They’ve been advertising the heck out of this show, and I’m on board to see what it’s all about.
It’s a JJ Abrams thing, on Fox, set in some future where a cop played by New Bones is forced to partner with an android (or something of that nature), played by some guy I don’t know. Sounds like a show that was pretty much custom-made for me.
I’ve tried not to read any reviews, but if nothing else, this show will provide a double-shot of eye candy the likes of which we haven’t seen in recent memory. Unless I’m forgetting something, which I probably am.
The two part premiere starts tonight at 8 and finishes Monday on Fox. I’m planning to try it out for a few episodes. It looks like it might be fun. Any body else in?
We watched - thought it was pretty good - curious to see where they take it, the previews for next week were ‘cliche’ for this genre, but, thats ok too.
We watched it. My wife had liked Michael Ealy (who plays Dorian) in a short-lived series called “Common Law”, and I’ve always liked Karl Urban.
The premiere was interesting enough to give it a few more weeks, at least. It has a Blade Runner feel to it in parts. And, I’ve decided that, between the haircut and the voice he’s using, Urban is channeling Jensen Ackles.
Good points: The two main characters are interesting and well drawn and the relationship works and has some nice possibilities.
Bad points: The tedious and cliched dystopian future and, other than the lead and his boss, the cops are deeply stupid. Evidently, in the future, the technology to make off-site backups of important data has been lost.
I’m in the “fair to middling” but willing to give them a few more episodes. My wife hated it. There’s way too much special effects sci-fi background stuff, and not enough character. John rakes up sympathy for what he experienced (loss of leg, etc) but not for who he is (nasty, arrogant, unfriendly, macho.) Destroying the synthetic cop because it asked too many question?? Sheeesh. Didn’t make him likeable. And Dorian needs to LOOK a little bit (just a little bit) like an android – little sparkles on his skin from time to time don’t do it.
Plus, there’s a really nasty racist undertone: the black guy has to prove that he’s not just sub-human? And resents being called a ni-- um, a synthetic? And the synthetics are expendible, even on a whim. I’m hoping they overcome that real, real soon; or that they’re using it as a deliberate condemnation of racism. But we haven’t seen that… yet.
PS [Mod hat on] - I’ve closed the other threads with links here, and I’ve edited the title to allow spoilers.
Yeah, human cop is pretty much cop stereotype 101 - pining for the old days when you could tune up a suspect because, dammit, he cares more about justice than the law, and he cares more about his dead partner than all the pencil-pushers at police HQ. May as well have made a series called Dinosaur Cop set just after the end of the Cretaceous Period about a detective who pines for the days when law enforcement wasn’t run by a bunch of damn herbivores.
Of course, it seems to me that in the semi-dystopian future depicted, torturing suspects for information would not only not be illegal, it would be considered fully acceptable. Heck, I’m vaguely surprised prisoners being transferred aren’t equipped with something akin to high-tech tracking-and-exploding collars, a la Running Man. Given the level of tech we’ve seen, they have to make up excuses to not have them.
It was pretty polite of the bad guy to announce to the kidnapped and eventually Saw-trapped cop what the evidence tag number was. Did he think the cop would have Item 6665 (or whatever the number was) on him, or something? Why tell him anything, since they plan to put in an inescapable deathtrap anyway? Why put him in a deathtrap where other cops can (indeed, it seems the plan was for them to) find him? What if he blurts out “Hey, the bad guys are looking for Evidence Item 6665!” instead of just “Get me outta here!”
And his partner is synthetic but sweet. Probably manufactured by the Oreo conglomerate.
I’ll watch the second episode, but I suspect my enjoyment of this series will stem from its mockability.
I watched the first episode and will watch tonight. I’ll give it a few weeks to see if it worth my time.
I might have missed something, but isn’t the cop in pretty good physical shape, except the leg, for someone who has been in a coma for so long? Most people bedridden for any long length of time have their muscles atrophy badly. Maybe you get to walk on a treadmill when in a coma in the future or they use electric muscle stimulus?
( I sent a mod report).