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Tom:
Holy shit! This week's episode was so good, the last 10 minutes alone were kinda intense.

KvP:
There's already a twitter / email campaign underway to "Save Rubicon". http://twitter.com/SaveRubicon / email [email protected]

TheFuriousWombat:
I'm getting pretty into this I must say. I was skeptical at first. A little indifferent/bored even. But I ended up watching a bunch of dvd-r'd episodes in a row and kinda got sucked in. It's slow but compelling and somehow I want to keep watching. It's by far the least good of the three big ticket AMC shows but definitely enjoyable. Is it in danger of being canceled or something?

KvP:
Ratings have been weak since the second episode, and that's understandable - until last night's episode there really wasn't much you could say against the charge that the show was boring, because it often was if you were not invested in the characters and lacking patience for the plot. It's a lot like The Wire actually - that shows pace was stolid when you watched it week-to-week, the ratings for were never good and like Rubicon it never really provided any opportunities for newbies to invest themselves in the show mid-plot (even if you dropped in on, say, the third episode there would be a lot of confusing elements). But Rubicon is really starting to tighten up in the home stretch.

AMC has not canceled a show yet, but this is their third original series and given that The Walking Dead premieres in a few weeks Rubicon's status as the runt of the litter is probably going to get worse. All of AMC's shows are cult shows but Rubicon's is pretty small. If critics rallied behind it the chances of renewal would be better but most everyone is frustrated by the slack pace up until this point and their minds are not likely to be changed. It's really going to come down on how generous AMC is feeling. I give it a 50/50 chance.

In all honesty, I do wonder how the show would've turned out had the original vision for it prevailed. Something tells me that the reason the creator got the boot was that his conspiracy had something to do with 9/11 and the network wasn't willing to cross that line.

Tom:
That's what I thought. Bromell's replacement theory still easily allows for 9/11 to have been a situation much like the 1989 Ufa train disaster, a disaster possibly engineered by Truxton & Co. inorder to maximise their own wealth etc. I don't think that the show would have benefitted from being a 9/11 conspiracy theory and it definitely wouldn't have been as intimate as it is now.

Also, this is Zach Whedon's second episode (after 'Look to the Ant'). I'd really like to see more from him on this show.

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