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I really enjoyed TV last night. I hadn't heard too much about the show Arrow. I watched it on a whim and found it was pretty good. After a nice hour of Nova, I watched the pilot of Chicago Fire again and found it held up pretty well.
Arrow is admittedly a comic book story, but it's very well done and unlike high budget shows like Lost, Heroes and Revolution, it's not constantly pretending to be much more than what it is. There is quite a bit of violence, but most of the victims are at least said to survive in the dialog. Imagine a version of Revenge with a superhero that admits up front it's basically a comic book and you have Arrow. It's a nice action show for early in the evening. The pilot of Arrow has one unfortunate bit, an instant really, of bad acting/horrible direction which turns a deadly serious scene into a WTF LOL moment.
Spoiler here:Trapped in a rubber life raft on the ocean with his son and another man, and desperately short on fresh water, the hero's father decides the future hero must survive to undo all the wrongs he's done in his life. The father shoots the other man and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. Unfortunately the actor raises the gun to such a high angle the bullet would surely destroy the flotation ring of the raft as well as his brain.end spoiler
The ending is a little hokey, but nothing outrageous for what admittedly is an adult comic book story. All in all quite enjoyable.
The Nova episode might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it was very interesting to me. Recent discoveries have revealed that luckier, wealthy vikings in the 800's owned swords far in advance of anything that was produced for the next thousand years including the famous samurai swords of Japan. This secret weapon gave them a big advantage in melee. A modern day blacksmith reproduces a credible copy, explaining the possible problems and complications as he goes along. Scientists explain how the swords were possible from a logistic standpoint and why the art of making them was lost after the mid 1000's.
It was all too often in the hey day of broadcast TV that two good high-budget shows were up against each other in the same time slot. These days with a lot fewer scripted shows you'd think such a thing would be rare. Late evening Wednesday we have such a match up again.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ponygirl2000, whose judgement I trust, says that Nashville is good. It isn't at all my cup of tea. Country music and the old story of the less-than-gracious rising star displacing the earnest old favorite, just doesn't appeal to me. But I can tell you, for my tastes, Chicago Fire is the best new show I've seen at least since Castle debuted. I've got a friend here in town with a real problem. She loves country music and Chicago Fire is of her very favorite genre. Fortunately she has a DVR. I hope that any of you who might be interested in both can watch them either in recording or on the net.
Arrow is admittedly a comic book story, but it's very well done and unlike high budget shows like Lost, Heroes and Revolution, it's not constantly pretending to be much more than what it is. There is quite a bit of violence, but most of the victims are at least said to survive in the dialog. Imagine a version of Revenge with a superhero that admits up front it's basically a comic book and you have Arrow. It's a nice action show for early in the evening. The pilot of Arrow has one unfortunate bit, an instant really, of bad acting/horrible direction which turns a deadly serious scene into a WTF LOL moment.
Spoiler here:Trapped in a rubber life raft on the ocean with his son and another man, and desperately short on fresh water, the hero's father decides the future hero must survive to undo all the wrongs he's done in his life. The father shoots the other man and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. Unfortunately the actor raises the gun to such a high angle the bullet would surely destroy the flotation ring of the raft as well as his brain.end spoiler
The ending is a little hokey, but nothing outrageous for what admittedly is an adult comic book story. All in all quite enjoyable.
The Nova episode might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it was very interesting to me. Recent discoveries have revealed that luckier, wealthy vikings in the 800's owned swords far in advance of anything that was produced for the next thousand years including the famous samurai swords of Japan. This secret weapon gave them a big advantage in melee. A modern day blacksmith reproduces a credible copy, explaining the possible problems and complications as he goes along. Scientists explain how the swords were possible from a logistic standpoint and why the art of making them was lost after the mid 1000's.
It was all too often in the hey day of broadcast TV that two good high-budget shows were up against each other in the same time slot. These days with a lot fewer scripted shows you'd think such a thing would be rare. Late evening Wednesday we have such a match up again.
ponygirl2000, whose judgement I trust, says that Nashville is good. It isn't at all my cup of tea. Country music and the old story of the less-than-gracious rising star displacing the earnest old favorite, just doesn't appeal to me. But I can tell you, for my tastes, Chicago Fire is the best new show I've seen at least since Castle debuted. I've got a friend here in town with a real problem. She loves country music and Chicago Fire is of her very favorite genre. Fortunately she has a DVR. I hope that any of you who might be interested in both can watch them either in recording or on the net.