Is there a thread about the John Doe tv series? I can’t search for it (Doe being only three letters) so I hope I don’t trample on anyone’s existing thread.
What does everyone think? I just saw the first episode the other day and I have to admit I was completely engrossed. It didn’t bother me that despite being a genius Doe conducts his “new life” in the reverse order. He makes a lot of money, gets a job, gets a place to live and then goes to the police department to see if he’s shown up on any missing persons lists.
Any opinions out there? I think this show has some potential…
I kinda like it. Tho of couse it suffers from the same problem as the Fugitive or Nowhere Man. There is one big plot device (can’tr remeber who he is, is searching for his wife’s real killer, whats in the photograph), and if the plot devive is solved the series is over.
Tho we already know there is some sort of black-helicopter operation that presumably did this to him.
I also think the lab tech/computer lady is hot <Homer>mmm, babe in lab coat</Homer>, anyone know who plays her? (its not mentioned on the web page)
I am another one- as mentioned in the Firefly threads.
“Black Helicopter” is a shorthand for the organization which seems to be watching John. ie. the friendly sorts who killed and buried the shrink and stole the tape of John’s session.
It’s a very interesting hour long drama on Fox on Friday night. It’s doomed. Trust me.
I had watched pieces of an episode a while back while fading in and out of consciousness due to food poisoning.
I only got a few lines every two or three minutes.
From what I got, the dialogue sounded ok. The premise was well presented.
I think this is the way Roger Ebert should review films. Eat a really bad enchilada for lunch and watch the film that evening with a 101 degree fever!
Well, when both baseball series closed out early, I saw that they were re-airing the pilot. I watched this time WITHOUT the benefit of food poisoning, and it held up well.
I don’t like his friend from the bar. She is annoying. The voiceovers can get a bit cheesy. And the Doe guy reminds me a lot of Mel Gibson in looks and mannerisms.
Now, during my sickness, I knew that Firefly was not a show I wanted to see.
Does he always do good-guy stuff like rescue kidnapped children and whatnot? If so, it’ll quickly degnerate into a sappy Quantum Leap style show where the glurge and saccahraine run like whitewater.
So far he’s rescued one kidnapped child, investigated someone who was embalmed alive and tried to find out who was murdering women, cutting them in half and sewing mismatched halves back together. Is that “good-guy stuff”?
There was another John Doe thread a few weeks ago in which many of us noted the similarities to The Pretender. Although IMHO John’s gone about trying to “find himself” much more smartly than Jarod ever did. Apparently Jarod’s seclusion shielded him from such things as CNN, which would likely have been fascinated by a story of a mysterious “Centre” that kidnaps children for twenty years at a time.
I wonder, though, in this day of 24 hour news coverage, how hard it would really be for two people trying to find each other to do so. This leads me to believe that anything to do with John’s efforts to find relatives is going to be a red herring, because they should be able to find someone as motivated as John is to find them.
