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TV Reviews: Arrow and Beauty & The Beast
Oct. 14th, 2012 04:38 pmI think I've seen all the fall season premiere's now. Or the dramatic ones at any rate.
Still have Neighbors on the DVR. Not bothering with the other new sitcoms, since Sitcoms aren't really my cup of coco as it were.
1. Beauty and The Beast - upfront they tell us that this is based on the 1987 series by Ron Koslow.
That series starred Linda Hamilton as an assistant DA and Ron Pearlman as The Beast.
It was more mythological and fantasy oriented than the current version. And in some respects a lot more entertaining, [and this is coming from someone who rarely watched it and was not much of a fan. My mother was into it. I was in College and too frigging busy in the evenings to watch tv (not that I had one outside of the dorm lounge). Only saw the reruns whenever I made it home for the holidays or summer break. I watched very little tv in college. Television shows that aired between 1985-1989 tend to be a blur.] But I saw enough of the original to be annoyed by the updated changes. For one thing in the original, you could tell the characters apart better, people looked less alike. But in the updated version we do have more minority and persons of color in the cast. So there is that at least. Also here the beast is more like the Incredible Hulk. He's only a beast when he gets upset, otherwise he looks really hunky and normal. In the original he looked like a beast 24/7, which provided more conflict. Also in this he's a beast due to a government "super-solider" experiment not because he happened to be born that way. So the new version is more cheesy comic book style sci-fi, while the original had a modern fairy tale element to it.
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2. Arrow. Next to Nashville this is the best pilot I've seen for the American Television Season. Considering the competition this isn't saying very much. Unlike Last Resort and Revolution, Arrow is up front about being an adult comic book. It's not pretending to be anything else. Also while cheesy in places, overall, it's quite fun and doesn't take itself too seriously.
The creator is Greg Berlanti who wrote the summer series "Political Animals". Like Animals, the pilot is fairly well paced and has various subplots. In some respects I like Arrow better than Smallville, it's less "earnest" and high school. Arrow is allowed to kill people and is depicted as a vigilante much in the same style as Bruce Wayne's Batman.
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Still have Neighbors on the DVR. Not bothering with the other new sitcoms, since Sitcoms aren't really my cup of coco as it were.
1. Beauty and The Beast - upfront they tell us that this is based on the 1987 series by Ron Koslow.
That series starred Linda Hamilton as an assistant DA and Ron Pearlman as The Beast.
It was more mythological and fantasy oriented than the current version. And in some respects a lot more entertaining, [and this is coming from someone who rarely watched it and was not much of a fan. My mother was into it. I was in College and too frigging busy in the evenings to watch tv (not that I had one outside of the dorm lounge). Only saw the reruns whenever I made it home for the holidays or summer break. I watched very little tv in college. Television shows that aired between 1985-1989 tend to be a blur.] But I saw enough of the original to be annoyed by the updated changes. For one thing in the original, you could tell the characters apart better, people looked less alike. But in the updated version we do have more minority and persons of color in the cast. So there is that at least. Also here the beast is more like the Incredible Hulk. He's only a beast when he gets upset, otherwise he looks really hunky and normal. In the original he looked like a beast 24/7, which provided more conflict. Also in this he's a beast due to a government "super-solider" experiment not because he happened to be born that way. So the new version is more cheesy comic book style sci-fi, while the original had a modern fairy tale element to it.
( Read more... )
2. Arrow. Next to Nashville this is the best pilot I've seen for the American Television Season. Considering the competition this isn't saying very much. Unlike Last Resort and Revolution, Arrow is up front about being an adult comic book. It's not pretending to be anything else. Also while cheesy in places, overall, it's quite fun and doesn't take itself too seriously.
The creator is Greg Berlanti who wrote the summer series "Political Animals". Like Animals, the pilot is fairly well paced and has various subplots. In some respects I like Arrow better than Smallville, it's less "earnest" and high school. Arrow is allowed to kill people and is depicted as a vigilante much in the same style as Bruce Wayne's Batman.
( Read more... )