Kerrith
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Last Login: 122 days and 16 hours ago
Name: Jason
Age: 30 Light Years
Gender: Male
Location: Salt Lake City UT USA
Profile Viewed: 1441 Times
School: University of Utah
Occupation: Malcontent
Fav Sci-Fi Movie: Can't decide
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In my opinion, the show really started to decline from the 4th season onward. This means that these replacements have presided over that entire decline as both writers and producers. Even if it got off track, at least Gough and Millar had a vision to start with. These new guys will just continue to beat the Superman origin story to death.
In my opinion, the show really started to decline from the 4th season onward. This means that these replacements have presided over that entire decline as both writers and producers. Even if it got off track, at least Gough and Millar had a vision to start with. These new guys will just continue to beat the Superman origin story to death.
NEW AMSTERDAM: Honor - Mar 20, 2008 - 10:41am
I have to say that I don't like this show. I love many of the shows that it is being compared to like Highlander, Journeyman, Forever Knight, Buffy, etc. I think my problem with it is that saccharine part is in the present while the flashbacks portray the desolate bleakness of being. The best aspects of Highlander and Forever Knight were the flashbacks to a more exciting time. I loved seeing the characters be more heroic and more passionate and wondered how they got to the current normalcy. Essentially, the flashbacks were a romantic glimpse into the past. On New Amsterdam they are just dull. Furthermore, the character is boring. He has 400 years of accumulated knowledge and he uses it like an online search engine or mapquest. For example, a bar used to be a speakeasy that he frequented in the 1920's or the park used to have a creek that ran through it so the soil is sandy. These are good facts that a 400 year old person may have assimilated over the years that benefit him in the present day. But its boring. How about throw in a personal anecdote as to why he remembers it? Like perhaps the speakeasy was a base of operations for Lucky Luciano's boot legging in New York but leave it unclear whether Amsterdam knows this because he was working for the cops or for the mob. I don't care for the character. The story is either sappy and cute in the present or depressing in the past. Basically it feels like this show borrowed (stole) the Highlander story structure and drained it of all its soul. I don't plan on watching it again.
I have to say that I don't like this show. I love many of the shows that it is being compared to like Highlander, Journeyman, Forever Knight, Buffy, etc. I think my problem with it is that saccharine part is in the present while the flashbacks portray the desolate bleakness of being. The best aspects of Highlander and Forever Knight were the flashbacks to a more exciting time. I loved seeing the characters be more heroic and more passionate and wondered how they got to the current normalcy. Essentially, the flashbacks were a romantic glimpse into the past. On New Amsterdam they are just dull. Furthermore, the character is boring. He has 400 years of accumulated knowledge and he uses it like an online search engine or mapquest. For example, a bar used to be a speakeasy that he frequented in the 1920's or the park used to have a creek that ran through it so the soil is sandy. These are good facts that a 400 year old person may have assimilated over the years that benefit him in the present day. But its boring. How about throw in a personal anecdote as to why he remembers it? Like perhaps the speakeasy was a base of operations for Lucky Luciano's boot legging in New York but leave it unclear whether Amsterdam knows this because he was working for the cops or for the mob. I don't care for the character. The story is either sappy and cute in the present or depressing in the past. Basically it feels like this show borrowed (stole) the Highlander story structure and drained it of all its soul. I don't plan on watching it again.
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