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No Ordinary Family: Season 1 on ABC - Discussion & Spoilers

If nothing else, this show is doing a better job at Sylar II's rationale for becoming good as opposed to how Heroes handled Sylar I and his switch from bad to good... to bad... to good... to bad... to good... :lol:

Evil Boss doesn't seem to concerned or threatened by "Joshua." I wonder if it's because he has even better powers of his own.
 
Dealers are never afraid of junkies.

Never show it at least.

If a Junkie sees an opportunity, a chink, you're fucked.

Saw "12" last night.

Gossipboy as a dealer with a heart of gold.

What utter bollocks.
 
Checkmate said:
It's a family show. It's not a hardcore sci-fi/superhero fantasy extravaganza. Once you get past that ignorant preconceived notion, it magically transforms into a really nice little show. But people around here can't seem to get past their own limitations like that.
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Oh right. This is another one of those shows where it's the audience's responsibility to adapt to the show, rather than to judge the show according to whether it's anything they want to watch. :rommie:

That's okay. I'll pop over to the V thread and berate everyone for slamming a perfectly good, cheesy/kistch popcorn show, just because the characters are stupid and the plot doesn't really make sense. Sure, the show proceeds at a snail's pace, but that's intentional. It's your responsibility not to be bored. People around here just can't seem to get past their own limitations like that.
 
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When Jim's brother Mike learns that his brother has powers, he attempts to use JJ's powers to win at the horse track. Meanwhile, Katie receives a promotion, and Daphne comes to believe a student accused of drug use is innocent.
 
crookeddy said:
Episode 11 was total garbage. Worst so far.
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Seriously. Who wrote this crap? The Stephen Collins character is a super villain, but his big 'plan' for breaking up his henchman and Katie is to send her to Miami? Really? REALLY? Not just kill her off? (although they do eventually arrive to that point)

But the family stuff was complete crap. I don't care how smart JJ is there is no ****ing way he's picking horse winners just looking at the track sheet and and the odds on each horse. There are way too many other variables he wouldn't know the answer to.

The most irritating about this episode was that both the irritating plots had to be duplicated in a damned annoying heavy-handed way. Oh so we got Dad protecting his little brother? Well let's be cute and put a plot in the school with a guy protecting his little brother.

and how exactly is his brother safe from the loan shark because he got them put in jail? This guy runs one of the biggest collection/illegal loan operations on the west coast and they're 'magically' safe from him just because he got arrested? He knows their names, but yea they're completely ok and face no revenge from him.
 
A cheesy/kitsch popcorn show needs to have characters who you like (which rules out too much stupid, although Kate and Baltar certainly prove the rule,) and a plot that moves along (which rules out too many WTF? moments.)
And it sure helps if it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it sure looks to me as if V is taking the moral dilemmas of the Tea Party Nation too seriously.

No Ordinary Family is primarily a sentimental domestic dramedy. Every week there will be some sort of domestic problem, and every week there will be a heartwarming affirmation of family. The title of the show is irony: The Powells are an ordinary family, where it matters, except that, no family is really ordinary. At least, in the sentimental universe the show is set in. While V doesn't do cheesy/kitsch popcorn well, No Ordinary Family does do sentimental domestic dramedy very well. It doesn't integrate the supervillain storyline very well, but that's not what the show is really about, so that is not a major criticism. The superhero stuff is just for color.

Whether you want to watch a well made sentimental domestic dramedy, however, is a different question entirely.
It should have been obvious by the end of the first episode what the show was. Complaining about what it isn't, is indeed silly.
 
FreezeC77 said:
crookeddy said:
Episode 11 was total garbage. Worst so far.
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Seriously. Who wrote this crap? The Stephen Collins character is a super villain, but his big 'plan' for breaking up his henchman and Katie is to send her to Miami? Really? REALLY? Not just kill her off? (although they do eventually arrive to that point)

But the family stuff was complete crap. I don't care how smart JJ is there is no ****ing way he's picking horse winners just looking at the track sheet and and the odds on each horse. There are way too many other variables he wouldn't know the answer to.

The most irritating about this episode was that both the irritating plots had to be duplicated in a damned annoying heavy-handed way. Oh so we got Dad protecting his little brother? Well let's be cute and put a plot in the school with a guy protecting his little brother.

and how exactly is his brother safe from the loan shark because he got them put in jail? This guy runs one of the biggest collection/illegal loan operations on the west coast and they're 'magically' safe from him just because he got arrested? He knows their names, but yea they're completely ok and face no revenge from him.
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That's episode 12.
 
crookeddy said:
FreezeC77 said:
crookeddy said:
Episode 11 was total garbage. Worst so far.
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That's episode 12.
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Then I'd have to say Episode 12 is a lot more garbage than episode 11 ;)

Sorry, not really paying much attention to the show's episode list. I don't look up things online about it, I flip on ABC and try to let my brain go numb for 2 hours while I use the do things online while watching No Ordinary Family and V.

I'm not sure which show was worse this week.
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I haven't gone to the effort of looking for any spoilers on this show. But I predict that Evil-Turned-Good Psycho Boyfriend dies(or slips into a coma!) next episode.

He knows too much.
 
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Thugs invade the police station during an Internal Affair investigation into a rogue cop, and Jim has to choose whether to risk revealing his powers to stop them. Meanwhile, HR VP Victoria Morrow begins snooping around the Global Tech labs and gets close to Stephanie's secret.
 
This seems like one of those shows that makes zero effort to know anything about the professions they're writing about and thus get everything wrong. Kind of like Smallville.
 
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Jim refuses to let Stephanie help him stop a super-powered individual who is targeting her friend, she takes offenses and the two end up in a competition to take out the bad guy. Meanwhile, Daphne objects when Jim lets JJ date a senior, but won't let her do the same. And Katie learns something unexpected about her boyfriend.

I'll probably just let this thread die if no one's watching anymore.
 
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