So I am going to catch the pilot tonight of the new Fox show “Point Pleasant.”
From the TVGuide description:
It will probably be eye-bleedingly awful, but I’m game.
Who’s in?
Goodie! A Point Pleasant watching buddy! For some reason, I’m so in the mood for an eye-bleedingly awful show in this vein it’s not even funny.
Oh, I’ll certainly be watching. I was born in Point Pleasant Hospital, went to school in Point through 8th grade, and still live less than 10 minutes away.
So, ya know, I’m just keeping up with local news. 
Someone on another board says he heard James Marsters will be in the cast.
Sounds like wishful thinking. If he was involved with this, Fox would be letting us know. Now.
Watchin’ it now.
It’s Carrie meets The Omen ala OC.
Satan help us.
Perfect summation.
It was…ummm…nothing special. Kinda boring storyline so far, very lame writing, and little logic to anyone’s actions. Huh? FOX show? Oh, never mind…it fits right in!
We were able to enjoy it on a “how different is this Pt. Pleasant from the real one” basis. For instance – Cars on the beach, blazing bonfire, underage kegger?
Point Pleasant: Party time!
Point Pleasant: 30 kids taken to the hospital for billy club lacerations.
Why is there so much fantasy/ ghost/ second sight BS on TV these days?
Those elements just make it too easy for the writers to duck out of every story line with a deus ex machina. Which, as the name implies, was passe in Nero’s day.
HEY! I was born in Point Pleasant Hospital as well (May 30th, 1980) :D. Though I went to school in Lakewood for preschool and then Toms River Regional Schools through high school. My parents still live in Toms River and it’s still my permanent residence while I’m in Atlanta for law school (though I may switch my perm residence here in the fall).
Btw, saw the show… wierd it was. Looks… interesting. Apparently tomorrow is when the story really starts getting into the swing (at least that is what the promo said). Hey, I’m game for a Devil kid story on the Jersey Shore ;).
I made it through the first 22 minutes before flipping away in boredom. Did it improve?
Well in the end there was some sweet Devil magic (with killer bees)
The Omen with Hot Chicks instead of Demon Lads- how can that be bad?
Part of the reason is that several good shows (Buffy and Angel as the frontrunners) had a big impact. When used correctly supernatural elements allow for a more explicit and rich exploration of premise, as story logic is in essence magic logic. In stories things happen for a reason. In magical thinking reasons drive change in the world. By making intention and metaphor have a physical presence you can produce very interesting and meaningful stories without being too preachy.
Or you can make stupid crap where shit happens for no actual reason and the magic is just an excuse to say “Anytime you see an error like that a wizard did it.”
There is also, of course, the influence of shows like Crossing Over that makes it look like speaking to the dead type shows are going to do well. Hybridize this with the odd-ball detective cliche and you see exactly where Medium is coming from.
I made an effort to pay attention for a little over halfway through. Pretty dull stuff.
Yeah, I’m hoping for a more interesting episode tomorrow, seeing as how the ending was actually fairly cool.
Wow. So they decided to reveal exactly who the mysterious girl in the water was in the first five minutes of the first episode. That makes perfect sense. What tease it out over the course of the season, dropping hints here and there, making conversations a bit cryptic, giving clues that seem to reveal more than they actually do and then start to tie things up later on. I mean, that approach has been a complete and utter failure on other shows with a supernatural flavor, such as Lost and Carnivale. No, revealing your big secret in the first five minutes and then explaining the premise in two syllable words or less is absolutley the way to go.
Rosemary’s Baby grows up and moves to the OC is how I was describing it to Mrs. Six.
Good lord, that sucked!
Me: “The only things remotely interesting are an Antiques Roadshow spinoff and something with devils.”
Wife: “The devil show! The devil show!”
Twenty minutes later I switched to the final round on Family Feud. Our review:
Me: “Too much The OC…”
Wife: “…and not nearly enough devils.”
Well, I am glad to see that my loss of interest wasn’t just my short attention span. I found it kind of ho-hum. I think I walked away after the guy tried to strangle her in the church and was killed by bees and died in the position of Jesus on the cross.
Evil Bees? Devil Bees? Angry Devil Bees? Okay, now I am just trying to think of band names.
And I am really not that drawn to shows with naked pseudo-teenagers rolling around fornicating at the drop of the hat. Okay, that would be a good band name if it wasn’t so long.
Er … what were we talking about again?
Boring in the middle, but the last third seemed like it could go somewhere. I’ll try to give it another shot tonite, but since it’s on opposite Scrubs it’ll have to be damn good for me to contemplate switching.
–Cliffy
This show exceeded my expectations for sucktitude. Let’s see what we have here:
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[li] Everyone is a hottie. Even the parents. You could probably call it MILFTown if it wasn’t for the fact that the apparently adult children are uberhot. The lifeguard kid (?) looked old enough to be dating his hot mom. In the previews for the next episode, even the young priest is hot.[/li]
[li] “Let’s just have two guys sitting on a park bench give a brief summary of the basic plot and move on.” [/li]“We can also have the dead giveaway of having a kind of 666 symbol in her eye!”
“Wait, why are we giving away the whole story right off the bat…?”
“Well, we anticipate that this series isn’t going to last all that long…”
[li] I think the brunette daugher is hotter than the daughter of the devil. Come on, satan! You can do better than that! I mean, she’s hot and all, but shouldn’t she be impossibly hot?[/li]
[li] Not really a surprise here, but why is it that every ‘final battle between good and evil’ seems to be Christianity versus something else? Where are the Jewish good versus evil stories, for example? [/li][/ul]
3 out of 10, only because there was some eye candy.
Heh…actually, the past few days seem to have been a “Towns That Border My Town”-special on FOX. In addition to Point Pleasant, the previous night’s American Idol had “I Don’t Have To Spend A Lot Of Money To Look Good Even Though I Look Like Complete Trash”-girl who happened to be from Toms River (although for some inexplicable reason, they spelled it “Tom’s River”)