The Great TV Meme Day 3 - Your favourite new show (aired this TV season)
This is a bit hard, as there are only two new shows I watched this season: Flash Forward and V.
Flash Forward is loosely based on a book by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer in which everyone on the planet blacks out at exactly the same moment and flashes forward to the same day in the future. It looked cool. It started cool. It had cool actors like Joseph Fiennes, Jack Davenport, Sonya Walger and Dominic Monaghan. But Joe Fiennes just couldn't seem to reign in his character, the writing was uneven and it went on hiatus for the Olympics, and when it came back, a lot of us didn't really care. I watched the last few episodes and the season (or as it turned out, series) finale was interesting, but ultimately it just wasn't quite right. Maybe a second season would have fixed it - maybe not.
V is (yet another) re-imagining of a classic Sci-Fi series, in which Visitors from another planet land and assure us all of their Good Intentions, while secretly being evil, hungry lizards who want to take all of our water and eat us for dinner - sound familiar? The new series started out well, but was also a bit uneven, though it features strong performances by it's two female leads Elizabeth Mitchell and Morena Baccarin. This ended up being the reverse of Flash Forward as it got progressively better leading up to it's season finale (which was really quite good). V has a lot to live up to - I'm a huge fan of the classic series and I've also read a little of J. Michael Straczynski's proposed script for a re-launch back in the mid 90's.
So the Lizards win. This round, anyway...
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