No Ordinary Family (ABC - U.S. Pace) [SPOILERS]
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Intriguing show. ABC.com has the Pilot up online, but its locked down to US IPs only (details here - http://www.spoilertv.com/2010/08/no-ordinary-family-watch-pilot.html. )
If you can figure a way around that restriction, or an alternate source of viewing it, its interesting watching.
Basically its sort of a re-mix of The Incredibles, but without the costumes. Or maybe The Fantastic Four (kind of ironic given that Michael Chiklis played The Thing in those movies).
Parts of it are kind of silly, but if you can roll with the silliness, its also very unpretentious and has a great cast.
If you can figure a way around that restriction, or an alternate source of viewing it, its interesting watching.
Basically its sort of a re-mix of The Incredibles, but without the costumes. Or maybe The Fantastic Four (kind of ironic given that Michael Chiklis played The Thing in those movies).
Parts of it are kind of silly, but if you can roll with the silliness, its also very unpretentious and has a great cast.
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Just watched - LOVED IT! Probably my favourite "fun show" of the new crop. Modern Family meets Heroes / The Incredibles!
No Ordinary Family is a series about a family with super powers and although this is one of the highlights, its interesting how the creative team are using the superpowers element to work at creating the drama and comedy typical to a family dramedy series, for despite being a Sci-fi / fantasy series, it seems from the opener that this will be the underlaying part of the show, second to the family drama.
It was great to see Michael Chiklis back on our screens with a new regular gig that allows him to play a completely different role to that he played on gritty The shield, although his new role does have echoes of The thing, the role he played on the big screen adapations of The fantastic 4. Julie Benz was also good in the role of the wife. Of all, perhaps the teenagers on the show are the ones that require some work.
Liked the fact that they used the "Modern Family" technique to bring us up to speed with the story, and it seems this will be a fixture for the series in terms of its story telling.
Also liked the fact that they have introduced a villain and a band of baddies who also have abilites. No doubt it is all connected to the Director at the lab who expressed interest in the "old plant" - he probably is aware of its abilities and is already using this to create his band of baddies!
Anyway, all in all really enjoyable. In view that most new shows have already premiered I can say that no Ordinary Family will probably be my Fun Show for the new TV season, alongside Hawaii 5-0. If this had been a BBC series, it probably would have aired in the Saturday evening slot - perfect for the whole family to sit down and watch together.
Anyone else watched?
It was perfectly enjoyable, and added to the fact that they do seemingly have some weaknesses, then it could be interesting and as long as they don't use the traditional crime solving type, stuff or over play that, as well as trying to add the funnies it could work out.
The kids didn't get a fair crack of the whip, the lines and stories didn't get much chance to go in depth unlike the parents. So I guess, we may get that next week.
Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman for the post noughties with better fx and a couple of kids.
1) The writing. It's appalling! "Her career as a research scientist was going well" struck me as a particularly poor line - why not just say "her career was going well", as it was pretty obvious what she did for a living? There were several other moments like that too, where the writing was clunky and overly expositional.
2) The MOTW. I really hope we're not going to get into a situation where each week, the main characters end up somehow running into one of these other super-powered people. Like the guy who can teleport, and apparently uses this skill to rob mom & pop jewellery stores.
3) JJ. What exactly is his power? It's been described in articles as "super intelligence", but all we've seen it do so far is rearrange formulae on a blackboard - he doesn't seem to actually be any smarter.
I want to like this show, and I think it's been well directed and well acted, but the poor quality of the dialogue does not bode well for the future. There was once another show about real life superheroes that was well acted but had bad writing...
The series is very clearly being pitched at a "family audience" so it would be a mistake to make things too sophisticated for the kids who are watching.
This is true, but I would counter that by saying that Doctor Who (as an example) is also pitched at a family audience, and the writing is of a much higher standard. None of the points I made could only be fixed by compromising the accessibility of the show.
Doctor Who is better, that's why.:D
But seriously, my reaction to the first episode of No Ordinary Family is similar to my reaction after watching the first episode of Merlin, the BBC's "other" Saturday night family show. Obvious concessions to youngsters that keep me from thinking too highly of it, but still enough there that I want to watch more.
...so why was I so entertained!
Really? Doctor Who is fun but the writing is generally not that great imho.
I enjoyed this first episode; I agree that there were some clunky bits but it feels pretty well balanced as a family show; the light Incredibles tone was great fun
The father is the spit of his equivalent character in the Invincibles
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Love Conrad from weeds (no idea on his actual name) so will defoo be watching
8 to 9 pm on Tuesdays. It is definitely aimed at the whole family, so don't expect it to get darker.
Could be good but I need to see what an actual episode is like before I judge it too much.
I have to agree that some of the writing was poor though.
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