Tripods was excellent.
It had one of the worst endings ever, though: Two seasons of "look, we're trying to build an epic story here", only for the last episode to end with, "
- oh no! so it was all for nothing?" (I expect that more seasons were pitched but never made though, but for the people who never read the books, it's a pretty shit ending and it looked like they failed the whole goddamn quest... bah.)
Loved the city of flying laser pyramids or whatever it was though... Very Tron style graphics. I loved the design of the aliens, with the swirling op-art eye... (They looked a little bit like the dribbling aliens in the Simpsons [Kang and Kodos] actually, only without the mouth- but I'm sure that's pure coincidence.)
Re: the OP, I just started watching Orphan Black and:
1) weird accents!,
2) the main character's foster brother is apparently an ex-orphan/foster kid with no fixed income except some drug dealing on the side, yet still lives in a massive 1990s era/Friends-style loft with loads of fancy accessories/furniture and lamps and stuff (albeit with 'cool' graffitied surfaces everywhere), and seems to do nothing except paint and party all day- wtf? Pre-2008 I wouldn't have had that much of a problem with it as that's what it was always like on TV, but now it's a bit lol to think anyone would find that realistic!
Very unusual concept, and I'll definitely watch all the episodes just to see what they do with it, though.
