Musings on new Telly
Tuesday, November 4th, 2003 01:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanWatched the first episode of Tru Callling tonight.
It stars Eliza Dushku, better known as Faith from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.She's a comely wench, 'tis true, but a TV series needs more than that.
Essentially the idea is very simple.Faith Tru (Trudy? We're not told) has the ability to relive the previous 24 hours to give her the chance to right some wrong, or more accurately, stop it ever happening. Not an original idea: there was a short-lived show about a bloke who kept getting tomorrow's newspaper and used this knowledge to prevent narstiness happening. We're not told how she acquires this ability - may be she was in a collision with a passing TARDIS?
The direction has visual moments that are stolen from Forever Knight via Angel, but largely the pilot episode reminds me stylistically of a one-shot Groundhog Day meets Run Lola, Run.
The plot is signposted in neon, and the resolution is so cheesy I almost wanted to swear off dairy produce.
There is potential, I suppose, but if it doesn't pick up VERY quickly, expect mid-season cancellation by the US networks. I guess that means we'll know in about three weeks.
Before that, I watched Angel, seaon 5 episode 5, Life of the Party. A nice idea that didn't quite have what it takes to fill out a full episode.
Still, although I'd already seen it, tonight's episode of SG-1, Lifeboat was very good. Michael Shanks acted his nuts off and, big softie me, managed a brief mioment of episodal goiter even though I knew how it resolved in advance.
It stars Eliza Dushku, better known as Faith from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.She's a comely wench, 'tis true, but a TV series needs more than that.
Essentially the idea is very simple.
The direction has visual moments that are stolen from Forever Knight via Angel, but largely the pilot episode reminds me stylistically of a one-shot Groundhog Day meets Run Lola, Run.
The plot is signposted in neon, and the resolution is so cheesy I almost wanted to swear off dairy produce.
There is potential, I suppose, but if it doesn't pick up VERY quickly, expect mid-season cancellation by the US networks. I guess that means we'll know in about three weeks.
Before that, I watched Angel, seaon 5 episode 5, Life of the Party. A nice idea that didn't quite have what it takes to fill out a full episode.
Still, although I'd already seen it, tonight's episode of SG-1, Lifeboat was very good. Michael Shanks acted his nuts off and, big softie me, managed a brief mioment of episodal goiter even though I knew how it resolved in advance.