Re: No Ordinary Family
Dvr'd it last night. Hopefully I get a chance to watch it tonight.
Dvr'd it last night. Hopefully I get a chance to watch it tonight.
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I really enjoyed it. Seems more fitting as a movie than a TV show, but enjoyed the aspects of the show.
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I liked it too. It was fun and I really like the art direction of how they show their abilities. The fight scene at the end was awesome.Comment
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I enjoyed this as well, though there being more people with special abilities than them, kind of makes this another Heros to me. Still gonna watch the entire season though.Comment
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I enjoyed it as well.
In the beginning, I keep waiting for Vic Mackey or Dexter to show up, about halfway I almost bailed on the show, but the ending save the show for me, at least for a couple of weeks.Comment
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I skipped it because it looked too much like an Incredibles or Fantastic Four pastiche for my tastes. Did it remind anyone of that?
I suppose i'll go on the CTV site and watch it based on the answer to that question.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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Those type of shows were very popular (or at the very last made a lot) in the late '70s/early '80s with shows like Bionic Woman, Six Million Dollar Man, Man from Atlantis, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk etc etc. Although those shows were often a little more light hearted and goofy in tone compared to the material that they were inspired by or remaking.Member of the Official OS Bills Backers Club
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That's what I meant. I wasn't clear. With all those shows you listed, no one thought to make a show about a family with super powers? It seems like the obvious choice and no one took that step.
But yes, this one seems to be much more mature rather than goofy which I'm sure an 80s version of would have been."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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One episode and this is as awesome as I'd thought it'd be......but i thought the same thing about Heroes...
Still. Awesome.HELLO BROOKYLN.
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Caught the pilot, and enjoyed like I expected. Super powers is an easy sell to me.
@LionsfanNJ, in fairness Heroes was awesome...for a season.PS: You guys are great.
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I think they made a mistake by giving the son braniac like powers when the mother is already a scientist at a pharmacutical company. I think his power should have been to shapeshift orhave absorbing powers like that kid on Ben 10 Alien Force( yeah I said it. I got kids too ya know)Comment
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Good point. I wonder where the process started with this. Powers first or situations first?
The easy thing to catch onto here is that each power fits what that person wanted most.
Mother was busy and didn't have time for family so she's super fast so she can be everywhere when needed (love that the mother has this power rather than the father. Role reversals are always interesting concepts on television).
Dad finds himself as caretaker of the family so he's given super strength to protect them.
Daughter is your typical high school teenage girl wishing she could understand life and now she can read everyone's mind.
Son struggles with school work and is given the intelligence to comprehend complicated math formulas and whatever else they add to the equation.
It fits with a lot of the things you see normal (ordinary) families deal with on a daily basis. We get that. But, I agree, it seems a bit short sighted to give a child super intelligence while the mother is already incredibly intelligent. I guess the real point is that while mother is very smart, she takes it for granted. Intelligence is not what she wants to give her family. Son will appreciate his gift much more."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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