A new show in the works that I am looking forward to seeing! I love Adam Baldwin and Eric Dane and it features a ship where the stock footage will be ships like my husband helps build so it's an easy call: [YT="The Last Ship Trailer"]FHpV9u3MLws[/YT]
Adam Baldwin is enough to sell me. I just wish he'd got the captain part. Also, the scientist lady has more than a passing resemblance to a younger Sandra Bullock.
The show is a loser from the outset. Much like the one with the renegade U.S. nuclear missile submarine last year or so.
We'll see in a year or less I suppose. The original book was pretty dark. In general it was considered that the book was "unadaptable" as a television series.
Nice cast, but this sounds like a midseason cancellation. Some stories would fare better as event type miniseries.
At the very least it looks like I'll get some extra naval combat footage for my World War Three montage.
It's sad that that form is almost a lost art. There's a LOT of good stories out there that wouldn't necessarily work as a series (in fact, there's one on CBS, I think, about kidnapping a family to make a surgeon kill the president) - such as Flash Forward which reportedly had to be mangled a good bit to make it work (and still got canceled) that would be damned solid as a 10-15 hour miniseries.
This. I noticed that most countries around the world don't do the whole mega-series concept like we do, where a show runs ad naseum until it becomes a former shell of itself. And frankly, a lot of our TV concepts lend themselves to one season with maybe a follow up a season or so later (IE, Glee). I haven't watched Breaking Bad, but I applaud those guys for having the creative integrity to leave on top.
Cancellation. In regards to American series running many seasons and the network preferring that IIRC it comes down to things like amortizing the investment made in creating a show in the first place. The more expensive a show, the more episodes they need to spread the costs over.
FF is a good example. I had read the book long before the series started and it has about 250 pages. There's a lot of filler material to stretch that even into one full season. It shows, usually. Another one would be UNDER THE DOME. At least the makers tell a completely different story in the same setting so it just might work.
I love how some people see a single trailer and they think they know how the whole show is going to go. I think I'll wait to see a couple episodes before declaring it "a loser"...hell, or "a winner" for that matter. The concept looks interesting, it has cast members I enjoy seeing their work normally so I am excited to check it out Summer 2014....no matter how much anyone tries ruining my anticipation.
I agree, let's see where this goes because it looks like nice action show with a good cast. Yet... still...
yeah it's not going to last multi-seasons because you're going to run out of stories to tell. A mini-series would be best.
Trailers are supposed to get people interested and provide some information about the series. It is not unreasonable to come to a conclusion about a show based on trailers. Most people make new consumer product decisions based on less.
Worked for me. Not being interested in a series based upon a trailer is reasonable, insisting the series (based upon a trailer) will fail is kinda weird. How about we both give it a chance?
What would be interesting with this one would be to do a sort of "On the Beach" with it. There's nothing to be done about the plague, man's world is winding down to extinction, how does the crew cope with that fact?
I'll give it a shot but I'm skeptical because it's going to be on TNT. I'd be more encouraged if it were going to be an FX or one of the movie channels like HBO. At least it's not on a broadcast network.
Falling Skies has been pretty good. Hmmm.... so Falling Skies is Spielberg and this is Michael Bay. Is TNT making a concerted effort to go after 'big name' show runners?
For me, Falling Skies is just something to watch because it's science fiction. They've yet to make me really care about what happens to any of the characters. I don't dislike the show, but it's not something I really look forward to like Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, or Justified.
