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apocalypsos) wrote2010-09-28 10:10 pm
apocalypsos) wrote2010-09-28 10:10 pm
I skipped Glee to watch No Ordinary Family.
The good:
-- I'm always a sucker for superpowers, God knows, and it wasn't a completely terrible execution.
-- Michael Chiklis's character is sort of adorable in his dorky awe at his abilities.
-- Julie Benz can do no wrong.
-- The parents' sidekicks are great.
-- Reverend Camden is evil! That's sort of hilarious.
-- I was thinking the past week that the first time I ever encountered Michael Chiklis in entertainment was when my grandparents and I would watch "The Commish" together, and thinking about it laugh because he looked twenty years older back then than he does now, and I only JUST realized that when "The Commish" started, Michael Chiklis was the exact same age that I am now. Heh.
The bad:
-- I'm not sure I like anything about the kids save the Little Panabaker's pretty perfect complexion.
-- The parents' sidekicks being great is going to suck if they don't end up with a whole lot of screentime.
-- I sort of wish they'd switched the powers and she'd ended up with the superstrength and he'd gotten the speed.
-- The marriage counselor conceit was irritating, and I hope we won't be dealing with that every week.
-- The dialogue was a bit stilted, but then again it's the pilot and the dialogue's usually a bit weak even in the best of pilots.
I'm really hoping that they learn from the mistakes of "Heroes" and keep it simple. They don't need any huge overreaching story arcs that span the globe, honestly. That said, there's certainly enough potential there to stick with it.
So, yes. Will probably be sticking with this one, because if they can smooth out the rough edges I could totally fall in love with it.
*
The good:
-- Morgan's the manager of the Buy More, you guys. And let me tell you, the walkthrough with General Redhead was freakin' SWEET.
-- I don't know which made me more \o/ and :D all at once, Old Spice Guy or the return of Jeffster. IT'S A TIE.
-- If Awesome is going to be like this for the rest of Ellie's pregnancy, Ellie may end up with frayed nerves but I may never stop giggling.
-- The baby album was like fannish catnip.
-- Chuck and Sarah = still adorable.
-- The mental image of Chuck inventing spy gadgets puts hearts in my eyes. It's like when I think of Morgan as Morgan Grimes, CIA Operative In Charge Of Functional Believability In Realism Scenarios.
-- Chuck watches Project Runway? :D
The bad:
-- No live-action Linda Hamilton. Boo.
-- Casey's personal issues are doing nothing for me for some reason. Although his growled verbal jabs at Morgan are still better than you.
-- The whole suitcase arguments bored me.
-- As did the supermodel baddie.
-- Also, the "crime pays" crack out of Chuck about her staying in the presidential suite is kinda stupid considering her cover is as an international supermodel and it's FASHION WEEK. Supermodels are called that for a reason.
*
Some other things:
-- IT'S MY BERFDAY IN AN HOUR AND A HALF. And you can tell, because I am turning thirty-three and therefore am very mature and adult about it. (Which is why I'm not flashing big teary saucer eyes and a pouty bottom lip and saying, "Pwezzies and a pony?" on the internet. Because I AM A MOTHERFUCKING GROWNUP.)
-- That said, I'm still trying to decide whether or not to skip work on Thursday as well. Wheeee, look at me, I'm a responsible adult!
-- Every time I see a trailer for Katherine Heigl's new movie with Josh Duhamel (I usually remember the Life ... part of the title and then my memory fogs and my brain supplies the rest, which turns into something like Life Gives You Joan's Redheaded Baby And Fergie's Husband And A Series Of Awful Scripts You Proceed To Make Ridiculous Shocked Prude Faces Throughout, The Success Of Which Is Just Grossly Unfair For Someone Who's Gotten To Snuggle With Jeffrey Dean Morgan), I realize how much I'd really like a CW RPS version that's also sort of a My Two Dads throwback where Gen and Danneel are together and get their respective best friends to toss some babymaking materials into the pot and make a couple of babies, at which point they die and leave Jared and Jensen to raise the babies and fall in love with one another or whatever.
I wish I had the mental fortitude to write it myself, but I think once I got to the part where Gen and Danneel died, I'd get all sad and wander off.
