yudd Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 what human abductees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 They talked them burrowing in earlier episodes. Going down to the Earth's mantle and this releasing heat that began dramatically altering the climate (falling weather balloons). It's possible that the plan goes beyond a simple restart of life. It's conceivable that he's trying to radically alter the climate of Earth in preparation for something else. The series has a lot of interesting questions still to be answered - what did Kessler find in that crater in Asia? What's his end game? What's going on with the lizard kid? How will things turn out? Possibly the thing I enjoyed the most about the show was the fact we had a marine biologist and a crazy insurance salesman running around the country, trying to work out what the hell was going on. They managed it without either one of them suddenly gaining incredible martial arts skills or character shields. That for me was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 2 day 6 hours later and I'm still downloading! DAMN! I'm at 85.6% though so I'm not giving up. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str82u Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 And another thing... You know, Jackson's an unknown at this point. This sucks. The website doesn't offer any consolation either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 3 days and I'm at 94.9% of having all 15 episodes. :stare: As for Jackson, Rich saw his picture on the monitor. Not sure if the company is keeping him hostage or if he's actually working for them. hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yudd Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 he is working for them, he cut the rope that sent them to a freefall when they were in the sub and he got off the boat, but i cant expllain the shell casings they found o nthe boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 what human abductees In the first episode, the entire crew of a missing sub had vanished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 I've been rewatching the series since I downloaded it, and I had forgotten that one of the missing sub's crew washes up on the shore of Madagascar in episode 5. He is naked and covered in strange lines. You know he's a crew member because he has a tattoo that says "USS Topica" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str82u Posted March 4, 2006 Share Posted March 4, 2006 I had the same impression as alot of folks, they anounced that they had a season 2 coming and that they would wrap with a season finale, and if that's as far as it goes, then I picked the wrong show to back. Matter of fact, I'm gonna start a new topic on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 Here's an interesting TV Guide interview with Surface cocreator Josh Pate. I was going to just post the link, but it only seems to work when accessd from the TV Guide site. Surface: Burning Questions Answered! by Matt Webb Mitovich, originally published February 14, 2006 Talk about making a splash: Surface, NBC's freshman sea-creature feature, signed off last Monday with a finale filled with lots of tidal waves and slithery beasties  if not satisfying answers about what exactly is going on. TVGuide.com had the pleasure of picking the brain of series cocreator Josh Pate by hitting him with some burning questions (including, yes, "Will Surface be back in the fall?") TVGuide.com: Was it always the plan to have all the principals finally unite in the first-season finale? Josh Pate: Yes. Yes it was. We always wanted to 'cross the streams.'" At first NBC gave us a full pickup, and then they gave us this weird 15 [episode] order, so where the finale fell was changed around, but we always wanted the characters to start to interact in the culmination of Season 1. TVGuide.com: The multiple-tsunamis: scientific fact or just fascinating TV-show fiction? Pate: One of the guys on the staff wrote that scene so I'm sure he dug it up somewhere, but... we always call it "Crichton science," meaning that as long as you stay in the kind of Michael Crichton, getting-dinosaur-DNA-from-amber world, you're OK. TVGuide.com: Were the sea monsters responsible for the catastrophic tsunami, or were they just taking advantage of some totally tubular waves? Pate: Their digging weakened the mantle of the earth's crust, so that's what made it slip. There was an intention behind releasing the creatures into the ocean, but the creatures themselves are just like termites  they just do what they do. TVGuide.com: Regarding "Iderdex," which doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, is it official: have all the good-sounding corporate names been trademarked by real-life companies? Pate: Yes. You get these lists of names that are acceptable to the legal department, and after you come up with your cool thing, it gets blown up by lawyers, whoever they are. Iderdex is the best that was available. TVGuide.com: Where are all the monorails going? Pate: To the bottom of the ocean, Marianas Trench. TVGuide.com: Is Martha Plimpton's character really dead? TVGuide.com hearts her! Pate: I have some ideas about where I could take the character, but it's still in the formulation stage. But she is definitely not in a good place. [Laughs] TVGuide.com: On a 1-to-10 