Sunday, September 18, 2005
New Season
The new season has started and I’ve caught some of the new shows. The two that have made the biggest impression on me so far are Supernatural and Threshold. I like all type of shows but I have an affinity to genre shows. Two of my all time favorite shows were Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The X-Files. I regularly watch SciFi Friday and I’m still upset they took off Farscape. So I love that they are having so many genre shows on TV this fall.
Supernatural is about two brothers who lost their mother to supernatural forces. Their father has been fighting these forces and has trained his sons to fight them too. The oldest Dean has followed in his father’s footstep but the youngest son; Sam is a senior at Stanford preparing to go to law school. Their father goes missing and the brothers reunite to find their father. The first episode was as scary as network TV can be. The actors who play the brothers, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have good chemistry together. The writing was okay but it needs to improve. A new monster every week can get tiring unless they have an interesting mythology that ties the show together. It’s on the WB on Tuesdays following the Gilmore Girls.
The best new show I’ve seen so far is Threshold. It’s about an alien invasion and a top secret government group led by a female contingency analyst and a team of scientist and military types. Since the show involves aliens you think about the X-Files but it’s a lot different. Instead of our heroes trying to penetrate the government conspiracy, they are the government conspiracy. They are trying to contain the alien threat without alarming the public. The show has a strong cast with Carla Gugino, Charles Dutton, Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner. Any show that has Roc and Mr. Data in it already has my attention. The two hour premier flowed smoothly and I look forward to seeing it next week. The show is structured in a way that allows for continued growth. I think this one will be a winner. It has one obstacle that could sink it, it comes on Friday night. CBS isn’t as quick to cancel shows on Friday nights like FOX, (Firefly, Dark Angel) so maybe it has a chance. It comes on at 8:00 central time after the damn show they cancelled Joan of Arcadia for. (Me bitter, hell yeah).
More new shows come on this week and the return of many of our favorites. I’ll give you my impressions of some of the new shows. Since I’m unfortunately not getting paid to watch any of these new shows I won’t be seeing a lot of them. If you see a new show that you like, let me know, I’ll try to catch it. If it’s dreadful, there will be hell to pay, or not.
Supernatural is about two brothers who lost their mother to supernatural forces. Their father has been fighting these forces and has trained his sons to fight them too. The oldest Dean has followed in his father’s footstep but the youngest son; Sam is a senior at Stanford preparing to go to law school. Their father goes missing and the brothers reunite to find their father. The first episode was as scary as network TV can be. The actors who play the brothers, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have good chemistry together. The writing was okay but it needs to improve. A new monster every week can get tiring unless they have an interesting mythology that ties the show together. It’s on the WB on Tuesdays following the Gilmore Girls.
The best new show I’ve seen so far is Threshold. It’s about an alien invasion and a top secret government group led by a female contingency analyst and a team of scientist and military types. Since the show involves aliens you think about the X-Files but it’s a lot different. Instead of our heroes trying to penetrate the government conspiracy, they are the government conspiracy. They are trying to contain the alien threat without alarming the public. The show has a strong cast with Carla Gugino, Charles Dutton, Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner. Any show that has Roc and Mr. Data in it already has my attention. The two hour premier flowed smoothly and I look forward to seeing it next week. The show is structured in a way that allows for continued growth. I think this one will be a winner. It has one obstacle that could sink it, it comes on Friday night. CBS isn’t as quick to cancel shows on Friday nights like FOX, (Firefly, Dark Angel) so maybe it has a chance. It comes on at 8:00 central time after the damn show they cancelled Joan of Arcadia for. (Me bitter, hell yeah).
More new shows come on this week and the return of many of our favorites. I’ll give you my impressions of some of the new shows. Since I’m unfortunately not getting paid to watch any of these new shows I won’t be seeing a lot of them. If you see a new show that you like, let me know, I’ll try to catch it. If it’s dreadful, there will be hell to pay, or not.
