Exactly. The Waiting Room was one of the reasons they were able to track down
where Sam had leaped to and figure out why he was where he was (the Buddy Holly
episode excluded); that it wasn't "anywhere on the planet at some time between
the mid-80s and the present." I seem to remember one episode where the person
in Sam's body escaped and they had to track him down.
Did Ziggy ever talk beyond beeps when Al would hit his Lego unit? Gushie
talked, but Ziggy?
As for other leapers, have we all forgotten the Evil Leaper? (I wish we could,
but she's canon.) That, and the meddling with actual events (like the JFK
assassination), were kind of a signal to me that they were running out of ideas.
I also miss the "oh, boy"s, and hope they're not replaced with the "oh, sh--"
we got in the first cliffhanger.
I realized the other day that, as much as I liked the show, it's really
something of a ripoff of DC's Deadman.
--Dave Sikula
On Friday, September 23, 2022 at 01:38:00 PM PDT, M-D November
<[email protected]> wrote:
Maybe I get distracted by the little things, but...did it bother anyone else
that the Waiting Room never got mentioned? In the original series, one of the
reasons Al didn't show up until the middle of Act 1 was because he was usually
questioning the time-swapee in the Waiting Room, and I don't feel like it was
EVER mentioned in the pilot, despite the larger presence of the project team.
Also, why doesn't Ziggy talk anymore?
I will say that I'm glad the production design recognized that the vision of
"THE FUTURE" from the original series wasn't practical to replicate. Waaaaaay
too much neon.On Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 4:01:10 PM UTC-4 PGage wrote:
Since I expected it to be horrible I came away mildly impressed that it was
less bad than it could have been. I think the two leads are strong and
promising.
It does have that performative ultra diverse stance that made ST: Discovery so
tiresome, but I would not blame that for the substantial talent drop off after
the two Leads. Most network shows that are all white cast mediocre and
forgettable actors after all. It does feel like they are missing a fierce
Latinx character, a guy in a wheel chair, and either a super smart male nerd or
super smart hot babe from the Sub Continent to fill out their Diversity Bingo
card. Yawn…but then, every generation has its self indulgences. Millennials
like to think they roam in well represented diversity packs, even though the
truth is most 30 years spend most of their time with people from their own
ethnic group.
I will watch a few more episodes, if only out of respect for the pleasant
memories of hours I spent canoodling with my then new wife while watching the
original. But even more than the self congratulatory diversity enactments, I am
dreading what appears to be the now irresistible overarching conspiracy plot
line…
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 at 7:53 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
The CGI is distracting… there are too many sets and effects that aren’t
practical. It’s a decent first story, but the cast seems to have been chosen
more for diversity than for talent. That said, Raymond Lee has the potential to
be a good lead. It is not as bad as it could have been, but it is also not as
good as it could have been.
Streaming on the Peacock --
Kevin M. (RPCV)
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