Who watches Tru Calling?

[Planesdragon]

It just doesn't seem like there is a lot of good solid thinking to the overall seasonal plot. The show works as individual episodes, but the more I see of the season it just doesn't seem to pull together well.

Tru Calling has the same kind of subtle metaplot that Enterprise had for its first two seasons. They're probably going slow to make sure that they don't run out of metastory too soon.

Or maybe they know that more than one season isn't a given, so they're pulling a trick from Joss Whedon's book and having the metaplot length be tied to the season, and next year (if renewed) Tru will know all of her secrets, and be working with a different metaplot.

 

[Asmo]

I saw the first 6 episodes,and it didn´t get me hooked, so I quit. Maybe I will watch it later when the DVD hits the streets, but for now I concentrate on Angel, 24 and Alias. And Friends, of course .

Asmo

 

[Pielorinho]

I want to like it, but it annoys me too much. I don't like any of the characters, and you know that the first three or four suspicions she has about the caiuse of death will be totally wrong, but the writers don't mind cheating in order to mislead you about it. And Tru doesn't bother to check the NYSE at 5 pm each day to find out which stock has had the greatest rise in value over the course of the day: if she spent five minutes a day doing this, she could be a billionaire .

Daniel

 

[takyris]

I'm not going to post Takyris' "plot synopsis" of the series here, but his point made in another thread about the episodes being rather formulaic really echo with me whenever I've watched it so far.

Heh. I made something echo with Henry!

And yes, posting that in a "Tru Calling" thread would be rude. It's also probably not a fair parody (if such a thing can be said to exist), since I based it on the three episodes I did watch, all of which were early and probably dedicated to establishing the rules of the game. It could have changed a great deal, but the formulaic nature of the few I watched, combined with the fact that the writing didn't do it for me, got it bumped from my Tivo, so I won't know unless something odd happens and I decide to give it another chance.

Heck, that's what I did with Farscape -- the pilot really didn't grab me, and it wasn't until I was telecommuting and stuck in the Mother of All Conference Calls that I got bored and watched a sci-fi-channel Farscape Marathon that it really started to grow on me.

 

[Crothian]

Right now, my major fear is that Jason Priestley is going to turn out to be an "evil leaper".

Well, you called that one :\

 

[Steverooo]

But the real thing is how the other guy dediced that she can do what she does. First, it was just a few less bodies and Tru acting odd. So, of course one deduces she relives days. THat was just a stretch of an excuse there is no way she should have bought it. Now, he says it because he investigated her mother and deduced she could do this. It's just such an odd deduction for anyone to make; completely unrealistic.

Did you catch this week's show? He knows that Tru's mom had this ability, because he was once saved by her, himself... Presaging of "character secrets"! His wife still died, though...

 

[Steverooo]

Right now, my major fear is that Jason Priestley is going to turn out to be an "evil leaper". If they do something else with him, I think things will start to get a lot better.

Oh, I knew he was a plant, from day one... He asked Tru's brother too many questions about her! My thought at the time, though, was that he was planted in the morgue by that newspaper lady who was chasing Tru around, in that episode...

Last week, the poor college student, who Tru's brother saved, shows up dead... again! It starts to look like JP's character is an "evil leaper" (I thought the exact same thing), but you KNOW that the first guy suspicion falls on is never the guilty one... He'll probably turn out to be CIA, or something incredible like that, at the season finale...

The thing that got me, here, is that, after the girl died, again... the day didn't rewind! WHY NOT?!? Usually, if Tru fails, "it's ground-hog day, all over again"! This time... IT DIDN'T WORK!

Yep, something's fishy, here!...

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I'm an option A but to be honest there are few shows that have my complete and undivided attention.

I don't really see any real comparison between Tru Calling and Buffy/Angel but I'm not a real regular to those shows.

The one show that it does remind me of, but really only in small ways, is Quantum Leap.

Right now, my major fear is that Jason Priestley is going to turn out to be an "evil leaper". If they do something else with him, I think things will start to get a lot better.

You know this really doesn’t bother me this much... Very few shows of this type can survive without a reoccurring nemesis/antagonist.

 

[Crothian]

Did you catch this week's show? He knows that Tru's mom had this ability, because he was once saved by her, himself... Presaging of "character secrets"! His wife still died, though...

My orginal post was before last week's episode. I still don't think Tru should have accepted his reasoning before, but after last week's episode that does make sense. So, they fix one thing but bring on another that I don't like.

 

[Altalazar]

I haven't seen it, but then these days, I pretty much only catch TV shows on DVD.