Phase Six
- L’episodio è andato in onda il 12 set 2014
- TV-14
- 44min
Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaCO CDR Tom Chandler and his crew find themselves in a whole new world when the ship's scientist passenger, Dr. Rachel Scott, reveals that the entire planet is in their hands.CO CDR Tom Chandler and his crew find themselves in a whole new world when the ship's scientist passenger, Dr. Rachel Scott, reveals that the entire planet is in their hands.CO CDR Tom Chandler and his crew find themselves in a whole new world when the ship's scientist passenger, Dr. Rachel Scott, reveals that the entire planet is in their hands.
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- QuizThe sun as the first shot of this series, is a tribute to the 1980 film "Virus" (Fukkatsu no hi (1980)) that opened in the same way.
- BlooperThe OOD reports they only have 11% of their fuel remaining, only enough for 6 more hours even at best conservation speed. This would mean that even at best conservation speed, a full tank would only allow them to operate for 54 hours. This is utterly ridiculous. A Destroyer can go a couple of weeks at cruising speed without refueling.
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XO Mike Slattery: We haul ass from here, we can make it back for the Series.
CO CDR Tom Chandler: You don't really think the Cubs are still in it.
XO Mike Slattery: It's the weakest division in baseball. We were six games up when we left.
CO CDR Tom Chandler: Yeah, that was June. And they're the Cubs.
I was surprised I'd heard so little about this program ... it's a big-budget, post-apocalyptic military science fiction series, but none of my fellow horror or sci-fi nerds mentioned having seen it.
The plot setup seems like something that would please horror fans -- a virus eradicates 80 percent of the world's population, and a lone American naval vessel elects to remain at sea. (They're fortunate enough to be carrying a civilian virologist who was tasked by the fallen United States government to develop a vaccine.) And there are hints that the show's writers would do well scripting a frightening TV series -- there are a couple of nice flourishes for a serialized horror show right here in the pilot.
But the story's horror elements are minimized in favor of a more mainstream, safe-for-general-audiences techno-thriller. And that's not a bad thing, because it succeeds as a such. The show is based on a 1988 novel by William Brinkley, and it's produced in cooperation with the United States Navy. (The destroyers U.S.S. Halsey and the U.S.S. Dewey stand in for the fictional U.S.S. Nathan James.) It seems smartly scripted with respect to both virology and how the military works. I'm barely literate in either of those subjects, but what I watched seemed coolly authentic, and that entertained me and held my attention. So while I might not recommend this to fellow "The Walking Dead" fans, I'd definitely recommend it to fans of Tom Clancy.
The directing is pretty good, the story moves along quite quickly, and the action scenes in the pilot are surprisingly ambitious and effective for a TV show.
The acting, I suppose, is average -- though it's always fun seeing Adam Baldwin on screen, and the square-jawed Eric Dane seems well cast and shows promise as the ship's commanding officer.
The dialogue and character interaction are average at best. This isn't high art when it comes to human storytelling. There are some pretty predictable character tropes, and a few exchanges are so cheesily melodramatic that they nearly insult the viewer's intelligence. Dane's commander faces off, for example, against a beautiful, independent, female scientist who doesn't like following orders ... gee, I wonder if we'll see any romantic tension there?
Still, this looks like a good enough show, if its pilot is any indication. The good outweighs the bad, and I'm glad I heard about it.
- ericrnolan
- 11 giu 2017
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- Data di uscita
- Paesi di origine
- Lingue
- Luoghi delle riprese
- RMS Queen Mary - 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California, Stati Uniti(Italian cruise ship)
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- Tempo di esecuzione44 minuti
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