy (Jay Karnes) is one of the evil travelers who came beforehand.

Again, this is another in a long line of high concept serialized science fiction shows and for whatever reason they never seem to last on network TV. We'll see how this goes.

DJariya

Whenever these kinds of shows are pitched to the networks, they are usually pitched as a 5-6 season arc.

I recall reading that FlashForward was designed by David Goyer to go 5-6 seasons. Obviously that never happened.

randian

I loved Journeyman and Daybreak. I wish The Crossing great success but I expect it will go the way of those two.

Deftones

So this is basically the 4400 from years ago. Pass.

SmithsGuy

Very similar - especially with the folk who went separately and the possible lets change the future plot ... But enjoyed it enough to give it a try until Travelers season 3.

Orbi-Wan Techno

Good pilot. We’re in...

Fanboy

I liked it enough but Steve Zahn spends the whole episode looking like someone just past the camara farted and he just caught a whiff. It was distracting after 15 minutes and hilarious after 30.

Inhumans99

Okay then, this post made me lightly chuckle. I like that Steve Zahn's character can tell when Sandrine Holt is bullshitting him.

I watched the pilot again last night and yeah...it was one of the stronger pilots I have seen in a while so here is to hoping we get enough episodes for at least a few plot points to be fully or at least partially resolved.

RenHoek

Ratings were pretty low. As much as I liked the pilot, I fear I better not get too attached as it may be just a one season run kinda show.

Josh-da-man

It felt like one of those Lost wannabes from a decade ago... Invasion, The Event, Threshold, Surface, et al.

randian

Other than the timeline (mid 22nd Century) Apex sounds a lot like the Draka from S. M. Stirling's "The Domination of the Draka" series.

PhantomStranger

Decent pilot, though I thought that reveal near the end was too soon in the series. Networks just don't allow characters and narrative development to breathe anymore, way too much plot is advanced on a weekly basis.

I'm in for now.

PhantomStranger

There's more action in this than I expected. I'm liking Natalie Martinez in this show a lot more than the one she was on last year that got canceled.

Inhumans99

Yup, I had to do a double take when I saw her and said to myself that I could have sworn I have recently seen her on TV and then I remembered she was on APB. She is great in this. The week 2 ratings were okay, but considering how low they were for the premiere that does not necessarily bode well for this shows future. Here's to hoping because I am a fan.