Best Buy versus Home Depot!
or, Chuck vs Reaper
Both star under-achieving dudes who work at big box stores (at a Best Buy clone in Green and a Home Depot clone in blue), both guys get stuck in worlds they didn't exactly want to be (spies and being the devil's bounty hunter), both discover they have super-powers, and both are resigned and perhaps a bit more ambitious at the end with the rest of their life.
Now, Chuck is at a bit of a disadvantage since I didn't actually see the first twenty minutes and it was yesterday. And it'll continue to suffer that same disadvantage, since I hardly ever get to watch an 8 o'clock show. But it's amusing. In its favor are Adam Baldwin, who just can't help enliven his scenes, and the Spy Girl who's basically our hero's handler by the end. I like her and I suspect from the tidbit at the end she's going to be far more ambiguous a character.
Reaper is... classic Kevin Smith, albeit it's on the CW so there are a lot fewer uses of 'fuck'. I like his films generally (Dogma? Awesome. The Golden Calf!!! *snorfle*) and this takes a lot of the good bits - dialogue and absurdity mixed with a genuine touch of awww... Plus, Ray Wise as the devil is perfect (though I have a great fondness for John Glover as the devil in Brimstone- that was inspired. There'd be no Lionel Luthor without that show). If you think this is 'Brimstone' well, only in concept - in execution they're nothing alike. This is the love child of Buffy, Brimstone, and Dogma.
And how long until Missy Peregrym's Andi finds out? I give it three episodes until she's part of the Scooby Gang.
"Your mother and I sold your soul to the devil." I'd be a whole lot less forgiving, I gotta say.
I enjoyed both and I'll continue to watch, even if I doubt I'll be fannish about either one.
And in other news, HEROES is back! Yay! Can't wait to see where they're going with Volume 2...
Both star under-achieving dudes who work at big box stores (at a Best Buy clone in Green and a Home Depot clone in blue), both guys get stuck in worlds they didn't exactly want to be (spies and being the devil's bounty hunter), both discover they have super-powers, and both are resigned and perhaps a bit more ambitious at the end with the rest of their life.
Now, Chuck is at a bit of a disadvantage since I didn't actually see the first twenty minutes and it was yesterday. And it'll continue to suffer that same disadvantage, since I hardly ever get to watch an 8 o'clock show. But it's amusing. In its favor are Adam Baldwin, who just can't help enliven his scenes, and the Spy Girl who's basically our hero's handler by the end. I like her and I suspect from the tidbit at the end she's going to be far more ambiguous a character.
Reaper is... classic Kevin Smith, albeit it's on the CW so there are a lot fewer uses of 'fuck'. I like his films generally (Dogma? Awesome. The Golden Calf!!! *snorfle*) and this takes a lot of the good bits - dialogue and absurdity mixed with a genuine touch of awww... Plus, Ray Wise as the devil is perfect (though I have a great fondness for John Glover as the devil in Brimstone- that was inspired. There'd be no Lionel Luthor without that show). If you think this is 'Brimstone' well, only in concept - in execution they're nothing alike. This is the love child of Buffy, Brimstone, and Dogma.
And how long until Missy Peregrym's Andi finds out? I give it three episodes until she's part of the Scooby Gang.
"Your mother and I sold your soul to the devil." I'd be a whole lot less forgiving, I gotta say.
I enjoyed both and I'll continue to watch, even if I doubt I'll be fannish about either one.
And in other news, HEROES is back! Yay! Can't wait to see where they're going with Volume 2...