TV Thoughts

[sdelmonte]

- The Dollhouse season premiere was far and away the best episode of the series to date. Joss seems to have found the right balance between Eliza and everyone else, utilizes the cast perfectly, and sets up a lot of interesting threads and interesting questions. The potential that the show had in season one looks like it might be fulfilled. Oh, and the script felt a lot more like what I like from Joss than anything he's done since Serenity.

- While I still have some qualms about the direction Supernatural is going, the second and third episodes make me feel better about the new season. The pacing and direction in both was quite good, and I think that the acting has been up to its old standards.

- Haven't seen FlashFoward yet. Did anyone try it?

Comments

[allisona.livejournal.com]

I saw "FlashForward". So far, so good. It has potential and I'll stick with it. I really like Robert J. Sawyer's novels in general, so I hope the show does his ideas justice.

[skygiants]

I watched it! I am not yet really impressed, but for John Cho and Jack Davenport and other people that I am happy to see on my screen I am going to give it a couple of episodes to find its feet.

[wanderlustlover]

I watched it and I've settled to this -- I think it contains potential to be awesome, but I am uncertain whether they will exercise it into being it yet. So maybe a handful more eps before IO decide to stick.

[bcgphoenix]

I'm with the others who say FlashForward has the potential to be really great, but also the potential to devolve into something...not so great. I'm not at the point of rabid fandom OMG MUST SEE, but I'm willing to give it a couple more weeks.

...I will say, though, that a lot of the sequences were alarmingly similar to Lost in a way that skated "ripped off" territory, right down to strange animals being where they shouldn't be (in this case, a kangaroo in downtown LA). That's part of why I haven't jumped in with both feet yet.

[rushin-doll.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the new Dollhouse yet, but with your recommendation it's definitely going on my "watch when I get home from work" list for the day.

As for FlashForward... What they said, mostly. It's a very clever setup, honestly, and the first episode did some very cool things, I felt. It's well-structured and everything... But it's not yet compelling. Good enough to give them another few episodes to find themselves, but we'll see.

One thing I'm torn between loving and fearing is that the flashes only run six months into the future. This can make for an extremely compelling one or two season show, but this is major American network television and if they can get away with it then it won't be just one or two seasons. I sort of shudder to think what sorts of narrative sacrifices are going to have to be made in order to make the show open-ended...

A bit rambly,
Ana

Cautiously optomistic

[maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com]

My concern is that every time they did something subtle, they quickly followed up by having someone comment on it, to make sure that nobody missed the subtle.