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Comic Con!! Hercules Has Wildly Different Reactions To NBC’s EVENT And ABC’s NO ORDINARY FAMILY!!
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NBC’s “The Event” is screening Saturday at Comic-Con: 11:15 a.m. in room 6A.
ABC’s “No Ordinary Family” is screening Saturday in the same room at 3:15 p.m.
I’ve seen versions of both pilots.
“The Event” is the best 2010 fall pilot I’ve seen so far. (Note that I still haven’t gotten around to all this year’s fall pilots, but I’m working my way through the pile toward “The Defenders,” "Outlaw" and “Mike and Molly.”) I call it an intriguing cross between “Lost” and “24.” Like the excellent pilots for “Lost” and “24” and “Fringe,” “The Event” features breathless airliner mayhem. I didn’t find “The Event” as accomplished as those other pilots, but it’s plenty slick and intriguing and there’s no way I’m going to miss episode two. I’m hoping some AICN readers will check it out today and let me know if any of my excitement might be justified.
“No Ordinary Family” is not the best 2010 pilot I’ve seen so far. The version I saw was a soft, derivative superhero family hour from dramedy maven Greg Berlanti (“Dawson’s Creek,” “Everwood,” “Jack & Bobby,” “Brothers & Sisters”) and plays like “Heroes” meets “The Incredibles” with no trace of the genius Bryan Fuller and Brad Bird brought to those projects. The “No Ordinary” pilot speeds through its funnybook clichés at a good clip, but it all feels too much like stuff we’ve seen done a lot better elsewhere. (Again, constant reader, your own reactions are invited.)
For those not at Comic-Con, "The Event" arrives on NBC Sept. 20 and "No Ordinary Family" premieres on ABC Sept. 28.
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then I realized it's Saturday night. Now I'm just depressed.
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Jul 24, 2010 2:42:18 AM CDT
Why are new TV shows always a "cross between" or "A meets B"?
by rocco curioso
Has the well of original ideas run completely dry? How about a prototypical nerdy high school kid named Edward (or Ted, or Eddie Baby, or Frank, or Frannie, or Little Frannie Poo... makes no difference) who enters the school science fair and finishes DEAD last. All indignant 'n' stuff, he genetically engineers a primate with a Mac and creates a Chimp/Pimp hybrid being.But no one believes him when he spills the beans (or bananas, as it were), so his frustration doubles, and he unleashes Chimp Pimp upon the sullen underbelly of his home city (or suburb thereof), and his creation proceeds to make him a small yet steady fortune as the local manager of prostitution, and wacky yet life lesson-learning hijinks ensue.It would be titled "Eddie And The Pimp Chimp", and its impact upon 21st Century TV would be stellar at best, movingly ludicrous at worst.
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Besides, the show will end up behind some show like 30 Rock that no one but Yuppies watch.
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What fucking decade do you live in?
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"Eddie and the Pimp Chimp" sounds better than most of what's on TV right now.
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You know what I mean! ;-) And No Ordinary Family...? Don't bother! Better check Heroes Seasons 1 and 2 again.
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...I'll probably never revisit it ever again...
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between Lost and 24 means taking the good parts, not the bad ones. And we all know that pilots more often than not do not reflect the final product, so no premature judgements either way.
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I don't need to know exactly what the show is supposed to be about, but NBC is seriously fucking up making their teaser "What Is The Event?" without giving the tiniest little clue even as to what it might even be in relation to. At least tell me a little bit of what to expect. If I go in expecting aliens and sci-fi, and end up getting 2012, end of the world stuff, that's a mistake on their part. I don't want to know what the event is, but I want to know something ABOUT the event before i tune in. Glad you say its absolutely got you into the second episode herc, always a good sign. But I would like a tiny bit more information. And I also get the impression that by the end of the pilot, I still will have a very vague idea of what the event is still, and that worries the shit out of me. I refuse to wait an entire season, or even 12 episodes, to find out what the event in a show called the event is. The teasers make reference to strange "prisoners" being held someowhere, and the president "wants to meet THEM" They better get to that shit by the third episode or I'm not in.
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more Drama, thriller, and conspiracy all somehow interlinked with different people. Somehow I don't think it's got Sci-fi in it, with all the info from the Internet. Still sounds intriguing. It's either The Event or Rubicon I'm looking forward to, from all the new Fall Shows. I'll give this one a go along with Rubicon.
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Who wants to watch for six years and never find out what "The Event" was/is?"
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Good LOST zinger, cooky. WTF was that island anyway... they spent the last episode explainging what a sideways world was that was only on the show for the last season to begin with, and never explained the freaking island the whole freaking show was about
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Interesting.
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After the Lost journey I don't want to jump into a similarly styled show (throw shit against the wall, some sticks, never explain anything in the end). Even the usual wait for a full season to be on dvd before I watch doesn't cut it anymore for me. If the whole thing works out and the whole thing gets to DVD, then I might watch it.
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of what "The Event" concerns and who stars in it, etc. You know.. for those of us hearing about it for the very first time.
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found the preview after hunting it down.
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You want to know what? who? when? where? maybe even why?
Visit this link. I've already explain too much.
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And asked as many of the other journalists who had seen the pilot if they had yet seen a pilot better than The Event. All agreed The Event was the best they'd seen for this fall.
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Since it's already been given a full season order. Still it's hard to tell from just the Pilot, on how the Show will pan out. Will give it a go and watch the Season, see where the writers will take it and make it interesting week in, week out.
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You'll know what the Event was by the end of the first season. I have a spy.
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You'll get answers to Lost at the end of Season 6. Trust us.
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...about you calling No Ordinary Family a dramedy. I mean there wasn't any actual drama and it wasn't funny but that was clearly what was intended, along with a cloying slice of Seventh Tree Heaven. Haven't seen the Event, but it's one of the ones I'm excited about. Fine people, Lost kicked you off. You landed hard and now your butt hurts. But you climbed on because it was the kind of horse you wanted to ride so climb back in that saddle. Hope springs a turtle.
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suckas!
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We say this every year, and every year they prove it true. No Ordinary Family will be cancelled, and will probably not even last the full season. You know this to be true.
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Jason Ritter (son of the late John Ritter, and formerly of Joan of Arcadia, The Class, etc...) plays an everyman who investigates the disappearance of his fiance. In doing so, he uncovers the largest cover-up in US history.What I get from that : There have been bigger cover ups, outside the US, so it won't be world shatteringly fucked up.OR, the show runners think that they must specify US history to sell it, even though it might in fact be the largest cover-up in history, period. Are the yanks that xenophobic?
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Ha, I jokesThe event does have me intrigued, as long as it has more story then heroes and isn't as pretentious as that crapbag Lost was then it might fill the gap left by all the shows we lost in 2009/2010
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Found this awesome teaser trailer for the final season of Smallville. But be warned, seems pretty heavy on the spoiler side.
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Wasn't there some show about people in an apartment complex who survive an invasion or something and it was going to be aliens?
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