dafnap (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dafnap) wrote,@ 2005-06-11 14:27:00 |
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Aleph Bet.
You are on the Global Frequency.
Link takes you to TorrentTyphoon's search results page, you'll find torrents for both the comic and one of the best pilots and comic adaptation I've ever seen. Then head over to Kung Foo Monkey to read John Roger's (the showrunner) eulogy. Michelle is Miranda Zero and Aimee is Aleph (even without the twee punkishness that was from the books -understated makes the character work for TV) and oh my god. Beautifully shot. Subtly played. Radiohead in the opening scenes.
ABC should have picked this up and paired it with Lost and Alias. Or Fox with 24. It so obviously doesn't fit on the WB it's not even funny. It's too adult, and not because of the subject matter. Watching this and then watching The Inside, as much as I love Tim Minear (Out of Gas remains my favorite hour of television ever. Ever.) makes me wish the pick-ups were switched. This could have been the summer's sleeper hit, it really could have. The Inside made me cringe with how exploitative it is. (Though Adam Baldwin is fucking *delicious* and the boss guy looks like Paul from Queen and Country. In fact a lot of The Inside reminds of Queen and Country -if it mated with a Law and Order:SVU marathon and CSI's make-up department and was under Mulder's therapist. Ok -Katie Finneran as Dana Scully is pretty damn hot too. I'm not going to lie, I'm going to look for Danny Love/Melody Sim fic after finals. Man, this was a long parenthetical comment.)It suffers the same problems I had with Spiderman minus the bad dialogue, there's only so much doom and gloom you can force onto the viewer without giving them a moment of lightness that makes us aware of what exactly is being lost.
The Global Frequency pilot does exactly that -there some horribly fucked up ideas being implied (and being a pilot, unable to be fully explored) but the characters aren'ty terribly dark in and of themselves. The pilot takes Ellis' grudging respect for human tenacity and solidifies it, I loved a certain scene with Sean towards the end -sure it had the potential to be tacky (and it was, a little, but it was played so straight it was hard not to take it at face value)- but her response, and the look on Sean's face (touched/surprised/relieved) meshed with Ellis' concept so well I -sigh.
I really liked it, but then again I'm biased, so there's that.
EDIT: Another blog entry, but with pictures (gacked fromwabbitseason). Reminds me what I forgot to squee about - the graphics. Christ they were so good, I can't believe how the managed to take an effect in the comic book and translate it so perfectly. Christ. Maybe Sci Fi could pick this up and pair it with Battlestar Galactica? Maybe I'm totally grasping at straws?
You are on the Global Frequency.
Link takes you to TorrentTyphoon's search results page, you'll find torrents for both the comic and one of the best pilots and comic adaptation I've ever seen. Then head over to Kung Foo Monkey to read John Roger's (the showrunner) eulogy. Michelle is Miranda Zero and Aimee is Aleph (even without the twee punkishness that was from the books -understated makes the character work for TV) and oh my god. Beautifully shot. Subtly played. Radiohead in the opening scenes.
ABC should have picked this up and paired it with Lost and Alias. Or Fox with 24. It so obviously doesn't fit on the WB it's not even funny. It's too adult, and not because of the subject matter. Watching this and then watching The Inside, as much as I love Tim Minear (Out of Gas remains my favorite hour of television ever. Ever.) makes me wish the pick-ups were switched. This could have been the summer's sleeper hit, it really could have. The Inside made me cringe with how exploitative it is. (Though Adam Baldwin is fucking *delicious* and the boss guy looks like Paul from Queen and Country. In fact a lot of The Inside reminds of Queen and Country -if it mated with a Law and Order:SVU marathon and CSI's make-up department and was under Mulder's therapist. Ok -Katie Finneran as Dana Scully is pretty damn hot too. I'm not going to lie, I'm going to look for Danny Love/Melody Sim fic after finals. Man, this was a long parenthetical comment.)It suffers the same problems I had with Spiderman minus the bad dialogue, there's only so much doom and gloom you can force onto the viewer without giving them a moment of lightness that makes us aware of what exactly is being lost.
The Global Frequency pilot does exactly that -there some horribly fucked up ideas being implied (and being a pilot, unable to be fully explored) but the characters aren'ty terribly dark in and of themselves. The pilot takes Ellis' grudging respect for human tenacity and solidifies it, I loved a certain scene with Sean towards the end -sure it had the potential to be tacky (and it was, a little, but it was played so straight it was hard not to take it at face value)- but her response, and the look on Sean's face (touched/surprised/relieved) meshed with Ellis' concept so well I -sigh.
I really liked it, but then again I'm biased, so there's that.
EDIT: Another blog entry, but with pictures (gacked from
wabbitseason). Reminds me what I forgot to squee about - the graphics. Christ they were so good, I can't believe how the managed to take an effect in the comic book and translate it so perfectly. Christ. Maybe Sci Fi could pick this up and pair it with Battlestar Galactica? Maybe I'm totally grasping at straws?
