I saw parts of episodes of "Charlie Jade" when I was in South Africa a few years ago. Though I never saw a full episode, the show looked pretty cool. I will watch this on Sci-Fi.
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Invisible Green - May 05, 2008 11:12:28 am PDT #2201 of 30001
Dana - May 05, 2008 11:16:59 am PDT #2202 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Huh. We made it through four episodes of Charlie Jade and then deleted the rest from the computer.
I might give it a second try, though I wonder if Sci-Fi will stick with it through all 20 episodes.
DXMachina - May 05, 2008 11:59:59 am PDT #2203 of 30001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
New shows and scheduling updates for Scifi shows.
Eureka's getting 21 episodes this year.
sumi - May 05, 2008 12:05:54 pm PDT #2204 of 30001
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Exactly.
But much like BSG they're splitting the season and not letting us know when we're going to have the second half.
(First half starts in July.)
§ ita § - May 05, 2008 12:29:46 pm PDT #2205 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're kind of splitting the shooting, but he will mostly be away for one big block. He leaves pretty soon too.
Consuela - May 05, 2008 5:36:59 pm PDT #2206 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I watched all of Charlie Jade.
Unspoilery comments: it is beautifully-made. Gorgeous production design, used consistently throughout the series. The writing is possibly too smart for its own good: it's often hard to follow the very complicated plot.
The acting is okay but not great, generally. The guy who plays Charlie just comes across to me as a low-rent Matthew Fox (who I don't think is all that great either). He's not capable of the range the character needs, or mature enough to pull off the noirish world-weary cynicism of the character. I was unimpressed.
The cast is nicely multi-ethnic, with a fair number of women, most of whom are fairly active. Though there is one woman who I found appallingly passive and uninteresting--and the actress wasn't very good, either.
Over all, I'd say it's a decent series, with a lot of smarts behind it, and very stylishly-done, but it's lacking some narrative stickiness. I rarely found myself compelled to watch multiple episodes in a row. Possibly they just didn't give me any characters to really attach to.
sumi - May 06, 2008 6:57:05 am PDT #2207 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Spaced the Complete Series is coming out on DVD in North America on July 22nd.
Hayden - May 06, 2008 7:09:32 am PDT #2208 of 30001
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I just caught up with BSG last night, and I'm with Jessica: I like the pacing of this season so far, although I recognize that we're in the minority.
Jessica - May 06, 2008 7:57:24 am PDT #2209 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Someone should do a survey which tracks correlation between liking this season of BSG and liking Terrence Malick movies.
sumi - May 06, 2008 7:59:45 am PDT #2210 of 30001
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I like this season of BSG - I just liked last episode less than I was expecting to.