Totally loses when you compare the casting of the leads.
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§ ita § - Mar 05, 2008 4:35:57 pm PST #809 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - Mar 05, 2008 5:03:02 pm PST #810 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I think that the procedural aspects of the show are only a framework to hang the real story on - which is his search for his one true love and the end of his immortality.
Juliebird - Mar 05, 2008 5:03:07 pm PST #811 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'd heard the Life comparison over at TWoP and can sorta see it, in a poor man's poor-man's sorta way, and then I just think "You are no Dani Reese, I know Dani Reese, and you, missy, are no Dani Reese." /misquotes horribly
and now I just despise Eva Marquez. Upon rewatch, and sober, NA is rather awful. Nikolaj is still delicious.
That said, I agree with sumi that it's more structured around the sci-fi/fantasy aspect of solving the case of his immortality (One Twu Wuv!!!!!), than it is solving the case of the crime-of-the-week.
§ ita § - Mar 05, 2008 5:24:23 pm PST #812 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's the small swarthy female partner that makes it Life-like, and pretty much nothing else.
I mean, aside from the cop show thing.
sumi - Mar 05, 2008 5:30:31 pm PST #813 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Oh and she's from a family of cops too.
Laura - Mar 05, 2008 5:38:58 pm PST #814 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
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Juliebird - Mar 05, 2008 5:40:36 pm PST #815 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
and she wants to get into narcotics.
She's like a pussy pre-Life Dani, before she got into undercover work. I can't stop comparing Eva to Dani and thinking how awesome Dani is. Although I thought Dani was already f***ing awesome to begin with. Like, Scully awesome. Possibly more awesome than Scully /sacri-- sacra-- blasphemy.
sumi - Mar 05, 2008 5:53:35 pm PST #816 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Oh yeah, Dani is totally awesome and the way that she and Charlie work together - also totally awesome.
Juliebird - Mar 05, 2008 6:05:41 pm PST #817 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
And yet Nikolaj is hot like burning.
I enjoyed Zuleikha Robinson as Gaia, in a love-to-hate sorta way, but here she seems to be playing someone young and naive and inexperienced, which I didn't expect. and am not liking, and I don't know if that's because of the characters I've seen her play before, or because I'm comparing her to Dani Reese/Sarah Shahi, or because the character just sucks.
Of course, I'll give the second ep a chance and see how they settled in.
Trudy Booth - Mar 05, 2008 6:10:40 pm PST #818 of 30001
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