Pilot season.

[the_grynne]

Jace at Televisionary has some pilot reviews for the upcoming Fall season: nay to HBO's vampire drama True Blood (based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris), BIG FAT NAY to the US remake of Life on Mars (no surprises there), but an awesome YAY! to J. J. Abram's sci-fi mystery series Fringe (starring Anna Torv, John Noble and Joshua

Comments

[ohvienna]

I do think the tone comes across a bit differently in that trailer -- you can tell that they're going for a lighter tone, something that's some ridiculous cross between 70s American film and Starsky and Hutch. It's bizarre and I think it doesn't work well. I don't mind that much about the style being similar (heh, they did make Sam getting hit by the car look snazzier) - again, just going by a trailer of a pilot that's going to be reshot - and the similar graphics is...okay (it works fine on The Office), I just think that the juxaposition with the L.A. setting doesn't work at all (as that blog review said, the sun and the palm trees? No way.)

It's damned if it does, damned if it doesn't for people who already love LoM. If they did something completely different, people would be up in arms about how they changed it so much -- as it is from the trailer it looks too carbon copy (mostly because they used similar shots and probably goodly chunks of the script as well, but I keep thinking about how the US pilot of The Office was so exactly the same as the Original that I didn't watch the show for a year, and then that turned out fine...probably because it's a sitcom and the situation and humor were much more easily translatable). But this has the very strong stench of our attempt at Blackpool. Bad bad casting, too many missteps. Ah well. I'll try and watch the pilot and then mock along with the rest of LJ. *G*