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Now the series has started - cannot find a thread for this?

So what did people think? If you haven't seen it - seems to be available here without regional lock:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt2znyyXt3g[/yt]


Pilot episodes are always hard to judge but I thought some of the acting felt a little stiff - almost like a fan fiction version.
 
Powers.

Powers.

(How the hell did this sneak up on us?)

Turn of the millennium Image Comics comic by Bendis about hard boiled (yet modern) cops vs. capes, adapted into almost TV. Powers will continue to be delivered for Free to Playstation customers/owners/subscribers across the Playstation network (How they network their MMORPGs globally.) for free (if you have Play Station Plus?), that you are intended to view/play through your Playstation Console, starting a couple hours ago.

Years back, Katee Sackoff wanted the female lead, but they gave it to Lucy Punch instead, who is a different type of excellent, but that rendition of the project collapsed. It's been a long road, getting from there to here.

Depending on how you draw a line in time between today and yesterday, but this is the second pilot that Michelle Forbes has been in since I woke up yesterday. I will always love you Miranda Zero.

Right out of the Gate, Special effects demonstrating actual superpowers and intense violence. Lots of Blood. Good, some of them can fly and toss lightning, while other's happen to be Eddie Izzard, which is better.

:)

I'm ten minutes in (with 43 to go.) and it seems fine.

Olesya Rulin from High School Musical does not look 29, but that's why I suppose they hired her to be jailbait.

Holy shit, the lead is Chappie!

(Sharlto Copley, unrecognisably from District 9.)

It's not stellar, but they've got the tools here to make something interesting if Powers is given enough rope to put their... There's a 30 second season 1 preview after the show finishes.

Wow.

Looking good.
 
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CONVERGED!

I'm not getting playback for that video in the Southern Hemisphere. Is it still working in the North?
 
Okay, I was wondering how people who didn't have PlayStations could watch it. Will the entire season be available on YouTube, or was this just a tease to get people to pay for it?

It's okay, I guess. A decent enough premise, a look at how normal people cope in a world full of superheroes, but I'm not quite won over by the characters yet, and I'm not a fan of dark-and-gritty per se. The cast is okay. The FX are a bit basic, but that's only to be expected, and it works in the context of a street-level story where the superheroes are usually just barely glimpsed figures swooping around in the sky.

It looks like they've diverged from the comics' storyline, though, since I gather that they begin with Retro Girl's murder.
 
As far as I know it's only available to people who have access to the Playstation Network, although I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually did come out on DVD.
I thought it was pretty good. I don't know if I'll bother buying the rest of the season, but if it does eventually come out on DVD or one of the streaming services I'll probably check out the rest of it.
 
Seems it's US only for now, with other territories later, which given Netflix and Amazon seems stupid.

Reviews seem to say that it gets better after the first episode or two.
 
Christopher said:
It looks like they've diverged from the comics' storyline, though, since I gather that they begin with Retro Girl's murder.
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Actually...

Why did you choose not to adapt the "Who Killed Retro Girl" storyline for your first arc?

We're jumping off from a completely different place. We are very true to the world and very true to the characters. We are definitely mining the books for characters and story elements, but we're not just trying to play back the series. In point of fact, we felt Retro Girl was one of the great losses of the comic book series. Brian has said they never expected to do more than a half dozen issues because they didn't think anyone would buy it, so they killed Retro Girl right away. The weakness is, you are killing a huge hero in your world, depending on everyone talking about her and telling you how awesome she is to have an impact. When we went into it, we thought people needed to know who she is for her [death] to mean something. Then we were like, "Why do we have to kill her at all? Because she's a really awesome character." So, quite the contrary -- Retro Girl is a major character.
 
Michelle looks good for someone half her age.

Although regretting murdering Retro Girl in the books and deciding to play with this character in the present day "reboot" is a copout. You could undeaden any pivotal murder victim from fiction, just because it didn't become exactly clear how awesome that person was until they were eating worms.

Hamlet comes to mind first.

