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Whoops, my attention drifted away at about 30 seconds. And I didn't even really notice until it ended. Guess it won't be snagging me.

And: LAST!

I love it when the first two comments on any thread have completely divergent sentiments or conclusions. And look! One of them is The Most Huggable Commenter of 2010, Snuggiepants the Deathbringer!

Wow, they certainly turned around and made Skyline 2: Blue Collar Brains Suckers' Tour pretty damn fast.

i also drifted away and started thinking about buttons, of all things.

Noah Wyle? What the fuck, what, John Hodgman wasn’t available?

big sf fan here so this is just the kind of show i like or want to drool over but....this is so meh. noah whatever has as much life in him as toast. it seems trite but i suppose i'll give it a try and hope it overcomes the usual pitfalls: bad acting and weak writing. sometimes a show does get better. having said that, i don't think i'll be going back to v or the event. how dull.

I figured the next place I would see Noah Wylie would be as a cast member on Celebrity Rehab. Did anyone see the "Librarian" shows? Dude is perpetually stoned.

Buttons.

NEVER RED.

RobP! Snuggiepants' Favorite Person!

It's an official title.

Well, I liked Noah Wyle in ER but...

Enough and
The Librarian

There is the Spielberg factor, but I just Netflick Instant-ed Seaquest and that show did not hold up as well as I remembered. Jonathan Brandon must have manipulated my teenage hormones.

Basically, what I'm saying is that I would be willing to download a free first episode from iTunes, but considering Lonestar has still gone unwatched I don't think that means much.

And Im TELLING you..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7JgiZ81vmY

And tell me LATER, if you want the rest?
Just don´t ask Dustin first.
He´s already like..."oh, swedish popculture", that´s SO october..I´m into "uganda" now.

I drifted off as well. There's something about Noah Wyle that makes me stare listlessly into space. However, I came back in time to concot a little list of things that will ground your series before it's even taken off:

1.) Children retelling events, especially in the form of terribly drawn pictures and vague descriptives.

2.) The word "epic."

3.) [Actor] who looks like a poor man's [Actor]. (In this case, Noah Wyle as a poor man's Christian Bale channeling Terminator Salvation.)

The preview looks...confounding. My gut tells me to keep 10m from this shit, but the first 4 episodes of The Wire told me the same thing, in a different way, (despite all the "best show ever' chatter. Which, BTW, I now know it is.)

I love me some good SciFi, but for me it normally comes in the form of comics or novels. See: Y: The Last Man and World War Z and The Walking Dead.

Whatever you think about zombie fiction, aliens always seem more, well, alien to me, and they never seem as resonant as a horrifying supernatural plague started right here on Earth.

Aliens aren't real. The Zed are lurking on our porches, clawing at out turnstiles, and finding their way into our cruise ships. And they don't have even have LASERs.

God forbid the undead discover the LASER.

"...the show will focus on the characters’ humanity".

And that’s when you know that IT WILL BE BORING. Every time they try to focus on characters – nothing good happens. They destroyed it with V and Flash Forward and even Heroes when they spent most of the time on those boring characters and their boring problems that no one cared about.

I actually hate it when they start to showing family problems of main heroes in Law and Order series or SCI. I don’t care about it. I just want to see the solving of crime.

Here too. I don’t care about problems of Noah Noah Wyle (who looks terribly miscast here). I don’t want to sit 35 minutes and watch his whine and sad life story. And then 7 minutes of alien invasion. Just show me how they survive apocalypse.

I saw the First Look at Falling Skies when I saw Harry Potter this weekend. This will get a chance on my DVR.
Someone mentioned The Librarian with Noah Wyle. I watched all 3 on TNT. Must admit I totally loved them in all their cheesiness. I'm not so secretly hoping they make a fourth, and now I know why there hasn't been one yet. It seems Noah has been busy.

For the one millionth time:
Why do aliens want to invade our planet?
Why do they look like bugs?
What government on their home plant can approve this kind of invasion budget and not be kicked out of office?

Actually, most of the resources available on our planet are available in some form in much greater quantities (think asteroids for any precious metals) without any need to fight for them.

Which would also be amusing, if we noticed spaceships zipping around mining and harvesting bits of our solar system and doing their best to avoid eye contact with the small blue dot full of loonies.

@twig: I got it. High five?

Actually, that would be a pretty clever way to do an alien invasion story. NASA eventually starts noticing that asteroids, moons, whateverthosethingsare in the Kuiper Belt, are inexplicably losing mass and then an amateur astronomer (if this were a Michael Bay movie) sees glimpses of alien ships taking off/landing on these space rocks... blah blah blah... Humanity unites to try to defend their galactic backyard, pushing the aliens further and further back to their home planet, and eventually we become the invading force.

Huh. I may have to steal this...

@TWIG
I can´t even begin to compose a decent sentence,being from sweden and all.
Just a bunch of words I learned from Police Academy/Squad, John Hughes and Mel Gibson.
Don´t worry about it...dude.

If Im gonna lawyer up about aliens, there would be a tedious discussion about probabilities, and I don´t have the tools to make it entertaining...so f*ck that!

I love Starship Troopers! The movie, not the book. I get where the book's fans are coming from, but I just dig Paul Verhoeven and I loved what he did with that story.

"The only good bug is a dead bug!"

I've not read The Forever War, but based on the writers who've blurbed it on Amazon, I should rectify that.