So what sucks about this modern age is that it be premiere week and I've already seen most of these pilots (yarr). My own damn fault. Not really complaining though.
Watched Reaper because I saw the pre-Peregrym version, so there's that.
Journeyman, which I hadn't seen, was interesting, if not a little underdeveloped-seeming. Like it's not quite all there. Like it was a first draft that was shot. The thing at the end with digging up the ring, the crescendo if you will, was smooth though, a little manipulative, but I dug it anyway. Merits further viewing. The whole NBC line up for that night is just fun.
Watched Chuck again and noticed that Yvonne Stre-- Strc-- She changed the spelling of her name it seems. She seems to have gone for a phonetic spelling.
Thing I find myself doing in watching these new shows is preparing for one of them to possibly be spec bait. Three or so one-liners per show. Chuck was/is fun because it also has this episode title scheme of "Chuck Versus [fill in the blank]" With those, titles can generate ideas. Did it with Journeyman, Reaper, K-Ville. It's a good exercise. However if the spec bait breakout this year turns out to be Private Practice then the system really is broken. Broken like any piece of electronics on stage at the end of Nine Inch Nails set.
Bionic Woman has the new sister in it and some change-up in the parents thing. Personally, I could do without any sister at all. I'm just concerned about the goings-on in that series. Losing Glen Morgan (and in so doing any chance of Darin Morgan writing something).
My recent pilot script, Army of Me has a new title. Best Possible Dave. As a result, the main character is now called Dave. It's got more wide-ranging meaning and I like the name Dave. Fits the tone better too.
Haven't seen Life yet. Don't even really know much about it. Will watch it later, though.
DVR screwed up on K-Ville and grabbed me the much lower-priority Enterprise reruns. Wrongness. Will see how the sophomore episode stacks up later in the week. [tangent] Also, why did Enterprise teasers suck SO hard. They didn't tease anything most of the time. Were they just not trying anymore? "We got the Trekkies by their pointed ears, why bother?" Hence the four-year-run, eh?[/tangent]
I'm looking forward to seeing BIONIC WOMAN tonight, not only because it's the revised pilot, but because I overhead a conversation yesterday and I think this is the must-see show for girls 16-26.
I am also putting this out there - not having seen the revised show yet:
Why not have the intro of the sister be the hook for the end of the episode? Jamie goes through all this crap - thinks she's all alone in the world - THEN the sister shows up on her doorstep...
My whole complaint against the sister sub-plot has been that it was always shoe-horned into the show. This, to me would be the way to still shoe-horn her in, but in an interesting way, propelling the show into another direction for the 2nd episode and adding the much needed "complications" a show like this needs to deal with.
BW would do well to rent the DVDs of ALIAS and see how they balanced that stuff out.
K-Ville: I didn't see the second episode, but my fiancee/partner did and said it was better than the pilot, albeit nothing more than a typical procedural.
Bionic: Happy to hear this did well in the ratings, but the sister part was NOT what needed work if they were trying to improve the show. A couple of badly written exposition scenes and ill-conceived character scenes dragged this down for me. Not to mention the sort of Transformers: The Movie (the animated one) underdog ending. Not that I'm gonna stop watching anytime soon, though...there's promise here.
Reaper: Good, entertaining, speccable.
Chuck: Good, entertainng, speccable.
Journeyman: Kind of painful. I didn't hate it as much as Jul, but the characters were so underdeveloped before the time jumps start that I had a hard time caring. Still holding out hope, though.
Gossip Girl: Not awful, not great. Sad to say that the worst written parts so far seem to be the Kristen Bell voiceovers. I could do without them.
I'm actually moderately excited/hopeful for Moonlight tonight. I read a not-bad review somewhere.
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I'm looking forward to seeing BIONIC WOMAN tonight, not only because it's the revised pilot, but because I overhead a conversation yesterday and I think this is the must-see show for girls 16-26.
I am also putting this out there - not having seen the revised show yet:
Why not have the intro of the sister be the hook for the end of the episode? Jamie goes through all this crap - thinks she's all alone in the world - THEN the sister shows up on her doorstep...
My whole complaint against the sister sub-plot has been that it was always shoe-horned into the show. This, to me would be the way to still shoe-horn her in, but in an interesting way, propelling the show into another direction for the 2nd episode and adding the much needed "complications" a show like this needs to deal with.
BW would do well to rent the DVDs of ALIAS and see how they balanced that stuff out.
K-Ville: I didn't see the second episode, but my fiancee/partner did and said it was better than the pilot, albeit nothing more than a typical procedural.
Bionic: Happy to hear this did well in the ratings, but the sister part was NOT what needed work if they were trying to improve the show. A couple of badly written exposition scenes and ill-conceived character scenes dragged this down for me. Not to mention the sort of Transformers: The Movie (the animated one) underdog ending. Not that I'm gonna stop watching anytime soon, though...there's promise here.
Reaper: Good, entertaining, speccable.
Chuck: Good, entertainng, speccable.
Journeyman: Kind of painful. I didn't hate it as much as Jul, but the characters were so underdeveloped before the time jumps start that I had a hard time caring. Still holding out hope, though.
Gossip Girl: Not awful, not great. Sad to say that the worst written parts so far seem to be the Kristen Bell voiceovers. I could do without them.
I'm actually moderately excited/hopeful for Moonlight tonight. I read a not-bad review somewhere.
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