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I have new television! That hasn't happened in ages. A whole television programme, made this year, and not even a little bit wobbly or black and white. And yes, okay, so it'll probably be axed soon, because it's television that I like, and there's a rule that the studio therefore has to kill it. But in the meantime, I have new television!
It's a promising one, this. I like the premise, mostly. I like the cast. The plot kept making me smile, because every five minutes it made me think about Highlander. For starters the pilot guest-starred Clancy Brown, who I'm quite sure must have been hired on purpose. And then they beheaded him, which was both sad and immensely fitting. Then every five minutes somebody namechecked the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, which naturally has me looking for Peter Wingfield. Can't we rustle him up as a guest some time? Please? So long as we all agree beforehand that there'll be no beheading when he's in the vicinity, as I should hate to make him nervous.
It's a bit Adam Adamant, premise-wise. Secret agenty type from times gone by gets miraculously reawakened in the present day, and has to battle his ye olde time foe, reawakened with him. Adam Adamant had the benefit of hour long episodes and 1960s pacing though of course, which enabled him to have the time to actually be surprised by the modern world. Ichabod Crane just raised his eyebrow at the notion of being whisked more than two hundred years into his future, and then accepted it cheerfully. Nearly as cheerfully as he accepted the news that his wife had been burned to death as a witch, which was one of the few points where the pilot episode faltered. I suppose one could argue that learning you passed out on a 1781 battlefield, awoke in 2013, and now have to defeat the bloke you beheaded two hundred and thirty years ago, is quite a lot to swallow, so finding out that your wife was horribly killed shortly after your disappearance might have to take a backseat to all the craziness. But you'd think he'd find the time to look at least mildly upset.
Still, I have high hopes for this one. Both leads are engaging, senior cop guy looks promising, they killed John Cho, which is not cool, and there's demons haunting mirrors. Also swords, and battle axes, and a demonic horse, and wisecracking. Although if the enemy is that powerful and undefeatable, isn't that going to make the plot every week rather dull and predictable? Still, we'll see. I recommend this one. It's daft, but hopefully in all the right ways. And it makes me think of Highlander, which is always appreciated. Now if it can just avoid being axed, we could be on to a good thing.
It's a promising one, this. I like the premise, mostly. I like the cast. The plot kept making me smile, because every five minutes it made me think about Highlander. For starters the pilot guest-starred Clancy Brown, who I'm quite sure must have been hired on purpose. And then they beheaded him, which was both sad and immensely fitting. Then every five minutes somebody namechecked the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, which naturally has me looking for Peter Wingfield. Can't we rustle him up as a guest some time? Please? So long as we all agree beforehand that there'll be no beheading when he's in the vicinity, as I should hate to make him nervous.
It's a bit Adam Adamant, premise-wise. Secret agenty type from times gone by gets miraculously reawakened in the present day, and has to battle his ye olde time foe, reawakened with him. Adam Adamant had the benefit of hour long episodes and 1960s pacing though of course, which enabled him to have the time to actually be surprised by the modern world. Ichabod Crane just raised his eyebrow at the notion of being whisked more than two hundred years into his future, and then accepted it cheerfully. Nearly as cheerfully as he accepted the news that his wife had been burned to death as a witch, which was one of the few points where the pilot episode faltered. I suppose one could argue that learning you passed out on a 1781 battlefield, awoke in 2013, and now have to defeat the bloke you beheaded two hundred and thirty years ago, is quite a lot to swallow, so finding out that your wife was horribly killed shortly after your disappearance might have to take a backseat to all the craziness. But you'd think he'd find the time to look at least mildly upset.
Still, I have high hopes for this one. Both leads are engaging, senior cop guy looks promising, they killed John Cho, which is not cool, and there's demons haunting mirrors. Also swords, and battle axes, and a demonic horse, and wisecracking. Although if the enemy is that powerful and undefeatable, isn't that going to make the plot every week rather dull and predictable? Still, we'll see. I recommend this one. It's daft, but hopefully in all the right ways. And it makes me think of Highlander, which is always appreciated. Now if it can just avoid being axed, we could be on to a good thing.
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And you bring Peter Wingfield back to mind, for that was my problem with SG-1, actually. They kept making each season's enemy SO GHASTLY POWERFUL... and then they'd beat them, and next season would bring a MORE GHASTLY POWERFUL enemy.
+sigh+
I can usually make it 2 seasons on any given show before I crack and give up. This one ambitiously thinks it will either get seven, or we'll have a good bit of time-jumping.
I'm written off the problem with the way Ichabod reacts to a combination of him having no idea if this 'future' is actually just a part of his secret mission, a demon working perhaps, and his irate incredulity that they think _he_ is the crazy one. (But yeah, seriously, it was the 43 minute episode)
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