Ford
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Diving back into a Sci-Fi Channel series from the late 90s. First Wave
(I may have posted about this before)
Cade Foster was framed for his wife's murder, and is on the run from sinister forces. The government? The Illuminati? No. It's aliens. Turns out, he's "Subject 117," the one human who managed to resist their mind control and fight back. Also, he's a reformed thief who can pick locks and fight off multiple police officers at once. He teams up with a conspiracy theorist (publisher of an online magazing called "The Paranoid Times") and together they use the prophesies of Nostradamus to fight the alien invasion.
Of course that sounds ridiculous, and it is, but it was entertaining when I watched it on the first run. It doesn't hold up all that well, but mostly because of two things. One...it is just another of the slate of Sci-Fi Channel shows (and others) that took advantage of Vancouver's tax breaks - weird how everything in multiple series looks like Vancouver - and two, the depiction of the internet back then was...quaint in retrospect. And the music is cliche' 90s.
On the plus side, the acting is decent, the cast (aside from the conspiracy theorist named "Crazy Eddie") are all very good looking, and the show does a good job of revealing the alien invasion plan slowly rather than going from "there are aliens among us...now here's the big battle!" And the aliens are terminally allergic to salt, for some reason.
(I may have posted about this before)
Cade Foster was framed for his wife's murder, and is on the run from sinister forces. The government? The Illuminati? No. It's aliens. Turns out, he's "Subject 117," the one human who managed to resist their mind control and fight back. Also, he's a reformed thief who can pick locks and fight off multiple police officers at once. He teams up with a conspiracy theorist (publisher of an online magazing called "The Paranoid Times") and together they use the prophesies of Nostradamus to fight the alien invasion.
Of course that sounds ridiculous, and it is, but it was entertaining when I watched it on the first run. It doesn't hold up all that well, but mostly because of two things. One...it is just another of the slate of Sci-Fi Channel shows (and others) that took advantage of Vancouver's tax breaks - weird how everything in multiple series looks like Vancouver - and two, the depiction of the internet back then was...quaint in retrospect. And the music is cliche' 90s.
On the plus side, the acting is decent, the cast (aside from the conspiracy theorist named "Crazy Eddie") are all very good looking, and the show does a good job of revealing the alien invasion plan slowly rather than going from "there are aliens among us...now here's the big battle!" And the aliens are terminally allergic to salt, for some reason.
Should I be ashamed? It's a little bit like an action thriller (which I don't like), but with more interesting fast-moving plots, and scalpels and medical implants instead of guns. .