Ooh, that's bad!

[cactuswatcher]

It took Journeyman less than 10 minutes to lose my interest. If you are going to have a show with a character going back in time you need to have some knowledge of what things were like. Clearly the folks behind this show don't give a damn. The 1960's plane ride looked like a three-way cross between a love-fest, a Dean Martin movie and a movie inner-city bus ride from the late 1980's. Garbage in = Garbage out, doesn't only apply to computers.

Would have worked fine if the show was supposed to be a farce.

Looks like I might watch Chuck on Mondays, then turn the set off.

Comments

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

No offense, but it's pretty clear, in the context of the entire episode, that scene was intended to be parodic (btw, it was meant to be late 70s, not 60s), and judging the entire series based on the verisimilitude of one scene is rather unfair. It's also a shame you left that early, because you missed an extremely emotionally affecting story, not to mention more of the best character development I've seen this early on in a series in years.

Hence the "amused" mood icon.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

The costumes were from late 1960's. At least they could have gotten that right.

That's the kind of episode to have once the audience is hooked. You can't afford to do that kind of thing when you're building an audience.

A good lesson, don't try to start an extremely emotionally affecting story with exaggerated parody. Chances are a lot of people won't be watching by the end. Only in the movie "The Producers" do the aisles get so jammed with people trying to leave that most are forced to stay till it gets good.

;o)

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it was a parody so much as setting up a contrast between the time then and the time now as regards air travel - as witness what happens to the time traveler and his wife later in the show-- twice, in fact.

I assumed that the plane may have been largely or entirely booked by people who were throwing a big party to celebrate some occasion, and they either got started early or were continuing on from previous festivities. If several of the principals involved were very wealthy, it could even have been a private plane.

Whatever the case, the point IMO was to graphically illustrate two extremes, both of them ridiculous, and how ordinary people who are just trying to live out their lives get caught up in events over which they have little control, and simply must make the best of.

Thumbs up for me again-- liked it just as much as last week's premiere.

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

One of the problems with recreating the 60's is that a significant number of people were stoned most of the time, so their memories are questionable, and another significant number of people profoundly hate the people who were stoned all the time (and the people who sympathized with them) and have been rewriting history since then.

The remaining 5% of the population thus has a hard time knowing just what the hell did go on.

Ooo, look-- time to get high again. Bye!