Invasion

Alright so I don't even want to go into how lame this show is but whatever. I'll mention positive aspects first. The sheriff thing is sort of interesting - what's his deal? The other "infected" people aren't acting like he is. Is he a leader or something? I sort of wanted to see what's going on in that trailer at the end of the episode. I think Mariel is sort of cool, but I have no idea why. K and that's about it. Stupid stuff - the orange glowing balls of retardedness (a.k.a. the aliens) don't even seem to be anywhere near the plot of the show anymore. All they do is float around and twinkle then water-rape people, thus making them love water (Mariel), smile weird (priest guy), or be all creepy (sheriff Tom). The monkey/virus thing was boring, I mean, geez, they didn't even let us see the freak monkeys get shot. Like, nothing interesting happened the whole episode. Oh no, crazy disease monkeys on the loose. Ranger gets all pissy with Tom, Larkin loses the kids and freaks all night, broken arm kid is all pouty when Kira smooches Mr. Naked, and Tom acts creepy even more. Naked kid coming out of the water was sort of funny though because it was so dumb.

Sorry, but this series lost me after they trotted out the old possibly bodysnatched, maybe alien infected, could be disease-ridden, rabid monkeys, oops baboons on the loose. Invasion had promise in the first couple of episodes, but this was just goofy. My wife and I both snickered and groaned every time somebody mentioned the baboons. Lookout! a baboon's gonna getcha! Too bad, as Shaun Cassidy was responsible for American Gothic, still a favorite of mine, and shortly coming out on DVD at last.

I know this show ends up being canceled after the first season, I think I`m starting to see why. This is seriously slow and it`s difficult to get hooked. If it was not for William Fitchner, I think I would have quit already.

That said, this episode did manage to catch my attention. Some interesting elements and the ending did leave me wondering. It does make me want to see more but I can easily wait, that`s the problem with the show.

The mystery keeps building on and on, specially around Tom and his wife. William Fitchner is saving the show for me at the moment. Hopefully the next episode will be more revealing.

It was interesting, a nice ending but still nothing to get me hooked.

This is a very good episode, we see aspects of the backdrop that's starting to reveal itself. We get see a side of Sheriff Tom Underlay, we wonder if we can trust him. he is a creepy person, we get to see that there's something more to him what we are lead to believe. the thing with the monkeys is a clever ploy. they are not the big problem that we should be worried about. the teenagers partying at the park makes us worry about their careless behavior that might get themselves killed. there's so much in this episode, it's a well written one.

like i said on my other reviews, i think that the director anbd writers are not delivering a good storie, still we do not know what the aliend want or need, the secuence of episodes is the same but with no new information to the viewers. I hope that the show steps up the storie and delivers a better episode so we can understand and enjoy better the show

What I really like about this show is the atmosphere. This includes the subdued performances, the lighting and the solid score. I mean, the very fact that this show is so far reasonably predictable in its plot development and yet it keeps me wanting more is proof of its quality. This is a strong episode on most fronts. I know that some will claim the baboons on the loose weren’t in keeping with the through line of the series so far, but I don’t think that is necessarily the case, and furthermore I don’t think it was badly executed. Community reactions to the show seem to me to be a bit more in annoyance that the show is paced so slowly, not with the actual episodes. I for one can be patient. I’ve seen too many shows jump the gun, I’d rather have a long well thought out show than a show that has to go back to ‘rework’ its hasty decisions. And in a way we really don’t know where the show will go. This slow buildup, yes even the monkeys, could have farther reaching implications than we can guess.



Logically there are a few small issues I have to take with this episode. Searching for these missing baboons in the forest in the dark is pretty absurd, Larkin acts like an idiot rushing out into the night the way she does, and Tom is getting a bit too creepy for people not to have said anything. That said though, Sheriff Underlay is such a fantastic bad guy I really love it. He obviously has his own motives for everything, and as Dave comments in this episode ‘it really is all about control for him’. I can’t help but love how much character oozes from William Fichtner when he’s onscreen. This definately isn’t the strongest episode, but its not bad, and it is building somewhere…leaving me wanting more really is not a bad thing.

I like the cast (Fichtner especially), the characters have some depth and the dialog is good.



Now all the show needs to do is actually tell a story.



They need to start expanding on the pilot by now. All we know is exactly what we knew then and that's not enough. Things glow underwater, people act a bit odd around water, hurricanes cause a mess ...



and that's all she wrote.

This show is beginning to get some pretty bad reviews at this point. Many people are saying that not enough is happening. I think the real problem is that they gave us too much too soon. We pretty much know what is going on so there is very little mystery. People are being pulled into the water and either their DNA is being changed, or they are being replaced altogether by aliens who assume their form. Tom's first wife is the skeleton Russel & Dave found. Sherrif Tom Underlay is an alien (or has had his DNA altered or whatever) and is working to help the aliens invade the Everglades.



Really all the answers have been given already. So there's not much plot left to reveal each episode. There isn't much happeneing each episode because they gave it all to us too soon. Basically, we know pretty much what is going on. All th at is left is to sit and watch the characters discover it for themselves.



The baboon plot really was unnecessary. All it told us is that those who have been "taken/replaced/whatever" have a high resistance/immunity to disease. We learn for certain, however that Tom is not just working with the aliens, but that he is one of them, since he is immune to the disease himself.



