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24 isn't until Jan. either. Boo hiss....
I forgot to set my Replay to record! GAH! Can anyone give a nice recap?
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24 isn't until Jan. either. Boo hiss....
I forgot to set my Replay to record! GAH! Can anyone give a nice recap?
AndiePandie said:24 isn't until Jan. either. Boo hiss....
I forgot to set my Replay to record! GAH! Can anyone give a nice recap?
Plane crash... the front and back of the plane broke off... only the mid section landed on the shore of this island... they did find the cockpit deeper in the jungle... the pilot was alive until some unseen growly thing killed him... the island tends to shift from day to night pretty quick. The characters talked a bit here and there... but nothing major... there's a doctor, a pregnant lady, some girl with hopes of being rescued, an asian couple who seems to be wanting to be on their own (the male does anyway), a lifeguard guy... they found out they're a thousand miles off course (so said the pilot before he died) so the odds of anybody looking for them where ever they are is slim...
Hmmmm... that's pretty much it. Oh... and there is this yellow lab (or something like that) that they (or just we) see every so often that looks like a house pet (not mean or vicious).
Yeah. Doesn't sound too exciting does it? I thought it was a good program until the "monster" bit... ah well. I'll give it a few more watches.
i think (i saw it on my tivo anyway) there's a 2 hour showing at the weekend (i guess next weekend) with the whole pilot (the pilot episodes 1 and 2 - not Eric Weiss the airplane pilot )
i thought it was good. a refreshing primetime show.
)i thought it was good. a refreshing primetime show.
Tivo Online is showing 10/2 as a reairing date with a 2 hour time slot (so both episodes of the Pilot).
Good spot!
Good spot!
Is there an arial shot of the island when the plane crashed? Maybe the island looks like some menacing figure?
I didn't really like the monster part of the plot. You could accept the rest of the story with a small grain of salt, but the monster requires one very large grain.
Might the monster be a Jaguar, a Panther, or a Tiger? Of course, maybe J.J. Abrams wouldn't do that because he's known to be a Mac guy, so he would have Jaguars, Panthers, and Tigers be good, not bad.
Maybe there's a very exclusive Club Med on the island, and they use jungle-style Zamboni machines for their security roundsl, and that's what the big thing in the forest is.
Might the monster be a Jaguar, a Panther, or a Tiger? Of course, maybe J.J. Abrams wouldn't do that because he's known to be a Mac guy, so he would have Jaguars, Panthers, and Tigers be good, not bad.
Maybe there's a very exclusive Club Med on the island, and they use jungle-style Zamboni machines for their security roundsl, and that's what the big thing in the forest is.
My neighbor was psyched about this premiere because it had the hobbit and some other person from Angel and 24 in it, so she Tivo'ed it and roped me into watching it.
I must say, the pilot didn't give me the slightest interest in seeing the next episode. It's like the network's trying to create a scripted drama out of all the Survivor/Fear Factor-type reality shows. The pacing is contrived and predictable--snippets of emotional, human interaction are alternated back and forth with Oh My God! Another Emergency! complications.
And half of those weren't even believable. The plane's crashed into ruined pieces of tortured metal, and yet one of the engines is still functioning enough to suck one of the Survivors into it? Riiiiight. Man, that's one well-made plane: In Pieces, and Stiiiiill Going!!
Further, the Hollywood "oooh! 'splosions!" rule is heartily in effect, as the unfortunate suckee makes said engine explode furiously. And then the heavy bit of wreckage teetering ever so precariously overhead *just* misses the pregnant woman--of course!--and BOOM! explodes too! even though it only seemed to be the twisted off top of the fuselage and showed no sign of containing any flammable substance whatsoever. And BOOM! this makes the other engine explode too! 'Cause, y'know, mechanical stuff's like, well, explosive. We all know that from countless action flicks with huge pyrotechnic budgets, right?
Don't even get me started on the mysterious beastie. Yes, it rattles and rolls about in the spooky darkness....but evidently this obviously horrifically carnivorous Thingy is still afraid enough of fire and large groups of people not to attack the beach or chew up the bodies in the front chunk of the plane left unattended in the jungle. And, despite its ravenous hunger, it just sorta chews the pilot up a bit, then leaves him mostly whole in a branch. Come on. Any carnivore worth its sharp pointy teeth is going to actually EAT its food. Are we supposed to believe it has merely cached him for later?
But I guess that's why its attack convinces the three of them to leave the only cover between there and the beach to run away from something that's obivously bigger and faster than them, through thick jungle, without weapons! Oooooh! The DRAMA!!!
