Total Recall 2070

Television, Movies Games and Books Other Science Fiction
#1

I’ve been looking for some new to me Sci/fi lately and i remembered this old show. i’d see a little of many years back, but stumbled upon it again and it even better than I remembered.

I will preface this with it rips off sci/fi classics bad and i mean bad, in where not even pretending here, not even a little were not ripping off Blade runner, were ripping it hard and were ripping it long.

but they do a decent job at it so its forgiven by me at least

There’s evil corporations, and detective stories, laser guns. and people in trench coats standing in the rain waxing poetic.

now i will say the acting is a little weak, here the the fact that they randomly insert nudity for no other plot related reason accept that it originally aired on showtime is slightly vexing

Its pretty damn good to bad it only lasted one season, but still any other fellow fans of the show round these parts

#2

Yeah, loved that show. Ending is a bit odd, but it was one of those “You’ve been cancelled, wrap it up” moments.

Well, that was completely intentional. :smiley: They wanted to get the rights to Blade Runner, but couldn’t afford them. So they got the Total Recall rights and then went ahead and did what they were going to do anyway. (They probably could have skipped rights altogether but tribute is cheaper than lawyers.)

now i will say the acting is a little weak, here the the fact that they randomly insert nudity for no other plot related reason accept that it originally aired on showtime is slightly vexing

Meh. I was cool with the acting, and even cooler with the nudity.

The pilot is available on DVD, but the season is really hard to find. It is available By Other Means, but there’s not a whole lot of seeders. Of course, if a whole bunch of us were to get on that torrent, the speed would increase as we cross-seeded.

#3

a friend of mine had it on dvd (although his was burnt so its origins are questionable) still i’m gonna spread it out and watch it over the hiatus. seems cool

maybe i was harsh on the acting coarse I’m comparing it to BSG so most shows fail against that mark. The nudity although pleasing on a certain level seemed slightly out of place, but not more so than many others i could name.

made me snicker that the folk who made this were just trying to do blade runner the TV show (Which is about the most awesome idea in the history of awesome ideas, but legally they had to call it Total recall)

#4

Y’know, I don’t remember that at all. I mean, yeah, nudity (when I stumbled upon an early episode I called the GF and said something like, “Hot Inter-racial sex on channel 57”) but it seemed to fit the story from what I can recall. Of course, I haven’t seen it in a while so what I can recall isn’t a whole lot.

Crap, I’m going to have to D/L it now.