Pilot to Three Inches on SyFy tonight

Before SyFy greenlighted Alphas they had a choice between it and another super powered pilot called Three Inches staring Spike/Braniac James Marsters as the team's leader/recruiter. Well it looks as if SyFy finally decided to run the pilot and see if it garners any interest.

The premise involves a team of people with unusual but seemingly underwhelming super powers. The title refers to the new guy who can telekinetically move any object only three inches.

Wait...what?

So, he can move something 3 inches. When he's done, what's to stop him from moving it 3 inches again? Unless it's some kind of mental block, that just strikes me as painfully stupid.

3 inches is all one needs to move a tumbler in a bank vault

sounds cool gonna have to check it out.

Or move someone's heart three inches to the front... Could be more useful than you'd think.

One of the rare times I wish I had this channel

I've already forgotten about most of you

And checking the guide for later on tonight, they'll be re-airing "My Name is Bruce" starring Bruce Campbell and Ted Raimi.

Must set DVR.

Well... So far I'm a bit unhappy that they didn't answer the "limits" of his power. They just tested against stationary objects and the distance. Doing other tests are important due to it could potentially be useful in creating things like a wall around yourself where anything got close to you got moved 3 inches in a different direction... They also didn't see if he could move in multiple direction or turn things... only forward backward distance on stationary.

finished and i agree with their decision, though not because the show was bad, but because the show doesn't vibe well for the station. It'd be great for another station... perhaps they could sell it somewhere else or perhaps make it a web series.

Actually it wasn't all that bad. Had a bit of a Wanted (sexy teammate) mixed with Mystery Men (odd powers) mixed with Kick-*** (main character is a slacker who wants to be more) vibe.

Other members of the team include a voice mimic; an insect controller; a precog with a two minute limit but using the power causes pain proportional to the distance into the future; a teen who could emit foul odors; and a woman who can manipulate the emotions of those near her.

Durakken, it's obvious he could turn things as well since he turned on a hose and started a number of cars. Also we didn't need to see the battery of tests they would put him through or did you want to have a montage sequence? He "joined" them only days before the mission. I'm sure that if the series happened that we would see him being tested more extensively but for this mission they only needed him to manipulate locks.

If I'd've known this had James Marsters in it I might've given it a look. The description in the guide just said "pilot" so I didn't even flip over to check it out. In my head I imagined it would be some silly show about someone who had been shrunk to three inches tall.

Well his role was limited to recruiter/leader. He claims to have no powers himself but he does wield the power of PSYCHOLOGY quite well.

It was odd to see him cast as a man with a grown son. I can't imagine him as "old".

Edit: Crap, just looked him up on IMDB, he's my age.

Sadly I didn't get to really watch this last night, and when I went to watch it on the internet I can't really find it, even on syfy, it's like syfy went oops yeah this sucks lets just take it off our schedule, really go to syfy.com and they don't even have it listed as a show or anywhere on the website.

Well Alphas was originally a pilot for NBC and sat around for a few years. Three Inches was filmed last year and was targeted for SyFy. Both have relatively low SFX budgets which is important for a TV show on a small cable network like SyFy.

Of course I love Gary from Alphas, great character. However I did like Watts as the grumpy/hard edge/hot empath. The scene with her drinking in the bar looking miserable while the two blue color guys are sobbing uncontrollably to the sad country western tune playing was a hilarious example of her powers.

The thing about Three Inches was that the "supers" weren't as damaged psychologically or socially as a side effect of their abilities like in Alphas. Also it had a lot more humor than Alphas so it's more inline with Eureka and Warehouse 13.