The writing and character interaction would have to have been a heckuva lot better to make this overwrought manipulation of every dramatic mechanism at all interesting. Even the hints at revelations of the motivations and secrets of the various castaways seems like a hackneyed reassembling of every series that's used the whole "wildly different people forced together in emergency situation!" schtick before. Meh.
/rant
*cough* If you liked the show, I apologize for my tone, but y'know....just being my usual, tactlessly honest and mulishly opinionated self.
I must say, the pilot didn't give me the slightest interest in seeing the next episode. It's like the network's trying to create a scripted drama out of all the Survivor/Fear Factor-type reality shows. The pacing is contrived and predictable--snippets of emotional, human interaction are alternated back and forth with Oh My God! Another Emergency! complications.
And half of those weren't even believable. The plane's crashed into ruined pieces of tortured metal, and yet one of the engines is still functioning enough to suck one of the Survivors into it? Riiiiight. Man, that's one well-made plane: In Pieces, and Stiiiiill Going!!
Further, the Hollywood "oooh! 'splosions!" rule is heartily in effect, as the unfortunate suckee makes said engine explode furiously. And then the heavy bit of wreckage teetering ever so precariously overhead *just* misses the pregnant woman--of course!--and BOOM! explodes too! even though it only seemed to be the twisted off top of the fuselage and showed no sign of containing any flammable substance whatsoever. And BOOM! this makes the other engine explode too! 'Cause, y'know, mechanical stuff's like, well, explosive. We all know that from countless action flicks with huge pyrotechnic budgets, right?
Don't even get me started on the mysterious beastie. Yes, it rattles and rolls about in the spooky darkness....but evidently this obviously horrifically carnivorous Thingy is still afraid enough of fire and large groups of people not to attack the beach or chew up the bodies in the front chunk of the plane left unattended in the jungle. And, despite its ravenous hunger, it just sorta chews the pilot up a bit, then leaves him mostly whole in a branch. Come on. Any carnivore worth its sharp pointy teeth is going to actually EAT its food. Are we supposed to believe it has merely cached him for later?
But I guess that's why its attack convinces the three of them to leave the only cover between there and the beach to run away from something that's obivously bigger and faster than them, through thick jungle, without weapons! Oooooh! The DRAMA!!!
The writing and character interaction would have to have been a heckuva lot better to make this overwrought manipulation of every dramatic mechanism at all interesting. Even the hints at revelations of the motivations and secrets of the various castaways seems like a hackneyed reassembling of every series that's used the whole "wildly different people forced together in emergency situation!" schtick before. Meh.
/rant
*cough* If you liked the show, I apologize for my tone, but y'know....just being my usual, tactlessly honest and mulishly opinionated self.
SilentPanda said:Maybe it's this:
But ya know... like... bigger... and with sharp teeth.
AH! No! Noooo! Get it away! NOOOOO!! Ah! The humanity!!
Heh.. wait.. they're in the Pacific right? Maybe they met Godillza's baby. Something mutated by nuke testing back in the 50s. Oh for the love of feta, if that's what it is... I swear I will boycott ABC too.
yellow said:
(i haven't seen the show)
or perhaps the 'victims' of a giant genetic experiment that has gone wrong on the island ...
Actually, my neighbor did mention murmurings that the beastie could turn the show in the direction of the supernatural, in a kind of bait-and-switch.
If that's true, my money says that particular plot twist will be overdone in the same hackneyed way the rest of the show is, and be corny and lame.
Whatever it is, that's one big critter. With all the stomping, I expected a takeoff on the Jurassic Park water-shiver thing. And somehow I'm also inescapably reminded of that "movie outline" one of Jhonen Vasquez' Meanwhile strips where the Godzilla-like monster snaps up the kid, then is occasionally shown throughout the rest of the strip chewing on him like bubblegum while the kid struggles and yells.
Heh. I need to read those again.
If that's true, my money says that particular plot twist will be overdone in the same hackneyed way the rest of the show is, and be corny and lame.
Whatever it is, that's one big critter. With all the stomping, I expected a takeoff on the Jurassic Park water-shiver thing. And somehow I'm also inescapably reminded of that "movie outline" one of Jhonen Vasquez' Meanwhile strips where the Godzilla-like monster snaps up the kid, then is occasionally shown throughout the rest of the strip chewing on him like bubblegum while the kid struggles and yells.
Heh. I need to read those again.
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