Alice Digsit I'm not much into superhero stuff but I like Sci Fi so I risked watching this after a little prevarication. Some of that trepidation continued for the first few episodes, but the series slowly got a grip on me and I finished it with a very positive impression.The stories themselves were okay, the powers the characters had were more DC comics than anything even vaguely scientific, but it was all nicely dressed up and I found it less irksome than I'd expected it to be to suspend my disbelief. The acting was really pretty good, industry standard, I suppose, which seems quite good these days. The actual characters themselves were an interesting bunch, each with their own plausible strengths, quirks and problems.What I felt was best handled in this show, though, and better than in any other I've seen, was the way the various characters struggled with their personal moral responsibilities to themselves and to the community at large, and their sense of loyalty to their leaders. The distrust of high level decisions, the damaged trust at bad decisions, the situation where rebellion would mean effective defection to a "terrorist group" but acquiescence meant becoming a "government flunkie" and the various ways in which each character was less than perfect were all facets which were scripted and handled well.We live in a time when one does not need to be in the slightest paranoid to understand how sometimes malevolent and sometimes stupid government decision-making can be. Recent history has shown there have been many dark conspiracies and dastardly doings by almost all governments: the more powerful the government the worse their misdeeds seem. Usually, in screen dramas with this sort of derring-do scenario, this is dealt with by perhaps a scapegoat at the top who gets caught, or maybe the heroes directly fighting uniformly evil government baddies, or the issue is just played down while the government tries to lead everyone in doing the right thing. I felt that Alphas was well written and acted and directed around this issue and served as a nice exploration of the moral quagmire surrounding the questions of public and private politics and power and our decisions as to how we should act.

fairieicedover The canceling of this show is a worse travesty than the canceling of FIREFLY!! Do you (the producers, etc. of this show) want to be known as THE WORSE VERSIONS OF THE FIREFLY CANCELERS? Do you? I didn't think so. PLEEEEEEEEASE bring it back!! The characters are rich and lifelike. The story line is comic book meets 24. The sex is amazing. The powers are on par with Marvel. The explanations for the powers are better than Marvels. The relationships between the characters are both enticing and tasteful, the dynamic between Dr. Rosen and the rest of the team is deep and realistic without being boring, and the depiction of Gary is the most realistic depiction of autism in the entertainment industry today. The world needs to know how Gary perceives them! They must! Its beautiful, heart-wrenching, and powerful. I swear, if they don't bring it back I will pout the most EPIC NERD POUT OF ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME!!!

Dark Jedi We finished watching the last episode of the last season of this series last evening. Personally I was quite happy that it was over even though it ended in a huge cliffhanger. After watching season one we really only watched season 2 because my son wanted to watch it. Personally I would rather have watched something else.Actually I got downright frustrated every time I watched an episode in this series. This so called extraordinary team was really nothing but a bunch of bunglers with superhuman capabilities. They constantly screwed up, got entangled in their own personal problem or just behaved downright stupidly and then kind of managed to solve their case in the end after all.Doctor Rosen, who where supposed to be an expert on Alphas, was generally behaving like he was clueless. Both in terms of his profession but also as an investigator. Over and over again I sat and wanted to scream at the screen that he should listen to what people around him said but no…he just ran off because he had something else on his mind…again. The person playing Gary was probably doing a real good job of playing autistic but he was literally driving me nuts with his freaky and obnoxious behavior. Bill was mostly being an idiot and suffered from the same listening problem as the doctor. The rest of the characters was…well nothing to write home about.The main plot in the second season with the idea of enhancing alphas and killing everyone else with flashing lights was just dumb. When Rachel and Kat said how screwed they where because they couldn't turn of the lights in the station in the last episode I just went "thank god this show is over". Christ, never thought of covering your eyes or finding a dark place you dimwits? It is a shame. This series had great potential but it did not work out at all for me. I can understand why it was canceled after only two seasons.

Alan Hardman I enjoyed Alphas first season, I really did, it did what Heroes constantly failed to do, it humanised the heroes problems. You sympathised with characters "because you could relate", then came season 2 and everything went skewed, if you've watched it there are plenty of reasons why it started falling apart. Gary becoming nothing much more than an anarchic blogger. Bill becoming an underground fighter. There are many more examples of failures in writing, but the one single shining point of light in the second series is Kat, because-well they did what they did in season one, made her relatable. I'm not sad there's not gonna be a season 3, I cant see anything good coming out of the "shocks" in Gods Eye, but I know I'm gonna be in the smaller camp here, it just got stupid and formulaic.