On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:52 PM, televisiongirl <[email protected]> wrote: > My problems with both shows are their glacial pacing and the fact that the > supporting characters are so much more interesting than the leads. I was in > for nine season of "The X Files" and yes, things ended poorly, but > interesting things happened over those first few seasons. Other than the > premises of these two programs, nothing interesting has happened. > Joseph Fiennes may be a great actor but he's not a very interesting screen > presence. The appeal of Sonya Walger has always been a mystery to me. Far > more interested in the John Cho character. Same with Anna Torv. She's a > black hole. Let John Noble and Joshua Jackson solve crimes with Astrid and > report to Lance Reddick and just forget the nice blonde lady from the FBI.
I agree with you 100% about Fringe - except that I think the did start letting the really interesting supporting characters get more play, and Torv has gotten a little more interesting since she came back from her encounter with Spock. Also agree for the most part about Flashforward - Fiennes has been surprisingly uninteresting, given his film work. If Walger is the actress that plays his wife/Penny on Lost, then I agree with you about her too. But I do think that Fiennes character is interesting enough as a plot driver that this should be sufficient - except the show for some reason keeps wanting to slow down and turnitself into some kind of hybrid between Lost, Grey's Anatomy and NYPD Blue. That is what I meant about the show just being satisfied with one season - they have an interesting premise, run like hell with it and forget about establishing deep and complicated character relationships. jon wrote... > PGage: Flashforward on the other hand started out great and has been > gradually spiraling down. Gradually? I thought it kind of stopped completely in week two, and has been very gradually spiraling *up* since then. But it's still nowhere near realizing its potential. PGage writes... They have had 9 episodes so far, and I think 4 of the first 5 were their best (1 and 5 were the very best). The most recent one was a step up, but 6-8 were for me a steady decline. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
