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Watercooler Talk: Anyone still watching Invasion?

by Deidre Woollard, posted Nov 19th 2005 2:33PM
invasionI noticed we've been a little lax on our Invasion coverage lately. I am not going to recap; instead, I'd like to ask what you think is happening. The basic premise is that this show is like Invasion of the Body Snatchers right? Or at least that was my original thought but lately it seems to be a bit different. This week's episode, with Mariel's discovery of her own rotting corpse in the water was particularly interesting. If she's an alien, why is she so conflicted and confused? And if her husband, the deliciously creepy sheriff, was aware of this why did he seem so shaken? Originally it seemed like he was a malevolent mastermind but now he seems more and more clueless as to what is happening in the town. Is he even an alien or just some kind of alien helper? I like that this show, like Lost, has a lot of unanswered questions but I wonder if there's a bit of intentional muddying of the waters going on. Certainly the fake blog set up by "Dave" is no help. The Invasion Forum reposted an interview from the Boston Globe with Shaun Cassidy (yes, that Shaun Cassidy) the show producer and while he didn't reveal anything too important I thought this quote was key: "Their blended family is kind of a metaphor for the bigger invasion of a species. [Pause.] If it is another species. " Are you still watching and if so, what do you think, is it aliens? 

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Gary

Invasion moves slow???? Lost can't move forward because it keeps going back and back and stumbling when it tries to move forward. Invasion is an awesome show. Lost is going to go the way of Twin Peaks, people are going to p.o.ed, if the aren't already at their tricks and false leads. Polar bears, ships in the middle of the island, giant protectors....don't give 'em a second thought....what????? I predict they will get so far out there that they will never be able to pull the show back in, stop now before they go too far, if they haven't already. Hopefully Invasion will still be around when Lost is a lost memory.

January 01 2006 at 9:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cara Cooper

I am bummed to see that so many people are not into Invasion. I LOVE this show and I am a big sceptic of TV. I am so sick of sitcoms and Police type dramas. I think it's great that a show has come along with a compelling storyline. I love the characters and I love the mystery. I really like how the show is unfolding and don't find it to be moving too slow. I REALLY hope that it makes it. I am definitely a die hard fan. I started out watching LOST and then tuning into Invasion by default afterwards. Now I prefer Invasion over LOST. Everyone should give it another chance.

December 12 2005 at 7:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Karee

I LOVE Invasion. I find it to be very thought provoking. I agree with the others that think they should take time to develop characters. I can't believe that anyone could find it boring. I watched Surface a couple of times and didn't think it held a candle to Invasion. I sure hope that they keep it around. I am a huge Lost fan, as well. Way to go ABC, the have a couple hits in my book.

December 08 2005 at 1:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bill

Well in this week's episode, we find out that the aliens are definitely killing the victims and then giving birth to new versions. A guy with one arm was taken and when he returned the next morning, he had two arms! I thought the evil sherrif talking the guy into cutting off his new arm with a chainsaw (to keep the secret) was pretty stupid. Like somebody would do that. The guy didn't even know there was a secret to keep. The previews for the next episode (December 21?) show Mariel admitting that her husband is an alien and so is she (but she's a good alien). The sherrif takes off with the kids or something. Also the last show said that these alien attacks have occured in other places right after hurricanes, but the vistims all committed suicide within a week in those cases. This hurricane / invasion is different. And we found out that the body in the trunk in an early episode turns out to be the Sherrif's body. Don't know why he had his first wife's wedding ring, though they were both in the plane that crashed inthe Everglades three years ago. I like the show and have watched almost every episode.

December 01 2005 at 6:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Karen

To comment on the engraved ring in the water. It belongs to the Sheriff's first wife. If you remember the inscription is the same as on the back of the wedding picture Kira had in her room of her parents.

December 01 2005 at 9:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan

Wow, how can anyone like Lost and not Invasion? It's the same format... character backgounds, new clues each week, twist - what you thought may not be true. And, it appears there are actually people who can watch more than 3 or 4 episodes of Threshold without screaming out the window "IT SUCKS AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!" Bet my ray gun it's the first cancelled. I had such high hopes for it too.

December 01 2005 at 12:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kraken

I love Invasion. Much more than Surface. Invasion, is much more mysterious than Surface. Surface basically gave everything away in the first one or two episodes. Invasion is drawing out the suspense, and I like that. The acting in Invasion also helps a lot. Invasion = A- Lost (2nd season) = B Surface = C+

November 28 2005 at 7:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ian

It sems that anyone "caught by an sea creature alien" in the water goes thru some kind of personality merging with the alien. (Doesn't really matter if it's a nw or old body). In some the mature older human personanlity is dominant, but changed. In the case of younger humans the alien personality is able to "take over". The sherif suddenly wanting a child, is the alien side wanting to proliferate the new kind of merged life form. Looks like there are good and bad aliens as well. Makes it very much pot luck whether you gett he good or the bad alien when you fall into he water. How annoying is that?

November 22 2005 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tucker

Invasion is one of the best shows on TV. Anyone who thinks it's "slow moving" clearly is smoking the crack pipe too hard. Sorry if a main character doesn't get killed off in every episode - imagine a show actually taking the time to develop the characters that are IN it every week? Damn, forgot we're dealing with American network TV here. #5 - it was explained pretty clearly pretty early that the ring they found was NOT Muriel's, it was Sheriff's first wife. The structure of this show is excellent, and it shows in the way people are bitching about "too much going on." All these "subplots" are clearly connected to one core event, much the same way your seemingly-unrelated vomiting, joint pain, fever, etc. are all related to that flu virus you're carrying. It would seriously take maybe a quarter of an episode - one reveal - to tie everything together, but rather than dumb down the show they've taken the high road and chosen to develop the mystery and characters. I have to say, from the very beginning I have been dismayed and annoyed at the mistreatment of Invasion by this blog - meanwhile, you give plenty of coverage to AWESOME shows like America's Next Top Model. I know tons of people who are glued to this show every week, so it's fine, TVSquad - drop the coverage. We'll be content to have our OWN water cooler talks. :P

November 21 2005 at 1:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jimmy

I still watch the show, but I'm increasingly annoyed with it. Unlike Surface or Threshold, the writers and producers of Invasion seem to have no plan, no underlying plot pushing the story forward. Each week seems to change the premise of the show. First it was an alient invasion, then some new underwater parasite, now who knows what. We know Muriel is part fish because of the issues with her blood, but that's about all we know. Two weeks ago the sheriff is teaching some kid about the new kind of person he's becoming and this week he's surprised to find Muriel's rotting corpse in the Everglades. Yeah, I understand the show doesn't want to give it all away, but come one, pick a theme and develop it!

November 20 2005 at 3:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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