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I only gave it two episodes to be honest. I've since wondered, during periods of boredom, whether I should have given it more of a shot. It crossed my mind that it might be a candidate for cancellation. Can anyone tell me how it's doing, ratings wise?

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I don't watch this show...but I do have a quick question, is it being moved or cancelled because Alias is moving to it's time slot?

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I watched this for four episode and then gave up. Compared to Surface and Threshold it's just so boring that I gave up. There's only so many shows I can watch and Invasion got the ax from me.

The characters were a bit of a snooze and the story wasn't moving fast enough for me to stay interested.

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After the rush of 'Lost', it just moves too slowly. I tried a few episodes but soon lost interest. I tried watching it again last week 'cause I saw the Mariel bleed from the temples in the previews (I don't know why that interested me, but it did). I was terribly disappointed to find out it was a dream sequence so I tuned out after ten minutes or so. It also feels like they don't have enough content. It's stretched so thin throughout the episodes...

Maybe if this show didn't have so much competition, it'd be okay... but matched against fast-paced shows with similar supernatural content (by that, I mean the same "OMG WTF WAS THAT?! SUMTHINGS KILLING PPL!" stuff), it's not much.

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I actually prefer Invasion to Threshold, but not to Surface. I really like shows that develop a storyline over a long period of time as long as they still reveal plot points fairly steadily.

I have a feeling that Tom (the sheriff/alien?) actually knows less about what's going on than he thought he did. I think that after the plane crash he often tells others about - the one that happened several years before when he was the only survivor of a crash into water and was "changed" - he assumed that though different, he was in some ways still his old self (same body, same thoughts, but inhabited by something new as well).

Muriel (the mom) finding her body in the water is the first evidence we've seen of any of the changed people actually seeing their dead bodies, and his startled reaction leads me to think that he didn't realize that he and the others are not at all the same person they were before. Like imagine being infected with something vs learning that you're actually someone completely different altogether.

So I'm guessing the lights in the water are the aliens, and they kill the person and then change shape to become that person, but somehow with their memories and emotions, which would definitely make it easier to blend in. According to this episode, even their DNA would match (the girl who refused her baby admitted to the sheriff that a DNA match would show her the mother).

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Peter, Alias is only moving to Wednesdays for two weeks starting December 7. I suspect Invasion will be on hiatus for that period.

The winter finale of Alias runs on December 14, and next wednesday (December 21) Invasion is back again.

I guess we will have to wait until January too see who stays on Wednesdays

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Alias is only filing in for 2 weeks - Dec 7 and 14, then Invasion will be back in the new year. It has received a full season order from ABC. But whoever said it above is right - Lost moves fast, and this show tends to drag. At least I have my Eddie Cibrian to stare and gawk at

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I don't like this show, it's really boring. I'm so happy Alias is being given a chance in its timeslot. Lost and Alias should never have been separated from each other. This season of Alias has been amazing, and it really deserves the post-Lost timeslot. Lost fans would really enjoy the rush of back to back JJ Abrams shows.

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I lasted all the way to the first commercial break of the premier. I think Threshold, Surface, and Invasion should all swaps titles for a week and see if anyone notices.

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Well, the missus and I have dropped Surface (would something PLEASE eat those annoying kids?!). And for some reason have never watched Threshold - I keep meaning to give it a look, but just end up not.

However, we are pretty hooked on Invasion. Yes, it moves kinda slow. Tends to be dialog and "discovery" driven rather than explosions and car chases. But I guess I'm old or intellectual enough to enjoy that (the missus is a big West Wing watcher, talk about a snooze-fest).

Anyway, I like the concept that the sheriff is just coming to grips with the idea of being a TOTALLY different entity rather than his old self with an upgrade. For a long time he was the only alien around. Now there are lots of them and he's finding out that they're not all interested in being under his tutelage. Maybe he thought he was the head alien, but now he's learning that others may be more "powerful" or at least more in tune with their alien-ness.

He definitely has the feel of someone who's trying to hold things together/keep control of the situation and it's starting to slip out of his grip.

I don't get the whole lying to his wife thing. He knows she's one of "them", but he keeps trying to hide it from her. She has had her epiphany and understands that she's someone/something else. Why doesn't he welcome her to the club?

I think the show has legs. It will be interesting to see if the government ever figures out the true nature of the aliens they've captured. Will they start hunting them down? Is there more than one "faction" of aliens? Will they clash somehow?

- Jasen.

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I've been sticking with it, but the corpse scene confused me. Her ex husband and his brother in law found skeletal remains with a wedding band early on. Later on we discovered the inscription on the ring was what the sheriff had inscribed on the ring he had given Mariel.

Now if we are to believe the skeletal remains are hers, then how would her corpse be in the water? Unless being in the water gives them memories of what happened.

The way I figure it from what I have seen, the aliens consume the human down to a cellular level and use human DNA to transorm themselves into the people they ate. During this feeding they absorb all of the humans memories untill they are in essence that person, though a little odd acting at first.

That theory seems to be more or less confirmed when a tracking device was shot into one of the aliens, only to go off the next day when in the proximity of a person who went missing in the swamp the night before.

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I gave up on Invasion after two eps -- its just not that interesting. Perhaps some of you noted, its just a disappointment after an ep of Lost. I wish Alias would keep its temporary post-Lost timeslot, but probably not as this is likely Alias' last season and ABC will want to give Invasion the best shot to return next year.

I never gave Surface a chance, but now think I should have many of you here rave about it.

However, I genuinely like Threshold...its awesome. Carla Gugino is really good in the role. Threshold seems fresh to me. I hope CBS gives it a chance...its already been moved from Fri to Tues.

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After watching the first 2, maybe 3 episodes... [BORING....]

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I LOVE this show! It is right behind lost for me. It is the second show I discuss most with people.

Its soooo much better than that floating turd "Surface"

I like threshold too, but there is no real mystery there.

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I gave it two episodes and thought it sucked (as did my wife). A few weeks later I watched the next 2 episodes and it was a bit better, but still hasn't really grabbed me. I stopped watching it again and don't miss it.

I like Threshold, and have never seen Surface.

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I've ben enjoying Invasion, however the pace *is* pretty slow. If you ask me, we haven't had *one* question answered from the series yet, ut just keeps on building and building. I think what this show could really use is a "surprise" episode that really answers a few questions about what possible can be going on, while also dropping a big surprise or two about something we yet know about.

The whole "Corpse in the water" storyline is interesting, but it's hard to get excited about it when we really have nothing to put it into context...

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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!

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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

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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?

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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+

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