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TV This Week: High School Superheroes And Time-Travel Drama

Spakkenkhrist — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:02:34 PST

I'm from the UK and I would just like to say that I am thoroughly, thouroughly ashamed of (and sorry about) Dr. Who and especially Torchwood.

Spakkenkhrist

TV This Week: High School Superheroes And Time-Travel Drama

pink_clerical_collar — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:23:34 PST

NJUDAH: Yeah. I've been waiting for such a series since HILL STREET BLUES, and once I got used to the fact that ST:TNG wasn't it. (It was that parasite shrimp taking over StarFleet Command ep.) BG gets close, but they're necessarily erratic.

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TV This Week: High School Superheroes And Time-Travel Drama

RocktheDebit — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:08:41 PST

@Jonn: Barrowman's not American, but he did spend half his childhood in the States. And it's not like every other sci-fi TV show (well, except for Chuck, maybe) doesn't have a Briton pretending to be American.

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Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:46:58 PST

@njudahchronicles: The melodrama IS the payoff.

Charlie Jane Anders

TV This Week: High School Superheroes And Time-Travel Drama

njudah — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:23:23 PST

I've tried to become a fan of Torchwood, but aside from a few episodes, I found it to be full o' melodrama without any payoff, plotwise. Yeah yeah I know Capt. Jack bla bla bla and Dr. Who spinoff yadda yadda yadda, and I thought Capt. Jack was cool in that original Doc Who episode he was in, but it just feels like when I watch an episode on OnDemand ,that 45 minutes feels like two hours.

But since the big media companies would rather stick it to our writers than cut them in on a fair deal, I guess it'll do, esp. since I just finshed seasons 1-4 of The Wire on DVD....if someone would make a scifi show like that that would be like, awesome or something.

njudah

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Jonn — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:06:06 PST

So Barrowman, who is a Scottish-American playing an American, fights Marsters, who is an American playing an Englishman, and both are in a show that's a spinoff of Doctor Who, which stars a Scotsman pretending to be an Englishman.

OW.

Jonn

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CmdrHunt — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:23:35 PST

Chuck is great. Captain Jack Harkness ftw!
So many new aliens so little time...

CmdrHunt

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The HZA. — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:23:11 PST

Yes, the return of James Marsters.

I love Chuck. That is all.

The HZA.

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MercuryPDX — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:18:34 PST

@charliejane: That sucks. I found Chuck to be pretty much unwatchable. It reminded me a lot of Jake 2.0.

MercuryPDX

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Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:55:43 PST

@Mercurypdx: Chuck had better ratings than Journeyman for sure. As for Bionic Woman, it started out with way better ratings than Chuck, then went into freefall. By the time the last ep of Bionic Woman aired, I think it was below Chuck, which was staying steady.

Charlie Jane Anders

TV This Week: High School Superheroes And Time-Travel Drama

MercuryPDX — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:30:47 PST

Unless you take the title of Scott Baio Is 46... And Pregnant literally, which would make it sci-fi-ish.

Soon to be followed by Scott Baio is 47... and divorced, Scott Baio is 48... and still desperately in need of attention, and "Scott of Love" seasons 1, 2 and 3.

Also, did Chuck really have better ratings that the Bionic Woman and Journeyman? Really? Sigh...

MercuryPDX