I like the series a lot. My wife and I watch it regularly on TV, not via the web. New Amsterdam is far more interesting than both Lost and Heroes.
George http://ivebeenmugged.typepad.com --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone catch the series premiere tonight? I wasn't really that impressed. The lead actor --who looks like some hyrid of Aaron Eckhart and Dennis Leary--didn't make that much of an impression on me. I guess he's got that brooding, soul-weary thing all immortals have, but it wasn't pulled off that well. I didn't get the angst or sometimes melancholy that say, Duncan McLeod or Angel conveyed in their characters. Also, unlike those two immortals, I didn't feel that the immortality angle was mixed in very well with the plot of the show. It really came off as two disparate stories meshed together: a spare tale of a dude who's lived for centuries and sees life in ways we don't, and a fairly standard procedural cop show. Neither half was scintillating, and the two together weren't that special either. "Highlander" in its first season was mythic and magical. "Angel" was exciting and thrilling. "New Amsterdam" was just kinda there. Anyone remember that short-lived show "Blind justice", about > the blind cop? For some reason it reminded me of that. The cop is supposed to be brilliant and quirky, kinda nuts at time, gruff, unlikeable. He's timed with a young lady cop who refuses to let him cow her. Sound familiar? Sounds like a ripoff of "Life", with immortality replacing incarceration as the cause for the star's strangeness. But it wasn't as catchy as that show either. > > And I have to say, i outright laughed and groaned at the genesis of his immortality: a reward from Natives for him risking his life to stop a fellow soldier from killing Native women. One, the Natives were so cliched and stereotyped they made me groan. The magic ceremony (complete with mystic smoke),that typical movie Native music with pipes--brother. And I always get irritated at plots where native peoples have this incredibly powerful magic, but instead of using it on one of their own, grant it to some repentent European dude. The lady who gave him his immortality gives some dopey speech about him never dying until he meets his "one true love", and breathes some magic smoke on him. She was about as cliched as the lady back in the day who did the adver for Mazola Oil ("you call it 'corn', we call it 'maize'"). And given what was going on, she might as well have said, "Even though you came as part of a raiding party and meant to kill our men, you are a man of honor for not killing > our women. so we'll put our best mojo on you, cool European guy, instead of wasting it on one of our noble warriors". That really made me groan. > > I've been wrong before about shows, and one ep doesn't always tell the story. So I'll give it three or four eps and see what happens. > > Anyone else? > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
