<Invasion looks to be heading in a more self-contained episode direction.

I read somewhere that self-contained stories like Law and Order or X-Files tend to do better in reruns. The theory is that folks can pick any episode and know exactly what is going on.

In serialized story lines, people need to be familiar with the characters and what happened last week.

Serialized plots may be more interesting, but they don't tend to do as well in reruns.

Interesting, isn't it? I hadn't considered that before.

CBS may be looking as much to the future as to the present.

Everyone is entitled to my opinion.

LAST EDITED ON 09-29-05 AT 00:30 AM (EST)

>CBS may be looking as much
>to the future as to
>the present.

I think that only works if CBS (or some other Viacom division) is one of the production companies (I have no clue of that's the case for this show.)

I like this better than Threshold. Something about sea monsters over aliens. Maybe they are alien sea monsters, who knows. It's entertaining anyway IMO. I Can't wait to see where the storyline goes.

Having seen the first two episodes of both now, I also think that Surface is shaping up to be the more interesting show -- at least to me. But that's not to mean that Threshold sucks, it's just not as compelling to me right now. But neither of them (nor Invasion) are currently anywhere as good as Lost started out last year.

Isn't Surface the one that showed a grandfather and his grandson who were night fishing somewhere in Central America watch objects fall from the sky and into the ocean? If so, I think they are defintely some type of aliens.

Yep, that's the one. Then Grandpa predicted "good fishing" tomorrow because shooting stars signify luck to fishermen, I guess. This signifies foreshadowing to me. Maybe grandpa and the kid have a fatal or close call with the sea monster in a later ep?

Maybe... but I'm also thinking that it might have just been a one-time throw away scene that helped foreshadow the more basic idea that sightings were coming in from all around the world... an idea that they picked back up on at the end of Ep2 when they showed the worldwide sightings map. I'd probably be surprised if we see the grandpa and grandson again.

The interesting thing is that NBC ran a radio commercial around here yesterday that said something like the fate of the world is in the hands of "three people" -- and something like "they don't know it yet."

If so, who are they? Lake Bell's character and the Gulf Coast guy would seem to be two of them -- what, is the kid who's keeping the little ET in his house going to be the third? I wouldn't think it's Lake Bell's character's son.

I saw a TV commercial that identified the thre you mention as The Three--Marine Biologist lady, Gulf Coast fisherguy, and the ET kid, who has named his ET "Nimrod."

Btw, Surface's ratings fell off quite a bit in its second episode, dropping it's viewership numbers down below the double-digit 10 million mark and actually down to about 8.9 million viewers. It finished third among both viewers and Adults 18-49 behind Wife Swap and CBS' sitcom block.

If it wasn't for the fact that only about 2 million viewers separated first place from third place and that except for My Name Is Earl, the rest of NBC's new shows have also failed to light the world on fire, I'd start to worry a little. Two shows that should worry are Arrest Development and Kitchen Confidential -- neither broke 4 million viewers. Arrested actually seems to somehow be doing worse on Mondays than Sundays. Fox already had the first cancellation of the season (Head Cases) it might soon have the second (Kitchen.) At least I don't think anything else has been canceled yet -- I could be wrong about that.

I like this show so far. I like it better than Threshold which I have already quit watching.

It's pretty spectacularly cheesy so far.

Someone tell me they noticed that two different actresses portrayed the "mom-who-noticed-the-fish-were-gone" in the first and second episode. It's bugging the crap out of me who it was in the pilot, any suggestions?

I thought she looked different between the two eps, but I guess I didn't care enough to worry about it. Mostly I was looking at the fish tank. As totally clueless parents, Change-a-Mom and her hubbie are kind of funny. Not really funny, but almost.

And yes, this show needs more meat and less cheese.

This show is starting to have a "Close Encounters" feeling with the drawing of the hole bit. I'm still liking this show. I loved it when the sea creature ate the girls dog. Had to laugh eventhough I knew it was coming.

If anyone missed any episodes, they are replaying them all starting tonight 7:00-11:00 on SciFi.

Well I have finally had it with this show. It was less and less appealing as it went. And we could see the puppy being eaten coming from a mile away. I think my big problem is I really don't like any of the characters. I can't stand the female lead and I was actually hoping she would be killed when she got out of the boat. That was when I knew I had enough of this show.

My daughter watched with me last night, and she really liked it.
She's decided that the creatures are dragons, and even brought out some dragon books to prove it to me. I have to admit the little one looks just like the dragon hatchlings in the books she has.
It's good fun, not as scary as the others.

I wasn't impressed with Threshold at all, couldn't even get all the way through the first episode and haven't watched it since.