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fandomsecrets2013-07-29 06:49 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-07-29 06:49 pm
[ SECRET POST #2400 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2400 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[The Silmarillion]
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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]
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[Almost Human]
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[Gundam Wing and True Blood]
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[NCIS: LA]
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[Final Fantasy VII Compilation]
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[Tom Hiddleston/Loki]
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[Scott & Bailey]
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[Pokemon, Mondo/Domino]
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[Merlin]
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[Chris Colfer]
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[Danny Phantom]
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[Twin Peaks]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #343.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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(Anonymous) 2013-07-30 12:14 am (UTC)(link)The pilot was so good. Kaaarrrlll... ^3^
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(Anonymous) 2013-07-30 12:18 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2013-07-30 03:45 am (UTC)(link)Actually, the trailer hits most of the major plot points. For reference:
http://youtu.be/ykwxg534yAw
I don't remember all the details, but I'll share what I can!
SPOILERS
Flashback: John Kennex (Karl Urban) is on a police raid that has gone horribly wrong. He rushes in to save his partner, who is pinned down by enemy fire and has been mortally wounded. While trying to get his partner to safety by himself--an MX (android police officer) refused to help because odds of his partner's survival looked impossible--John is shot in the leg. Disoriented, John sees a grenade thrown his way. Explosion. Fade to black.
John then remembers lying in bed with a beautiful woman. They don't say anything.
John "wakes up" from the flashback--he is in a high-tech chair and has wires attached to his head. A doctor asks him what he saw and John says he remembers a bit more--he feels close to remembering something important. The doctor (apparently a sort of black-market-type guy) warns that delving into his memory like this is too dangerous, as he has only just come out of a coma. John brushes him off and leaves.
In the seedy, Blade Runner-y underbelly of...some city, John exits the doctor's office and gets in his car; he takes a little red pill. An MX sees him in his car and asks what he's doing there. John makes up something about a noodle house.
The next day (?) John is looking at photos and watches an old video message from his girlfriend, left before his injury/coma. The woman in the video is the same woman he remembered in the doctor's office. (It’s explained at some point that she just vanished when he was injured and he never heard from her after awaking from the coma.) As he stands up, his synthetic leg complains at him--literally, a computer voice tells him that calibration is incomplete. He is grumpy. He then gets a call from his lieutenant(?), Maldonado (Lili Taylor), who insists that he come into the office. He grumpily relents.
At the police station, lots of other officers side-eye John and make comments about how he's finally returning after almost 2 years away and how he'll never last back on the force. It's mentioned that John was the only one to survive the ambush on his team; some find this suspicious. Valerie Stahl (Minka Kelly) tells them to cut John some slack.
In Maldonado's office, she confides to John that he's the only person on the force she trusts completely and that she's glad he's back. They talk about the ambush that wounded John (and killed his partner) and how they both suspect that someone on the inside (another police office) tipped off the bad guys to their raid. The baddies have some sort of sinister-sounding name...I can't remember what, so I'll just call them The Syndicate ^^; They plan to get to the bottom of things. In the meantime, Maldonado sends him to investigate an incident that seems to have The Syndicate's fingerprints all over it.
To John's chagrin, he finds out he has to be paired with an MX--all police officers are mandated to have android partners. On the way to the crime scene, the MX asks again why John was in Seedy Underbelly and says he will have to report what he saw. John pushes him out of the moving car, naturally.
At the crime scene, Valerie speaks with John about crime patterns. She's some sort of behavioral scientist (can't remember her title) and helps to identify/predict criminal trends. John learns that a certain chemical was stolen, one he remembers seeing years ago during the raid/ambush by The Syndicate.
Back at the police station, John talks with
that pirate with the wooden eye, you know the oneRudy Lom (Mackenzie Crook), the police station's tech guy, to get a new "synthetic" assigned to him. Meet Dorian (Michael Ealy)--a discontinued DRN model android. Apparently, the DRNs are infamous for having "gone crazy." The DRNs were created to feel/emulate human emotion and generally be as human as possible.Now let's get this buddy cop show on the road! Sometime during all this (don't remember the order of scenes exactly, sorry), an officer is kidnapped (apparently by The Syndicate) and John and Dorian are sent to investigate. There is a great bit of banter in the car (parts can be seen in the trailer) and the audience gets more of John’s dislike of “synthetics.” Ooo tension!
Dorian accesses the kidnapped officer’s MX’s (destroyed) video memory--with this information and a few other clues, they organize a raid of a building where they believe the officer is being held. At the scene, they come across something rigged with a wire and the MXs advise that they stay away, believing it to be a bomb. Dorian does some fancy androidy stuff, tells John it’s not a bomb, and offers to lead the way. John seems to begin to trust him and, against the MXs protests, follows Dorian inside.
They find the kidnapped police officer alive but trapped in a sealed glass box. The wires attached to the box pull away and a gas is released inside the box. John realizes it has been a setup and the bad guys wanted them to find the officer, but it’s too late to stop it. The officer starts yelling in pain but John and Dorian can’t get to him.
Commercial break? The coroner is bagging the officer’s body at the scene--the body is horribly disfigured and grotesque, almost as though his skin were melted. Dorian samples some of the officer’s blood by injecting it directly into his own processors/body. Something about the officer’s molecular structure being changed? Can’t remember exactly.
John decides that he should take another trip down technology-and-drug-induced memory lane to possibly find some answers. At the shady doctor’s office, he again recalls the memory of the ambush that killed his partner. This time, after the grenade is thrown, he is able to see a bit more of the crowd of bad guys--among them is his girlfriend. Plot twist!
But John pushes his body too far. He starts to go into convulsions. Fortunately, Dorian shows up and saves him with a defibrillator-type thingy.
After a bit more investigating, John and Dorian learn that the gas that was released on the officer contained the chemical that was stolen by The Syndicate. This chemical was part of concoction designed to interact with certain vaccines/antibodies given specifically to police officers (or something? I think I may have missed part of this exposition ^^;).
They also (at some previous point) interview one of the kidnappers who was taken into custody--John is obviously the bad cop in the good cop/bad cop dynamic. All these clues lead them to believe that The Syndicate plans to attack the police station that very night. They rush to the station to warn/evacuate everyone.
By the time John and Dorian arrive, the station is already under attack. The kidnapper who was arrested apparently let himself get caught so that he could plant an EMP-like device in the station. The EMP disables all the MXs, but Dorian remains unaffected. The bad guys attack, the good guys defend. John and Dorian are badasses who save the day.
The episode winds down. Maldonado says she paired Dorian with John because they’re both special and the two new partners share some final dialogue.
So, I know that was pretty bland blow-by-blow, so you really have to watch the show to get the full effect. I think the foundation for the characters is pretty well laid out and I liked what I saw of the initial chemistry between John and Dorian. It’s very similar to Fringe when it comes to tone/pseudo-science, so if you like Fringe, you’ll probably like this. It definitely has the buddy cop tropes and the angsty male protagonist tropes, but I really enjoyed what I saw! :) (Sorry if I went a bit overboard with this haha.)
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