That’s the show I most compare it to. Hopefully it’ll last longer, though- Pushing Daisies has to be my favorite new show.
I also will be watching for at least a few eps. Clever dialogue, appealing and interesting characters, the beginning of apparent chemistry between them, an offbeat sense of humor, and sets/filming unlike anything else on TV. Adds up to a winner in my book.
I agree, they could lose the narrator’s recitation of ages down to the second. And I’ll suspend belief to accept that he and the dog haven’t touched (Hell, if I’m gonna believe he can bring people back from the dead, I can accept a little more.) But I also would like an explanation of whether his resucitation means no subsequent aging. Is Chuck going to stay the same age forever?
Another small nit to pick, the dog-chewed guy came back with a big chunk of his face missing. The way the dog got smashed by the truck, wouldn’t he have been a little messy roming around later?
Interested in knowing what they will do with his reanimation of non-animals. They said something like he was so successful as a baker because his touch made ingredients fresh and healthy. I wonder how that will be developed.
I thought it was pretty good, and will watch next week. Add me to the growing list of people who didn’t find the narration of everyone’s precise ages charming. Love the visuals, though.
And if that’s the case, and I assume he’s using fresh ingredients in his pies by letting them go past the minute window, what/who else is dying so he can use fresh peaches/blueberries/strawberries?
They showed him bringing a rotten strawberry back to ripeness. I don’t think anyone or anything dies for this ability.
Jim
Maybe he’s killing a square foot of kudzu somewhere in the world every time he revives a strawberry.
Go, Ned, Go!
I really liked it. The high-def was awesome. Ivylass, I wondered why I got a Lemony Snicket feel from it. Loved the aunts!
I loved it! Brilliant.
I thought the narrator’s dialogue had a very Douglas Adams-like quality to it and the narrator delivered it with an almost Dr. Seussian sing-song quality. I kept expecting him to rhyme.
I’ll watch this for several more weeks.
Chuck’s suggestion about asking revived people if they had any last thoughts or messages might help them mix up the story lines a bit.
About the dog not being messed up? Could be the truck didn’t run over him but just hit him and sent him flying, maybe breaking his neck. I’ve seen dogs and cats hit by cars that were dead but had no marks on them, not even any blood. Well, not dogS and catS but one dog and one cat.
He’s not Linderman, he doesn’t have healing powers. He can bring something back for free for a minute, and longer if he’s willing to let something else die.
Or maybe that doesn’t apply to plants, just people, animals, and insects?
That’s how I understood things too. Which made the idea of Chuck being burried alive all the creepier.
Gloves might not help. When the dog was resurrected and was running by his side, it showed a line of daisies coming to life as he passed through the field. He was wearing long pants and shoes, I believe. So he might be able to do it through cloth.
StG
That is my Wag, he gets plants for free. Technically, even after he freshen the fruit and then touches them again, it would not immediately go back to rot. So, that might be another way to avoid it.
Jim
Actually it says it works as long as he doesn’t touch the fruit again. So it implies if he touches it, it rots again.
But honestly…I didn’t like it. About 30 minutes through my mom and I were bored to tears. The premise looked promising and we were looking forward to it. But sorely disappointed. I don’t know what it was I didn’t like. We only laughed once, were constantly looking at the time and just plain disappointed.
I don’t think so. I appears to some that some sort of equivilency is killed. A squirrel for a dog. Otherwise Ned could get around this by carrying a jar of fruitflys. He raises a human, and in the immediate area there are 1000 flies, 100o other bugs and one human. The human has a pretty good chance.
But too many damn holes.
My husband and I gave this show a shot last night and we both enjoyed it. I definitely think we’ll keep tuning in. The story was interesting enough but I think it was the visuals that really pulled us in. They really were amazing.
I just hope ABC gives it more than three episodes before it decides to cancel it. Honestly, I’m almost afraid to start watching new shows anymore for fear that I’ll really like them and they’ll get canceled immediately.
yellowval - I Tivo most shows until they’ve been renewed. The disappointment of falling in love with a show and loosing it are all too real.
StG
Crossover Idea: Ned revives a mysteriously killed Jessica Fletcher, of Murder, She Wrote.
I’m not a baker, but wouldn’t it be very hard to bake pies while only touching the fruit once? :dubious: And what about the flour does that come alive too? Does the person/animal/plant he touchs need to be whole? Could he touch a severed head and it return to life (possibly forever :eek: )?
Well, maybe he touches it once to freshen it and then uses a spoon or something.
We really need to see Ned experiment with gloves. Otherwise everyone yelling at their TV sets is gonna get pretty loud.