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You mean the cow punching device didn't get you excited? Never seen that used as a weapon in a crime show before. The criminal this week played a Cop on the Cbs show Rookie Blue last summer. But I kind of knew that the show would become predictable after a while. Chase a criminal every week and then catch the criminal , next criminal please. They need to delve into what caused the time jump of all the inmates to 2012 and where are the correctional officers? None of them have showed up yet.
The problem with a show like this is it should have a definite termination time frame. It got strung out with Lost. It would have been better to figure that out at the beginning to have a plan. I'm afraid the same thing could happen here. At the rate they are going now, the show should last nearly three years.
I like the show, and very much liked the recent episode. They are revealing small bits at a time, just like Abrahams did with Lost.
I like the show, and very much liked the recent episode. They are revealing small bits at a time, just like Abrahams did with Lost.
Yep, the bad guy of the week will only get you so far. IMO, you don't Flashforward (pardon the pun) 300+ criminals just to unleash them one-at-a-time on the public. To be honest, I would be in a stupor if I had just taken a Quantum Leap (pardon the pun) nearly 50-years into the future. Heck, just trying to interface with day-to-day life would be difficult since items such as HDTV (forged right past color TV), DVR (blew right past the VCR), microprocessors (pretty much jumped right past transistors too), and broadband Internet (whizzed past AOL, CompuServ and other online communities) didn't exist. Can you imagine trying heat your dinner in Microwave Oven for the first time? Heck, our entire family was amazed when we purchased our first Litton microwave back in mid-'70s. Can you imagine these poor schleps trying to make a phone call these days...good luck dialing LUZon-6735 on a rotory phone and sending a letter without a zipcode for that matter. Of course, back in the '60s we were convinced that we would be crusing around in hover cars come 1999...and not listening to Prince since about his Little Red Corvette. 
Anyway, I'm still interested in the show...just hope upcoming episodes aren't as predictable as the last two.
Anyway, I'm still interested in the show...just hope upcoming episodes aren't as predictable as the last two.
Looks like next week an Alcatraz guard reappears from the past and runs into an old acquaintance , according to my guide information. That acquaintance would have to be very old if he is still around 50 years later.
6 February 2012: Guy Hastings (9:00 PM ET)
"An Alcatraz guard, Guy Hastings, reappears and runs into an old acquaintance."
Don't forget to rate this episode over at IMDb.com: "Alcatraz" Guy Hastings (TV episode 2012) - IMDb
"An Alcatraz guard, Guy Hastings, reappears and runs into an old acquaintance."
Don't forget to rate this episode over at IMDb.com: "Alcatraz" Guy Hastings (TV episode 2012) - IMDb
Good episode tonight...just a little disappointed we didn't get more information from a guard about what happened.
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13 February 2012: Paxton Petty (9:00 PM ET)
"The team uses methods of the past to track former inmate Paxton Petty, who has returned to plant bombs in populated areas of San Francisco."
Don't forget to rate this episode over at IMDb.com: "Alcatraz" Paxton Petty (TV episode 2012) - IMDb
Seriously, was "bomb planting" really that big of a deal 50-years ago? And why do they need to use "old school" methods when we supposedly have so many high-tech bomb-sniffing technologies in use today?
"The team uses methods of the past to track former inmate Paxton Petty, who has returned to plant bombs in populated areas of San Francisco."
Don't forget to rate this episode over at IMDb.com: "Alcatraz" Paxton Petty (TV episode 2012) - IMDb
Seriously, was "bomb planting" really that big of a deal 50-years ago? And why do they need to use "old school" methods when we supposedly have so many high-tech bomb-sniffing technologies in use today?
Good episode, but apparently Paxton has no recollection of how he was flashforwarded almost 50-years. Anyway, I love their "old school" methods by running querries on their super-duper computers. Anyway, a couple layers of the onion were pulled back. 
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IF it was an instantaneous flash forward , then no one would know how they got there. Not the guards and not the inmates. If you remember the first episode the inmate woke up in a cell 50 years in to our present ,still dressed in his prison garb. So to him it was an instant trip over night as he slept. I imagine the Female doctor who was in the past and again in the present ,then shot, has a lot to do with it.
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That sucks! Apparently if it's not American Idol or the NFL nobody is tuning into FOX. They would have a smash hit if they could locate a singing football.
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