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I was wondering how long it would take Kennex to use the Olive Oil on his leg. Of course, he'd rather tell Dorian that he was eating a Greek salad. But then Dorian can keep Coffee at exactly 165 degrees F, just by holding two electric leads in his fingers.

This episode has the Alfred Hitchcock quality of making you think it is about one thing, but really being about something else.

But still, hostages are being tossed off a 25th story window like Rag Dolls and Kennex and Dorian are the only ones who can even get close.

They have an ally in the building, a receptionist (Yoshie Bancroft) whose Sister is visiting when the crooks invade. To get her to calm down, Kennex tells her basically the story of Walter and Peter Bishop falling into the Ice of Reiden Lake and The Observer Saving them. It's that story, but the names are different.

The Invaders get Maldonado (Lili Taylor) to blank out all communications in the area, because that's what the cops are expected to do. But this is what the crooks wanted to happen.

Because this whole episode is a Macguffin. The crooks really don't want what they asked Maldonado for, they want something else.

The pieces start falling into place halfway through, when Dorian gets shot in the head and Kennex has to fix him with Chewing Gum, they find a little plastic lens with the word "Start" on it, and a device that makes one crook look like another more dangerous crook.

The funny thing here is what the goal of the crooks actually is - It's an substance - something that you would find in Iron Man's Chest.

No Rating system yet, 10/10- as usual. This show has got some good writers, and producers from both Fringe and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

This series doesn't pretend to be original, which is just fine. Instead it does a very good job blending familiar concepts.

I like decent sci fi. Now people may complain about material being familiar, but it doesn't mean the material this is borrowing from was done well before. Sci-fi as a genre has an awful lot of garbage.

So this show is fulfilling that role, while being a decent crime drama. But here is what I really appreciate. Rather than being sci-fi by name only, as in we throw cool hi tech devices in there just to look cool, each story, thus far, has tapped into familiar events, while reinterpreting them for how they would be with this future tech. It does this very well, showcasing how advanced technology makes it easier for bad men to do bad things, but also showing how it can help the protagonists.

Simply put, this episode, and the series has good mechanics. I am really liking the chemistry between Urban / Ealy, the visual effects are solid, the comedy generally feels appropriate and not forced and works, and each episode so far seems to try and include bits of substance.

My assessment, it's not a "game changer", instead it's a better crime drama than most crime dramas, and it's better science fiction than a lot of current science fiction. And so long as that continues, I will take it.

I never had so much pleasure watching a tv series since i watched Space Above And Beyond from the begginig until the end, for the first time.

First of all, people who like this show should try to get hold of the Swedish show "Real Humans", currently in its 2nd season, which "Almost Human" seems to be a derivative (though bigger-budget) rip-off of. Just saying.

The first episode of "Almost Human" was quite impressive. Lots of interesting themes introduced, and a long-running plot line which I hoped to see developed a bit faster than at a glacial pace. The 2nd episode was not quite as good, but deserves kudos for tackling the sexual aspect of hubots (oops, that's me using a term from "Real Humans" there).

Episode 3, however, is just passing time. Do we get any deeper into the A.I./robot theme? Negative. Is there any shred of development to the main plot with the terrorist group that Kennex's ex joined? Negative. Just some action with a twist ending that has no impact on anything! That's weak. By now the show has just settled into the same old groove that almost all TV shows quickly settle into: paaaaasssing the time slooowly without offering any interesting ideas or storytelling, lulling us to sleep with inconsequential tripe when we're actually sitting here waiting to be blown away by cool ideas, new angles and thought-provoking comments on present and future society! What is this apparent law that says writers can't put a proper amount of IDEAS and STORY into television shows? Man! I guess we just live in a world of clueless TV producers whose mission in life is to bore us the hell to death.

Sorry if I sound bitter, but it's the cumulative effect of having experienced this TV tendency time and time again.

A show about A.I./humaniform robots should explore what this technology means to society, and which other ways it has been implemented. Give us moral quandaries! Revelatory ideas! Edgy angles on this complex issue! Please. THAT's why we're watching. Not to see another Die Hard rip-off, which we've already seen a hundred and seventeen times.

Oh well, I'll watch a few more episodes. Who knows, maybe it'll pick up. Probably not, though.

EDIT: I have to admit that this show actually did pick up after all. Most of the episodes are quite good.