Well, having seen these before, I think my biggest complaint is with Sci Fi for putting in so MANY [expletive forbidden by FCC] commercial breaks!!! I mean, I suppose I should be glad that they've managed to wrangle that much add revenue, but this series doesn't depend on the Sci Fi network's ad intake (ok, I'm spoiled by CBC - for those of you without, it kinda does).
Is "Rose" weak? Oh, yeah. I think it was also possibly a budget-conscious pilot made to show they could pull this off. And go back and watch the first episodes of Buffy and Star Trek:TNG - not all that great either.
RE: Mickey's cowering. If he had been white, everyone would have said it was great that Rose is established as a strong-willed take-charge character. Shouldn't they get praise for showing a matter-of-fact interracial relationship? Have we gotten to the point where you have to show a character as brave because he's black? Isn't that just the same thing as showing him as cowardly because he's black? I mean, the poor bloke just got eaten by a rubbish bin, cut him some slack!!
But the Sci-Fi network deserves some praise for offsetting the blandness of "Rose" with the gee-whiz and jiggery-pokery of "The End of the World", probably realizing that it needed a little more for a premiere. (I see next week Dr Who goes back to being the filling in a Stargate sandwich; hopefully the 2 two-parters will be shown back-to-back). This episode is much more confident both in terms of characters and SFX, and is more typical of the series as a whole (in case you were wondering).
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Date: Sun, Mar. 19th, 2006 08:06 pm (UTC)Is "Rose" weak? Oh, yeah. I think it was also possibly a budget-conscious pilot made to show they could pull this off. And go back and watch the first episodes of Buffy and Star Trek:TNG - not all that great either.
RE: Mickey's cowering. If he had been white, everyone would have said it was great that Rose is established as a strong-willed take-charge character. Shouldn't they get praise for showing a matter-of-fact interracial relationship? Have we gotten to the point where you have to show a character as brave because he's black? Isn't that just the same thing as showing him as cowardly because he's black? I mean, the poor bloke just got eaten by a rubbish bin, cut him some slack!!
But the Sci-Fi network deserves some praise for offsetting the blandness of "Rose" with the gee-whiz and jiggery-pokery of "The End of the World", probably realizing that it needed a little more for a premiere. (I see next week Dr Who goes back to being the filling in a Stargate sandwich; hopefully the 2 two-parters will be shown back-to-back). This episode is much more confident both in terms of characters and SFX, and is more typical of the series as a whole (in case you were wondering).