Here, Friday after Bones.
He didn’t. What is now Times Square is where he died and was brought back to life 400 years ago. Did anybody understand what the doctors were saying about his bloodtype? 
Something about it being from an extinct tribe?
Actually didn’t I read somewhere that Omar
is his son? That’s why Omar knows his secret
J.
Canuckistan got ep2 tonight-better than the first, and we get the Omar/John backstory. He also has to babysit his great grandson
No shirtlessness, but we get Amsterdam in the David Boreanaz wifebeater!
Due to a brief power outage here my DVR stopped recording the pilot about ten minutes before the show ended. It was just as Omar and John pulled their stunt to let Eddie “get away” (I’m presuming it was to follow him to see where he goes). Can anytone let me know what I missed? I can’t find a repeat in my local Fox schedule (WRAZ Fox 50 Raleigh NC, if anyone can help with that).
Eddie screeches away in John’s unmarked police car. Just as John thanks Omar, his Latina partner pulls up in another unmarked police car. They follow Eddie to the rich developer’s penthouse, where Eddie is holding John’s gun on him and angrily threatening him. Rich developer confesses to the murder, saying he lost his cool and it was just an accident, which John (unnoticed) overhears. Eddie pulls the trigger to kill the guy, but John points out that the gun’s unloaded. Eddie and the rich guy are arrested.
John later tells the female detective that her Narcotics assignment was actually approved. To conclude, there’s a nice timelapse CGI sequence with the young Dutch John Amsterdam (or whatever his name was back then) waking up to find the Indians have left, and then NYC rising up around him, from village all the way up to the current day.
Me.
My wife was ready to boot me to the couch because I kept making “There can only be one” and “This is where he beheads him” references. But then they had lost me on the whole ‘soul mate’ thing (not that the Quickening made any more sense, but as a guy, I prefer beheadings over soul mate-searches).
Thank you. Now I can only hope that at some point the episode will be rerun so I can see that final CGI sequence.
I assume that he stopped seeing each girlfriend as soon as it was obvious that she wasn’t his “true love.” (Didn’t the old woman with Alzheimer’s say that he disappeared without notice?)
And I expected to find that the “true love” was played by the same actress as the Indian woman, and that we would find out that she was in fact a descendant of her. But assuming that the doctor on the subway platform is the true love, it doesn’t seem that they went that direction, because I think it’s a different actress. Perhaps they’ll play this like How I Met Your Mother and never actually show her.
**I liked it. **I had heard that Fox had “pre-canceled” it and the only reason why Fox gave it a shot was due to the Writers strike?
Loved it. Really like how his relationship with his children is played and I wonder how he picks who gets to know his secret and who doesn’t. He doesn’t even know his own granddaughter. Perhaps every 30 years or so he ‘dies’ and has to disapear from his family’s life.
And what is the secret about ‘the one’? Like Omar, I thought-- well, he must not have loved Omar’s mother. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Oh yeah and he’s the worst babysitter in the world.
It looks like his real name his Johan van der Zee. Omar’s mother died when he was only 3 so did John actually raise him?
Oh yeah, but the kid thinks he’s great!
You do need to see it – it was completely awesome.
I was wrong about him needing to be naked in every episode – he needs to wear that white undershirt in every episode. Yowsa!
I caught the last half of the pilot on Tuesday and watched last night - this show is great! I’m almost afraid to say that, though. I especially like the flashbacks telling John’s back story, and I love Omar! I’m guessing this is probably classified as a science fiction series, but that’s okay with me–there will most definitely be a huge amount of “back story” material available, at least. I’m wondering if the secretary was his daughter (probably!)?
Well, they die, so it doesn’t really matter.
Well, they made the obligatory Highlander joke, so I was pleased. Not with the show so much, just with the nod to its predecessor.
Caught Episode #2 last night while channel surfing… I missed the premiere, but there was enough information in this episode alone that I kinda picked up the highlights of the story arc pretty quickly.
I find the dialogue a little ham-handed at times, and I can see this formula of solving-crime-in-present-while-digging-up-similar-event-in-past starting to get boring very quickly if they keep repeating it, but overall it shows promise.
But golly gee, am I the only one who noticed a blatant resemblance to Life in the Smartass Cop with Colourful Past + Sassy Uncooperative Latina Partner + Homicide of the Week formula? If only Life hadn’t gotten the chemistry right and Amsterdam hadn’t gotten it so wrong.
I really liked it. If the writers keep things under control and don’t get too far out there, this’ll be a great show. There’re a lot different directions they can go in. The “solving-crime-in-present…” thing may get a bit old, but hey, look at all the CSI shows. They haven’t gotten very old (at least by looking at their ratings), and they don’t have near as many story options and character development to explore. This show has a hell of a lot of potential.
I just had my sister point out to me that Zuleikha Robinson, who plays Eva Marquez, is the same actress who played Gaia, Titus Pullo’s girlfriend(the one who murdered his wife), in HBO’s Rome. I missed that earlier.