1899

[austingirl 2192]

New Netflix show. I'm on episode 5 and it's intriguing - like Lost meets Event Horizon, but on a ship and set in the 1800s, if you couldn't tell from the name.

 

[Planet Houston 4930]

But…it’s called 1899

[kingkoopa6 8377]

Haha 

[Parliament 14302]

89, 99, whatever it takes.

[austingirl 2192]

Maybe the mods will take pity on me and correct my typo. Y'all should still watch the show, though.

[Js1 85577]

I liked the show. I watched it over 2 nights, I got sucked into it. 

[0xdeadbeef 1652]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

89, 99, whatever it takes.

Repression, Recession. It's all the same thing, man

[pops 7006]

Watched the first episode.  Not sure what to think. Thinking there's going to be some weird ass time travel or something.  

[Pato del Muerto 52601]

I watched this last week.  Not a lot can be said without revealing the story, so I won’t. 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4977]

Yeah, this isn't exactly the kind of show that lends itself well to threads where people might be at different stages of watching it. I enjoyed it.

[hayden_horn 11365]

honestly i hadn't even glanced at this show as i figured it was another yellowstone universe prequel thing. looks awesome. thanks for posting

[pops 7006]

Middle of episode 3. This shit is fucked up. 

[Jiggy-Z 3435]

Don't waste your time.

This show has no plot and no point.

You'll see.

I too was sucked in by the DARK pedigree.

Now go party like it's 1989.

[LonghornSean 4023]

Watched the first two. I’m into it, but I’m a sucker for period pieces, mystery box shows, and trans Atlantic steam ships.

Definite Event Horizon vibes.

[austingirl 2192]

I've watched the whole thing. It's not Dark but I still enjoyed it.

Spoiler

I think Daniel is some kind of failsafe in case of interference with the program, and isn't an actual human. Maybe he was her husband at some point, but he wasn't on the spaceship when she woke up in the last episode, and there was something about when he said "I'll always be here" that made me think he meant THERE, in the simulation. And maybe the pain she was trying to forget was losing both Daniel and Elliot.

 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4977]

15 hours ago, austingirl said:

Maybe the mods will take pity on me and correct my typo. Y'all should still watch the show, though.

I think your gonna have to tag one of the mods to get them to change it. For now, any real discussion of the show probably needs to be in spoilers, but maybe after a few weeks when people have had a chance to watch it all we can get them to add a "spoilers starting on page 2 (or 3 or whatever)" tag to the title and discuss it openly.

[pops 7006]

17 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Don't waste your time.

This show has no plot and no point.

You'll see.

I too was sucked in by the DARK pedigree.

Now go party like it's 1989.

Spoiler

Wish i would have read this before I got sucked in. This show is dumb and pointless.  

 

[mchookem 16386]

so how long does it take this group to finally get out of Texas??

[Js1 85577]

Cancelled 

[Guest]

On 12/7/2022 at 8:50 PM, Jiggy-Z said:

Don't waste your time.

This show has no plot and no point.

You'll see.

I too was sucked in by the DARK pedigree.

Now go party like it's 1989.

So, just like Lost?  This had intrigued me from Netflix trailer, but hard pass if anything like that. 

[Jiggy-Z 3435]

1 hour ago, Porterhouse said:

So, just like Lost?  This had intrigued me from Netflix trailer, but hard pass if anything like that. 

Lost was much better than thus.

Lost wrapped up nicely minus the unnecessary purgatory half season mixed in.

This is just crap ridding on the coattails of Dark. Better off rewatching Dark.

[MonkeyDoughnut 10356]

I liked it. Wished we got to see another couple seasons. It really started to develop as it went on.

[Ghost of LL 15539]

It was not good.  Just painfully not good.

I wanted it to be good.  I wanted to like it.  I couldn't.

[Prepuce of Doom 21103]

Haven't read anything in the thread in order to avoid spoilers, but we're about 1.5 episodes in. I found it interesting, but it's so darkly lit that we have to watch it with all the lights out, and that puts me to sleep even when I'm not tired just the same way reading subtitles makes Mrs. Doom fall asleep, so between the two of us, it's going to take a month to get through this. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21103]

Wow, that was something. I doesn't surprise me that there are very polarized opinions about it. We loved it. 

One of the things I thought was unusual about this show is that there was always so much tension over one thing or another, but we often had no real precise idea about the stakes, motivation, actual objective, possible consequences, etc., of the tense situation like in more typical, straightforward stories. 

Agree with prior comparisons, but would also throw Pandorum in, too.