ourchair
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"Oh, so science isn't real unless it's something you can punch or kick?"
"The kick test is a very good test."
"The kick test is a very good test."
How is Global Frequency? (no spoilers)
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Bass
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The pilot to the tv show is great, save for it being to 'tee-vee-y".
Hot white scientist chick, handsome white jock, all set in San Francisco, and lots of "So who are you?" "Behold! My entire life history" "Thanx."
If it was a 30 minute action show, I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything better. The scenes with Zero (especially in the military base) are superb, as is the climax. All the stuff about the jock detective and the scientist was crappy.
That said - if it had been picked up, I'd've watched it. Just because it ain't perfect don't mean it weren't no good. I liked it.
Hot white scientist chick, handsome white jock, all set in San Francisco, and lots of "So who are you?" "Behold! My entire life history" "Thanx."
If it was a 30 minute action show, I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything better. The scenes with Zero (especially in the military base) are superb, as is the climax. All the stuff about the jock detective and the scientist was crappy.
That said - if it had been picked up, I'd've watched it. Just because it ain't perfect don't mean it weren't no good. I liked it.
thee great one
Master of TOG-fu.
There really was a tv pilot?
I must see it.
I must see it.
Bass
Nexus of the World
There really was.
It never even aired.
It's pretty cool - it's essentially the first issue of the series.
It never even aired.
It's pretty cool - it's essentially the first issue of the series.
ourchair
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I'd chalk that all up to pilot-itis.
After all, Zero, Aleph, Finch and Flynn were supposed to be the constants anyway, so I'm sure much of that "I exposition you" would have faded out further into a season.
Bass
Nexus of the World
No.
Some writers can have moments of brilliance and moments of stupidity, but exposition seems to be a different animal.
Writers generally handle exposition the same way throughout an entire work; elegantly, clumsily, or somewhere in between. Some writers improve, others weaken, but in the course of one work, it generally remains the same.
So episode #2 would have had crappily-delivered exposition about whichever Agent guest-starred that week. And that would've happened every week a new Agent showed up.
The show, however, would've ruled because of the exciting "We have an hour to save San Francisco!"
Some writers can have moments of brilliance and moments of stupidity, but exposition seems to be a different animal.
Writers generally handle exposition the same way throughout an entire work; elegantly, clumsily, or somewhere in between. Some writers improve, others weaken, but in the course of one work, it generally remains the same.
So episode #2 would have had crappily-delivered exposition about whichever Agent guest-starred that week. And that would've happened every week a new Agent showed up.
The show, however, would've ruled because of the exciting "We have an hour to save San Francisco!"
ourchair
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Can't argue with that.
And then the inevitable TV blog punditry would whine and ***** about how "Gosh why does every disaster seem to have only an hour to be stopped?" (See also: 24)Bass said:The show, however, would've ruled because of the exciting "We have an hour to save San Francisco!"
