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Minority Report Season One
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I assume you mean Almost Human. Being Human was the BBC or Syfy show about a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost living together.
I'm actually reminded more of Continuum with Det. Vega's HUD lenses. And of course a lot of it draws on the original Minority Report movie, which was probably an influence on later productions like Almost Human.
For all it's flaws I enjoyed Almost Human and Minority Report would have been a good companion.
Maybe it's too soon to tell, but the lead characters do lack charisma, not to mention chemistry. When Sleepy Hollow premiered, Ichabod Crane and Abbie Mills just clicked. Maybe they should make Nick Zano the lead precog; the other guy seems too vapid and wimpy.
The leads are not going to ####.
Um.
Why?
Because she's too cool and he's a too doofussy?
Doofusses deserve love too.
Remember George on Greys Anatomy.
Total Doofus.
Short and fat too.
Short fat doofus in search of love with a particular woman who sees through him.
But, despite that the cool girl saw through him, and he was a short fat doofus, he wound up intermittently with almost every other female character in the series AND the cool girl who saw through him.
Which was a disaster.
"So how was it?"
"She cried."
"Dude, you stop when they start crying."
"No, no, I mean she started crying after we finished."
"So? Some girls cry. It doesn't mean that it's bad, it's maybe just her thing. She cries after sex. You can deal with it."
"We did it yesterday, and she's still crying."
"Well, that would be bad."
Um.
Why?
Because she's too cool and he's a too doofussy?
Doofusses deserve love too.
Remember George on Greys Anatomy.
Total Doofus.
Short and fat too.
Short fat doofus in search of love with a particular woman who sees through him.
But, despite that the cool girl saw through him, and he was a short fat doofus, he wound up intermittently with almost every other female character in the series AND the cool girl who saw through him.
Which was a disaster.
"So how was it?"
"She cried."
"Dude, you stop when they start crying."
"No, no, I mean she started crying after we finished."
"So? Some girls cry. It doesn't mean that it's bad, it's maybe just her thing. She cries after sex. You can deal with it."
"We did it yesterday, and she's still crying."
"Well, that would be bad."
You need to check again. Lone Star was cancelled with only 2 episodes aired of 6 produced.
(and that got a million more viewers than Minority Report did)
(Off the top of my head, without Google... )
We Are Men?
How long ago was that? 2 episodes and BAM!
Welcome to the Family was 2 years ago?
I'm actually trying to watch Get Real. The show is from 2000, but the final 2 episodes were never aired or surfaced on line.
The last two episodes of Dirty Sexy Money (2007?) Aired in Australia, not America.
I Hate My Teenage Daughter. Half of that didn't air.
Save Me last year got the short end of the stick.
What really pissed me off was The Ex List. Sure the rest of it surfaced eventually but that was infuriating.
Viva Laughlin was cancelled after two episodes. I seriously couldn't get through to the end of the first one.
We Are Men?
How long ago was that? 2 episodes and BAM!
Welcome to the Family was 2 years ago?
I'm actually trying to watch Get Real. The show is from 2000, but the final 2 episodes were never aired or surfaced on line.
The last two episodes of Dirty Sexy Money (2007?) Aired in Australia, not America.
I Hate My Teenage Daughter. Half of that didn't air.
Save Me last year got the short end of the stick.
What really pissed me off was The Ex List. Sure the rest of it surfaced eventually but that was infuriating.
Viva Laughlin was cancelled after two episodes. I seriously couldn't get through to the end of the first one.
Hmm, that was 2010, so I should've noted it when I did the search. Come to think of it, I was probably focusing specifically on genre series, to rebut the persistent myth that FOX is hostile to them -- when, in fact, the reason they've cancelled so many genre shows is simply because they've bought so many more genre shows than any other network. It's been over a decade and at least one regime change since Firefly, so there's no sense in dwelling on the past. I have come to expect FOX to be supportive of SF/fantasy shows, but network support can't save a show that doesn't find an audience. If Minority Report tanks, it won't be because FOX is run by evil meanies, it'll be because not enough viewers watched the show.
