Those that can't, teach.
Those that can't do or teach second guess for a living.
The professional term for it is "critic".
As in, everyone's a....."
And that little specialty sobriquet has never been more prolific than today, owing to the Internet advent and the accessibility that just about every mook on the planet has to offering up two cents about this, that and/or the other.
Present company included, albeit exceptional.
At this hot air inducing high pressure system gives way to cool Northern air time of the year, nothing, with the exception of politics and one or more Kardashians, is using up more cyber-ink than the arrival of the fall television season.
And the opening salvos of the seasoned second guessers.
Present company included, albeit savvy.
Rebel without a pause that I am, though, the opportunity to add two more cents to the already over jingling pile of coins being offered up by the everyday citizens of the blog nation doesn't really float my boat.
Because, the way I figure it, you're going to like what you like and you're going to dislike what you dislike and you couldn't possibly care less whether our likes or dislikes line up.
And that, I think, is what makes me an exceptional and savvy citizen of the blog nation.
Reticence to review notwithstanding, though, I'm up for a little first alternate second guessing by offering up, not wasted words on what's coming into view but, rather a little compare and contrast in the form of what I would have done with the premises of this season's purported next big things...as opposed to what will arrive on your flat screens via the next big thing think tank.
To wit...(or dry wit, as the case may be)
"Terra Nova"
THEIR TAKE...
The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction (suggested in trailers to be due to dwindling worldwide air quality and overpopulation). In an effort to save the human race, scientists develop a time machine allowing people to travel 85 million years back in time to the middle of the Cretaceous period of prehistoric Earth. The Shannon family (father Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddy and Zoe) join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway. However, they are unaware that the colony is in the middle of a group of carnivorous dinosaurs.
MY TAKE...
The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction due to mass suicides resulting from psychotic breaks resulting from the one, last reality and/or news talk show debut that finally broke the camels back. In an effort so save the human race, scientists develop a time machine allowing people to travel 138 years back in time, allowing them to lobby the FCC to cancel all reality and/or news talk shows and inoculate the masses with minds saving doses of Walter Cronkite and Leave It To Beaver.
"Once Upon A Time"
THEIR TAKE...
The series is loosely inspired by the classic fairy tale stories except set in the present day, hence the series name. The stories hold a key to the mystery that will draw a bail bonds collector and the son that she gave up for adoption 10 years earlier to a New England town called Storybrooke, Maine. This town is actually a parallel world in which fairy tale characters look like normal people and don't remember their true identities or anything about their true lives.
MY TAKE...
Actually, the premise, featuring the parallel world in which fairy tale characters look like normal people and don't remember their true identities or anything about their true lives, is already airing...every time a politician opens their mouth on C-Span.
"Unforgettable"
THEIR TAKE...
The series follows a former Syracuse, New York police detective named Carrie Wells, who has hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to remember everything. She is reluctantly asked by her former boyfriend and one-time partner to join his homicide unit after he asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to do the one thing she has been trying to remember, that of finding out how her sister was murdered
MY TAKE...
Again...due respect to the think tank, but "House, M.D." coated diseases as a cornerstone aside, I've been married four times and I'm here to tell you...women already remember everything.
"Revenge"
THEIR TAKE...
Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), whose real name is Amanda Clarke, decides to move back to the Hamptons to take revenge on the people who caused the destruction of her family and death of her father David (James Tupper). When she was a little girl, Emily/Amanda experienced her father getting arrested and her life getting completely destroyed. She ended up in juvenile detention center and inherited the wealth of her father on her 18th birthday. She changes her name to Emily and decides to take revenge on the people who caused the destruction of her family.
MY TAKE...
First of all, I'd totally decide on one name. The current "Jersey Shore/Keeping Up With the Kardashians" culture is going to have a hard time sorting out Emily VanCamp playing Emily Thorne whose real name is Amanda Clarke. Then, since this premise is purportedly based on "The Count Of Monte Cristo", why not make it a fun period piece in the Dumas' mold, instead of back-dropping it with the Hamptons, a cliche' and already overused plot location that, frankly, hasn't been the same since Jerry, Elaine, George and Cosmo spent a weekend there to "see the BAY-bee", trapping lobsters illegally and shopping for those big ass tomatoes.
"Pan Am"
THEIR TAKE...
centered around the iconic airline Pan American World Airways during the 1960s. The period drama, from writer Jack Orman (ER) and director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing), will focus on the pilots and flight attendants working for the world-famous airline in 1963.
MY TAKE...
Save a few bucks on production costs by morphing this one with "Revenge" and having Emily/Emily/Amanda exacting justice on any and all passengers who A)insist on holding things up while they try to cram their Volkswagen sized "carry on" into the overhead compartment, B)insist on reclining their seat back into a position that requires the passenger sitting behind them to endure the aroma of extra hold L.A. Looks for the duration and/or C)ask for additional beverages while seated next to the window, knowing damn well they're going to have to keep climbing out and over their row mates to relieve bladder of the aforementioned beverages.
Again, to each your own.
So, knock yourselves out, tubesters.
Personally, I'll be putting my weekly, hourly time to what I hope will be more productive uses.
Meanwhile, should one or more of the aforementioned purported next big things actually become a next big thing I want to experience, I'll just employ one of God's more practical and majestic creations...
The Complete First Season...on DVD.
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