Hey! LURKERS! You there. Come on out and tell me if you're convinced. You gonna watch? Buy the lunchbox? Why or why not?
Heh. Delurking long enough to say that I was a little worried about the creepiness factor (not a big fan of the real-world creepy) but your description of Rebecca as blank slate helped a lot. Of course, Tim had me at hello, too. At least for the first few episodes. But now I'm thinking it might last longer than that.
So your descriptions do help, not just confuse. (And when they do confuse, it's in that intriguing "I gotta wait how long to see what she means?" way.)
LOOK how powerful Allyson is. I'm akeered.
I think the first super bady mind-controlly character should be named Allyson or Ruby. ijs.
De-lurking to say--I was sold at Tim Minear, F.B.I. and serial killers. I'm a huge mystery fan and I am fascinated by psychology, but the cast and the descriptions that I keep reading are making me more anxious for this show to hurry up and air already.
Also saying, "Home" was the only hour of television to make me want to crawl out of my own skin--but it was the good kind of creepy and disturbing. The watch-from-the-hall-with-all-the-lights-on-while-peeking-through-your-fingers kind.
I suspect The Inside will be exactly the kind of show I can't not watch, but exactly the kind of show that will make me curse my weakness during the ensuing 3 a.m. insomniac existential crisisathon.
I am
so
JZ. Eek!
He had you all at "Hello" in the first place.
This also is so. If it's as creepy as it sounds, I may have to tape so I can watch earlier of an evening, which would probably mean a new VCR or TiVo. But hey, I got cable just for
Buffy
and
Angel.
Allyson brings all the lurkers to the yard! Woo hoo!
I'm not a lurker, and I wouldn't say I'm sold, but I'll certainly check out the 1st episode or two and then fall in love or not.
I'd be checking it out for 1) Tim 2)It's not one of those horrid sitcoms I can't stand 3)It's not one of those whiney family dramas I can't stand.
Hey! LURKERS! You there. Come on out and tell me if you're convinced.
Well, I was convinced anyway because it's Tim, but yes, between your writeups and the screenshots Kristen posted (mucho gracias, Kristen--I never watch TV anymore so I missed the promo), I'm now completely convinced and excited. "Home" was one of my favorite X-files episodes. Definitely the kind that stays with you--there's many eps I've forgotten but as soon as you said the title I knew which one you were talking about. Creepiness is good. I also love Rebecca's backstory--sounds like there's a lot of meat there to work with. I've already been pimping it to my friends, but I'll up my pimping level.
I think he's the first person who's been able to manipulate her since she was a little kid, and that causes her to trip a little, in surprise.
Wouldn't it be interesting if Web was somehow involved in Rebecca's kidnapping case? Hmm...
I'm with Heather. Minear's involvement is good enough to get me to watch the show, but I can't make any commitments about how I'll like it.
For what it's worth, I didn't much care for Wonderfalls when it was on tv, but I liked the whole run on DVD. I could say the same about Firefly. I wanted to like it more than I did during the tv run, but the episodes had problems that went down easier when watching the entire run, in order, on DVD.
