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Charlie Jade is a very smart show with a lot of plot and fabulous production design and some dodgy gender dynamics and not much in the acting department.
The lead, in particular, is nowhere near strong enough to carry what they've given him.
Still, it's gorgeously shot, and it's complicated and twisty and intelligent.
Consuela, did you forget to mention that it is also slooooow, or does it pick up even a fraction of momentum (soonish)?
Did anyone else notice that SciFi is now burning off Charlie Jade at 3 am on Monday mornings?
Aww, crap!
Actually, I think that's Tuesday mornings at 3 AM. But the Sci-Fi channel's website is confusing because it lists Tuesday morning programming as Monday night.
No, I think you're right, Juliebird, it is kind of slow. I mean, individual episodes may be more or less suspenseful, but the overall plot does seem to move fairly slowly. It's not narratively compelling: I generally had to watch several episodes at a time, and then I would sometimes wait weeks to watch more. It just didn't hook me.
Well, I'll keep recording it and maybe watch several eps at a time. It's not like I really care when it airs since I timeshift everything anyway.
I'm with you on the slow, Tzegha, but it still intrigues me with the three parallel universes. It is just so very like hard sci-fi novels and so different from sci-fi TV. That made sense in my vodka addled brain.
It is just so very like hard sci-fi novels and so different from sci-fi TV.
Yes, I agree.
I think my main problem with this week's Fear Itself was the pacing. Admittedly I less intently when Colin wasn't on screen, but I think opportunities were wasted to kick back and let the menace make itself felt. The slow creepy feeling wasn't there--just a recitation of admittedly horrific facts.
Well, and I couldn't figure out how that happened. . . I wanted to have some sort of explanation.
(I totally noticed that Charlie Jade got moved to 2 AM central Tuesdays. . . sigh.)
I couldn't figure out how that happened.
That too...they invoked God's name, and to what end? Not a very nice one. If the family had survived and it had been some way to get the baddie on the books doing something bad, but no.