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charloween) wrote2007-04-15 10:17 pm
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Drive, the 'anticipated' new show from our friends at FOX. Babbledy running commentary notes (about 1200 words' worth) from the Epic Two-Hour Premiere Event (tm, zomg):
I don't think I can take this show seriously from this teaser. It's all actiony and important. *eyeroll*
Okay. This one week later part changed my mind. Nathan's such a good actor. And is he actually using his Canadian accent? Oh, poor Mr. Tully, he's all broken.
I want Nathan Fillion. Even if he does look... older. *sniffle*
Though, I like how this woman who just gave birth isn't a skinny little waif. (I'm looking at you, Claire-from-Lost.)
AH. Ringing fruit basket! Best thing ever.
Not so much with the loving the opening credits song.
Tee hee Nathan Fillion farm boy. I wonder what would happen if he played a city dude. Nah, that's not possible. He's from Alberta. Oh, and driving a shitty old truck, too. You were right,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
serrico. It's just Mal Reynolds, but from Nebraska.
“I've snapped shut my satchel.” ... such an officious little bureaucrat. “I'll admit without the powerpoint it does seem a little far-fetched.” Officious and adorable.
The date on the missing poster is April 12, 2007.
The music sucks. Though, the editing and camerawork are making this scene really intense. Dude. We get it. It's TENSE.
Tee hee. Tully's a landscaper. :D
Who's that girl? Yet another familiar face, woo.
...AH. 28 Weeks Later trailer. I've just spent the past hour working on a paper about how the treatment of race in 28 Days Later reflects contemporary European attitudes towards immigration. I... I don't like my wacky papers showing up in ads on tv.
Sudden realization: This is going to be an entire series with painfully boring conversations carried out between people trapped in cars and subjected to merciless rear-projection.
“You're not just a gardener, are you?” SNERK. Tully's also a farmer. Duh. And a space pirate. :D
The creepy 32-year-old daughter who's supposedly 16 but looks like Lindsey Lohan's adequately-fed older sister? Is going to get old fast.
Yup, so. Mysterious characters.
“Don't take drugs and stay in school.” Snerk.
I like how how Tully is bitter without a trace of obvious humour. It's interesting how this format lets him play snarky and bitter and violent and mysterious because he's just one character in a huge ensemble cast. He doens't have to carry the show alone, so he can be as angry and dark as Mal could never be. A bit too late, FOX, but still... I'm a little happy.
AH. BROTHERS. I like these two. :D :D :D
“It was either you or the crazy lady with the plastic baby.” Oh, this show. You're winning me over despite all my instincts to roll my eyes at this show and walk away.
Oh, Nathan. Every scene and I love you more. The way you're playing these cheeky, snarky, charmingly awkward lines without making them comedic makes the character all the more endearing. LOVE. He's funny, but it's not humour just for humour's sake- he's playing it as a broken quality. The fact Tully can crack wise as a defense mechanism like this means that when he's not beaten down he's probably a great guy.
Hehehhehhee. Wendy's husband is Eeeeeeeeevil. Look at those eyebrows. Eeeeeeeeevil.
...oh, an ad for another “Anthony Hopkins is evil” film.
Hey, not her husband. And in this lighting, not so evil!
Oh, yeah. Nathan Fillion in a sexy black sports car. Oh... yeeeeah... *splorfle* How very Angel of them.
Please let that couple be Mrs. Tully's parents. Oh. That's not what the “son of a bitch” was about.
I wonder if that official's name is The Official. That would be cool.
OMG mysterious envelop? OMG.
TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO? You're just going to make this hopelessly confusing, aren't you, show? Epic mythologies, cast of thousands, road tripping gone bad...
So... the blonde chick riding with Tully is like that girl in Battle Royale 2, who joins the race just to get revenge? And why do I find her familiar? *imdbs her* Ah. She was in Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict. A vetran of quality television.
Oh, it's okay to kill the other blonde chick because she plays dirty. And therefore, is evil.
The screaming... “Maybe I imagined it.” BEAUTIFUL reading of that line. This entire scene. Brilliant. Again, he's giving this performance that could be funny but flat, but instead this character is so broken and touching and just... dimensionally. Oh, hey. EVEN MORE BRILLIANT. (So, Tully moved out to live a quiet life in the country because he wanted to get away from his violent past as a mob flunky, is that it? Oh, no. That was History of Violence.)
