On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:58:40 +0200, ravenlynne <ravenlynne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>lurkinghorror wrote:
>> In article <5fc8e$46f7b653$436e8957$32388@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Gary
>> Shyler <hooknosedcrazywackjob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> It look like a cross btwn 'Johnny Mnemonic' and 'Flight of the
Navigator.
>>
>> Actually, it is Jake 3.0
>>
>>> It should be funny. Good luck, Chuck. I'm ditching Prison Break for
this.
>>>
>> Well, I'll be recording Prison Break for later. I've talked to a couple
>> of people that saw Chuck already, and say it is pretty good.
>>
>
>It's great if you view it as a comedy instead of SciFi.
When I saw the pilot at Comic-Con, I considered it from all four
levels -- as just a comedy, as just Sci-Fi, as just a spy/suspense
thriller and as all of the above. It fails on all levels by being
*far* too on-the-nose to be a comedy (it can't even be considered camp
because it's trying too hard to be camp), it fails as Sci-Fi because,
well, the cyberpunk memory download premise only worked for The Matrix
and Neuromancer (the novel, which inspired The Matrix Trilogy) and
failed with (the movie) Johnny Mnemonic. And it failed as a
spy/suspense thriller with spys-protecting-geek having been done to
death and the dance-while-throwing-weapons thang having been stolen
directly from the iconic scene from Mr. & Mrs. Smith (and probably
elsewhere). And which seems to be a scene that they'll be repeating
in variation in every. single. episode, if the previews for upcoming
episodes are any indication (caught the previews just as I was tuning
in for Heroes).
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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