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No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Discuss

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    Votes: 11 23.9%

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Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

Kind of funny seeing Chiklis as a wannabe cop considering his role in the Shield.

But yes, this show is off to a good start. Not having so many characters all having their own stories and keeping it more local and not some global phenomenon is going to make it easier to manage than Heroes was.

Plus, the fighting is already better.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

I loved it!!!
I'm going to keep watching without a doubt.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

stj said:
An excellent start. We already have a good idea who the family members are, what they want and how they think. The sidekicks need a little fleshing out but there's lots of hours yet. The FX were neat, the superspeed was nicely visualized. The pacing was superb. There was a deft touch (essential when something as silly as superpowers are involved.) The only sour note was Stephen Collins as the boss being involved. Such a coincidence makes the world a tiny place, which is not a good thing.
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Is it? He's been working in close contact with Stephanie for a while and so far we've only seen heroes in whatever town they're in. And he's a scientist. Not really all that coincidental when you look at other shows.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

I was looking forward to this show, but when I actually sat to watch it I just didn't really care. It wasn't great, it wasn't bad, it was just there. I'll keep watching.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

I'm waiting for one of two people to come in here and hate on this show. It's relatively civil in here so far. :lol:
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

Above Average

This episode alone is better than the last 3 seasons of Heroes. I'll continue to watch. :)
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

The Habs Fan said:
Above Average

This episode alone is better than the last 3 seasons of Heroes. I'll continue to watch. :)
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Not bad, I wonder what JJ's powers really are though. Some sort of lucid thought or whatever.

I assume the side kicks are the DA and the lab tech? a lair with wi-fi!
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

A little too teen angsty (which I'm hoping gets toned down in future episodes), but not bad overall.

I liked how Jim went about exploring his powers and seemed to have so much fun in doing so. I didn't think they'd pull the surprise reveal that there are others with superpowers so soon, but I guess it's one way to hook viewers right away.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

I didn't watch it on TV tonight but I watched what was released online a while back. Did they add something (sinister) with Stephen Collins' character?
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

Aragorn said:
I didn't watch it on TV tonight but I watched what was released online a while back. Did they add something (sinister) with Stephen Collins' character?
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There was a scene at the end that I did not see when I watched the online pilot at ABC a few weeks ago. The pilot ended with the family playing football in their backyard and the voice-over by the Father. This episode that aired had an additional scene after that.

Stephen Collins character walks into a morgue and there's another man in front of a gurney. On the gurney is the teleporting guy who is dead. Collins says to the guy to find out who knows about the teleport guy and to take care of them.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

Well I guess that makes sense then, to replace one bad guy (Tate Donovan) with another. Collins' role seemed rather minor and perfunctory to be turned into a regular. But a quiet, behind the scenes bad guy works better on a weekly basis than an out for revenge bad guy.

Though I still hope Donovan comes back.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

I wasn't impressed. I'm tired of the whole superheroes schtick and this seemed like a cross between HEROES and a lightweight "feel good" Disney flick. There doesn't seem to be anything new here to offer that I haven't seen a dozen times before.

I definitely won't be watching it.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

I really enjoyed it and it exceeded my expectations and I will continue watching it.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

I enjoyed the pilot well enough, but there are big questions regarding how serialized future episodes will be, and what tone they are actually going to settle on. Plus the teen angst stuff has got to go. You have superpowers, your parents like it, so should you.

I really liked the Nightcrawler-esque fight in the parking garage, it was pulled off better than any fight in Heroes that I can remember.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

I'll keep watching, but it's pretty light and safe. Big loveable TV dad, hot blonde mom and the typical teenage boy and girl. I don't even remember what the kids look like. It's also hard to buy their family problems when things don't look all that bad. The superhero stuff was good, but it's not anything we haven't seen before. My favorite parts were the mom running down the highway with time slowing down, and the bit with the racetrack. They did something similar on The Flash. The sinister bad guy stuff at the end didn't surprise me either. Gotta have that sort of thing. It's required.

A nice direction to explore would be if this family went public like The Fantastic Four, got some corporate backers and maybe some costumes and became celebrity heroes. That'd be more interesting than the "secret identity" angle.

Aragorn said:
The pilot (Tate Donovan) was supposed to come back as the big bad, but they decided to drop him from the show as a regular, but there's a chance he could still return in a recurring role.
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Interesting. As I was watching I thought... What if the pilot came back as a bad guy with powers, kind of like the show's "Dr. Doom".
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

The problem with the sponsorship angle would be that, if they're human billboards, you'd never see them, especially the Mom since she's so fast :lol:
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

Above Average. I liked it quite a bit. (although I missed the first 15 minutes)

The reveal that the robber could teleport was nice "oh crap" moment - and the fight that followed was *very well* executed. As others have said, a better fight between superpowered characters than what Heroes did in 4 years.

I'll definitely watch again.

One Q - Is Marvel involved in this production? I'm just wondering, given the volume of of X-men references - Plus the "nightcrawler" effect.
 
Re: No Ordinary Family: "Pilot" - Sept. 28 (online now) - Grade & Disc

Above average. Charming cast sells it, despite silliness. For instance: how could anyone so juvenile and irresponsible be an actual DA? The boo hoo hoo about the family issues got tedious, I hope that's just to establish motivations for the premiere.

This show handled a live-action fight between people with powers better in the the first episode than Heroes did in 4 years.
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Couldn't help noticing that, too. Also nice foreshadowing with the Nightcrawler action figure (I guess Stephanie doesn't know what Kitty Pryde looks like).
What if the pilot came back as a bad guy with powers, kind of like the show's "Dr. Doom".
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Who was playing the pilot, anyway? Even if I hadn't heard about the original plan to bring back the pilot, the way it happened (pilot dies in the magic river) strongly implies that's not the end of his story.

Premiered okay but not much room for a second week drop off.

The super heroes of No Ordinary Family premiered with ABC’s best new series rating so far this fall, a 3.1 for adults 18-49. That was down 40% from the premiere of the shooting star that was V, but the first rookie debut to not immediately go on the critical list for them. Dancing With The Stars: Results fell 16% vs. last week to a 3.7 adults 18-49 rating. Detroit 1-8-7 may be slipping towards the morgue, its 2.2 adults 18-49 rating was down 4% from last week.
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