someone mentioned Heroes on nbc. caught a few minutes of it and it seemed promising. without ever having seen lost, im going to say they share a sensibility. add in an x-men factor and probably a hint of 24. watch for yourself. theres a two minute synopsis or the first episode available online.
Looks more comic book-pulpy than Lost. I did like the cheerleader straighening her own popped-out shoulder.
But there are no mountains in Odessa, TX! It's perfectly flat as far as you can see.
im no authority on pulpiness but it seems a step away from the wb-style supernatural high school self conscious drama. they have some "graphic novel" tie-in to the plot as well. my imagined connection to lost had to do with character development and multiple subplots ultimately tied together through some slowly revealed ultimate truth which will never be entirely known. i dont know. could quickly devolve if the characters are uninteresting.
Has the new Lost season started? I can't find it on line in the, uh, TV Guide.
i think next week.
I was responding mostly to the Indian professor talking at the top of his lungs about "the next step in human evolution," which seemed pretty Stan Lee. Nevertheless, I'm a sucker for stories about ordinary people with special powers.
Lost, for all its X-files "mysterious phenomena" trappings, is mostly about real people, who don't realize how twisted their lives are in the Modern world until they lose everything in the crash. The pre-crash flashbacks are really important to the story.
The X-files craziness keeps everyone in a state of constant crisis and suspense, but it's McGuffinville on that island. In every good way.
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- dave 9-28-2006 5:16 am
Looks more comic book-pulpy than Lost. I did like the cheerleader straighening her own popped-out shoulder.
But there are no mountains in Odessa, TX! It's perfectly flat as far as you can see.
- tom moody 9-28-2006 5:55 am [add a comment]
im no authority on pulpiness but it seems a step away from the wb-style supernatural high school self conscious drama. they have some "graphic novel" tie-in to the plot as well. my imagined connection to lost had to do with character development and multiple subplots ultimately tied together through some slowly revealed ultimate truth which will never be entirely known. i dont know. could quickly devolve if the characters are uninteresting.
- dave 9-28-2006 6:10 am [add a comment]
Has the new Lost season started? I can't find it
on linein the, uh, TV Guide.- jim 9-28-2006 6:28 am [add a comment]
i think next week.
- dave 9-28-2006 6:38 am [add a comment]
I was responding mostly to the Indian professor talking at the top of his lungs about "the next step in human evolution," which seemed pretty Stan Lee. Nevertheless, I'm a sucker for stories about ordinary people with special powers.
Lost, for all its X-files "mysterious phenomena" trappings, is mostly about real people, who don't realize how twisted their lives are in the Modern world until they lose everything in the crash. The pre-crash flashbacks are really important to the story.
The X-files craziness keeps everyone in a state of constant crisis and suspense, but it's McGuffinville on that island. In every good way.
- tom moody 9-28-2006 7:23 am [add a comment]