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You know what, watching shows on Fox teaches you a lot about show business. As in, never ever ever trust someone else to market your product. To do so is so risky. I mean look at the dozens of shows that have been killed by the Fox marketing department.
And of course, tonite I had to be introduced to yet one more casualty. Yes, after months of hearing fans bemoan it's loss, critics say how much it had improved, etc, I made the mistake of actually watching Tru Calling....and promptly fell in love. I already knew it was dead. I know they are only showing what had already been filmed. This show has no chance except for a dvd release and another mark on the wall of "shows killed by bad marketing".
To be true, I never gave the show a chance. I believed the hype that the TV ads for it show --- a blatant and uninspired rip-off of Early Edition and its better predecesor Quantum Leap. 'Nuff said. Now granted, everything I have to squee about is based on one show..so maybe the first season did suck incredibly badly, I don't know (if it did, tell me so I'm not tempted to spend any money on the dvds, k thanks). But from what I've seen tonite, the show has some writers with talent, directors who aren't completely inept, and the actors are good --- Point Pleasant only had one of those things and we saw how miserably that turned out despite our clinging to the hope that the Jossverse would be extended after the demise of Mutant Enemy.
Anyway..anything else I say has to go behind a cut tag because I don't know how much of what I gathered from tonite's show is spoilers or is plot previously tread upon:
So yeah, as I said before, I felt that based on TV ads that this show was retreading the same ground that Early Edition had already covered. EE was boring...I'm sorry it was. It started to get a little interesting at the end, but it was just blah.. a lot of that I think is because it came WAY too close to the memory of Quantum Leap. Still it survived thanks to it's Touched by an Angel vibe.
Tru Calling ain't EE at least not this season. I love how instead of making the whole good vs evil fight a distant thing and something to be mused over, they've made it very personal. I'd love to know what the history between Priestley and Dushku's characters is. But the whole fight between them kept the show interesting even though I realized early on that he was throwing red herrings all over the place. But the kicker---the end and seeing that the love interest of the morgue guy is in on it too, oh, man, I love it. So whoever the PTB is, they are trying to take down Tru and whoever helps her. *whoot* I love it. Reeks of last season of Angel, but what the hell, I still love it.
And I like the philosophy of it too. Of the talk of Tru's gift being from the powers, yet Jack throws that in Tru's face.
Now then, I dunno if that show was representative of the entire past of the show, but if that had been the pilot, I'd have been hooked. *shrugs* Oh well, live and learn. At least I can be happy that it's on fox so i have the hope of seeing dvds some day. Oh and one last note on the marketing department --- smack them down when they put too many gorram spoilers in the next week preview!! Tzao Gao!!!! now I dont even need to watch it --- hell, I could probably write the entire gorram thing from what they showed in the preview. *stupid fox marketing execs*
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And of course, tonite I had to be introduced to yet one more casualty. Yes, after months of hearing fans bemoan it's loss, critics say how much it had improved, etc, I made the mistake of actually watching Tru Calling....and promptly fell in love. I already knew it was dead. I know they are only showing what had already been filmed. This show has no chance except for a dvd release and another mark on the wall of "shows killed by bad marketing".
To be true, I never gave the show a chance. I believed the hype that the TV ads for it show --- a blatant and uninspired rip-off of Early Edition and its better predecesor Quantum Leap. 'Nuff said. Now granted, everything I have to squee about is based on one show..so maybe the first season did suck incredibly badly, I don't know (if it did, tell me so I'm not tempted to spend any money on the dvds, k thanks). But from what I've seen tonite, the show has some writers with talent, directors who aren't completely inept, and the actors are good --- Point Pleasant only had one of those things and we saw how miserably that turned out despite our clinging to the hope that the Jossverse would be extended after the demise of Mutant Enemy.
Anyway..anything else I say has to go behind a cut tag because I don't know how much of what I gathered from tonite's show is spoilers or is plot previously tread upon:
So yeah, as I said before, I felt that based on TV ads that this show was retreading the same ground that Early Edition had already covered. EE was boring...I'm sorry it was. It started to get a little interesting at the end, but it was just blah.. a lot of that I think is because it came WAY too close to the memory of Quantum Leap. Still it survived thanks to it's Touched by an Angel vibe.
Tru Calling ain't EE at least not this season. I love how instead of making the whole good vs evil fight a distant thing and something to be mused over, they've made it very personal. I'd love to know what the history between Priestley and Dushku's characters is. But the whole fight between them kept the show interesting even though I realized early on that he was throwing red herrings all over the place. But the kicker---the end and seeing that the love interest of the morgue guy is in on it too, oh, man, I love it. So whoever the PTB is, they are trying to take down Tru and whoever helps her. *whoot* I love it. Reeks of last season of Angel, but what the hell, I still love it.
And I like the philosophy of it too. Of the talk of Tru's gift being from the powers, yet Jack throws that in Tru's face.
Now then, I dunno if that show was representative of the entire past of the show, but if that had been the pilot, I'd have been hooked. *shrugs* Oh well, live and learn. At least I can be happy that it's on fox so i have the hope of seeing dvds some day. Oh and one last note on the marketing department --- smack them down when they put too many gorram spoilers in the next week preview!! Tzao Gao!!!! now I dont even need to watch it --- hell, I could probably write the entire gorram thing from what they showed in the preview. *stupid fox marketing execs*
And my icon is by the illustrious
bdgeministar. You'll be seeing a lot of it around till we get a peep out of neroli66. At least we figure she's surely scanning her flist while bored at work (and boy is she in for some fun when she does:)
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::looks hopefully in her general direction::
I made a specific point NOT to watch Tru Calling because I cannot have any more fandoms until after the semester's over. I cannot.
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And there's an episode with a guest appearance by Christina Hendricks (aka Saffron/Bridget/Yolanda)!
So yeah, if you'd like CD burns of the eps, I'm sure I could hook you up. :)