Publié : mer. juil. 27, 2005 9:39 am
The discovery of a mysterious new sea-based life form is played out in four separate tracks: San Diego teen Miles (Carter Jenkins) stumbles across a bunch of goo-covered "eggs" after waterskiing with his friends; marine biologist Daughtery Carstarphen (Lake Bell) has a frightening experience during a deep-sea dive in Monterey; fisherman Richard Owen (Jay R. Ferguson) watches his brother get dragged away by some sort of sea creature off the Louisiana coast; and Dr. Aleksander Cirko (Rade Serbedzija) and his N.S.A.-sponsored team stumble across a missing Navy sub in Antartica, 5,000 miles off course and without its crew. From here the puzzle pieces start to assemble: Daughtery's encounter draws the attention of Dr. Cirko (and the usual government freeze out); Miles decides to take home and raise one of the eggs; and Richard heads off to South Carolina when a news report about a beached creature appears identical to the one that took his brother. It's best not to say much more than that, other than it's clear all four tracks are on their way to collide at some point.
Series premiere : September 19th
Official Time slot : Monday 8/7c
Network : NBC
Status : New series
Show category : Science-Fiction , Action/Adventure
À l'origine la série avait été appeler Fathom mais je sais pas pourquoi on l'aura changer.
What works: In terms of "world building" - that is introducing viewers to a bunch of locations, characters and concepts -"Surface" does an amazing job of covering a lot of ground in such a short time. Much like the pilot to last season's "Revelations," things play out more like the opening hour of a feature than a TV series. And while only two of the four main characters actually meet, there's a definitely sense that something bigger is going on and everything will tie in together.
What doesn't: Character development unfortunately takes a back seat to the plot as we aren't given much to invest in. And what is there - Daughtery is a divorced mom, Miles bickers with his sister (Leighton Meester), Richard gets a new harpoon gun from his brother, and Dr. Cirko, um, has a beard - feels more like reading the character cards on the back of action figures than something that's naturally divulged as part of the plot. Another troubling aspect is the at times borderline comical insistence to not fully show the creatures. While I get that they're supposed to be mysterious and all, there's a sequence where Miles tries to catch his newly hatched "friend" in which he literally traps it, puts it in a bathtub and stares directly at it yet we aren't even "allowed" to see more than a few flashes or silhouettes of it. There's only a certain amount of teasing one can take. That leads to the show's biggest hurdle - there's nothing here we haven't seen done in sci-fi TV and movies before. That being said - thanks mostly to its pacing and ambition - it's still an enjoyable hour of TV and only time will tell if it borders too much on the clichés of the genre we've all come to expect.
D'après le Futon Critic. --Message edité par Alex07 le 2005-07-27 15:55:48--
Series premiere : September 19th
Official Time slot : Monday 8/7c
Network : NBC
Status : New series
Show category : Science-Fiction , Action/Adventure
À l'origine la série avait été appeler Fathom mais je sais pas pourquoi on l'aura changer.
What works: In terms of "world building" - that is introducing viewers to a bunch of locations, characters and concepts -"Surface" does an amazing job of covering a lot of ground in such a short time. Much like the pilot to last season's "Revelations," things play out more like the opening hour of a feature than a TV series. And while only two of the four main characters actually meet, there's a definitely sense that something bigger is going on and everything will tie in together.
What doesn't: Character development unfortunately takes a back seat to the plot as we aren't given much to invest in. And what is there - Daughtery is a divorced mom, Miles bickers with his sister (Leighton Meester), Richard gets a new harpoon gun from his brother, and Dr. Cirko, um, has a beard - feels more like reading the character cards on the back of action figures than something that's naturally divulged as part of the plot. Another troubling aspect is the at times borderline comical insistence to not fully show the creatures. While I get that they're supposed to be mysterious and all, there's a sequence where Miles tries to catch his newly hatched "friend" in which he literally traps it, puts it in a bathtub and stares directly at it yet we aren't even "allowed" to see more than a few flashes or silhouettes of it. There's only a certain amount of teasing one can take. That leads to the show's biggest hurdle - there's nothing here we haven't seen done in sci-fi TV and movies before. That being said - thanks mostly to its pacing and ambition - it's still an enjoyable hour of TV and only time will tell if it borders too much on the clichés of the genre we've all come to expect.
D'après le Futon Critic. --Message edité par Alex07 le 2005-07-27 15:55:48--