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Just imagine, next season, the other networks are all going to try to imitate it.
They already did this year because of LOST, 24 and PRISON BREAK, among others, and they mostly tanked (and LOST itself has been diving in the ratings). HEROES was one of the few (the only?) to catch on, possibly because the premise is dead simple to pick up - superheroes walk among us and many of them don't know it - and it also has loads of expansion potential (as opposed to shows based on a single incident like THE NINE or the two kidnapping shows).
Day Break (which I finally watched last night) is a show that feels like a regular cop-show but has a science fiction premise. You know, how everything you do effects the outcomes of any particular day. That could definitely be expressed better but I think you get me.
as opposed to shows based on a single incident like THE NINE
Count me as EXTREMELY pissed off that The Nine was sold as another Lost clone -- I think if they'd marketed it differently, it really could have caught on. It really wasn't just about the bank robbery, it was about the characters we met there. And they were great characters, and I'm very cranky that it got canceled when it did. They could have at least let it run through the full 14 and given the writers time to tie up some of the loose ends.
It wasn't at all like
Lost.
(And I'm happy that we at least got to find out what Jeremy did.)
I have to say that I'm more unhappy about
Kidnapped
but at least we're getting to watch the episodes on line. (
Kidnapped
had a slow beginning but man, from the first episode online forward has been really great.)
I love Kidnapped. We're watching it every week online as well.
Ando said "baka". Nice to know my Japanese from college hasn't completely disappeared.
Hee. I learned that one from anime and manga. And "sakura".
I'd missed that
The Nine
had officially been cancelled. That makes me sad, even though I knew it was bound to happen.
It really wasn't just about the bank robbery, it was about the characters we met there.
I never got the impression that they sold it as a LOST clone (other than it being lumped in with all the arc-y shows this year), but they definitely sold it as "the show about the bank robbery" which is why I suspect people didn't tune in.
And I'm happy that we at least got to find out what Jeremy did.
That was a good scene.
I never got the impression that they sold it as a LOST clone (other than it being lumped in with all the arc-y shows this year),
They sold it as following the Lost formula of "information about a central Mysterious Event will be doled out over the course of the season in very small, very annoying doses and nothing else of import will happen, ever."
I'd missed that The Nine had officially been cancelled.
Technically, it hasn't -- it's on the same kind of "hiatus" that Karen Sisco was put on. Three years ago.
Technically, it hasn't -- it's on the same kind of "hiatus" that Karen Sisco was put on. Three years ago.
Man, Karen Sisco. That was a great show. Stupid network and their trigger happy fingers.
I still remember the bit about "our friend from Chicago" and the duplicate shots of the plane flying overhead of two different hitmen. And Karen coming back to an empty apartment all banged up from a chase, then downing a glass of scotch in the dark. That show had such style.
I've watched a handful of episodes of The Nine and thought it was quite good. Also, Tim Daly is hot like burning and really should be on the show that doesn't get its promising legs cut off from undernetah. First Eyes and now this? Poor thing.
