NBC's new series written potluck style!

NBC has a new series this season called "Surface" about extraterrestrial invasion, (but then what network doesn't have an ET theme in one of its shows?). On the show's splash page on the network's website they quote the LA Times as "It is a Spielberg pastiche through and through...an excellent one." I agree with the first part of the quote, it's definitely a pastiche. Let's see.. there's some Jaws, some Close Encounters, some E.T, possibly some Jurassic Park (we'll see what that thing was), some SeaQuest... then there's some Moby Dick and I'm sure that I'm missing some of the other sources from which they cribbed the script. So the show is most definitely a pastiche. However, I wouldn't call it an excellent one. It's not like a potluck featuring Daniel Boulud, Alice Waters and the Two Fat Ladies and organized by Martha Stewart. It's more like the potluck in your friend's church's basement where they brought food that was just weird like green jello with carrot shavings, chicken fried in frosted flakes and 18 types of potato salad. It's all LIKE food you know, but it just doesn't taste right. That's what Surface is like. Yeah.