Topic: Eleventh Hour (US) *spoilers*

[mlfj4901]

Greetings,

I really like this show.  I don't love it, but I do like it.  I love Rufus Sewell (sp?) whom I've only seen play villians before this.  It does have it's drawbacks though.

The episode "Cardiac" where kids are having heart attacks due to a digitalis poisoning was a stretch for me.  First off he's way too nice to the naturopath who is making all natural homeopathic remedies. 

Secondly if she's a homeopath, than why are there detectable amounts of digitalis in her remedies?  When the lab reports came back as negative for digitalis I shouted "DUH!" at my computer monitor.  Of course they're negative, it's a homeopathic remedy, there's no digitalis to detect, and therefore there's no way it could've caused cardiac problems.  However, it seems she's a homeopath by title only, which leads to my third issue.

By calling her a homeopath, and then portraying her cures as having any measurable curative value what-so-ever, and more importantly, having her cures display measurable properties beyond those of water, is giving alternative medicine practitioners more credit than they deserve.

After all that though, there are good science moments in the show, and it is entertaining.  I'll keep watching it for now.

-matt

[Alex]

I just saw the episode about a smallpox outbreak. it was pretty good.

[Karyn]

I'm going to resurrect this thread. 

I've been catching this on Netflix instant watch.  It's got Patrick Stewart, which is why I picked it up.  Not too bad so far, though only 2 episodes in.  Certainly has a skeptical bent so far.  Anyone else get to the end and want to warn me about how much it sucks.   How does Patrick Stewart stay so dreamy?  I mean other than playing intelligent men?

[Caffiene]

I'm going to resurrect this thread. 

I've been catching this on Netflix instant watch.  It's got Patrick Stewart, which is why I picked it up.  Not too bad so far, though only 2 episodes in.  Certainly has a skeptical bent so far.  Anyone else get to the end and want to warn me about how much it sucks.   How does Patrick Stewart stay so dreamy?  I mean other than playing intelligent men?

For clarification: Technically this thread is Eleventh Hour (US), starring Rufus Sewel, which is a later US remake of the original UK version (edit: mini series? IMDB only lists 4 episodes of the UK version, whereas the US was a full season) that youre watching that has Patrick Stewart.

Ive seen at least parts of both, although I cant remember how much... it was a while ago, especially for the UK version. From memory I liked both ok, but prefer the UK version. There were some differences, but I also noticed some episodes that had substantial similarities.

[Karyn]

Yeah, I noticed that later, but then was too lazy to correct.  I always like the BBC version better.  Frankly, I'm sick of the US trying to redo BBC TV.  They just suck at it.

[Caffiene]

I didnt mind the US Eleventh Hour. It felt very "US TV" compared to the UK version, but I thought it was better than the usual efforts because at least they took a miniseries and made it into a full season, so they were expanding on the original somewhat instead of just making it "better" for US audiences.

[Ah.hell]

The primary reasons the US remakes British shows is because We'd have to wait 4 years after the show started to get a full season.  The UK produces 6 episodes per series to the US's 22 episodes per season, otherwise american channels would be happy to import the british shows directly.  In defense of US television, when you have 3 times as much content, you'll likely have 3 times as much fail.

@caffiene,

They didn't expand a miniseries they expanded a standard UK series to meet the US standard Season.

[Caffiene]

They didn't expand a miniseries they expanded a standard UK series to meet the US standard Season.

Hmm... actually youre right. I know that the UK has a lot of short seasons, but for some reason I had the impression that a lot of the shows I know of that were adapted for the US the originals had longer seasons as well. Now that I go back and check I realise they werent (and I generally did know it for each show, but hadnt put 2 & 2 together to get a full picture)

I think part of the problem might be that here in Aus we get a lot of UK stuff but tend to get it a few seasons at a time. So I forget that Im seeing multiple seasons.

Except for the miniseries part. IMDB lists Eleventh Hour as only 4 episodes, which is short even for a UK season - usually its 6 to 8 episodes.