J2.0 - Episode 1
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timepiececlockWatched last night's recording of Jake 2.0.
So far it looks like a blend of The Invisible Man (USA channel version), The Sentinel, Spiderman, and Superman.
It was very predictable, and the characters were flat and uninteresting and shallowly developed. The best of the lot was Jake and the cute doctor-lady.
He discovered his powers too fast, and learned how to use them adeptly too fast.
Even with super-strength, let's think about bone structure here. Serious limitations.
And it'd be nice if they handled some of the other realistic limitiations to superstrength... like if you wanted you pull open a heavy door, chances are you'll just pull yourself into it, and you'd pull out or break the handle long before you manage to break the hinges.
All of this aside, it's cute and doesn't annoy me at all. It's like... popcorn. Fun, cute popcorn. The scene with girl thinking she was being followed and scaring herself silly when Jake was really being followed was quite funny. The other very funny scene was Jake's reaction to being inside the war room at the NSA. That's exactly how I would have behaved.... "This is so cool!... um...sorry."
This is not Jossverse, and it's not Farscape. Heck, it's not even Stargate SG1. But I need all the sci-fi TV I can get, and at least it doesn't irritate the fuck out of me like Smallville and Charmed. Yet. So I have until October when Angel starts to see how we mesh, this show and I.
So far it looks like a blend of The Invisible Man (USA channel version), The Sentinel, Spiderman, and Superman.
It was very predictable, and the characters were flat and uninteresting and shallowly developed. The best of the lot was Jake and the cute doctor-lady.
He discovered his powers too fast, and learned how to use them adeptly too fast.
Even with super-strength, let's think about bone structure here. Serious limitations.
And it'd be nice if they handled some of the other realistic limitiations to superstrength... like if you wanted you pull open a heavy door, chances are you'll just pull yourself into it, and you'd pull out or break the handle long before you manage to break the hinges.
All of this aside, it's cute and doesn't annoy me at all. It's like... popcorn. Fun, cute popcorn. The scene with girl thinking she was being followed and scaring herself silly when Jake was really being followed was quite funny. The other very funny scene was Jake's reaction to being inside the war room at the NSA. That's exactly how I would have behaved.... "This is so cool!... um...sorry."
This is not Jossverse, and it's not Farscape. Heck, it's not even Stargate SG1. But I need all the sci-fi TV I can get, and at least it doesn't irritate the fuck out of me like Smallville and Charmed. Yet. So I have until October when Angel starts to see how we mesh, this show and I.
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