scale, how satisfied were you with the CGI effects for Nimrod? He's certainly a milestone TV character. Pate: I was satisfied to a 10 with the special effects, but every time we had one, it'd be kind of abandoned because we'd run out of time. There was never any consideration given to the fact that were not Law & Order or Ally McBeal in that no one ever said, "Wow, this show is almost animated in places, we need to give them more time in post[production]" to get the effects exactly where we want them. But as the season went on, we built a bigger and bigger library of Nim's movements. At first, one Nim shot would take two weeks; by the end, they could churn it out in 24 hours. The sad thing is that we always wanted to show more of Nim, but [there is a conflict of opinions with the network]. TVGuide.com: Is there a firm or semifirm plan in your mind for a second season, should NBC decide to pick you up? Things seem to have finished up at a breakneck pace. Is there any steam left? Pate: Definitely. We're just getting started. To me, this was the epilogue to the ongoing story. We kind of hinted at Kessler, the guy behind all of this stuff, and his emergence is the centerpiece of Year 2. With genetic engineering, you can pretty much engineer anything you want. We have a lot of options and there are a lot of things we want to play, for sure. TVGuide.com: Were you appreciative to last the season, albeit a shortened one, while so many other new series  Threshold included  got the hook so speedily? Pate: Well, I feel like we had the ratings to do it. We were never really on the bubble in the sense of "Will we get pulled?" It was more, "Will we get renewed? Will we get a pickup?" It never got radioactive, like, "Oh my god, they might not air the last five episodes." TVGuide.com: As our Watercooler editor put it: "For the love of all that is holy, what has become of the talking monkey girl?" Pate: She's still out there, and I just hope she can swim! TVGuide.com: Are there any developments regarding the second-season pickup? Pate: That's not until May. The ratings built the last three episodes and I think that happened because... NBC didn't schedule us like a serial, sequentially, like how Fox runs 24 and Prison Break all in a row. After a five-week break, we came back on January 2, then they aired two, we got preempted by the Golden Globes, and then they aired three and we were done. TVGuide.com: If you are picked up, is there a chance NBC might bring you back earlier than the fall? Pate: I don't know. Maybe if we get picked up, they'll run us in repeats as a summer series to kind of reset for next year.... That's possible. We got their attention with the numbers on the finale, and NBC doesn't have a lot of 8 o'clock shows in development, so we're keeping our fingers crossed. TVGuide.com: What about a juicy tease for Season 2? Pate: Really, there is this kind of uberbad guy to the whole piece that has only made, like, fleeting appearances, and his presence is something we have always seen [as central to the story]. We've always viewed this series almost like a big sci-fi novel, when the main thing that the novel's about really starts to emerge in Year 2. Additional reporting by Chana Shwadlenak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa420 Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 I thought Surface was the best new show this season. I definitely enjoyed more than Invasion and I could only watch one episode of Supernatural. I wonder how it's doing on itunes? Perhaps the writers could put something online that at least explains the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesireal Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Has anyone heard anything about a season 2?? If so please share news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 NBC's fall schedule won't be up for another month. We shold know then if it's coming back or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Well, it's over kids. According to NBC's new fall lineup, Surface will NOT be returning. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 And I thought it was going to. Ah well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meateater Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 I don't share your views on "Surface". I was intrigued when viewing the first few (5 or 7) episodes, but lost interest afterwards. The same for "Invasion"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Invasion had its season finale last night. Looks like it is also its series finale as ABC has cancelled it. Bummer since it too ended on a cliffhanger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Got my DVDs in the mail today. Hopefully some of the bonus features will give insight to what would have happened if we got to have a second season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratboy Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 No great extras on the DVDs. There are some deleted scenes and a short behind-the-scenes featuring interviews with the cast and crew, but no commentaries, nothing about a second season storyline. Bummer. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDE Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 What ever happened to this show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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