Minority Report Season One
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I liked it quite a bit. It's a logical continuation of the movie, even if its lead characters' point of view about Precrime is sort of the opposite of how the movie turned out -- although the complications and moral questions of the process were raised, and hopefully the ethical ambiguity of psychic crime prediction will be explored.
While several characters are returning from the movie, the only returning actor is the one playing Wally the caretaker. The others have been recast, though Laura Regan resembles Samantha Morton enough (from what I recall of her) that I can buy her as the same person. I like Meaghan Good as Detective Vega. She comes off as a competent detective and a reasonably charismatic lead, and is also really hot. The pilot maybe played up her sex appeal a bit much, with the bikini photo and the plunging necklines and such, but I'm not complaining. The tech-support woman with the tattoo on her face is pretty hot herself.
I liked the futurism. The environment wasn't quite as consistently high-tech as it was in the movie, and I doubt the show will be able to sustain the level of CGI that the pilot was able to feature, but it was a reasonable continuation within those limits. But the futurism is good in another way, namely in acknowledging the demographic trends of the American population and giving us a nicely diverse cast, much more so than the overwhelmingly white cast of the movie. Also -- "Washington Red Clouds" instead of Redskins. I like that.
I didn't find the time to rewatch the movie before this, so I'm not sure if there are any subtle inconsistencies. So far it seems pretty solid, although I'm not sure whether the twins were fraternal or identical in the movie.
While several characters are returning from the movie, the only returning actor is the one playing Wally the caretaker. The others have been recast, though Laura Regan resembles Samantha Morton enough (from what I recall of her) that I can buy her as the same person. I like Meaghan Good as Detective Vega. She comes off as a competent detective and a reasonably charismatic lead, and is also really hot. The pilot maybe played up her sex appeal a bit much, with the bikini photo and the plunging necklines and such, but I'm not complaining. The tech-support woman with the tattoo on her face is pretty hot herself.
I liked the futurism. The environment wasn't quite as consistently high-tech as it was in the movie, and I doubt the show will be able to sustain the level of CGI that the pilot was able to feature, but it was a reasonable continuation within those limits. But the futurism is good in another way, namely in acknowledging the demographic trends of the American population and giving us a nicely diverse cast, much more so than the overwhelmingly white cast of the movie. Also -- "Washington Red Clouds" instead of Redskins. I like that.
I didn't find the time to rewatch the movie before this, so I'm not sure if there are any subtle inconsistencies. So far it seems pretty solid, although I'm not sure whether the twins were fraternal or identical in the movie.
I don't know. It's like they wanted to blend "Fringe" with "Sleepy Hollow"
Spielberg is very hands on since this is his first movie to become a TV series
http://tvline.com/2015/08/06/minority-report-fox-changes-from-movie/
Spielberg is very hands on since this is his first movie to become a TV series
http://tvline.com/2015/08/06/minority-report-fox-changes-from-movie/
I enjoyed it a lot. Probably as much if not more than the movie. I like they way the effects and future are handled, better than Almost Human.
It bombed.
I wouldn't fall in love with it. I'm sure it'll get the Fox treatment in the next couple of weeks.
I wouldn't fall in love with it. I'm sure it'll get the Fox treatment in the next couple of weeks.
I gave it a shot and thought it started out pretty well, and was impressed by the effects and found the actors likeable enough.
But somewhere around the halfway mark when he started tagging along with the detective everywhere it suddenly started to feel like every OTHER procedural with a quirky oddball type with a special skill who tags along and helps solve crimes (The Mentalist, Forever, Bones, Castle, Sleepy Hollow, etc), and I very quickly lost interest.
But somewhere around the halfway mark when he started tagging along with the detective everywhere it suddenly started to feel like every OTHER procedural with a quirky oddball type with a special skill who tags along and helps solve crimes (The Mentalist, Forever, Bones, Castle, Sleepy Hollow, etc), and I very quickly lost interest.
That "treatment" is an outdated idea. The current FOX regime has shown in recent years that it's willing to be patient with shows that are underperforming in the ratings, like Dollhouse and Fringe. At the very least, they let shows run out their full seasons rather than pulling them in midstream. Last I checked, the last time they cancelled a show with episodes unaired was Tru Calling a decade ago.
Well, most shows start out feeling like ordinary procedurals, because that's what's in the comfort zone of the network suits and the mass audience. But often that's just the initial soft sell to ease people into a show before it starts getting more creative and unusual. We should expect the first few weeks of a new show to feel like conventional procedurals, but that doesn't mean they won't turn into something more interesting later on.
