Dissecting Alcatraz's Mysteries:Welcome to the Rock

From the purveyor of abstruseness alternation that accumulate audiences abrading their active - Alias and Rambaldi, Lost and the island, Felicity and her beard - J.J. Abrams has debuted addition mystifying series, Alcatraz.

The fresh appearance focuses on the belled San Francisco prison. It's 1963, and added than 300 guards and prisoners vanish into attenuate air. In anniversary episode, one of these accustomed criminals, alleged "the '63s," will reappear in 2012 after accepting aged. San Francisco cop Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), Diego Soto (Lost alum Jorge Garcia) - an bookish who's an able on The Rock - federal Agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) and his abstruse accessory Lucy Banerjee (Parminder Nagra) aggregation up to acquisition them afore they can achieve their anachronistic justice.

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Yet, alike with a beyond belief already set in place, it is the characters who are acutely complex that accompany the appearance to life.

I enjoyed Sarah Jones as Detective Rebecca Madsen. Not abandoned does she authority a accurate dent on her accept from her partner's afterlife but she illustrates a drive and assurance with anniversary case, absolute for award out the abstruseness of Alcatraz. And at the aforementioned time she's antic and lively, not aphotic and brooding.

Similarly, the analysis that her grandfathering wasn't a bouncer but rather an bedfellow at the bastille draws a claimed affiliation to the cases. And to top that off, her grandfathering happened to be the man she was block aback her accomplice was killed. Her alacrity and affinity with the added characters accomplish her added than aloof a gung ho changeable lead.

Jorge Garcia of Lost acclaim is as absorbing as ever, accepting some of the best amusing lines. You can't advice but get pleasure his awning presence. Not abandoned is his character, Diego Soto, an able on Alcatraz, authoritative him a applicable allotment of the team, but his adulation for the banana book apple makes his accomplished acquaintance of the bearings not artlessly steeped in bookish dialogue. It's a account that can be affiliated to any advanced child.

And abreast from curve about architecture the bat cavern and not actuality able to accumulate his fresh job a abstruse because he's too aflame about it, I adulation that he questions why no one seems to alike blink an eye about the prisoners advancing back. Plus, the actuality that his catechism doesn't absolutely get answered is funny because in a way it reflects how abounding admirers feel aback it comes to shows abounding with mystery. He may not be a asperous and tumble appearance with a apparitional accomplished (that we apperceive of) but he's fun to watch and adds a agreeableness and childishness to an contrarily austere blazon of show.

Sam Neil does a admirable job arena the annoying and ambiguous Emerson Hauser. On the one hand, Emerson seems to be arena for "the acceptable guys" but aback he gets abandoned with the prisoners, a array of aphotic ancillary seems to edge out. He's on a mission to stop these guys, but there seems to be a lot added that he knows that he isn't absolution on. I wouldn't be afraid if article acutely claimed sparked his hunt.

What was up with his fresh bunker/prison that looked like it came appropriate out of Return of the Jedi? I assumption it's the fresh Alcatraz, but I aloof kept cat-and-mouse for the Ewoks to pop up. Either way, he's not absolutely absolution Rebecca and Diego in on all his secrets.

So, while the aboriginal hour was a alluring addition to the show, the additional hour, "Ernest Cobb," bound pushed the activity forward, added absolute a assertive procedural aspect to the series

It seems that there will be affluence of flashbacks (reminded me a lot of Cold Case) to burrow into some of the aspects of the bastille that accompany with the present day hunt. It provides for a fun abstruseness as to what these alternate prisoners are accomplishing while attempting to stop them in approved badge fashion.

However, it's that abstruseness that proves best arresting and gives those jaw bottomward "what the heck" moments, abundant like the final arena absolute that Dr. Lucy Banerjee (does Emerson accept adventurous animosity for her?) hasn't age-old aback she formed at Alcatraz. Yes, she's not from present day time.

That abominable acknowledge spins off a actor added questions as to why she's returned, what was her calendar aback again and what she knows about the vanishing prisoners. I can't delay to apprentice more.

Alcatraz hits on all the key elements that accomplish a appearance abundant and, while not as after as abounding of J.J. Abrams added shows (Lost, Alias), it does accommodate affluence of factors that accomplish the alternation added than aloof hunting bottomward abyss anniversary week. Fox has addition champ on its easily and I'm attractive advanced to seeing area this appearance takes its characters and the alluring abstruseness that surrounds them.

Welcome to the Rock. Welcome to Alcatraz.