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"Lost," get lost!
Um, hate to say it, but it looks like a kiddie show for adults. Effects stolen from Firefly and Jurassic Park. Too little 'what's going on?', too much 'The monster is coming! Fret! The sky is falling! Worry! The airplane food is ready! Flee!' It seems too serious for younger kids, and a little too dumb for adults. I don't see it lasting out the season.
A few flips over to Smallville proved that everything there is still much the same. The whole town is still constipated from the looks on all their faces. Clark is still sometimes mean and not knowing what he's doing. At the start of flying sequence I caught, he knocks his mom down. Swift move, Clark. Small town Kansas still looks closer to Los Angeles and Knotts Berry Farm than Salina and wheat fields. Lois Lane showed up, but other than looking way too old to be messing around with high school seniors there is not much special about her. You certainly can't tell her from any other female character on the show based on her behavior. The bizarrely brightly back-lit Lana-in-the-shower scene was far from unpleasant, but hardly an orginal way to get the point of the scene across.
With no Angel on this year I think I can safely skip watching TV on Wednesdays.
Um, hate to say it, but it looks like a kiddie show for adults. Effects stolen from Firefly and Jurassic Park. Too little 'what's going on?', too much 'The monster is coming! Fret! The sky is falling! Worry! The airplane food is ready! Flee!' It seems too serious for younger kids, and a little too dumb for adults. I don't see it lasting out the season.
A few flips over to Smallville proved that everything there is still much the same. The whole town is still constipated from the looks on all their faces. Clark is still sometimes mean and not knowing what he's doing. At the start of flying sequence I caught, he knocks his mom down. Swift move, Clark. Small town Kansas still looks closer to Los Angeles and Knotts Berry Farm than Salina and wheat fields. Lois Lane showed up, but other than looking way too old to be messing around with high school seniors there is not much special about her. You certainly can't tell her from any other female character on the show based on her behavior. The bizarrely brightly back-lit Lana-in-the-shower scene was far from unpleasant, but hardly an orginal way to get the point of the scene across.
With no Angel on this year I think I can safely skip watching TV on Wednesdays.
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I'd give it another week if I were you. The pilot is actually 2 hours, and was split up into 2 weeks, when most people who saw it agreed that it should have been aired in one sitting, because the "what's going on?" part of the pilot occurs in the second hour, which is what the majority of the advance viewers and critics say really sold them on the show. I'm personally very intrigued. I don't really see it as being kiddie at all. I thought it was a very taut, suspenseful hour that managed to do what Stephen King hasn't been able to do for a long time: create a mysterious, effective horror story populated with complex characters you actually care about and whose three-dimensionality imbue the fantastic elements of the story with believability. At least it accomplished that for me.