Oh FOR F*CKS SAKE
I’m writing a letter to Fox.
Minnear is Charlie Brown, Fox is Lucy, and those shows are all footballs.
Wow. *Somebody * sure is white…
Well, it’s all academic now. This show just went over the Reichenbach Falls.
Damn. I saw so many ads for this series over the past month that I thought it was safe, at least for the first season. I should have known better.
It was only supposed to be 13 or so episodes long.
I thought surely it would get summer burn off, at worst. I liked Dylan Baker. And the brothers. And Sam’s mom. It was silly and fun.
How crappy were the crappy ratings mentioned?
Good god that was fast. I liked the premise and Nathan Fillion and thought it showed promise but I agree that most of the actors and characters were completely insufferable.
The quasi-banger and his bogus “urban latino” accent and lingo just made him so phony. The homely black church lady was impossible to watch. The whiny insane mommy made no sense and was completely paper thin. Taryn Manning’s celebrity and casting is baffling to a degree I can’t fathom. I can handle a few weak characters and poor actors, especially when as stacked as Mircea Monroe, but this lineup was weaker than the Washington Nationals.
Still, Fillion’s dialog was fun and the overall premise showed real promise as a Lost-esque mystery. I really wanted this show to work. Crap.
I caught up on this show last night… interesting, I would say, but not particularly good. I mean, Nathan Fillion’s car is probably the third or fourth best actor on the show, which is a problem when you have a huge ensemble cast (Fillion, Baker, Lehman, and the car are the top four, IMO, which makes the scenes that don’t involve either the leads or the dying-man-and-his-hot-daughter VERY painful to watch at times). It was definitely fun enough that I’d have stuck out the first season, but… ah, well.
I had so much hope for Fillion after he got another lead role, too. 
Shit, The Inside lasted longer than this!
Remember the good old days of Cheers, when a network would give a show a season or so to find its audience?
Those days are gone.
For that matter, remember when Fox was trying to get off the ground, and one of their original shows was something called “The X-Files”. Had poor ratings most of its first season, but they gave it more time, and through word-of-mouth it built up an audience and became, if I recall, fairly well-known.
Guess we’ll keep wondering if they ever would have revealed the whole deal about the omnipresent secret cabal thingy.
Though now that I’ve gotten to see the end of the most recent episode, I’m not that impressed with the writing. At this point, Our Heroes have apparently murdered a security guard in order to stay in the stupid race. This could add a really dark layer of moral ambiguity – but the script tries to prevent this by arbitrarily making the poor security guard a complete asshole that we were all happy to see shot. In his minute or so of screen time, he’s shown to be bigoted, corrupt, willing to commit sexual abuse, and trigger-happy. That’s shitty writing trying to avoid any kind of moral dilemma. If he’d been a nice, totally professional guard and devoted family man who reminded me of Jimmy Stewart, and had still gotten shot by Our Heroes because they wouldn’t give up the damn race, then I would have had some respect for the writer.
Oh you’ve got to be kidding me!!! Stupid Fox. Poor Nathan Fillion–and Tim Minear, too, I suppose. Now I’m annoyed. And we’ll never know how Blondie Can’t-Drive ends back up in the car with Other-Louisiana-Chick like in the credits.
At least we got to Alex’s secret past before they pulled the plug.
FOX is a four-letter word.
:mad:
Pretty crappy. The season premere scored a 2.6 share (about 6 million viewers), and then dropped to 2.3 on its first Monday airing (about 5.6 million). In other words, even on its first appearance, with all the Fox hype, it did worse than shows like “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and “The Apprentice”.
Yeah, I looked them up last night for the pit thread.
House reruns do twice as well in that slot.
Pity that people didn’t seem to like it.
Holmes lived when he went over [Reichenbach Falls.](Reichenbach Falls.)