ridiculous rating

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

An Exercise In Nonsense

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

First of all. Season 1: 10/10 Season 2: 1/10This must be the creepiest sci-fi horror show/movie ever. I was 10 years old when I first saw it. Now, 21 years later, I still have nightmares.The reason may be the complete lack of human emotions within the aliens. No empathy whatsoever for human life. The aliens are portrayed as total different from us - not "almost human/American" like in other sci-fi shows. These ones cannot be reasoned with. You cannot negotiate with them.Three episodes moved me deeply. 1.Quinn. "no Harrison...you are the alien". 2.The abducted woman. The end scene when Harrison just being to late to rescue her. It gave me an incredible parallel with my own life. Being to late to save the most loved one person in my life. 3.The strong drug. The scene with humans collecting drugs from the floor. Acting as animals.The only flaw with the show is its low budget. Imagine what it could have been with a modern show's budget.And one more thing. WOW is no predecessor to "X-files". X-files is a cheesy, unrealistic show with vampires, werewolves, and baseball-loving aliens. YES! Baseball-loving aliens. Give me a break...WOW is the real deal. With real human emotions. With real characters. With a real nightmare-plot. Great job! GREAT!

I loved this series when it was on the air in New Jersey. Back in the 1980s when syndicated or independent programming ruled television on the weekends, now it's all infomercials. Anyway, I loved Ann Robinson who reprised her film role as Sylvia Van Buren. She appeared to be the only person who knew how to deal with the aliens. My favorite moment is when her stepson visited her at the nursing home (it's too nice to be a sanitarium), the old guy approached him and said "It's not safe in here" and he replied "It's not safe out there." The show was really well-written with characters like Van Buren who provided a connection to the original program. I think Orson Welles and H.G. Wells would be proud of this show. It paved the way for shows like the X-Files. I only wished that they made more syndicated programs today.

Ugh what can I say here. I liked this show I really did. Season 1 was pretty good. And overall it was a great concept.Then came season 2.I don't mind the idea that the aliens turned the tables and now our hero's had to fight an uphill battle that much. In all honesty it gave the series a more gritty tone it had lacked. I also don't mind the deaths of several of the characters from season 1 it gave the show an air of jeopardy. It upped the stakes.But really after the season change the show just plain stunk. It was depressingly slow, and boring.Now onto my main beef here. The DVD set of season 1. What a hunk of crap. Who was in charge of this transfer? It looks like they transfered directly from VHS (actually I have some episodes on VHS that are clearer than these DVD's are) with no clean up what so ever. This is the worst set I have ever purchased by far. The images are not clean, but distorted and barely watchable. NOt to mention their actually edited episodes. Cause the first episode has not even been restored to it's original airing cut that included Dr. Blackthorn as a child watching the war machines fall.Avoid this DVD set at all costs. That is not a warning I've ever issued EVER!

Since our society seldom sees any kind of sci-fi as "cool" I'm really amazed that this ever came out on DVD.Yes the picture quality is lacking and I do wish the animated alien had grabbing the Earth segment was intact but overall I'm very pleased.AS far as sound quality is concerned I was very pleased. The local TV station that played this series back in '88 wasn't stereo. For the first time I am able to hear the audio of the show like people in big markets (with stereo TV stations) were able to. Best of all, none of the usual audio artifacts (that result from overly high bit rate reduction; sounds like a low bit mp3) are present. I heard tape hiss, some splices and audio dropouts all of which aren't uncommon with analog audio production.I would like to know the origin of the transfer material. Was the transfer done from original edited 35mm prints or from 1" videotape broadcast masters. If the editing and final production was mastered to tape, I bet that fully edited 35mm prints probably never existed.If more seasons come you can be damned sure I'll buy them.