I agree Matt. You can practically create a show that's anywhere from 50-100 on the 100-point Quality Scale, and the success of your show is still going to be mostly determined by a roll of the dice on premiere day.
Of course, FOX managed to nurture
House
despite bad ratings until they could lead it in with
Idol,
and suddenly it turned into a hit.
The Inside
just has a tough gig as the only new interesting thing on FOX over the summer. It's tough to market, you need people to just watch it and give it a shot, and
Stacked
isn't exactly gonna bring 'em running.
I'm curious, though, about two-hour events. I mean, I'm glad about it, but I'm not sure I'd be more likely to watch two hours of a show I didn't think I was interested in than one hour.
dude. is that Vasquez from Aliens in next week's ep?
SCORE! it is. love her.
I spotted that too. Jeannette Goldstein rocks.
Really enjoyed the episode, particularly the obviously Jane-ish touches in dialogue and Rachel/Mel interactions.
It seems completely unlikely to me that a 10 y.o. is strong enough to gut another kid, however. I've got a hard enough time cutting up a chicken.
Did she cut through bone or ligament? I've never guggle-to-zatched anyone, but it seems pretty easy to kill someone by going deep over the soft bits, and slicing skin over the hard ones.
How she got him to sit still escaped me.
She must have gotten awfully bloody, though. I am (as usual) retrospectively curious about the logistics -- how does a 10-year-old in a fairly closely-settled neighborhood manage to stick around to watch the mother find the body, then manage (after the screaming has started, mind) to get away and washed and dressed without being seen or leaving any trace?
It's mostly rhetorical. I know that killers get the crazy luck, what with no one ever sticking their heads out the window at the wrong time.
I've never guggle-to-zatched anyone,
Ooh, ita's read James Thurber. Yay!
Did she cut through bone or ligament?
She cut through muscle. There's no way she was strong enough to plunge the knife into his abdomen and move the knife. The muscles grip the blade, and it takes more strength than she got. She would have had to stab him in an artery, and once he bled out, then slice him open to see what was inside.
