Who else is in? I honestly enjoyed both episodes.

Heard it went all Losty at the end of the second episode; won't be watching.

You know what really killed the X-Files? In the later seasons it got too bogged down in creating this false sense of intrigue by dangling hints in front of the audience of what appeared to be some kind of intricate, but coherent conspiracy plot happening just "behind the curtain". They resorted to a carrot-and-stick game with the audience's misplaced hope that eventually the curtain would be pulled back and the deep secret revealed. Only, there was never anything behind the curtain to begin with. It was a ploy. And for a while, it worked. But eventually people just got fed up when they realized that were only being jerked around, and that the writers fully intended to keep jerking them around in perpetuity.

You know what really killed the X-Files? In the later seasons it got too bogged down in creating this false sense of intrigue by dangling hints in front of the audience of what appeared to be some kind of intricate, but coherent conspiracy plot happening just "behind the curtain". They resorted to a carrot-and-stick game with the audience's misplaced hope that eventually the curtain would be pulled back and the deep secret revealed. Only, there was never anything behind the curtain to begin with. It was a ploy. And for a while, it worked. But eventually people just got fed up when they realized that were only being jerked around, and that the writers fully intended to keep jerking them around in perpetuity.

And then Lost happened. I don't know how Lost happened, but it did. Maybe people changed between the X-Files and Lost. Or maybe it's just that the X-Files stumbled into this technique in mid-stream, and its audience just wasn't as willing to go along with it, whereas Lost was pretty blatantly obviously a plot sham from the get go. Either way, ever since it went off the air, the networks have been furiously dogpiling on the "ooooh, it's a mystery! myyyyyysteryyyyy!" genre ever since, trying to find the "next Lost". Witness "Persons Unknown" (lol, cancelled), "Terra Nova", etc., etc., etc.

I'm going to keep watching Alcatraz for now, since I found it enjoyable enough and I do really like Sam Neil for some reason. That said, my suspicion is that it's yet another one of these shows. Hopefully they'll prove me wrong, but if I don't start seeing some indication that the writers have actually story-boarded this thing out, I'm probably going to bail on it before it makes it to the end of season 1. The show seems good, but not X-Files or BSG good, and that's pretty much my threshold for putting up with this kind of crap.

If they have an end date for this show already...it would help. Seems like they are going for a 'freak of the week' show. They are gonna have to give some of these guys the room to run. Last more than one or two episodes. There are 63 guys they need to collect, they can make that last 100 episodes.

I will give Alcatraz the benefit of the doubt because Fringe (an Abrams offering which I love) obviously had some forethought put into the mysteries it was unravelling, and actually DOES resolve them as it uncovers new ones.

If they have an end date for this show already...it would help. Seems like they are going for a 'freak of the week' show. They are gonna have to give some of these guys the room to run. Last more than one or two episodes. There are 63 guys they need to collect, they can make that last 100 episodes.