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Post by quarrel on Nov 1, 2003 22:40:58 GMT -5
lklsSglrlz mentioned the TV show "Early Edition." It started well. The hero would take a clue to the future, delivered in a newspaper story before it would happen, and manipulate events with some degree of cleverness to ward off the presaged disaster. But the writing slipped, the stars demanded irrelevant showcase episodes, the thugs from the network demanded melodrama and soap opera to improve the ratings--whatever--and the show was killed.
The success of "Tru" will depend on her deft and surprising use of a bit of advance knowledge to nudge events to the desired conclusion. It will help if there is an occasional failure. It will also help if she can be seen to manipulate the supporting characters to do her good in spite of themselves.
It might even get good enough to leave the buffyverse behind!
--quarrel
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Post by Gardez on Nov 1, 2003 23:01:32 GMT -5
Quarrel,
The show has unlimited potential..
did anyone else notice that Tru saved the girl, but ANOTHER number 32 was brought in that night?
SOMETHING Tru did CAUSED that other woman to die - when she wasnt supposed to die.
She saved one, and lost one...did Tru even realise this yet?
I can see her going 'crazy' and having 'breakdowns' with the 'weight of the world' on her shoulders..playing God, and 'who lives and who dies'...how will she react when after she trys to save them, they still come in - dead -?
If there are two to save, but you can only save one, how do you choose?
Will she ever get fed up with it and just try and 'quit'?
Or she might think that she went back a day, even when she hasn't...!
And what happens when a kid is brought in, who she wants to save - and nothing happens?...will she sit there all night
talking to the corpse, begging it to ask for help already!!..?
And what happens if she saves someone and they turn out to be a murderer?
Is she now responsible for anyone that he kills after that?
What if someone 'asks for help' and after she meets them she realises that they aren't even worth saving?
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Post by faiththevampslayer on Nov 2, 2003 13:38:16 GMT -5
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Post by quarrel on Nov 5, 2003 13:41:39 GMT -5
I am reminded that there was another show on the theme of the living helping the dead. Three members of an itinerant rock band find a magic amulet that makes them see ghosts--who then opportune them to resolve some problem which is keeping them from moving on. It was well done, but they put it on late late night and it went off after a few episodes.
In one episode, the problem of "unintended consequences," mentioned by Tchai', above, was acknowledged. I dare not hope that a modern American TV show could turn this potentiality into really great drama.
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Post by PointOfFact on Nov 6, 2003 14:14:18 GMT -5
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The show has unlimited potential..
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Yeah it does. And all those questions you posted are excellent questions. To be honest I never thought of the 32 brought in at the end, you save on you loose one. Hopefully it was a one time thing, though right? Because if that's how it is... Tru might just crush under the pressure and quit her job at the morge.
Also I heard that one of the episodes where Tru actually does beg a corpse to ask for her help and after a LOT of begging the corpse finally does but did that mean that the corpse really needed help or just asked for it to shut her up? Hmm..
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