Did anyone here NOT like Wonderfalls?

POSTED BY: Gorramreavers
UPDATED: Thursday, April 8, 2004 13:18
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EMBERS

Monday, April 5, 2004 6:29 PM

I've watched every episode of Wonderfalls, really trying to get into it, but none of the characters (except the bartender) seem like real people to me...they all have this 'arch' way of delivering their lines like they know they are being so funny...
and unfortunately I wasn't finding most of the writing to be all that funny...
So I couldn't connect or get involved...

Not like Firefly where every single character seems like a fully realized individual, and I want to meet them all and talk to them and learn their personal history and POV!

I think I'll also throw in here that I can't watch 'Tru Calling' either, I've really tried! But it takes itself soooo seriously. No one has any sense of humor at all. I really miss snarky Faith, I'll tell ya!

STILLSHINY

Monday, April 5, 2004 6:55 PM

I tried...ok I tried 1 episode. Just couldn't get into it. Maybe I just caught a bad episode. The one with the priest & the nun. Really my wife & I tried to watch it. I didn't even finish it. Sorry.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

GORRAMREAVERS

Monday, April 5, 2004 6:57 PM

OUTLANDER...I will check out those 2 middle episodes. Maybe they will turn me around.

embers: I think the recent addition of Jason Prietly has made Tru calling a bit lighter and more interesting. I think you hit the nail on the head as far as the charecters in Wonderfalls.

INSANESPIKE

Monday, April 5, 2004 7:17 PM

Wonderfalls was a decent show, but to me it wasn't one of those shows that I absolutely HAVE to tune in every week and watch. It just didn't capture my interest like shows sauch as Buffy, Angel, and Firefly did. But I'll defenitely say it deserved to run more than four episodes. They could have at least finished out the rest of what they had filmed to kind of bring everything together.

And as for Tru Calling, I've liked it since it started. At first I was worried about it getting repetitive, but I really don't think it has. And I also think Jason Priestlys character is going to add something good to the mix.

"How drunk was I last night?"

GORRAMREAVERS

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 3:55 PM

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2nd and 3rd episodes aired which where actually meant to be episodes 10 and 11

I dont understand how Fox could run a series out of order. I know they did it to Firefly with the first episode and at the end when they knew it was going to be canceled. Maybe thats one of the reasons Wonderfalls didnt do well. I also wonder if they did that because they knew from the pilot that the show wasnt going to last.

TOMANTA

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:08 PM

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Originally posted by Gorramreavers:
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2nd and 3rd episodes aired which where actually meant to be episodes 10 and 11

I dont understand how Fox could run a series out of order. I know they did it to Firefly with the first episode and at the end when they knew it was going to be canceled. Maybe thats one of the reasons Wonderfalls didnt do well. I also wonder if they did that because they knew from the pilot that the show wasnt going to last.

Actually, while filmed at the end, the 2nd and 3rd aired episodes WERE intended to be the 2nd and 3rd episodes aired. Tim Minear commented that towards the end of filming they felt that they needed something there to help establish the show [especially Karma Chameleon, which establishes Jaye's relationship to her family]

"FOX! Where the shit hits the fans." - Tim Minear

LINDLEY

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:38 PM

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I tried...ok I tried 1 episode. Just couldn't get into it. Maybe I just caught a bad episode. The one with the priest & the nun. Really my wife & I tried to watch it. I didn't even finish it. Sorry.

Ah, then you don't know that everything in that episode was designed to get the priest pulled over due to the broken taillight, so that a woman he had been with in his youth could find him and introduce his daughter, whom he didn't know he had.

That's what "Bring her back to him" meant. Had nothing to do with bringing the nun back to God.

That's what I mean by not getting the full picture until the end.

STILLSHINY

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:46 PM

Hmmm. sounds like a creative stroke. Perhaps I just caught the wrong "part" of a partial episode.
sorry, for judgin too quick.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

SOUTHERNMERC

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:55 PM

I caught the latter half of ep. 3, and it seemed OK. I haven't caught anything else about it, mainly cause it's on FX, but also cause I'm not terribly into TV comedies. I enjoy shows which have a variety of directions in them (ala Buffy, Angel, and Firefly). There are very few shows on TV that I will watch, come to think of it, but I'm downloading the eps to Wonderfalls and will watch them to see what I missed.

Jayne: "How big a room?"

SBWATCHER

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 5:35 PM

I think if the episode with the nun and priest didn't do anything for you, the others won't either. IMHO that episode was hi-larious and, by far, the best of the bunch. I am Catholic, however!

So, is there an announcement somewhere about Wonderfalls being cancelled? I must've missed the memo.

"What's sanguine mean again?"

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