So, after 2 episodes of Jericho, I can honestly say that I am liking it. I just hope that the rest of the season is good too. What are your thoughts on the show? What do you think caused the nuclear exchange that occured and how vast is the devestation?
I'm way on the other side of the spectrum. In Rants I called it Dawson's Apocolypse yet I gave it another chance. It's not that I don't like certain shlocky programs, just that this one failed to grab me.
Two episodes thus far and both end with uplifting rock songs.
Skeet running around saving everybody from themselves. It reminds me of Our House with Wilford Brimley, but with fall-out and testicular tumors. I think they should just run Bonnie Tyler's "Holding out For A Hero" behind every scene with Skeet Skeet Skeet. Like the way the radioactive rain crashed down one nanosecond after he shut the cellar doors to the outside? So there's definitely a superhero tone mixed with a syrupy sweet hallmark message that we shall overcome... the end of the world. THE CITIES ARE GONE!!!--a homey bonding experience.
This show seems so based on THE STAND I hope someone paid King off.
BTW, I'm enchanted with the grittiness of end of the world scenarios, so this show missing for me was quite the suprise. I like when characters adapt in a bad situation, I just don't see any of the folks in this drama earning their instant adaptations. Like when people are all letting themselves be led around in schoolbuses like quiet sheep, fully knowing that a death cloud was minutes away and about to kill them all.
"Single file... there ya go..."
They did the same thing remaking the Night Stalker. Karl Kolshak is this Tiger Beat cover boy? GTHOOT!
Just reading your incisive words brought me low. So true, my friend. What a shocking loog in the eye of a brilliant show. One could list all of the differences between the original and the remake but it would just be depressing and time consuming.
Shame. Fie and for shame on them.
Oh, and here's a suggestion I could offer many shows... how about not devoting a full tenth of every show to sexual tension between main characters? Use that tenth to finish telling the story. Will they? Won't they? Is it normal to wait five seasons to seal the deal? Just try each other on already and see if it's a fit, like we do here in the real world. Life goes on after the first kiss, ya know.
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Life goes on after the first kiss, ya know.
Not on network TV, it doesn't. Moonlighting taught a lot of producers never to allow romantic tension to be broken by an actual hookup—they answered "will they or won't they" only to find that that question was the only thing that had kept viewers tuning in for all those years. The audience vanished overnight.
But back on topic, I like Jericho enough to keep my TiVo season pass for now, but I like Heroes better.
-Vic.
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Life goes on after the first kiss, ya know.Not on network TV, it doesn't. Moonlighting taught a lot of producers never to allow romantic tension to be broken by an actual hookup—they answered "will they or won't they" only to find that that question was the only thing that had kept viewers tuning in for all those years. The audience vanished overnight.
But back on topic, I like Jericho enough to keep my TiVo season pass for now, but I like Heroes better.
-Vic.
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I hear ya. I know why they do it... especially on a show like Moonlighting that speaks to the kind of audience who beg to simmer in the willtheywontthey hot tub for a few seasons. But what of people like me? Can I not see a modern movie or show that doesn't, as a rule, have to include a neither here no there sexual attraction subplot? Most sci-fi on TV is Melrose Space with varying facial make-up and uniforms.
I'm certainly not what you'd call prudish. I'm just bored, and sick of demographic marketing always getting in the way of the stories I want to see.
I enjoyed Invasion (a Shaun Cassidy joint) but that only lasted a year. Even there, though, there was tension between a man, his wife, his ex wife, her husband etc...
In Jericho Skeet's ex girl has a fiance. I guarantee you that, though missing out there somewhere in a world gone boom, he'll return to town in five episodes, right as or just after Skeet and the girl get their nostalgic swerve back on. WHATEVER WILL THEY DO?!
Cue: Torn Between Two Lovers or the theme from The Notebook.
I could sit through two episodes of Jericho, which is saying something since I have so many problems with parts, but I clicked away after a half hour of the Heroes premiere. I didn't see enough to properly articulate why it failed to ring my bell. Let me know how it turns out though. Maybe I'll come back.
That said, remember the movie Heroes with Henry Winkler? that was the first time I'd ever heard Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas. Could I have even possibly wound up more off-topic?
I don't think CBS was really interested in exploring the real concept of life after a nuclear attack. That, or perhaps someone with Strings suggested they "knock it off" - which, given the Hawkins character's backstory, could be a real possibility.
I started out watching the show with high hopes but mediocre expectations. I don't think I watched an episode in the last two months. It got too ... "soap-opera-ish" for me, I guess. And the technical errors and generally stupid blunders in things made it real hard to "suspend disbelief" for me.
Yeah, I *know* I could write better - heck, I could have taken what they aired as a rough-draft and *improved* it for them...but that topic ain't one that will sell easily these days.
(I wrote a term paper for Sophomore high-school English on "Surviving a nuclear war" back in 85-86, essentially off the top of my head and using only books I actually owned. I included maps of the state and likely targets with blast-zone calculations and prevaling wind patterns. That means I'd been learning for a long time *before* that, and I haven't slowed down yet...)