@thesourabh: Let's call it Earth2.
Okay, I'm interested. I saw the original and looks good, too. Plus, I just finally saw Kick-Ass on Blu-Ray with Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl. The kid can act.
@KinoEscalate: I think Charlie's "In an unusual move for U.S. television" line still stands even with the examples you mention.
Twist! It turns out they're all dead.
My problem was the TV commercials told me nothing of what the movie is actually about. I've only heard of the graphic novels and don't know the story. The TV marketing just looked like random clips with no story to them. I like Michael Cera, so he's only a plus to me, but the TV marketing failed for me. I also didn't pick up on buzz outside of the sci-fi/comic-con set, which is needed for mainstream appeal.
Funny, this sounds a lot like he'd just watched the movie "Heathers," in which Christian Slater's character wants to blow up his high school. Plus, he based his character on Jack Nicholson, who played Joker in the Batman movie.
I discount pilots pretty heavily and cut them a lot of slack. I usually just use them as a chance to see whether the show has the right raw material to potentially be good once it hits its stride, if given a chance.
"sewing seeds of corruption" must require a very small, evil needle.
Maybe the Jedi are subject to layoffs.
I guess only the TARDIS can stop there.
My favorite alternate universe touch was the U.S. map on SecDef Walter's wall. Texas was divided in two, western California was in the ocean, and Oklahoma was twice as big. I wonder what led California to fall into the ocean that didn't happen in our world? Does this mean natural disasters could be different in the two worlds? Or could it be that something man-made in the other universe caused a giant earthquake?
That should be "Raven River" instead of "Red River" in the review unless this is some Texas-Oklahoma plot.
Check your listings for PBS. The show is Great Performances and the episode is Hamlet. It was just on, but my local station is rerunning it at 2 a.m tomorrow and my TiVo is set.
It's starting to remind me of the last few episodes of Jericho when they started rushing to wrap up the storyline. Things just started happening too miraculously so they could skip directly to Go and collect $200.
Seriously, why does Tina Fey keep kidnapping people for Widmore?
I'm still trying to figure out why Tina Fey took Sawyer captive last week.
It must be radiation from iPhones belonging to all those people who downloaded that new app, "iCrash My Car."
I liked the idea of Krasijnski. The others just seem sort of generic (i.e. "plug in sci-fi dude from some other sci-fi movie here"). Michael Keaton didn't great in Batman and I can remember when the trailers came out I thought, "Mr. Mom is Batman?" But it worked.
I think he'd be great, actually.
In retrospect, Max Headroom was way ahead of its time. It was also extraordinarily accurate about the future. There are now network TV journalists who are one-man bands, running around holding a camera by themselves without a crew. Crews also broadcast live shots wirelessly. And, what surprised me the most, was how the show predicted viewers would accept lower quality pictures (jittery, low res video that cuts out from time to time) as a trade-off for getting live reports.
