Jake 2.0

POSTED BY: kli
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LJC

Monday, January 5, 2004 3:28 AM

Well, the first season hasn't even finished airing yet--so no clue if the show will (ever) be released on DVD. But I highly recommend catching up on the show in reruns, and they should have new eps in a few weeks. I've got a website here:

http://www.loony-archivist.com/j20

which has all the latest news/schedules.

--
Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

HUMBLE

Monday, January 5, 2004 4:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by kli:
Just wanted to mention that if you tuned into the pilot and left in disgust at the plain-vanillaness of the show, you may wanna try again.

Between the pilot and the rest of the series, it looks like Jake 2.0 got David Greenwalt as showrunner, and while it didn't suddenly burst out into Greenwaltness and become Profit, it certainly took strides in a much more focused and unique direction than the pilot did.

Just saying, this might be worth a second glance, especially as it's the last week before Jake 2.0 and Angel run in the same timeslot.

I can say with all honesty that I did watch the first ep. Half of it at any rate. Thought it was kind of lackluster, boring even. Good concept for show with the nanoprobes and all, but I think they need to tinker with script, characters, effects. Just can't shake the feeling that Jake 2.0 reminds me a lot of The Invisible Man series with Vincent Ventresca. Around my area, 2.0 airs after Enterprise,( which I don't even bother watching anymore) so, unless 2.0 has improved greatly I think I'll just stick to my B5 and FIREFLY dvd's thank you very much!

ARAWAEN

Monday, February 2, 2004 5:44 PM

Saw the pilot and I wasn't super impressed, but I saw some potential. Unfortunately I wasn't going to give up on an established Greenwalt show Angel for something that might pan out.

I think UPN should try a different time slot. They should move Enterprise too (I think Friday at 8:00 for Enterprise )

Arawaen

REKKA

Tuesday, February 3, 2004 8:50 PM

No, I wasn't really impressed with the series--I didn't feel exactly the same way as I had with Miracles. Though, of course I wouldn't. They're totally different series. Still, I liked Jake 2.0 and I was waiting for the moment the writers were going to pair Jake and Diane....and we never got to see that moment. And for that I am severly upset. There were some *guh* moments of the series...but it wasn't enough to turn me away. It managed to keep my interest. It's a shame that another series with obvious potential has gotten the axe before its time. *GRRRR*

Help us resurrect Miracles from the darkness. Visit MiraclesHQ ( www.miracleshq.com) for more information on what YOU can do to help save the drama series "Miracles."

LJC

Wednesday, February 4, 2004 7:51 PM

The show VASTLY improved over the pilot--it really started to hit its stride with "The Good, The Bad, and the Geeky" and was just getting better and better with each ep. The focus shifted in "Last Man Standing", which was a fantastic character-driven episode which not only ramped up the Jake/Diane, but really did wonderful things for the character of Jake. And a plot arc was introduced in "The Spy Who Really Liked Me" that was only just starting to hit its stride when the show went on hiatus. The 4 unaired eps include a 3-parter which looks like it will be FANTASTIC.

--
Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

DEANNAMAY

Monday, February 16, 2004 4:24 PM

I think the show was really developing as time progressed. Last I heard the rest of the season was ordered, but has yet to appear, so I don't know what happened. They are giving Jake more of an edge, and he is getting tired of having his life so acutely monitored. He has actually developed a true partnership with his mentor, and has respect from his boss. I hope it makes it, but being decent sci-fi, probably not. Who are the Nielson's anyway? Do they go to school and know how to read? It seems the low rent stuff that does well (I am speaking generically) speaks to a less educated person, while Sci-fi makes you think. Thus it takes a more intelligent person to get it. It is sad the lowest common denominator gets to decide what the rest of us watch.

Sorry, ranting.

LJC

Monday, February 16, 2004 5:05 PM

Unfortunately, like "Firefly", after they got the back 9 picked up, the network cut the order (from 22 eps to 19). And then a week after sending out the press release advertising the sweeps eps, up and halted production in the middle of ep #16.

They finished up 16, but we'll never see 17, 18, and 19, which was planned as the season/series finale, because those shows were unproduced. And we may never see the 4 unaired eps (eps #13-16)--or at least until they air on Sky One this summer and some kind soul puts them up on BitTorrent.

However, there's a write-in campaign as well as a DVD campaign at http://www.loony-archivist.com/j20 . If you've 5 minutes and a stamp to spare, maybe we can get a 2nd lease on life for Jake... It's a small thing, sending postcards, but the only thing the fans can do that makes a difference.

--
Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

RUXTON

Monday, February 16, 2004 6:29 PM

Does anybody else see a connection here:

Jake 2.0 works for the NSA, so the first premise is, gov't is good. Show gets picked up.
Then the stories gradually reveal the evil associated with the black ops and negative thinking of the TV version of the NSA.
Jake brings that evil to light and essentially makes things right.
I.e., gov't is BAD.
Show gets cancelled.

fIREFLY: No one knows what gives at first with this odd show. Show gets picked up.
Then, show premise becomes obvious: gov't is BAD.
As soon as the TV powers realize this,
Show gets cancelled.

Coincidence? A trend? Does this apply to Angel, with Wolfram & Hart being the once-embraced but now dreaded "gov't?" Or is this a stretch?

Do any other cancelled shows reflect this anti-gov't bias? I watch little TV so don't know.

Please post if you know of any.

......Ruxton

LJC

Monday, February 16, 2004 6:41 PM

um... I doubt there was a government conspiracy to cancel shows which portray authority as bad.

It's more that UPN and FOX have no idea how to schedule cult tv in a way that makes them money (Jake's ratinsg were hunky dorry until "Angel" returned, and then poor j20 got hammered in teh ratings, all because UPN refused to budge jake from the slot post-ENT), and we the fans have to pay for their incompetance.

"Counter programming" is a foreign concept to them--unless they're using it as an excuse to axe a show. (as they are with Jake, re: the ANTM encore presentation).

--
Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

ECMORGAN69

Monday, March 8, 2004 6:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Ruxton:

Does anybody else see a connection here:

Jake 2.0 works for the NSA, so the first premise is, gov't is good. Show gets picked up.
Then the stories gradually reveal the evil associated with the black ops and negative thinking of the TV version of the NSA.
Jake brings that evil to light and essentially makes things right.
I.e., gov't is BAD.
Show gets cancelled.

fIREFLY: No one knows what gives at first with this odd show. Show gets picked up.
Then, show premise becomes obvious: gov't is BAD.
As soon as the TV powers realize this,
Show gets cancelled.

Coincidence? A trend? Does this apply to Angel, with Wolfram & Hart being the once-embraced but now dreaded "gov't?" Or is this a stretch?

Do any other cancelled shows reflect this anti-gov't bias? I watch little TV so don't know.

Please post if you know of any.

......Ruxton

Sounds good to me. How do you think "The West Wing" and "Law & Order" lasted so long?

They can have my "Firefly" DVDs when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers....

Oh yeah,

you, FOX TV!!

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