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

[Temis the Vorta]

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

I dunno, I like they're starting out with a much smaller scope than Heroes. That means it has more room to eventually grow into something more epic (if that's what they want to do) while still being able to tell smaller stories about the immediate characters. Like how Farscape started out as basically the random adventures of a leaderless gang and eventually became this Galactic Epic.

That would be cool, wouldn't it? Snag some of the better actors from Heroes like Jack Coleman and Adrian Pasdar to help expand the "epic" cast.

So we should be grading on effort rather than execution?

In this case, the execution appears to exceed the effort. If that makes any sense.

So nobody knows if we're ever going to see the supposedly dead pilot of the plane again?

 

[CorporalClegg]

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

I just watched it. I really liked it.

It knew its limitations and didn't try to hard. Plus its got a fantastic cast and Stephen Collins as a big bad = infinite win! And Chiklis and Benz seems to have good chemistry.

Panabaker played the girl in Wolfram & Heart's white room on "Angel" which, if memory serves, was right around the time Darla returned.

 

[Aragorn]

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

So nobody knows if we're ever going to see the supposedly dead pilot of the plane again?

The release over the summer just said Tate Donovan and Christina Chang were dropped from the show and you "might" see them again after the first episode. So no one knows if that'll ever happen.

 

[Chris_Johnston]

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

I really enjoyed it, especially Romany Malco, but they sure did lift certain elements blatantly from other sources.
• The hard landings by the Chiklis character, and his nigh-invulnerability —> The Tick animated series.
• Testing Benz's superspeed at the racetrack, and her voracious appetite —> The Flash pilot
• The teleporting of Koblenz —> Nightcrawler in X2

Although I really liked that the lab assistant shouted out questions about wind shear, frictional heating, and sandblasted corneas.

 

[Trekker4747]

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

I also wonder why she didn't make a sonic-boom as she was running, IIRC she got to somewhere around 800 mph which is a bit over Mach 1. How her running was treated, mostly in the scenes where she was on the highway looking at traffic, seemed pretty Smallville-ian to me, too.

Fun show, though, I'm going to want to see the teenaged kids killed before too long I suspect.

 

[Owain Taggart]

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

Actually, she did. I interpreted the yellow area of effect as the affected areas of her sonic boom. You can see how it reacts as she stops. It's being pushed outwards, damaging things in the process.

 

[God Magnus]

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

From the previews shown during the summer I expected a light, fluffy show with some super powers mixed in, and the show definitely delivered on that count.

What I didn't expect was seeing other super powered beings so quickly, and done so effectively to boot! That fight scene in the garage was really well done, it had me totally fixed on the screen til it ended. I also didn't expect the ending scene either, which adds an interesting dimension to the show.

Sadness about two of the folks in the pilot being dropped. We didn't get much of a sense of the pilot, but Christina Chang seemed like a character who had potential to become an ally of "the family". I wonder who she'll be replaced with?

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

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

Fair.

Would have been an Excellent if they had only told the story through convoluted time jumps within time jumps using character's with no charisma and threw in a few twists that were largely "meh" in execution.

Hopefully, the next eps will step up to the plate accompanied by a huge ad campaign that hypes them beyond all reasonable expectation.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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

So nobody knows if we're ever going to see the supposedly dead pilot of the plane again?

The release over the summer just said Tate Donovan and Christina Chang were dropped from the show and you "might" see them again after the first episode. So no one knows if that'll ever happen.

Tate Donovan was not playing the pilot, was he? I was trying to tell if he was a recognizable actor, and it didn't seem so. But another actor could easily step into that role, and maybe the pilot would be scarred enough to explain away the discrepency.

I remember when they dropped Donovan and added Stephen Collins. I thought Collins would be playing a similar sort of antagonist, but his character serves a very different role than the pilot back from the dead would.

 

[Aragorn]

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

Tate Donovan was playing the pilot. In fact, the cast photo on the first post shows him. And he got the "with" credit as part of the main cast.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

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

Wow, I didn't recognize him. Well here's hoping either he'll be back or some similar looking actor in the same role will be.

 

[DarKush]

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

I finally caught this online. I liked it. It's not the most original story, but I thought it was well told and I thought the cast was pretty good. I like how they just eased in that there are other supers out there instead of making us wait for it on down the line.

I didn't quite get why the bullet penetrated Chiklis's head but he could catch bullets in his hands without a scratch. I'm chalking it up to the proximity of the bullets coming at him but I would like that explained. At least they gave us some explanations, not confirmed yet, of why Benz's clothes don't rip,etc, when she runs. I do wish that one of the kids didn't have a mental power though. They need someone who has an elemental power, fire, water, wind, earth, or something like that.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

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

Or even real elements like, say, osmium or iridium ... or titanium!

Red Cloak knows what's up:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0423.html

 

[Trekker4747]

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

I finally caught this online. I liked it. It's not the most original story, but I thought it was well told and I thought the cast was pretty good. I like how they just eased in that there are other supers out there instead of making us wait for it on down the line.

I didn't quite get why the bullet penetrated Chiklis's head but he could catch bullets in his hands without a scratch. I'm chalking it up to the proximity of the bullets coming at him but I would like that explained. At least they gave us some explanations, not confirmed yet, of why Benz's clothes don't rip,etc, when she runs. I do wish that one of the kids didn't have a mental power though. They need someone who has an elemental power, fire, water, wind, earth, or something like that.

I just assume it's his Achelie's Heel. He has to have a weak-spot soewhere.

 

[McCoy]

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

Or maybe his "invincibility" is stronger when he is anticipating the danger. Kind of like using his mind to power up his shields. Though I'm not sure the writers put that much thought into it.

 

[Checkmate]

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

Between the father and mother, there's plenty of flash to keep people interested. Giving the kids mental powers was a stroke of genius as it allows them to keep their budget down, while still adding all the elemental effects they can afford via the bad guys and other metahumans in the setting.

If one of the kids was like, say, the Human Torch, they'd never be able to afford the show.

 

[MilleniumLance]

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

What i got from it was, the guy was using a 50. cal Desert Eagle hand gun from 4 feet away hitting the soft tissue around the base of the neck where the spine connects to the skull..a strong enough chop to this area could kill you.

 

[Captain Mike]

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

Chalk up another above average vote from me. I liked it.I thought that Detective Cho would eventually brought into the loop until I read this thread. That sucks because I thought Christina Chang looked familiar but couldn't figure it out for the life of me. Well I IMDB'd her and forgot she portrayed Dr. Sunny Macer on 24 in Day 3 & Day 6.

 

[Chris_Johnston]

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

Shouldn't Stephanie have been testing her speed on a regular clay/concrete/asphalt track, rather than a horse track? Loose dirt is fine for hooves, but sneakers? Not so much.
Cornering's a bitch, and everybody hates getting dirt inside their shoes.

 

[Amasov]

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

I saw an ad for it about five minutes before it started. Looked interesting, so I gave it a shot. I really liked it. It was a lot fun and is on my watch list this season.

I just hope The Event gets interesting.