Paradox 1x01 HDTV XviD-FoV

from tvrage: if you could see the future, would you change it? that

well i love tamzin outhwaite, and sadly the fixer low hopes of being renewed.

not necessarily... both seasons of the fixer so far have only been 6 episodes, and there was a fair
gap between the 1st and 2nd seasons so plenty of time for her to do both.

i love that actress from the fixer, as she's a great actress and amazingly hot... but the storyline
for paradox was the most predictable dribble i've seen this year. after the solar flare footage,
once the images came through, i knew exactly what had happened (solar activity looped transmissions
back in time somehow). i'm not even finished with the episode yet so i could be wrong, but i know
i'm not because it's too obvious. the middle 40 minutes of the premier was just a waste of time for
me as i kept thinking "no!!! it's obviously not an attack, and it's not staged by dr king..." etc.
the show has potential because i'm thinking after this first episode they'll know what's possible
and stop making stupid assumptions.

what was with them showing us each image over 20 times, like when they objects finally fell into
place after we had seen them a redundant amount of times, it flashed back to the picture, just in
case we are retards. then all the images flash before the crash, so we retards can think "we saw
that before!!! it's all falling into place!!! yes!! yes~!!!!!!!!!!!!" .... not

/bitch

*edit*

just finished the episode, and i think i was wrong. they still have no idea what's causing it, even
the solar physicist can't posit that the transmissions were coming from earth and being chronically
shifted by the sun's em spikes.
i don't have much hope for this, even as much of a sci fi lover i am.

great idea, poor execution.

glhf

sobering and methodical sci-fi/police drama. a slow, building pace which plays out more like a sci-fi novel
(with little bits cut out to make room for 59 minutes of programming) than like traditional sci-fi television.

definitely not for everyone, but i liked it. has potential to turn into something really stellar by the end - not
that most would want to stick around for that. but this episode's climax was certainly made with an
explanation point, and got my attention. with so much tv sci-fi so willing to take the easy way out, i'm
actually grateful to see something that does not. likely means episode one will serve as an exposition for
the rest of the series, which means that in theory, things can only go up from here.

interesting...looking forward to see what's next. loved the music score. :d

unless the entire six episode series takes place over the span of 36 hours, i believe your "prediction"
about the cause of the temporal anomalies, which is sending the future signal into the present, to be
incorrect.

warning - potential spoilers ahead

while i will not completely throw out the possibility that the solar flares may ultimately play a part in
things, it is looking less and less likely, that they are. do not be surprised if ultimately, the entire solar
flare angle turns out to be nothing but a red herring; a plot device designed to throw off viewers who
are used to seeing the same tired old plot conventions repeated ad nauseum in 99% of what passes for
science fiction in television and cinema. given what real science currently knows about solar flares and
prominences and other solar activity, and their effect on earth's van allen belt, it was already a far
stretch at best to connect the solar storm on time travel (or more accurately in this case, temporal
projection) to begin with.

at the beginning of the episode, we discover that the solar storm activity is taking place over an 18 hour
period, with a 36 hour window to have side effects on earth. by the end of the episode, a lot more than
the initial 18 hour flare activity has come and gone - looking at the events that take place during the
episodes denouement, one could assume as much as 24 hours have passed since the initial 36 hour
solar effect window was introduced into the storyline. leaving between 12 to (at absolute most), another
18 hours worth of window for of potential solar side effects to produce the temporal anomalies, which is
sending the future signal into the present. assuming everyone goes home at the end of the epi, gets in 8
hours of sleep, some down time, plus the commute from and back to work, before discovering the
second temporal transmission, your 36 hour window is almost completely eaten up. while that works out
fine to include the transmission that leads to episode two into that 36 hour window, it does nothing for
episodes three, four, five and six, which at an estimated 24 hours each, all fall well outside of the initial
36 hour window to receive further transmissions from the future.

in order for the solar activity hypothesis to even hold water beyond the second transmission at the end
of episode one, some miracle of script writing is going to have to occur to explain why a solar storm
predicted to last for a mere 18 hours, wound up lasting an entire week.

and if it turns out that it is something more than just a solar storm creating the conditions for the
temporal transmissions, then there is a lot more going on in this show than you are currently willing to
give it credit for. personally, i hope there is more to it than just solar activity. as you pointed out, the
solar activity angle is so stupid obvious, that it is insulting to the audiences' intelligence (as about as
insulting as the first season of kyle xy, wasting 10 episodes to finally share with the audience that kyle
was a genetically enhanced clone . . . something that anyone could have guessed in the first fifteen
minutes of the first episode, when the audience discovers that kyle has no belly button).

i'm crossing my fingers that the entire solar thing was nothing more than to black out the lights,
telecommunications and the gps, ultimately explaining why the truck driver was on the wrong road
leading up to the catastrophe in the first episode, and that there is a real mystery at work as to what
has led to the temporal transmissions from the future. which is kinda where they left things at the end
of the episode anyway. my bet is that it is either god, skynet or cobra (a terrorist organization, bent
on ruling the world).

to spare my keyboard... i'll just say: this is crap !

looks good just found out that this show is only 5ep long, but looks good .

thanks for the upload.

unfortunately this show is crippled by sophomoric writing and abysmally bad acting.

!!!!!! spoiler alert!!!!!

do not read if you haven't watched and want to! you have been warned!

you know what's faster than a car? a radio. why didn't they call the local cops to get to the
underpass. speaking of which why didn't they have the road under surveillance or even more logically
why didn't they have a road block on both sides? it's lazy, lazy writing is why. as soon as they
identified the location any person with half a brain would have closed down the road. if this is the
pilot episode and the writing is this unimaginative then there is no hope for the show.

i also intensely dislike the actress playing the lead. she only knows one emotion; surprised anger.
in fact she ruined "the fixer" for me when they started focusing on her character. it went from
being an exciting man's show about espionage and violence to being a "west ends" clone with guns.
now she's ruining this show too.

dinky production a 13yo might slap together and throw on youtube, but he would not get too much
credit for the effort, even from the youtube crowd who obviously don't have high standards to start
with.

i'm being nice here..

hey worpe----change your name to warped
i thought the show was excellent.

watching this show is like what the bipolar scientist does: - stareing at the sun -
...painful, uncomfortable and it will leave you marked

at least we are tickled by the melodic accents and the charming british smiles.... 🤮

solar flares? nah red herring. the last scene on the show proved otherwise. "download initiated" d/l
images then complete and disconnect. this was a manual download ie by someone extra terrestial or
not, but live download, no solar flare could do that. show could be more intriguing then expected, just a
question how long they draw out the mystery.

yeah, it wasn't all that bad. not much of a budget, obviously, but let's see how they continue it...

slight surprise when things did happen; i sort of expected them to prevent it. on the other hand,
this leaves the possibility that they will be the ones sending the images --- on the other hand, it
would require them to fail all missions.

maybe it's a story about them being stuck in a loop; they have (will...) figured out how to send the
images back, but haven't been able to break the cycle. on the other hand, why would image set #2
arrive after event #1 has happened?

either way, with only five episodes i don't think we'll be seeing 5 failures and then "the end" on a
black screen. which is going to be interesting, since it raises the good old question "what happens
to the images if the event is prevented, which means the images were never taken, which means they
haven't been sent back, which means nobody prevented the event..."

the show is called "paradox", after all.