HOLY JESUS DID THAT JUST SAY THAT PAUL BEN-VICTOR IS IN THIS EPISODE?
Tully is so delightfully disconnected. And is hallucinating. Spiffy! At least this hallucinating hero will be likely to last beyond the first seven episodes. (*koff*Raines*koff*)
Again with Tully's disconnection. So funny and so awesome.
Dippy army girlfriend is skeevy.
...and Chuck Norris is shilling Moutain Dew. That's cosmically disappointing.
Oooh, dippy doomed blonde is in front of some wicked-bad rear projection. Oooh, that segues into some nifty sfx.
Hey, Mysterious Hitchhiking Blonde called him Alex. Ooop. “Alex” is getting angry. She wouldn't like him when he's angry.
Sudden realization #2: this series will not only contain at least one car-chase per episode, it is actually ONE GIANT CAR CHASE. *eyes glaze over*
Ooop. Tully gets beat by a laptop. Technology defeats the farmboy. How... transparent. In the spirit of finding fault with everything this show has to offer, I'll whine that it would have been nice to let Tully stay slightly ahead of the game rather than getting kicked again so soon. Fourth episode, sure. Maybe in the third. However. The stubble.
Please let the truck driver be YES YES YES PAUL BEN-VICTOR. ...who just winked at Mal. I mean. Tully. OMG crossover happening. Right here. Yey! Something in the back, eh? *eyebrow waggle* Like a truck full of Bobby Hobbes lovin'??
Heeeey. That scene was really short. I hope the Mysterious Truck Driver comes back, because that was way too short of a cameo to be satisfying.
Aaaand... are they all on different sides of the same orchard? I'm really enjoying this performance by the Wendy character.
Fight! Sequence! Action!Tully fights back!
... why do all of these ads suck? Why am I judging these ads based on the quality of their narratives? Why does this ad for House really suck?
Whoever's playing Ivy looks damn familiar, too.
Why the hell would The Thems put important information on a single flash drive? I mean, seriously. Do tv character just not watch television or something? Do they live in caves in ignorance of the past 60 years of film and television cliches? Or is there a parallel universe where characters on tv live in a world where television is simply a medium for narratively-convenient breaking news stories and in-jokey ads?
Is Tully's “She's my partner” like Mal's “They're part of my crew”? Probably.
Ooop, looks like the 32-year-old teenager's dad really shouldn't have operated a motor vehicle while on that medication. The label on the bottle said so, and now look what happened? A dramatic collapse at the 48-minute mark! Felled by the gods of narrative convention! Nooooooooo!
“I'd wish you good luck but he'd probably hit me.” Oh, floppy-haired estranged younger brother who isn't Sam Winchester. Your thuggish older brother with short hair and a classic car who isn't Dean Winchester probably really appreciates that smart mouth of yours. Keep it up!
“We're about to blast off into the unknown. [pause] God, that was so lame.” SNERK. Way to go, show.
HA. HA HA HA HA. HA. Oh, Paul Ben-Victor. I sure can read the shovel-to-the-face stuff hints, can't I? Too bad he couldn't have been just a sweet truck driver, eh? And not so much with the truck full of Bobby Hobbes lovin'. Oh, well.
Okay. All these characters looking up at the shuttle? I completely reiterate everything I said before about how FOX wishes it'd thought of Heroes first.
...so that's two hours in, and one ep left in the "Premiere Event". No one died so far (not out of flashback, I mean), so how much do I believe these stakes? Not all that much.
Post-mortem:
Do I like the show? Not really. Does it have the potential to be something new and fantastic? Maybe, but I'm not holding my breath. Will the connections of the showrunners mean that there's unlimited potential for entertaining cameos? Yes. Will I watch it just because Nathan Fillion is amazing and I'd watch anything he's in (see also: The Water's Edge)? HELLS yes.
EDIT: put in the link to my previous petty griping about what the previews were making Drive out to be. It looks like I was wrong about the level of interaction between the characters, which means it's swinging more towards the way characters in that Stephen King novel grew to know each other and respect each other (even befriending each other) over the course of the race. The tension there was that only one participant could survive the race; Drive doesn't seem all that interested in killing of characters.
