There was a [legal] free preview available. I gave about 12 minutes of my life to it before I gave up in disgust. Listen to Ginger.
Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?
Spike ,'Get It Done'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
Typo Boy - Oct 02, 2013 6:00:01 pm PDT #10081 of 11831
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Una - Oct 02, 2013 7:41:04 pm PDT #10082 of 11831
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Thanks, WindSparrow! Sounds like I didn't miss anything after all.
le nubian - Oct 02, 2013 7:52:37 pm PDT #10083 of 11831
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
In case you didn't believe that Ironside could be as bad as the reviews: Believe. Don't say I never did anything for you.
Ginger, I trust your judgment. I really wanted to see the show too. Bah.
Dana - Oct 03, 2013 3:41:49 am PDT #10084 of 11831
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We watched the pilot. Very typical "He doesn't play by the rules!" show.
brenda m - Oct 03, 2013 3:56:38 am PDT #10085 of 11831
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I likeBlair Underwood enough to give it a couple of eps.
erikaj - Oct 03, 2013 7:29:59 am PDT #10086 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
Could be good, but is kind of not.I went on for some length at LJ if you want to read it, but I could not follow the case of the week. Blair was good, though.
sj - Oct 03, 2013 8:06:48 am PDT #10087 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm not sure where the line is for me wrt to non-disabled actors playing disabled characters, but I know Ironside is over that line.
erikaj - Oct 03, 2013 8:16:06 am PDT #10088 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't think seeing him in flashback is absolutely essential, actually I think it plays to a bias that injured people need to be thinking about life Before, or whatever, which keeps me from telling my story on TV because I don't have one. I think probably they sold the show, based on Underwood's involvement(which should have been a mixed bag as I love him, but he's made a lot of stuff that hasn't lasted and/or crap.)
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2013 8:18:39 am PDT #10089 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know Ironside is over that line.
How?
sj - Oct 03, 2013 1:51:13 pm PDT #10090 of 11831
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
How?
I'm not really sure. It's mostly just a gut thing. Although partially it is quotes I've seen from the show runners talking about the fact that they would have to show scenes of him before the accident throughout the series so that they had to have an able bodied actor. Which seemed to imply, at least for me, that a show about solely about a guy in a wheelchair would not be interesting by itself. I get the impression that this may be the kind of show that has the character get some miraculous surgery at the end of the run, so he is no longer handicapped, and, therefore, everything is right in the world again.