Without the King being murdered by his brother everything else stays stagnant and tedious about rich white privileged people living before the invention of indoor plumbing.

Oh, and Hari Fucking Seldon. That dead fuck should have stayed dead. Stupid fricking endless thousand page Foundation prequels about his ongoing war against male pattern baldness!

The Comedian in Watchmen! Yes, I have read most of the terrible prequel series.

However!

Playstation actually released 3 episodes last night.

And I suppose that that is just further incentive to go down to the the Buy-More and purchase a Playstation to get your jolly end away.

An incentive measured in shame.

They will come for your fanboycard.

Metric shame per week. You were prepared to burden the shame of having not seen the pilot this week, because it's just just been one week. Your same tank is almost empty because you'd only reserved the mental axiom to cope with the cosmic forces of not having seen one episode trying to crush you, but it hasn't been just one episode has it?

IT'S BEEN THREE!

Would you really jam triple the recommended weight of fatties into an elevator for a joyride up and down it's shaft until the cable snaps and the emergency-breaks say "Oh, HELL no"?

How much shame can you deal with until you submit to Play Station and admit that they deserve a percentage of your monthly income forever after?

IMDB suggests that the rest of the season, 7 more episodes, 10 in total, will be coming out weekly.
 
The pilot seemed really amateurish and cheesy, with shoddy dialogue and very low rent production values unbefitting the caliber of talent they had in the show. Hopefully that's just a product of not wanting to invest too much in a pilot and that as the show goes into full production it finds a groove. I'll keep watching for a bit in the hopes that it will improve, but so far it wasn't a good first impression.
 
I tried to watch it last night, but PSN must've been overwhelmed and wouldn't play it. The trailer makes it look really bad though production wise, as bad as that Halo series looked.
Hope it turns out to be better than this first impression, but I'm not hopeful. :(
 
I didn't have a problem with the production values. I wonder if the issue is that people are expecting a superhero show, when it's actually a cop show set in a superhero universe (as they stress in the interviews I've read). By the standards of a cop show, the production looks okay to me.
 
No, the issue was that I thought the production values looked substandard for a professional television series in this day and age. The theme and focus of the show had nothing to do with it. It looked unpolished to me, like a basic cable show from 1995.
 
Okay, but I didn't notice that. Or at least it didn't bother me. This is the first original drama this new network or provider or whatever we call it has ever made. Of course it's gonna be low-budget. I didn't expect anything else.
 
Well episodes 2 and 3 were better, or I just got used to it.

One good thing is that they persisted with the Olympia murder and all the side crap that came with that, and didn't try to also shoe horn in a case of the week which is something I felt really screwed over how to get away with Murder.

It's Walkers beard. Or more accurately it's the bad dye job on Walkers beard. It actually reminds me a comic lumbered with a horrid inker.
 
Guy Gardener said:
Michelle looks good for someone half her age.

Although regretting murdering Retro Girl in the books and deciding to play with this character in the present day "reboot" is a copout. You could undeaden any pivotal murder victim from fiction, just because it didn't become exactly clear how awesome that person was until they were eating worms.

Hamlet comes to mind first.

Without the King being murdered by his brother everything else stays stagnant and tedious about rich white privileged people living before the invention of indoor plumbing.

Oh, and Hari Fucking Seldon. That dead fuck should have stayed dead. Stupid fricking endless thousand page Foundation prequels about his ongoing war against male pattern baldness!

The Comedian in Watchmen! Yes, I have read most of the terrible prequel series.
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Was Retro Girl's murder that pivotal to the story? I was under the impression that it was just the first case they investigated and then they moved on.
 
I was more reacting to the report that Bendis was sad that she was dead in issue one, and glad that she survived the pilot.

But yes, first case is probably a better description than pivotal.

Theoretically nothing she could have done in the next 90 issues could have been as moving to the story than dying in issue one.

Lister made a similar argument to John F. Kennedy.

Everything after Reichenbach falls is probably a cop out.

Dead is dead.
 
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