I'm just glad that we've only had one Traumatic Flashback so far.
Also added some tags, because tags are sick, yo.
I don't think I can take this show seriously from this teaser. It's all actiony and important. *eyeroll*
Okay. This one week later part changed my mind. Nathan's such a good actor. And is he actually using his Canadian accent? Oh, poor Mr. Tully, he's all broken.
I want Nathan Fillion. Even if he does look... older. *sniffle*
Though, I like how this woman who just gave birth isn't a skinny little waif. (I'm looking at you, Claire-from-Lost.)
AH. Ringing fruit basket! Best thing ever.
Not so much with the loving the opening credits song.
Tee hee Nathan Fillion farm boy. I wonder what would happen if he played a city dude. Nah, that's not possible. He's from Alberta. Oh, and driving a shitty old truck, too. You were right,
serrico. It's just Mal Reynolds, but from Nebraska.“I've snapped shut my satchel.” ... such an officious little bureaucrat. “I'll admit without the powerpoint it does seem a little far-fetched.” Officious and adorable.
The date on the missing poster is April 12, 2007.
The music sucks. Though, the editing and camerawork are making this scene really intense. Dude. We get it. It's TENSE.
Tee hee. Tully's a landscaper. :D
Who's that girl? Yet another familiar face, woo.
...AH. 28 Weeks Later trailer. I've just spent the past hour working on a paper about how the treatment of race in 28 Days Later reflects contemporary European attitudes towards immigration. I... I don't like my wacky papers showing up in ads on tv.
Sudden realization: This is going to be an entire series with painfully boring conversations carried out between people trapped in cars and subjected to merciless rear-projection.
“You're not just a gardener, are you?” SNERK. Tully's also a farmer. Duh. And a space pirate. :D
The creepy 32-year-old daughter who's supposedly 16 but looks like Lindsey Lohan's adequately-fed older sister? Is going to get old fast.
Yup, so. Mysterious characters.
“Don't take drugs and stay in school.” Snerk.
I like how how Tully is bitter without a trace of obvious humour. It's interesting how this format lets him play snarky and bitter and violent and mysterious because he's just one character in a huge ensemble cast. He doens't have to carry the show alone, so he can be as angry and dark as Mal could never be. A bit too late, FOX, but still... I'm a little happy.
AH. BROTHERS. I like these two. :D :D :D
“It was either you or the crazy lady with the plastic baby.” Oh, this show. You're winning me over despite all my instincts to roll my eyes at this show and walk away.
Oh, Nathan. Every scene and I love you more. The way you're playing these cheeky, snarky, charmingly awkward lines without making them comedic makes the character all the more endearing. LOVE. He's funny, but it's not humour just for humour's sake- he's playing it as a broken quality. The fact Tully can crack wise as a defense mechanism like this means that when he's not beaten down he's probably a great guy.
Hehehhehhee. Wendy's husband is Eeeeeeeeevil. Look at those eyebrows. Eeeeeeeeevil.
...oh, an ad for another “Anthony Hopkins is evil” film.
Hey, not her husband. And in this lighting, not so evil!
Oh, yeah. Nathan Fillion in a sexy black sports car. Oh... yeeeeah... *splorfle* How very Angel of them.
Please let that couple be Mrs. Tully's parents. Oh. That's not what the “son of a bitch” was about.
I wonder if that official's name is The Official. That would be cool.
OMG mysterious envelop? OMG.
TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO? You're just going to make this hopelessly confusing, aren't you, show? Epic mythologies, cast of thousands, road tripping gone bad...
So... the blonde chick riding with Tully is like that girl in Battle Royale 2, who joins the race just to get revenge? And why do I find her familiar? *imdbs her* Ah. She was in Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict. A vetran of quality television.
Oh, it's okay to kill the other blonde chick because she plays dirty. And therefore, is evil.
The screaming... “Maybe I imagined it.” BEAUTIFUL reading of that line. This entire scene. Brilliant. Again, he's giving this performance that could be funny but flat, but instead this character is so broken and touching and just... dimensionally. Oh, hey. EVEN MORE BRILLIANT. (So, Tully moved out to live a quiet life in the country because he wanted to get away from his violent past as a mob flunky, is that it? Oh, no. That was History of Violence.)
