Taffer36 on 30/9/2008 at 22:42
I only watched the premiere for Fringe, but I quickly labeled it as fairly dull and uninteresting.
There were just too many things in it that I was hoping the director would've said, "hey this doesn't make any sense," or "I'm pretty sure that's not how the FBI does that." My personal favorite part was when...
...a SWAT team got ready to breach the house of someone considered dangerous, but they DIDN'T BLOCK THE BACKDOOR. What the fuck? Every fucking possible exit would be accounted for, yet the bad guy just slips out the back.
The writing also bothered me a bit. I'm sure the story itself wasn't bad but it generally felt like there were just too many words. The way people spoke, it felt like they were purposefully explaining things to the audience instead of having a conversation. I know writing HAS to do this to a degree, but I thought it was a bit too obvious.
I've been told that it's gotten better by a few people, so I might consider giving it another chance.
Muzman on 13/4/2009 at 03:58
Rather than fill up the 'wot yoo watching' thread there's this.
Ok so is
Sarah Connor Chronicles any good yet or what? I can be convinced, I've just got a long list of stuff to watch (which gets regularly bumped for watching
Deadwood or
The Wire again, which is a bit sad. I haven't even watched the end of Battlestar yet, but I guess we shouldn't call it second rate).
Anyway did you folks ever hear of a show called
Jeremiah? It's a post apocalyptic show that I suspect was largely confused with
Jericho and vanished with barely a trace. It's what Michael Strazinski did after Babylon 5; there's a virus that kills everyone who has reached puberty. The show kicks off 15 years after it wipes out most of the planet and the world is populated by overgrown kids all Lord of the Flies and so on. It's got the son from the Cosby show in it! And it's weirdly adult in places, even though the tone of the show is pretty mainstream, prime time sci-fi.
I haven't watched much, I'm just curious if anyone's heard of it. I was a little amazed to discover it even existed.
Any thoughts on the English show
Survivors from last year? It's much more
Dun Duuunn sort of action packed compared to the much slower and longer original from the seventies. Loses depth that way as well (I have trouble convincing myself that in a large disaster that people will go completely feral almost immediately, but it's just so rote in disaster stories and zombie movies etc that we kinda expect it. The original
Survivors spaced it out a lot better but is probably too slow for kids raised on
24 et al).
On a similar note they are finally remaking
Day of The Triffids, which I'm hoping will be first rate.
Incidentally I tried catching up with
Alias, hearing that it was a pretty good show. To my horror it could slot in here quite nicely. I quite like all the rip roaring spy nonsense but all this Nostradamus/Davinci Code bullshit shows up right away! (some 14th century guy invents some fusion power garbage that no one could understand until now and everyone wants it). Please tell me that junk goes away and they get back to spy stuff later on?
Anyhoo, what else is out there? Who's watching
Dollhouse? It mostly gets a resounding 'meh' around the traps and everyone's waiting for it to be cancelled. But it could turn out ok from reportage on recent episodes (even though the main theme seems fairly obvious. Why do all mind wipe stories end up pretty much the same as
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102768/) Regarding Henry? I don't know).
june gloom on 13/4/2009 at 06:16
Jericho was pretty good- is Jeremiah worth watching?
As for Dollhouse it can't be any worse than anything else Joss Whedon's ever - no wait yes it can.
thefonz on 13/4/2009 at 08:18
Dollhouse is truly awful; even the delectible Eliza Dushku cannot save it.
Fringe is awesome now; I agree the pilot was boring but stick with it - if anything for John Noble.
rachel on 18/5/2009 at 09:23
I saw the final episodes of TSCC this week-end and although it took its time it got way better mid-season onwards, and especially towards the end. The final two are made of win.
Though it could work as a series finale, I hope they'll get a third season.
Muzman on 18/5/2009 at 15:28
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Jericho was pretty good- is
Jeremiah worth watching?
Now that I've watched a few more I can safely say yyyyyyynnnnnn... I don't know.
As I said, it's very weird tonally. It seems like every other sci-fi series from around 2003-4 in terms of budget, acting, dialogue, effects, music etc. Perhaps a bit gloomier but it doesn't have the
Serious Business vibe Battlestar strove for at all costs, for instance. You can watch this sometimes and think it's a serious earthbound Stargate spinoff or something. But then swearing! and boobs! and summary execution! and rape! (often in that order. I swear there is sexual assault in every episode, usually with people's clothes being torn off by gangs of thugs).
They haven't really got a solid mythology yet, which is what it needs to keep me interested. So far it's mainly standalones as our heroes travel around gathering intel on just how fun the world is for everyone and how whacky they've become (numerous heavily armed autocrats setting up personal fiefdoms you don't want to go near, mainly).
It's interesting if you like post-apoc stuff (*raises hand*) but not must see so far. It also carries a Luke Perry warning; 90210 notwithstanding, I never had a big problem with the guy, but I know some can't stand him. However Jason Priestly turns up in one episode. If Shannon Doherty makes an appearance I'll have to draw the line.
ZymeAddict on 18/5/2009 at 20:40
Regarding Sarah Connor Chronicles - I heard somewhere that the writers suggested that the show is actually a separate timeline which branched off from T2 and this supposedly happened because of all the fucking around Skynet and Co. have been doing with the space-time continuum (hence why the events of T3 are essentially ignored in the show).
Has anyone else heard anything about this?
Fafhrd on 19/5/2009 at 03:17
With a whole seven critics, including such luminaries of film criticism as Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.com. It'll probably end up as a solid high 60s/low to mid 70s once all the critics have registered their reviews.
And yeah, the final few episodes of TSCC pretty much outright stated that the timelines were utterly fucked from where Kyle Reese started from in Terminator.
Scots Taffer on 19/5/2009 at 03:30
I think I've said this a few times before but I always take RT ratings seriously for the early crop of reviews when it comes to genre flicks - advance reviews are usually screamers. We'll see how it goes but I predict it'll be lucky to scrape above the mid 50s, which is pretty dire let's face it.