-- I've been listening to Greg Laswell's cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" at work and it puts the biggest stupidest smile on my face for something so bare bones and low-key.
-- I'm always a sucker for superpowers, God knows, and it wasn't a completely terrible execution.
-- Michael Chiklis's character is sort of adorable in his dorky awe at his abilities.
-- Julie Benz can do no wrong.
-- The parents' sidekicks are great.
-- Reverend Camden is evil! That's sort of hilarious.
-- I was thinking the past week that the first time I ever encountered Michael Chiklis in entertainment was when my grandparents and I would watch "The Commish" together, and thinking about it laugh because he looked twenty years older back then than he does now, and I only JUST realized that when "The Commish" started, Michael Chiklis was the exact same age that I am now. Heh.
The bad:
-- I'm not sure I like anything about the kids save the Little Panabaker's pretty perfect complexion.
-- The parents' sidekicks being great is going to suck if they don't end up with a whole lot of screentime.
-- I sort of wish they'd switched the powers and she'd ended up with the superstrength and he'd gotten the speed.
-- The marriage counselor conceit was irritating, and I hope we won't be dealing with that every week.
-- The dialogue was a bit stilted, but then again it's the pilot and the dialogue's usually a bit weak even in the best of pilots.
I'm really hoping that they learn from the mistakes of "Heroes" and keep it simple. They don't need any huge overreaching story arcs that span the globe, honestly. That said, there's certainly enough potential there to stick with it.
So, yes. Will probably be sticking with this one, because if they can smooth out the rough edges I could totally fall in love with it.
*
The good:
-- Morgan's the manager of the Buy More, you guys. And let me tell you, the walkthrough with General Redhead was freakin' SWEET.
-- I don't know which made me more \o/ and :D all at once, Old Spice Guy or the return of Jeffster. IT'S A TIE.
-- If Awesome is going to be like this for the rest of Ellie's pregnancy, Ellie may end up with frayed nerves but I may never stop giggling.
-- The baby album was like fannish catnip.
-- Chuck and Sarah = still adorable.
-- The mental image of Chuck inventing spy gadgets puts hearts in my eyes. It's like when I think of Morgan as Morgan Grimes, CIA Operative In Charge Of Functional Believability In Realism Scenarios.
-- Chuck watches Project Runway? :D
The bad:
-- No live-action Linda Hamilton. Boo.
-- Casey's personal issues are doing nothing for me for some reason. Although his growled verbal jabs at Morgan are still better than you.
-- The whole suitcase arguments bored me.
-- As did the supermodel baddie.
-- Also, the "crime pays" crack out of Chuck about her staying in the presidential suite is kinda stupid considering her cover is as an international supermodel and it's FASHION WEEK. Supermodels are called that for a reason.
*
Some other things:
-- IT'S MY BERFDAY IN AN HOUR AND A HALF. And you can tell, because I am turning thirty-three and therefore am very mature and adult about it. (Which is why I'm not flashing big teary saucer eyes and a pouty bottom lip and saying, "Pwezzies and a pony?" on the internet. Because I AM A MOTHERFUCKING GROWNUP.)
-- That said, I'm still trying to decide whether or not to skip work on Thursday as well. Wheeee, look at me, I'm a responsible adult!
-- Every time I see a trailer for Katherine Heigl's new movie with Josh Duhamel (I usually remember the Life ... part of the title and then my memory fogs and my brain supplies the rest, which turns into something like Life Gives You Joan's Redheaded Baby And Fergie's Husband And A Series Of Awful Scripts You Proceed To Make Ridiculous Shocked Prude Faces Throughout, The Success Of Which Is Just Grossly Unfair For Someone Who's Gotten To Snuggle With Jeffrey Dean Morgan), I realize how much I'd really like a CW RPS version that's also sort of a My Two Dads throwback where Gen and Danneel are together and get their respective best friends to toss some babymaking materials into the pot and make a couple of babies, at which point they die and leave Jared and Jensen to raise the babies and fall in love with one another or whatever.
I wish I had the mental fortitude to write it myself, but I think once I got to the part where Gen and Danneel died, I'd get all sad and wander off.
-- I've been listening to Greg Laswell's cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" at work and it puts the biggest stupidest smile on my face for something so bare bones and low-key.