HOLY JESUS DID THAT JUST SAY THAT PAUL BEN-VICTOR IS IN THIS EPISODE?
Tully is so delightfully disconnected. And is hallucinating. Spiffy! At least this hallucinating hero will be likely to last beyond the first seven episodes. (*koff*Raines*koff*)
Again with Tully's disconnection. So funny and so awesome.
Dippy army girlfriend is skeevy.
...and Chuck Norris is shilling Moutain Dew. That's cosmically disappointing.
Oooh, dippy doomed blonde is in front of some wicked-bad rear projection. Oooh, that segues into some nifty sfx.
Hey, Mysterious Hitchhiking Blonde called him Alex. Ooop. “Alex” is getting angry. She wouldn't like him when he's angry.
Sudden realization #2: this series will not only contain at least one car-chase per episode, it is actually ONE GIANT CAR CHASE. *eyes glaze over*
Ooop. Tully gets beat by a laptop. Technology defeats the farmboy. How... transparent. In the spirit of finding fault with everything this show has to offer, I'll whine that it would have been nice to let Tully stay slightly ahead of the game rather than getting kicked again so soon. Fourth episode, sure. Maybe in the third. However. The stubble.
Please let the truck driver be YES YES YES PAUL BEN-VICTOR. ...who just winked at Mal. I mean. Tully. OMG crossover happening. Right here. Yey! Something in the back, eh? *eyebrow waggle* Like a truck full of Bobby Hobbes lovin'??
Heeeey. That scene was really short. I hope the Mysterious Truck Driver comes back, because that was way too short of a cameo to be satisfying.
Aaaand... are they all on different sides of the same orchard? I'm really enjoying this performance by the Wendy character.
Fight! Sequence! Action!Tully fights back!
... why do all of these ads suck? Why am I judging these ads based on the quality of their narratives? Why does this ad for House really suck?
Whoever's playing Ivy looks damn familiar, too.
Why the hell would The Thems put important information on a single flash drive? I mean, seriously. Do tv character just not watch television or something? Do they live in caves in ignorance of the past 60 years of film and television cliches? Or is there a parallel universe where characters on tv live in a world where television is simply a medium for narratively-convenient breaking news stories and in-jokey ads?
Is Tully's “She's my partner” like Mal's “They're part of my crew”? Probably.
Ooop, looks like the 32-year-old teenager's dad really shouldn't have operated a motor vehicle while on that medication. The label on the bottle said so, and now look what happened? A dramatic collapse at the 48-minute mark! Felled by the gods of narrative convention! Nooooooooo!
“I'd wish you good luck but he'd probably hit me.” Oh, floppy-haired estranged younger brother who isn't Sam Winchester. Your thuggish older brother with short hair and a classic car who isn't Dean Winchester probably really appreciates that smart mouth of yours. Keep it up!
“We're about to blast off into the unknown. [pause] God, that was so lame.” SNERK. Way to go, show.
HA. HA HA HA HA. HA. Oh, Paul Ben-Victor. I sure can read the shovel-to-the-face stuff hints, can't I? Too bad he couldn't have been just a sweet truck driver, eh? And not so much with the truck full of Bobby Hobbes lovin'. Oh, well.
Okay. All these characters looking up at the shuttle? I completely reiterate everything I said before about how FOX wishes it'd thought of Heroes first.
...so that's two hours in, and one ep left in the "Premiere Event". No one died so far (not out of flashback, I mean), so how much do I believe these stakes? Not all that much.
Post-mortem:
Do I like the show? Not really. Does it have the potential to be something new and fantastic? Maybe, but I'm not holding my breath. Will the connections of the showrunners mean that there's unlimited potential for entertaining cameos? Yes. Will I watch it just because Nathan Fillion is amazing and I'd watch anything he's in (see also: The Water's Edge)? HELLS yes.
EDIT: put in the link to my previous petty griping about what the previews were making Drive out to be. It looks like I was wrong about the level of interaction between the characters, which means it's swinging more towards the way characters in that Stephen King novel grew to know each other and respect each other (even befriending each other) over the course of the race. The tension there was that only one participant could survive the race; Drive doesn't seem all that interested in killing of characters.
I'm just glad that we've only had one Traumatic Flashback so far.
Also added some tags, because tags are sick, yo.