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ratcreature) wrote2007-09-27 04:45 am
ratcreature) wrote2007-09-27 04:45 am
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I watched the pilot of Journeyman and I'm not really impressed. I usually like all kinds of time traveling in fiction (for example I don't think I mentioned it here but I quite enjoyed Day Break as long as it lasted -- it's on my mind also because the main character's mystery ex-girlfriend is the same actress who played the girlfriend in Day Break), so I gave this a try, but it was rather boring.
I even started doing typing exercises in the middle, despite my normal aversion to such multitasking, and that's just wrong. Not that I'm trying to improve my rather pathetic ten finger typing speed and accuracy, but that a new tv series makes you feel the need to occupy yourself beyond just watching it and getting to know the universe and the characters.
Strangely enough I found the plot somewhat boring and confusing at the same time. I guess the confusion could have been just due to me not giving it my full attention, but I don't think so. I mean, the basics and the setup for the longterm mystery arc were clear enough to me, so I can't have missed that much: Here's this guy who suddenly time travels (I'm bad with names), figures out that his mission(?) may be to help people, and also he angsts about it because it might cause him to loose his family, who think he lapsed back into his former drug habit that had his relationship in trouble in the first place. I liked that he's smart enough to arrange for some proof of time traveling through burying this ring, so at least the plot with the wife thinking that time travel guy is crazy or on drugs won't drag out endlessly past any logic. Then for the multi-episode arc there's the mystery ex-girlfriend who vanished in circumstances that have everyone think she's dead, only she's a time traveler too and may know about this stuff, but is for some reason too pissed off with her ex to explain things to him.
But the details made less sense, like why was the black guy he saved in the past turning homicidal? Okay, so the "mission" was to preserve this guy's kid, so first he makes sure the kid is going to exist in the first place, rather than his future mother leaving and getting an abortion, but the homicidal guy then tried to kill himself over his relationship troubles, so what happened that a few years later in the second part of the fix-it job, he's about to murder his family when they try to leave him? Maybe we just weren't supposed to care about the details of the first cosmic assignment.
I might give it another episode, because, time travel! but mostly it was meh.
I also gave Chuck a try, but I think I rather rewatch Jake 2.0 (what little there is of that series before they cancelled it), if I want a premise like that than this series.
I even started doing typing exercises in the middle, despite my normal aversion to such multitasking, and that's just wrong. Not that I'm trying to improve my rather pathetic ten finger typing speed and accuracy, but that a new tv series makes you feel the need to occupy yourself beyond just watching it and getting to know the universe and the characters.
Strangely enough I found the plot somewhat boring and confusing at the same time. I guess the confusion could have been just due to me not giving it my full attention, but I don't think so. I mean, the basics and the setup for the longterm mystery arc were clear enough to me, so I can't have missed that much: Here's this guy who suddenly time travels (I'm bad with names), figures out that his mission(?) may be to help people, and also he angsts about it because it might cause him to loose his family, who think he lapsed back into his former drug habit that had his relationship in trouble in the first place. I liked that he's smart enough to arrange for some proof of time traveling through burying this ring, so at least the plot with the wife thinking that time travel guy is crazy or on drugs won't drag out endlessly past any logic. Then for the multi-episode arc there's the mystery ex-girlfriend who vanished in circumstances that have everyone think she's dead, only she's a time traveler too and may know about this stuff, but is for some reason too pissed off with her ex to explain things to him.
But the details made less sense, like why was the black guy he saved in the past turning homicidal? Okay, so the "mission" was to preserve this guy's kid, so first he makes sure the kid is going to exist in the first place, rather than his future mother leaving and getting an abortion, but the homicidal guy then tried to kill himself over his relationship troubles, so what happened that a few years later in the second part of the fix-it job, he's about to murder his family when they try to leave him? Maybe we just weren't supposed to care about the details of the first cosmic assignment.
I might give it another episode, because, time travel! but mostly it was meh.
I also gave Chuck a try, but I think I rather rewatch Jake 2.0 (what little there is of that series before they cancelled it), if I want a premise like that than this series.
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As for Chuck, I'm not that fond of things that can't decide whether they are drama or comedy in genres where the two don't go together well with the level or realism/seriousness and such. I mean, drama with some humor in it is different, I like that, but I didn't think Chuck was all that funny, yet the set-up was often farce-like? Does that make sense? I actually have a similar problem with the House episodes I watched, it is sort of a drama, yet the whole set-up is clearly not like any kind of hospital could work, but engineered to give House funny and snarky character moments, so you can't take it seriously no matter how much you suspend disbelief, because it is internally inconsistent.
Also I may still be a bit bitter about Jake 2.0's cancellation fate...