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Adding my 2 cents to the mix: I watched this when it first aired and just watched again. In the end, I think it's a shame that this really good concept for a show, which could have lasted several seasons, never got a proper chance. The show runners are totally to blame for squandering this opportunity.

Firstly, the writing was very mediocre. You can't blame the time period because there was certainly plenty of well written, entertaining shows of this type throughout the decade prior to this. The alien of the week plots and action was decent. That was their strength. The weakness was all the terrible attempts at comedy and side characters living their mundane lives. Way too much of each episode was devoted to this stuff. Truly, they had no idea what they were doing. Ridiculous dialogue, 2 dimensional people, cringeworthy slapstick. I'm sure it wasn't the case, but it presents like the scripts were turned out by a group of early twenty something dude bros, who had spent years watching action movies but knew nothing about the real world or any type of adult relationships, especially concerning women who were not acting in porn. I know it's harsh, but this is why the show failed.

Obviously, Adrain Paul was a great choice to play Cole. He's the sole reason anyone watched the show and he makes it worth it. He got a great chance to show his acting skills by playing someone so different from Duncan MacLeod yet he's still charismatic and funny when called for while also believable in action scenes. I wish he had gotten more prominent roles since this went off the air.

But let's just say Amy Price Francis was very much miscast to play the already brittle, anxious Mel. Her character reminds me of a chihuahua - all big eyes, very skinny, and trembling nerves. I tolerated her character but never warmed to her. She was written and played mainly like a stressed out, exasperated, overbearing mother to everyone around her. She was never remotely believable as what we were told (but never shown) to be an intelligent and grown up business owner.

Jess was also a big mistake, which even the producers figured out by eventually writing her out, but I'm sure by then, only a few such as myself were still watching. The damage was done. Once again, writers and producers seemed to only have interest in and knowledge of women from porn. The less said the better.

There was some good. Geraint Wyn Davies was perfect as Zinn. If the show got a season 2, there definitely was an opening for him to return. I even thought Dean McDermott was good as the sometimes helpful cop who was jealous of Cole. Too bad Mel had even less chemistry with him than she did with Cole. Nestor character improved and got less annoying as the season went on. It was a good idea to increase his role as an ally for Cole to go on missions with.

If they got a season 2, it did seem like changes were going to be made, after giving the bar to Nestor and Cole taking off with Mel. But unless all the writers were fired, no change of scenery would have been enough. As I said at the start, someone had some good ideas, but they sadly were wasted.

I didn't see this show when it originally aired but I'm watching it now. People should stop using the word cliché because the romance issue the way they are showing it fits the story. There rarely is any idea that hasn't been tried in movies and/or television. We have had these mediums for a long time. One has to see how the idea is portrayed now and people need to quit comparing shows to other shows. This one is nothing like any other I have seen. Some didn't get the fact that Adrian Paul played his character slightly wooden because he wasn't comfortable in the human body. He was different than a human and he didn't know what a lot of things meant. Would you in the same situation? I like the science fiction angle, the romance not yet consummated, the range of the stories and the way all of the cast fit together well. I think it was a big mistake to cancel the show but this cable network is notorious for canceling the wrong shows and keeping others that aren't that good. This one should have gone at least another season but it didn't and that's a big shame. Loved it.

I had high hopes for Highlander star Adrian Paul's new series when I had first heard about it. I had very high hopes that he'd have success equal to--or greater than--Highlander:The Series.

My biggest disappointment was in how wooden Paul's performance of Cole was; and how cliché the underlying romance between "Cole" and the Mel seemed.

"Cole" was an alien tracker, sent to rid the earth of evil aliens disguised as humans. Unlike the evil aliens who kill each human that they commandeer the body off, Cole steals the likeness of a picture on the billboard. A gorgeous male underwear model. As he's running down the road, completely oblivious to the fact that he should be wearing clothing, he is picked up by the lovely blonde Mel. Yeah, I know. DOn't pick up hitchhikers--especially nekkid ones.

Each episode--correct me if I'm wrong--always seemed to be 1/2 about Mel and Cole and their underlying feelings, and her teaching him to act more human. The other half was about him absorbing the life forces of his enemies into this little octagon shaped device.

It's an okay SciFi series. Not great, just Okay. But not nearly as great as Highlander: The Series, and nowhere near as wonderful as Farscape.

A lot of people comparing to highlander. Which is unfair. This is a totally unfair it is a completely different genre. I think that Adrian Paul did a brilliant job.

People assume that aliens who come to earth can automatically speak and understand English.

Adrian Paul plays an alien entity that transforms into a human, using an image on a billboard. So obviously he's not going to know how the human body and speech works.

I'm disappointed they only did one season.

Give it a go. Do not judge it on one episode see how he transforms himself into a functioning human.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This production house produced some horrible tv in the late 90's, early 2000's, living off successes like Highlander the tv Series, they turned out one bad scripts and bad camera work, after another.

But this one was truly terrible. Seems like Adrial Paul thought he could act as good as Jeff Bridges who made the part seem lovable and cute, where as Adrial comes across as creepy and more creepy... yea, not surpised this one didn't have the success of their highlander serious previously...