Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
I think the concept is really interesting and the characters were really dull. Maybe that can be corrected with Charlie from Lost coming in next week but there isn't really a single character from last night that I was invested in after viewing. A good story should draw you into and have you wanting to know what is going to happen to a character next. After the show was over, I was just thinking I wish they could scrap all these people and show me what is happening in Washington or with an entirely different set of characters.
I like Harold from Harold & Kumar. I think his story has the most potential, but I hope its more than just "he didn't have a vision so that means he's dead". Did you notice how he wasn't in the car immediately after everyone woke up from the blackout? Obviously there could be a simple explanation, but it would be cooler if he is like the guy in the surveilance video and he didn't black out at all and there's something much deeper going on.
Or, if they are going to stick with the simple "he's going to be dead in 6 months" storyline then I hope they do more with that angle. There has to be millions of people who didn't have visions because they will be dead so I hope the expound on that and how those people react knowing they have less than 6 months to live.
Btw, there are actually 3 Lost actors in it as far as I can tell....Charlie, Penny and in the previews I saw that woman who got ripped off by Sawyer and then later went on to befriend Kate in a bar. Plus, at the beginning of the show there was a billboard for Oceanic Airlines.
overall, the show has a lot of potential, but lets see if they build on that or if it fizzles out. I do agree that the characters didn't grab you from the start the way they did on Lost.
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LTG wrote:
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