Point Pleasant - What Do You Think Of It?

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UPDATED: Sunday, January 23, 2005 03:23
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GORRAMREAVERS

Friday, January 21, 2005 5:04 PM

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Originally posted by JustAShepherd:
I think the biggest problem was that they tried to do too much in too short a time. It looks like they have a large cast, and instead of trying to introduce us to them all in two hours, they would have done better to spread it out over several episodes.

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WWRD

I agree JustAShephard. I really want to like this show and I will still watch it. It just needs a sprinkle of Joss (or do I mean coherency?).

"..it is my very favorite gun."

SIMONWHO

Friday, January 21, 2005 6:50 PM

I find it incredible that Fox are making the same mistake with Point Pleasant as they did with Firefly; they're telling all the fans of the show that it is replacing (Tru Calling for Point Pleasant, Dark Angel for Firefly) that this new show is the reason why their old favourite show is being taken off air.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2005/01/19/16578.shtml

If I was a fan of Tru Calling (which I'm not) then I wouldn't want to watch a show that had caused my show to be cancelled, no matter how good it was. In fact, I'd probably bad mouth it quite a bit.

ROCKETSURGEON

Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:10 AM

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JustAShepherd wrote:
Thursday, January 20, 2005 19:03
I think the biggest problem was that they tried to do too much in too short a time. It looks like they have a large cast, and instead of trying to introduce us to them all in two hours, they would have done better to spread it out over several episodes.

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WWRD

And yet Firefly had no trouble presenting all 9 characters in the 2 hour pilot. There are ways of doing it. Point Pleasant didn't, at least not to the same degree.

Just the same, I think there's potential in it. I'll be watching for another few episodes.

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"Here's something you can't do ..."

CONSCIENCE

Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:21 AM

It seems interesting and I like the idea of the story they're using. However, with its competition I've got a feeling that the show isn't going to last more than a few episodes.

Especially since it's on Fox.

The bastards at Fox, who cancelled Firefly

OLDFAN45

Saturday, January 22, 2005 8:43 PM

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Originally posted by jebbypal:
three words: horror soap opera. I guess at least she created a new genre.

Anyone catch Jonny Zero? Just curious if they actually stuck the good new show in the friday night death slot as usual.

No she didn't create a new genre. Dark Shadows back in the Sixties when I was just a teeny tyke >derisive laughter at own fantasy< was the original horror soap opera: Barnabas Collins, played by Jonathan Frid, was so very menacing and sexy (based on his huuuuge fan response). Is anyone on this show menacing? Grant Show, late of Melrose Place just oozes...well, menace isn't the word I'd use. Sexy is personal preference, so I leave that to others to debate.

Point Pleasant isn't on my regular viewing list. If Marti Noxon can Joss it up a bit, maybe...but it's a good gig for a Mutant Enemy alm and if others disagree with me about its quality perhaps it will allow Marti to pave the way for a return to TV for Firefly...nothing talks like success.

IMO Jonnny Zero isn't going to replace the original and interesting John Doe. It's not very well-written (unlike John Doe, and so I can't last out a whole episode. Interesting to see if fans find it more appealing than I do.

ACROWLEY

Sunday, January 23, 2005 3:23 AM

I watched it with great hope. (Okay, so "great" is a huge exaggeration; "meager" may be far more appropriate.) I can only imagine that the thought process for the creation of the show went something like this (using the term "thought process" very loosely):

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FOX: We need a new show! We're too far under our budget (isn't it great not having to pay actors or writers anymore??), so we need a show that isn't a "reality show" or we'll lose our budget for next season! You! Over there! Any ideas?

Marti: Okay, I been thinkin'. Hows about something like this: "Into every generat- er, world, a slay- I mean, Anti-Christ, is born. Yeah! Into every world, an Anti-Christ is born. One girl in all the world, to find the vamp- um, to find her mother, where they gather... by water, and to stop the spread of... evil... okay, not so much "stop" as "ham-fistedly start", but let's not nitpick. Anyway. In our time, that girl is Ang- no, Bu- no, what comes after B? C... Cord... Christina! In our time, that girl is Christina!" But think edgy Melrose-9021-OC. But absolutely none of the charm and eeriness of "American Gothic"; no! we'll just cleverly swipe their basic character foundation and hope no one notices. AND, we can fool Ben Edlund into being a part of it, thereby tricking all of those poor bastards who are fiending for an intelligent, witty, Whedon-esque TV fix.

FOX: Brilliant! Sign here! Oh, by the way, should this show - by some miraculous fluke of nature - actually start to get good, we're going to cancel it straight away!
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Yep. That's what I imagine, anyway. FOX execs always speak in exclamations.

I thought the actors were as lifeless as the locations they chose. The characters were actually over-the-top cliche, if that's even possible. The mix of teen-age drama and the "supernatural" was so obviously, horrifically not working; tiny round hole, giant square peg, add sledgehammer and hope for the best? Throughout the whole story, the transitions from scene to scene (I'm reluctant to call them "Acts" as I always thought that one should actually have some form of acting involved in an Act, but I digress) were painfully awkward and bumbling. But it's got pretty girlies and allusions to the Devil himself! That must mean it's good! And the one bad guy - that I really wanted to like, mind you - was woefully inadequate as a villain. He actually made me laugh (mainly out of pity and embarassment for him). A hissing black kitten would have been more dastardly and ominous than he.

Well. That was a longer rant than I intended. Sorry. First post and all; don't know the lines. I will admit, though, there is still a fairly good chance that I'll watch next week's episode, not because I'm a moon-brained optimist, but because I love a good car wreck. The questions "How much worse could it possibly get?" and "Can it ever get better?" are too enticing. Besides, I don't know that there's anything else on. I guess I could read a book....

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