ah well...

Feb 05, 2009 23:13

American Life on Mars finally hit T.V. over here ( Read more... )

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jean_geanie February 5 2009, 13:11:12 UTC
devastated I'm sure ;)

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gritsinmisery February 5 2009, 13:37:14 UTC
I just can't bring myself to watch it. I understand from reviews by people who are not influenced by having seen the original that once they quit redoing the original scripts (IOW, after the first 8-ish episodes) that it's actually not that horrible. But as it already has a "Save Our Show" campaign going, obviously somebody thinks it won't go more than one season.

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jean_geanie February 5 2009, 13:41:06 UTC
Can't say it surprises me. I have to admit I thought using the twin towers for shock factor was clever but the rest of the 10 minutes just left me unimpressed/horrified ;)

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amproof February 5 2009, 22:27:07 UTC
I would think that argument would come from people who *were* familiar with the show. Otherwise, how would they know the show was using original stories or not?

<--likes the original eps, and the Ray/Sam, where the US chemistry is, Harvey as Gene, sees it a totally different show and does not like being reminded that it isn't b/c it inevitably plummets in quality on all aspects.

Last night's ep about Ray and his brother was original and very good, I thought.

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severinne February 5 2009, 15:34:22 UTC
Urrgh, yeah, I also *tried* to watch, even did the second episode in a rare moment of generosity, but regardless of whether or not I'm unfairly biased by my real!LOM love, the remake is just too awkward and horrible for words. Just, no.

On the upside, every accidental encounter with the show means I have to promptly rewatch an episode of the original to scrub the bad taste out of my brain ;)

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jean_geanie February 5 2009, 15:42:21 UTC
I know what you mean... the first thing I did was re-watch the proper Gene Hunt introduction scene :)

Now I'm watching Lost in Austen and making icons of those radiotimes pictures to try and bleach my brain ;)

The really horrifying thing is that both my sisters loved the episode (they kept watching) and refuse to watch the original *face-palm*

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lunadeath02 February 5 2009, 15:47:30 UTC
Ugh, I know what you mean. I didn't like the first couple episodes. There was one that was "OK", but then when they did an episode with Sam 'finding himself' again (something to do with religion) then I said enough's enough and stopped watching. Sam doesn't go back to being religious at all! I don't understand why they had to do that. XP

I enjoy rewatching the original. Much better. :)

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jean_geanie February 5 2009, 15:52:41 UTC
Definitely. I've got an awful feeling they're going to change the ending rather than have a lead commit suicide. It's not really your typical channel 10 / NBC ending is it?

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amproof February 5 2009, 22:30:37 UTC
It's a cliche of american television to have the main character do a religion-based soul searching. (We're all terribly guilt-ridden, it seems.) Happens all the time. I asked my overseas flist once if that happened in their tv-cultures, and the answer was pretty much a round 'no'. LOL

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acidpenguin46 February 6 2009, 02:43:22 UTC
The only reason I had a somewhat unbiased reaction to this pilot is because I saw the original US pilot and it was dire. I still refused to watch it last night though (combining Singstar and "Substitute" from Spicks and Specks was more than enough of a distraction).

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jean_geanie February 6 2009, 03:58:09 UTC
aww sounds like a much better night.

*is still miffed that she missed Spicks and Specks being on TV this week*

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