What I'm wondering is how the audience is supposed to engage and give a damn about Eliza's character, since it sounds like the premise is that she doesn't have a character. That's going to be fun for Eliza as an actor, but it's going to be damn tricky to engage the audience's affections if your gateway character is returned to blank slate every episode and has her personality reset.
But part of it is that she's starting to gain awareness, correct? I think the other blank slate characters could be very boring, but Echo is supposed to be unique because she's starting to remember stuff. TO me, it reminds me most of La Femme Nikita, but with only a certain percentage of ass-kicking.
I don't have enough information to be scared of anything yet.
I have enough things turning me into a seething ball of feminist rage right now without borrowing trouble before anything even hits my TV screen, therefore I am cautiously optimistic.
shrift is me. I think I'd like to, you know, see something before I make a judgment call on this premise.
I think you can judge the premise without pre-judging the product, really.
I'm not making a judgment call. I'm just having thoughts. I don't think anyone has said "this show will suck" or "I will not watch this show."
I think I'd like to, you know, see something before I make a judgment call on this premise.
Eh, I just like to have a starting baseline going in, y'know? That way, I'm not blindsided by Feminist Rage Issues like I was with Heroes. I can set my expectations to low, and be pleased whenever it exceeds them.
I don't see anything wrong with the premise, though. It's fear of its implementation--that it skews female and sexual and exploitative, which has *not* been stated--that people seem to be reacting to.
I don't see anything wrong with it either but I'm pretty sure what started us down this path was
I have to say I'm dubious about the premise of the show.
which was why I chose that word.
As to the implementation, I'm going to wait and see. Maybe it'll be the new BtVS kind of show. Maybe it'll be Bionic Woman. I just don't know.
Bionic Woman that doesn't suck? I'm in.
