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Great, now I have to Tivo this thing just to find out what the deal is.

Woot. I was just kidding about bitching about the ending. I'm very easy to please, and I am interested to see how this plays out. I usually catch it the day after on Hulu on OnDemand anyways, but if it's Saturdays I may end up catching it live.

Fuck I just marathoned all four episodes of this thing and now I find out it's cancelled. Well I guess it's kind of silly to discuss this now but.....what the hell. I found the plot fairly interesting and motivations farily solid as well but the party girls break down bumped me a bit. I mean I was with it until she offered herself up to the "car salesman". I mean I guess I can stretch and say that she was reenacting trauma but even stranger to me was why did he turn her down. I mean days earlier he was trying to rape her.

Um well according to tvguide.com and my DVR menu there is a new episode of this airing tonight at 8:00 so I guess they aren't moving it to saturdays yet.

Not a bad episode. Couldn't stop laughing whle the Car Salesman was getting his ass kicked.

Wow, Ericka just sort of blew into townwith a passion. I like her and her escape attempt. She's in on it though. I caught that look she and Soldierboy gave Joe when he got back from messing up Tom. Now, that could have been a "where's this fucker been right before the door opened" or "what the fuck are you doing Joe" look, and for now, I'm going with she and Soldierboy know more than they are letting on. Her beating up NotCarSalesman was HI-larious. Tori is so not dead. No idea what that means though.

Moria is her name. I remember it by thinking "minds of Moria", if that helps.

Shit, and I just realized I called Tori by her name rather than Barbie. I think I might be a little invested now.

Better episode this week, which isn't saying much. Liked the introduction of Erika a lot. I hope she keeps flipping out and beating people up for a while.

What sorta bugged me was that they didn't at least put that knockout implant in Erika (as everyone else had in the beginning). I can't tell if it intentional (they wanted everyone on the same ground) or unintentional (oops, we forgot about that).

If Joe really does have it for Janet, that's a shitty shitty shitty story. A guy training for how long, having some idea of the psychology of being kidnapped and immediately falls for Janet? That's just stupid.

The unfortunate part regarding Tori's exit is that the signs point to her being dead, but there is enough to leave it in doubt. The show could have taken a lesson from Lost and offed someone (as in bloody, no way they are still alive, death) to up the stakes.

Re mental asylum chick-- what gave it away, when she ended the episode by saying, "i have to tell you something about joe"?

ha just kidding, just felt like making the joke...

Anyway Erika bothers me a smidge, mostly the way those people were dealing with her... who cares if she runs away, why are you running after her?

The show is still far too obfuscated at this point, what 5 episodes in, and tension isnt mounting, or even moving at all... its just stagnant.... and the twists and ending cliffhangers are predictablely repetitive and boring... wow who guessed blondie would die, or joe was in on it?... everyone you say?

And im not a fan of the new dynamic between joe and the cook, and the shows vision of what the behind-the-scenes of this game/world looks like.

that being said, im still watching and will tili see the resolution probably

Are we sure about that? I must have missed that detail. I just figured They let her run into the electric fence.

Well, and it's also stupid how They just seem to put up with it. Since They watch everything, they would know that Loner Joe is "going rogue". Seems to me They'd send him on a taxi ride and bring in another mole to replace him. And will somebody please give Joe a razor?

Not a whole lot to talk about this week. The real world stuff kinda bored me, and will continue to I suppose, unless it leads to Tori coming back. I almost fell in a bit of love with Erika, and then she kinda creeped me out. I'm so torn.

So you find out a guy you know is behind the weirdest kidnapping ever and all you do is get offended, slap him, and storm off? No "WHAT IS THIS PLACE?" or "WHY WERE WE KIDNAPPED?" or "GET ME OUT OF HERE I HAVE TO SEE MY DAUGHTER!"

Guess that's being saved for next week.

I was thinking brainwashing of some kind, then put them in powerful positions like with the Ambassador. But then, I guess he is not brainwashed anymore, or his love for his daughter broke it or something? I'm not sure.

Tom's send off was brutal and surprising. None of the people got to question or torture him for info. Poor Erika.

or not ... i loved that this week began with no one questioning him, and them just chilling in the lobby waiting for him to come down... YEAH RIGHT... this show officially sucks, mcquarrie doesnt know how to write tv, they squandered everything from last week and almost instantly, for no good reason....

And i guess i was the only one who knew when he went in the bathroom he wasnt coming out? The interior cam angle for some reason made me think, someones gonna grab him!

And toms not gone, he'll be back, hes her love interest.

damn it I have completly lost track of the show since it moved to Saturdays.

