Kyle XY

[vicariance]

Anybody out there who liked the first season of Smallville not heard of Kyle XY?  If so, get it, watch it, love the crap out of it.

People who have seen Kyle XY, back me up.

Comments

[eldereft]

Enh, total Weapon X rip-off.

Actually I had heard nothing of this show until just now, but the premise involves massive retrograde amnesia and the lack of a belly button (clear evidence of uncharted regenerative capabilities if I ever saw it).

DVD comes out later this month, maybe Greencine will love me with it.

[vicariance]

Alright you jumping to conclusions motherfucker. His lack of a bellybutton has nothing to do with regenerative abilities and (thus) it is not a weapon X rip-off.

The premise actually does not involve massive retrograde amnesia, but in fact the total lack of memory. Amnesia requires there to be a loss. Amnesia is merely the assumption made by all the characters on the show due to the fact that he is a teenaged boy without any memory, but there is a less than subtle subtext that he never had any memory possibly because he is a fully engineered person (perhaps even alien in origin), hence from there is the lack of a bellybutton. If it's a rip-off of anything, it's Stranger in a Strange land, because he has abilities and perception very similar to the main character in that book.

[vicariance]

well, he's considered the size of a 16-year-old, so you could say he fits the mold of the classical homunculous, unless he grows into full-sized. It remains to be demonstrated whether he is growing as a normal 16-year-old boy would.

[danadarko]

How did I miss this????

Must
Watch

Thanks for the heads up.

[vicariance]

Kim has the first two episodes on her laptop, which she got from a datakey i lent her. I have the entire first season at home. And am now recording the new ones on DVR. It comes on mondays right before Heroes =)

[gloriouseahorse]

i just started watching smallville. i gotta catch up. i still miss roswell.