My main complint at this point is one that has always turned me off to horror movies in general. In slasher flicks, when a group of people is being killed off one by one, the first thing they do is seperate and then wander off into the woods alone making themselves easy pickings for Jason or Freddy or whoever the heck. In Invasion, people just keep on wandering off into the water. I mean, even in the absence of aliens, aren't there, I don't know, alligators and stuff in the water in teh Everglades? Do people really just dive in and go for a swim when they see strange golwing stuff underwater? Or if they see an overturned camper 20 or 30 yards away? I myself would be saying, "O.K. that's interesting, but I'm staying put and maybe I'll let an uthority know or something." This episode, we see the little teeny-bopper jerk just wander right into the water to check out the lights beneath and lo and behold he's attacked!!! C'mon guys...give these characters some sense of self-preservation if not actual brains.



I'm still enjoying the series. I just hope they add some more less-obvious mysteries to the storyline since they've pretty much already answered everything they've thrown at us thus far. Well, except for what the aliens actually look like...I guess we haven't seen that yet.

I thought the episode was a good filler, but I am still waiting for something to happen. I don\'t feel we learned anything new in this episode, so, while it was well-done, it simply wasn\'t satisfying. Yea, the kids stayed out too late and were in danger or getting some deadly flu from monkeys that didn\'t turn out to have the virus, but come on...

The first three episodes we ok in my opinion becasue they all had something that kept you interested, but this one was just too boring and it lost my attention.

Usually i would pause when going down for a drink or what ever but in this case i just left it running.



I really thik the story line is dragging on too much and they need to start spilling some information and soon or at least make these boring filler episodes exciting.

It did have a few good scenes like when that young guy got pulled into the water, he's obviously never heard the saying (curiosity killed the cat) or when that caretaker was screaming in that shed but other than that not much happened and they didnt really tell us anything new apart from the so called "possesed" humans have a really good immunity to viruses.



Anyway gona try next weeks episode and if thats worser than this one i think im going to have to drop this show from my list, but heres hoping its not.

It’s another week of incremental plot progression and inconsistent characterization, which makes me wonder if this series is going to make it past the end of the year. The story is interesting enough, but it really feels like nothing is happening. Add to that a bad habit of jumping characterizations around like a ping-pong ball, and this is a series on life support.



I don’t want to say that, but like “Threshold”, each episode seems designed around plopping bits of information about the main arc into a given episode and then trying to develop a story around it. In this case, it’s all about how being one of the “possessed” gives a person a powerful immunity response. That’s all well and good, but more needs to be built around it, and the disturbing relationship between step-siblings Kira and Jesse doesn’t cut it.



I’m getting a but concerned about the fact that the writers haven’t dropped any clues as to why some people are “possessed” while others are killed. One easy speculation would be genetics; perhaps those who are killed don’t have something that the “aliens” need to make the “possession” process work. For that matter, all these quotes around the words are an indication of how little we know.



But one thing is certain: Underlay knows exactly what the “aliens” want and he’s using every possible situation to ensure that it happens. He genuinely believes that this is the right thing for everyone. My guess is that the “aliens” need some kind of foothold on the human population and that the hurricane was a cover for their arrival. For all we know, the “aliens” know about something coming, and they are trying to ensure that those in the area survive it.



As interesting as that would be, we’re still a long way from getting any definitive answers, and that’s probably why the ratings are suffering. There’s also the question of characters that change on a dime. In the previous episode, Larkin seemed to understand the value of a secret, even if she wasn’t all that bright in terms of self-preservation. Now, she’s pissing off Underlay even more by forcing him to confide in her and then breaking his already fragile trust. She’s lucky she’s not “possessed” or alien junk food by now.



It’s also too easy for Russell and Underlay to be enemies at this point. I think it would be far more complicated and interesting if all of these people in this extended family had a more complex relationship, much like Russell and Mariel in the previous episode. This episode made it too easy for people to point accusatory fingers at Underlay; it’s better when his motives are more shaded in grey.



Perhaps the worst part is that I liked the pilot. I like the concept. I even think I could come to like the characters a lot more. It’s just that the pacing is so incredibly slow, and even if the story is meant to speed up over time, if the network decides to cancel the series, there will be little return on investment. I hope to be proven wrong on all counts, but right now, I feel like this series is teetering on the edge of the cancellation knife.

The show let on to a little more that was going on. The sheriff does not want anyone into and out of the town. He planted the virus somehow to keep the road blocks up. It will be interesting to see what happens and what the aliens intentions are to the town.

The baboons didn\'t put up much of a fight, they should have used their teeth to bite someone on the bum. C$#p, I need 25 more words. Ok, this show is a rip-off of the \"Invasion of the Body Snatchers\', it\'s ok as a 2 hour movie, but I assume they will drag a minute amount of story over a few months.

FOr a while, this one has been #3 in the new alien-shows for me. (Surface is #1, Threshold was #2) but now I'm gonna have to rethink things.



The sheriff is making the show for me now. Sure, the heavy handed, "Everything will be fine, once you're used to it" speech is geting old, but the more they show us the converts (i.e. the kid that gets swampped by the lights and night and then shows up naked and dazed the next day) the more I wanna know what the heck those lights are. No idea yet, but now, I gotta know.

The are more and more questions asked here. The as progress, in a sense, what the town's lockdown situation was lifted. Obviously we now know that who or what ever in bhind the strange happening wants the town cut off. e also know that some people have been changed. Stay tuned.