Oh hey, maybe I am on to something. If Joe fell in love with Janet, maybe that's what weakens the brainwashing? Ambassador's love for Tori, etc? LOVE CONQUERS ALL!!

Yeah, what did he say he was? Whatever it was, it was totally mundane.

Am I the only one still watching? I guess I can tough it out to the finish line, but this show can be seriously stupid. Angela Barragan kinda reminded me of an older Moria.

I'm still watching. I can't give up on mystery shows until they're over. It's a serious disease. (see: Vanished, Harper's Island, Happy Town).

I have no idea what the hell just happened in that episode.

Joe falling for Janet being the crux is so fucking dumb in terms of the story (it wouldn't make sense for a guy like Joe to immediately change direction) and the fact they really never pulled off the Joe-Janet chemistry.

The mystery is nice, but the character development has been garbage.

We quit watching it. My wife is usually a good sport about sticking with these shows to the end, but the last one we watched (Poisoned Joe; Interrupted Italian Funeral) was so goddamned retarded that we erased and deprogrammed it from the DVR.

Oh I guess we did learn another thing last night. If Janet had shot Joe because of the fortune cookie, "they" would not have set her free. I am assuming that it was the fortune cookie setup that got Joe to shoot his guy.

Maybe, but more than that, i saw it as the reason he fell for her.

that was the one good part of the last several episodes, imo

Fuck I just watched this followed by Haven tonight on the DVR.......im in real pain.

UGH

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2...ut-online/8835

God, how retarded. I mean I get that the show kinda sucks a lot, and the ratings suck, and they want to burn it off ASAP, but what fucking sense does it make to skip an episode completely? What percentage of the audience will see that? Or even have any fucking clue they're missing an episode? A very small one, that's for sure. Why not just burn off 2 next week and 2 after that?

Idiotic

Nope no new ep and there won't be one this week either. Football fucked that up.

Episode 11 is on Hulu right now, and NCBs site. I could not find 10. Oh well.

It's kind of a surreal experience, half-paying attention to this show while it's on in the background at work. I started tuning in at the Joe Gets Poisoned episode. I initially found it intriguing because I had never heard of it, and it was a network show that I couldn't figure out what it was about or what was going on within 5 minutes, which is a rarity.

Now I know what the show is about: it's about this group of people that like to hang out together at a chinese restaurant and a hotel. Some of them are servicable character actors, some of them are non-entities. There is also this guy Joe. First he needed a shave really bad, since he was giving me uncomfortable flashbacks to the time I paid 10 dollars to see Terminator:Salvation. Then he got bald, and just looks kinda weird instead.

This dynamic group of people like to spend most of their time arguing about whether or not they like Joe. Sometimes the chick that looks like Liv Tyler likes Joe, but in this latest episode, she doesn't. The girl from Battlestar Galactica never likes Joe.

I can't quite decide if the show is as bad as Heroes, or only 95% as bad as Heroes. I'll be sure to tune in and mostly pay attention during the finale next week. I'll be pissed if after the skipped episode all the characters have different opinions about Joe, though!

To y'all: Should I even bother watching the pilot sometime to see what all this retarded shit was even supposed to be about?

Fuck it said on my Comcast that football..........ehh anyway if you have On Demand they have it on there. Also I don't exactly support torrenting but I really hate watching the 11th episode on my computer and I don't have a lap top to just plug into it.

Watched both eps this evening (ep 10 on demand and ep 11 online with the laptop wire thingy) took me a couple minutes to realize there was more than one town.

I guess the people in the other town were there for a year before something happened to get them all "red carded". I wonder if that'll get explained (or if it did and I missed it).

Everything else is ridiculously bad. Maybe it's the writing that forces the actress playing Janet have to be literally the most alluring woman in world. And that is the biggest of all the character problems. The focus of the show on a character who is a plain mom with a dead-beat husband, who is being played by her PI somehow and unwittingly destroy this worldwide conspiracy.

I'm not sure any actress could pull that role off.

Well cool I figured out a way to watch it on my tv. I can't call this show great but I am compelled to watch it. I mean it's certainly no Heroes.

Well, I've made it this far, and even though it'll probably make me feel a little dead inside, I am going to finish off this stupid, stupid (but so close to being intriguing) show.

Yeah, stupid but intriguing. But then, it's a mystery, it should be intriguing.

I swear to Lucifer, I will fire bomb NBC if this turns out to be purgatory

Joe's comment that they have all the time in the world worried me. And, y'know, people coming back from "the dead".

FUCK YOU!!!!

Okay...well...at least it's over. I guess they were banking on having another season.

Well I haven't watched the finale yet but going by these reactions im in for a world of hurt.