Oh, bah. I thought Standoff was *terrible*. I tried to watch the pilot, mostly for Gina Torres and Ron Livingston, who I adore, and developed an instant hate-on for the two main characters 15 minutes into the show. The writing was pretty dire as well. Tim's involvement would usually mean I'd give anything a try, but with this one, I may have to pass. The scheduling opposite VMars is not helping, either.
I was going to ask what it is, because I hadn't heard of it. Even with this (the above) I have no clue, although I do have a dim memory of learning Gina had a show, I completely forgot about it. If it's opposite Veronica Mars, I can't watch it. Well I could, but when Veronica gets canceled, I'd blame myself. Even though I've never been part of a Nielsen household. Shut up.
Posters for Standoff are everywhere here, and I ♥ Ron Livingston (forgot about the Gina thing). Still, never stuck in my head long enough to make it to my TiVo. And the female lead looks annoying.
Some of the characters are extremely broadly drawn (like the tactical guy who always wants to go in and blow shit up)
I thought he was less annoying in the last episode. Then again, they did finally give him something to do.
From a Zap2it article about Fox changing it's schedule:
In addition, the industry trades are reporting that "Standoff" is shutting down production for 10 days. That extra time will allow new consulting producer Tim Minear ("Angel") to get up to speed ("You see, Tim, they're hostage negotiators and they're sleeping together. There. You're up to speed."). "Standoff" will have its last pre-baseball airing tonight.
Now if someone could just make us believe those two things, or even one of those things, I think the show would be vastly improved.
I suppose I'll watch anything if Tim writes it, but I'm not going to be racing to download previously aired episodes to get the backstory.
I shared the squinty opinion of the pilot ep of Standoff. The second was better. And the third was better by several notches, since it offered Gina more room to play, a juicy bit of backstory fueling some conflict. It could really be a good show with Tim at the helm.
I thought it was getting better, too, Beverly. But last night's ep was...not so good. It was like a really interesting idea gone horribly wrong.