In this case, it sounds like there's a deeper arc being seeded here with Agatha and Arthur talking about how someone has a plan to take the precogs again.
Perhaps, but I still don't feel much like sitting through a bunch of standard case-of-the-weeks in the faint hope that we finally get something meatier and more interesting later in the season.
Especially when there are already so many other, much better shows to choose from these days.
Especially when there are already so many other, much better shows to choose from these days.
Well, that's how most shows do it these days. I find you can generally expect the more interesting stuff to start creeping in after five or six weeks. And what we've got already is interesting to me. Maybe not the best thing ever, but the worldbuilding and the cast and the visuals are interesting.
You can call me a horrible person, but I don't get it.
Why push himself, risking sanity and life, to stop random murders of almost certainly know nothing schlubs from happening?
Sanctity of human life, my ass.
Saying that he has a higher calling, is just another description of insanity or addiction.
You can't trust this mook to behave rationally.
(Yes, I know, I'm shitting on the entire concept of Superheroism.)
Actually, dropping this online a month ago like they did, is kinda like "seeing the future" a little isn't it?
Why push himself, risking sanity and life, to stop random murders of almost certainly know nothing schlubs from happening?
Sanctity of human life, my ass.
Saying that he has a higher calling, is just another description of insanity or addiction.
You can't trust this mook to behave rationally.
(Yes, I know, I'm shitting on the entire concept of Superheroism.)
Actually, dropping this online a month ago like they did, is kinda like "seeing the future" a little isn't it?
I thought it was dull. I didn't hate it but I'm not going to go out of my way to keep up with it.
TV Reaper is saying it's DOA, sadly.
Nah. Indiana Jones.
I thought it was OK. The effects were pretty cheesy. Especially the train sequence. I thought Wilmer Valderama's character was unnecessary and hokey. And the music was TERRIBLE. Minority Report was one of my favorite films, and this was just offensive.
I liked it.
now, there are several OTHEr shows i will be watching first, but am definitley interested in more.
Some interesting glimpses of the future...such as the Washington Redskins becoming the Rec Clouds (i posted in the Trek Art contest a nomination for the Pinkskins...but now that I think about it, how about the red Shirts?
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Also really liked the connection to the movie.
Also interesting that Blake has an accent, and Vega doesn't (I personally would've switched the names).
Wondering how they will keep up all the future stuff...or will they save money by having more time spent at the cabin (whether Flashbacks or modern meetings), or other sites that have been abandoned for "years" (like the unfinished mall)
One minor annoyance for me -- seemed like too much focus on Meagan Good's cleavage. Eyes up there, guys!
now, there are several OTHEr shows i will be watching first, but am definitley interested in more.
Some interesting glimpses of the future...such as the Washington Redskins becoming the Rec Clouds (i posted in the Trek Art contest a nomination for the Pinkskins...but now that I think about it, how about the red Shirts?
)Also really liked the connection to the movie.
Also interesting that Blake has an accent, and Vega doesn't (I personally would've switched the names).
Wondering how they will keep up all the future stuff...or will they save money by having more time spent at the cabin (whether Flashbacks or modern meetings), or other sites that have been abandoned for "years" (like the unfinished mall)
One minor annoyance for me -- seemed like too much focus on Meagan Good's cleavage. Eyes up there, guys!
Makes more sense that they didn't. As the Latino population grows and the US population as a whole gets more demographically and culturally mixed, there will be more interminglings like that -- people who have Hispanic names without the accent and vice versa. Heck, both the actors in question have names that don't match their ethnicities. "Meagan" is English or Welsh, "Good" is English or Scottish, and "Wilmer" is German.
Let's just say I'm conflicted about that one...
I liked the futurism too, but I was expecting more on the same level as Robocop, with early 21st century buildings and such. This was more I Robot in terms of technological advancement.
I rather enjoyed it but as I was watching I was thinking that this show is most likely not going to make it past one season. The ratings news in this thread doesn't make me think any differently.
A show like this needs really charismatic and attention grabbing leads. The two leads were just okay to me. That leaves the burden on the stories and fx and though the fx was very good, the stories are likely going to be run of the mill.
I agree with the poster who said, don't fall in love with it.
A show like this needs really charismatic and attention grabbing leads. The two leads were just okay to me. That leaves the burden on the stories and fx and though the fx was very good, the stories are likely going to be run of the mill.
I agree with the poster who said, don't fall in love with it.
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