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Season Two Is Great (Spoilers)

posted 9 years ago by StuOz
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When we got to the end of season one I was beginning to wonder if the series could manage a second season...it can...the imagination and acting is outstanding in season two.

Last weekend the storyline involved a "nowhere boy" very slowly turning into stone...a way out show...but guess what...I was totally in suspense right to the end...it totally held me...that is not an easy task to hold a 40something nerd like me who has seen all sci-fi TV shows made in the last 50 years!

Bring on season three!

[–] Kaboom_Its_Roger_Red_Ant 9 years ago

I'm not a fan of most sci-fi shows I try and stay away from ones featuring teenage drama and, for the most part, a lot of Australian TV is pretty weak. I'm really liking this one though. I've found that the story is still going strong, that some parts are still realistic, in a way. When they find themselves in the other universe in the first season, they're basically living in a shack and eating from the trash to survive.

I'm writing a play. It's a cross between Glee and The Road.

[–] StuOz 9 years ago

After my positive comments above, I am sorry to say that season two is now getting a bit too over the top for my tastes.

However, I am a sci-fi fan, not so much a "Magic Fan" or a "Fantasy Fan" so perhaps the show has just moved too far into genres I don't connect with?

Endless footage of the boys running around in the jungle jumping into other dimensions....a cloud in the girl's bedroom, etc....in a way it has gone the way of Power Rangers (2014)....too much action and not enough characterisation.

[–] ibelauram 9 years ago

I thought it was great. I'm a very very Sci fi and fantasy person so I enjoyed this show very much. After watching every single popular sci fi/ fantasy tv show or movie, I couldn't find anything else to watch during summer time, until I found this show. I have to admit, I was a bit hesitant about whether I should watch it or not especially because I'm not a big fan of Filns from other countries than mine (usa), but it was a spectacular job!

After watching the first season, I thought that the second season would be a pile of junk, manly because the whole point of the show was that the four boys got trapped in an alternate universe and since the got out at the end of season one, I thought season two would be pointless... Until I started watching it. I love how the gave Ellen the water power to replace Andy when he disappeared. They got me believing that saskia was going to be the one but they just did a plot twist and gave it to someone closer to the boys and unexpected.

Overall, I think it's a great show and I'm not quite sure if they cancelled it or not, but if they didn't, I can't wait for season three!!

[–] DaliParton 9 years ago

Just finished S2 and while I didn't mind all of the over-the-top stuff, I thought S2 was much more shallow than S1. S1 was high-concept - 4 kids in a universe where they had never existed, a sort of tv sci-fi "It's a Wonderful Life." But S2 was just them trying to figure out how to rescue the lost kid - a pretty basic story that's been a thousand times before. S2 was carried on the strength of the characters (and the actors) but not on the story.

It looks like there will not be a S3, but there might be a movie. I'll watch the movie but I'm glad the show is over.

[–] mpadpy 9 years ago

No one can beat Canadian scifi shows. The only great australian ones I can think off is Farscape. But lots of australians in canadian shows like Fringe, stargate etc and in many movies like matrix which was shot in australia but pure aussie shows are rather lame for some reason. If canada can do it then they can too.. But the british with the exception of dr who is rather male as well, even though they tried with some really great ones, they are not consistent but some are really perplexing and require a lot of thinking to understand it like the prisoner, utopia and such.

There is ofcourse Tatau which is from new zealand..

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