Sometimes there are TV shows I watch where I ask myself afterwards why I kept watching them, because all rational thought defies the notion. One of them is SyFy's Helix -- a scientific fail-fest on so many levels.
Hee, Helix was pure crack! The whole thing was weirdness wrapped in an enigma that was never meant to make sense and the science was not even 'pseudo"... it was just pretending to be science. And yet I watched it too, in a similar "nothing left to watch, what now?" way. I hadn't heard it got renewed though. Makes sense, only in that it must have been pretty cheap to make. They were mostly trapped in a building or running around in some snow.
"Hey, let's cure cancer with a weird virus that turns people into zombies and its cure that happens to make people immortal by messing with their DNA." *slaps forehead* Yeah, shit, why hasn't anyone thought of that yet?! ;-P Crack indeed. It just irks me that a lot of people don't recognize that and take the science for granted.
Guess you're right, the show was probably rather cheap without (m)any outdoor location shoots. But it looks like that'll change in season 2, right?
I thought they were pretending to cure cancer, but instead were really finding a way to spread a nasty "zombie disease" and then be the only ones with the cure. But the chick turned out to be the daughter of the Asian scientist dude and so she was in fact immune like he and the other bad guys were. And they somehow found a way to pass on "her" genes to cure cancer. Not any more plausible, but slightly more sensible I suppose. Though where the evil immortals came from is still unanswered...which is I thought maybe was where S2 was heading.
(I am cringing that I watched it closely enough to type this.)
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Guess you're right, the show was probably rather cheap without (m)any outdoor location shoots. But it looks like that'll change in season 2, right?
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(I am cringing that I watched it closely enough to type this.)
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