I mean, seriously, this is the first-ever show based on a Spielberg movie, and Spielberg is personally involved in it. That's a prestige project, regardless of genre. No network would treat a show like that badly or unfairly. They'd want to give it every chance.
On the other hand, being a Spielberg project probably means it has a pretty high budget, so it'd need commensurately higher ratings to turn a profit. Remember Terra Nova, the last FOX show that Spielberg had a hand in. That was so expensive that they just couldn't afford a second season with the ratings they had. So the Spielberg connection is probably both a point in its favor and a point against it.
While the premise is alright, I felt that the cast was weak. The lady detective is too young, and there is a huge height mismatch between her and the precog.
What's that got to do with anything? There's an even huger height mismatch between Tom Mison and Nicole Beharie on Sleepy Hollow, and that's hardly hurt the show.
To some, the power dynamic is atypical because it's still 1950.
I remember a big deal was made about one of the women being a foot taller than her love interest in LA Law, and that Halloween (?) episode of Happy Days where Richie's date (Dressed as the Statue of Liberty) was a foot taller than he was, which made him feel emasculated and feminized.
(I am so old.)
More recently, but still in the distant past, in the US version of Men Behaving Badly, Rob Schneider became hopelessly smitten by a female Basketball player who TOWERED above him. Rob's opening (pick up) line was "I want to climb you" which worked, and through out the rest of the episode he had several involved speeches about how fantastic big girl sex was... At another point he compared intercourse with this women to mountaineering in a positive way.
"I can't even fit her whole foot in my mouth!!"
I remember a big deal was made about one of the women being a foot taller than her love interest in LA Law, and that Halloween (?) episode of Happy Days where Richie's date (Dressed as the Statue of Liberty) was a foot taller than he was, which made him feel emasculated and feminized.
(I am so old.)
More recently, but still in the distant past, in the US version of Men Behaving Badly, Rob Schneider became hopelessly smitten by a female Basketball player who TOWERED above him. Rob's opening (pick up) line was "I want to climb you" which worked, and through out the rest of the episode he had several involved speeches about how fantastic big girl sex was... At another point he compared intercourse with this women to mountaineering in a positive way.
"I can't even fit her whole foot in my mouth!!"
Its just how I feel. As I said, the actress who plays the female detective doesn't feel strong enough to be a detective. Watching her bossing the precog at the diner where they first met felt almost comedic. I don't know about others but for myself, her short height in a later scene just reinforces her lack of assertiveness.
For the record, Meagan Good is 5'5" and Stark Sands is 5'9 1/2". They're both pretty much dead average for American male and female height; in fact, Good is fractionally above average for American women. She's two inches taller than Scarlett Johannsen, an inch taller than Michelle Yeoh or Ming-Na Wen, the same height as Eliza Dushku. I can't imagine why you'd think she's too short.
Not to mention that the idea that short people can't be assertive or strong is ridiculous and offensive. I mean, have you seen Nicole Beharie? She's 5'1", but I wouldn't dare mess with her. Then there's Peter Dinklage -- nobody would accuse him of being a weak screen presence.
I found the height difference between the two so striking that I googled Meagan Goode's height while I was watching the episode. I didn't bother with the pre-cog dude's height because I just thought she was really short. But sure enough, 5'5", so I figured the guy must be really tall. But he's only 5'9"? She must have been wearing flats or camera angles or something.
But height doesn't matter, as others have pointed out. Even height differentials don't. Look at Gillian Anderson and Duchovny. She's like 5'3" and he's over 6'. Mad chemistry between the two and no one can say Skully wasn't assertive. Maybe it is an acting issue with Goode. We'll see (assuming the show lasts long enough).
^Or that it rebounds in the ratings. It's only been one week.
True.
It's not being shown over here yet, but I was quite looking forward to it. If it's canned, I'd probably not watch if it left things unresolved...
Well, of the three shows I watched Monday night (the others being Gotham and Blindspot), this is the only one I want to keep watching. I like its futurism. It's less dystopian than Continuum, it has a more plausibly diverse cast than the original movie, and it isn't some weird retro '80s-scifi mishmash like Almost Human was.
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