Well, it looked like America - except it had a king.
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sumi - Mar 01, 2009 4:57:01 pm PST #7027 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2009 4:57:40 pm PST #7028 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I failed to get the "looked like America" thing. They all look like America. Or, well, Vancouver.
sumi - Mar 01, 2009 5:00:13 pm PST #7029 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
How many shows on regular tv aren't set in the USofA? Even Flashpoint seems to try to hide that fact that it's in Canada.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2009 5:02:33 pm PST #7030 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Flashpoint shows Canadian newspapers and the Toronto skyline. I was quite startled by that. But too many Americans for the accent to pervade.
In my head, NBC is more likely to make a series about an American soldier abroad than an alternate reality. The truth would never have occurred to me.
Dana - Mar 01, 2009 5:07:47 pm PST #7031 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Even Flashpoint seems to try to hide that fact that it's in Canada.
They call people Constable, and there have been other cues that they're in Toronto. It was startling, because usually they totally pretend to not be in Canada.
Jessica - Mar 01, 2009 5:26:40 pm PST #7032 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I failed to get the "looked like America" thing. They all look like America. Or, well, Vancouver.
Kings is very obviously shot in and around NYC, which I appreciate. (Except for the palace entrance being the steps in front of the Brooklyn Museum because anyone who's been there knows that those steps don't actually lead anywhere and are purely for show. It's distracting to see them used as a front door.)
NBC seems to be selling some vague "what if there were....KINGS? Also random butterflies!" thing when they should be selling it as West-Wing-meets-Rome.
Ep 2 holds up well. There are a few more "As we both know, Bob" scenes than I normally like, but it's excusable this early in the season, and the tidbits they drop are pretty juicy. (And more than there were in the pilot, which seems to have been written more as a standalone TV movie than as the first episode in a series.)
Hayden - Mar 01, 2009 5:33:38 pm PST #7033 of 30001
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Thanks for the rec, Jessica! I was going to tune because of Ian McShane, but the ads really do look bad.
megan walker - Mar 01, 2009 5:34:56 pm PST #7034 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
(Except for the palace entrance being the steps in front of the Brooklyn Museum
Now I have to watch--my old hood!
anyone who's been there knows that those steps don't actually lead anywhere and are purely for show. It's distracting to see them used as a front door.)
Well, they used to be a door... The real question is, do they show the crazy computerized fountain?
Consuela - Mar 01, 2009 6:57:53 pm PST #7035 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Do you think explaining the alternate universe thing would turn off more people than on? Because it piqued my interest mightily.
It looks like a nighttime soap with implausibly pretty cornfed white boys. And Ian McShane. Yes, an AU America with kings, but...
Ian McShane, much as I respect him, isn't enough to get me to watch a nightime soap about the angst of white boys.
If it is not, in fact, about the angst of white boys, I'm much more likely to turn in. John Connor and Cameron Mitchell notwithstanding, I've about had it with the angst of white boys.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2009 7:17:46 pm PST #7036 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
a nighttime soap with implausibly pretty cornfed white boys
I was thinking there wasn't much pretty in it at all.
I think a lot more interesting things can easily be done with an America with kings than with the scenario I'd been envisioning, so even without the good recs, I'd give it a look.
And, well, I got nothing against the angst of white boys.