Why Drive Is Doomed
POSTED BY: GrayFury
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 21:12
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Yeah, no kidding. We had it good with Firefly. Damn to get lost in thoughts of what might've been. What kills me the most is there are all these stories I'll never get to experience. Crap...
But back to Drive. I'm watching it. I don't think it has the breadth of characters Firefly had, but I'm cutting it slack for the moment. (Hey, every time I loan out my Firefly DVDs, I make a point of telling people to give the pilot more than 15 minutes. "It's not a war flick! Serious!")
Wendy, the mom, is actually one of my favorite characters. Not 'cause she's a moooom, but because of her odd breaks of character, like when her partner tries to remove the child seat from the car. For a brief moment there's this fissure into a neurosis that could easily get violently explosive later in the show. And sure 'nuff, last night's episode has her pulling this suicide maneuver into oncoming traffic to turn her van around and go where she now decides she needs to be going. Nuts to everyone around her, but to her it made perfect sense. Once you start having a character like that, they tend to start doing all SORTS of stuff that "just make sense" to THEM. (Hmmm... overtones to River?)
I'm a lot less taken with some of the other characters. I'm curious what kind of salvage job is going to be done on the army guy and his wife. No phone, and he's driving into a court martial. It was interesting to see, though, that the writers aren't dropping into the normal TV show pattern of "must save all characters at all cost". (And who would've expected such from the likes of Tim Minear, anyway?) One down and one with a gunshot wound to the gut? After writing for Dr. Tam, Tim Minear surely knows enough about septicemia to come up with something truly nasty for the next episode.
It'd be lame if it was already canceled, as has already been pointed out. But I could believe it. I'm enjoying the show, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people are willing to do for whatever they think the end of the rainbow holds for them. It'd piss me off to miss out now.
-- Twitch
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Hey, at least they're showing the episodes in the RIGHT ORDER.
Anyway, I'm happy to see Nathan working, especially on a decent show. Here's hoping it lasts the season...
"How come it never goes smooth?"
Rob O.
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Sadly the fourth episode fell to 4.6m viewers (down from 5.6m last week).
A shame but there you are. It is doomed.
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sorry...heres the 1972. IMO Kinda clunky and matronly when compared to the 70 & 71...those are some prime examples of what a muscle car should look like
I updated the previous post too...so you can compare side by side.
"Smellin' alot of IF comin' offa' this plan!"
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Quote:...I think I may be one of those people. I love Tim Minear, though. Just not this show.
Originally posted by Mavourneen:
I worry about it for one big reason.
My husband. He hates Drive.
Thinks its a silly show, with a silly premise, and can't suspend disbelief long enough to watch.
I wonder if non-Minear like persons such as himself feel the same way.
I worry that its folks like him who will doom the show.
Way I see it, it's a so-so excuse to have a season-long car chase. The majority of the characters fall a little flat, and even if they didn't, spending a large amount of time watching people talking back and forth inside their cars just isn't all that interesting.
Nonetheless, I turn on my (friend's) TV and pretend to watch every week, in hopes that it will do some good.
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Ditto the Firefly goodness. My husband, who likes the show but does not share my obsession, said Drive was no Firefly. Nevertheless, I like it better than most stuff on TV. I get sucked in by reality shows if I'm flipping but refuse to watch on a regular basis.
Of course I love Tully's character and moral ambiguity. The little smirk as he passed the brothers was gorgeous.
I also really like post-partum Wendy. I loved her on 2 & 1/2 Men and she shows the same flashes of work-at-day insanity here. Can't wait to see how she develops.
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Still holding till the Captain gets back.
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It's an enjoyable show with some of the charm of early Lost and Prison Break, but a little more lightweight. Although Tully is entertaining, I find myself constantly turning to my girlfriend and saying "Why didn't they just call him Mal?" (Since someone else was originally cast and they reshot the pilot with Fillion, I'm curious how much of this was in the original version).
Last night, I hit on a drinking game idea: take a shot whenever Tully uses a Mal line, or whenever the criminal (don't remember his name) calls anyone "homes" (double if it's his brother).
Has anyone mentioned the curse of Tim Minear yet? Firefly, WonderFalls, The Inside, Drive... See the pattern? (Speaking of which, anyone know if The Inside is ever coming out on DVD? Or where I might be able to, ahem, acquire the unaired episodes? They killed that show just as it was really getting good).
www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."
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Quote:
Originally posted by GWEK:
Last night, I hit on a drinking game idea: or whenever the criminal (don't remember his name) calls anyone "homes" (double if it's his brother).
*snort*
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Quote:
Originally posted by GWEK:
It's an enjoyable show with some of the charm of early Lost and Prison Break, but a little more lightweight. Although Tully is entertaining, I find myself constantly turning to my girlfriend and saying "Why didn't they just call him Mal?" (Since someone else was originally cast and they reshot the pilot with Fillion, I'm curious how much of this was in the original version).
Actually, GWEK...Tim Minear kind of wrote the character of Alex Tully for Nathan, but since Our Man Fillion was off shooting White Noise 2 or Waitress at the time of the original pilot's filming, he had to use another lead (Ivan Sergei in this case). Nathan finally got the role when they re-shot the pilot and Nathan was free to take on the role of Tully.
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