The Sword and Laser discussion

I ended up catching this more by accident then plan, but you know I liked it. But, I liked it for what it was, not what it could have been. I liked it as an odd-couple, buddy cop procedural set 50 years in to a sci-fi future, with changes that will probably not happen in 100 years. It is not a great continuation of the stories told by either PKD or Spielberg, although it has a lot of superficial (and some more substantial) ties to the later.

I liked the visual and special effects, the world building, and a good chunk of the acting (not Mr. Robot good, but OK). I liked that the police's sonic guns had a Syd Mead feel to them, as did other parts of the world. The plot was predictable, but it's a procedural, they almost all are. And as long as the journey is decent, I usually don't mind. It also very much felt like a pilot where the cast hasn't quite gelled yet, but I have hope that could change.

Like I said at the beginning; I liked it. Not love, but enough to record it going forward.

My wife had it on while I was on the computer. It didn't stink. I could watch it again. Not religiously, but it's fair.

Hopefully the episodes will come on Hulu. I'm definitely interested in watching this.

PsychoPass is a much better treatment of the idea, even compared to the original movie. Instead of assuming from the get-go that pre-crime is bad and stacking the deck to support the conclusion, PscyhoPass asks the much more difficult question -- how flawed does the system have to be to negate the fact that it creates a society without crime -- and suggests that valuing free-will over the good of society might itself be a form of psychosis.

Pre-cogs are already giving Minority Report spectacular "future ratings".

I liked it as well. It had the same kinda vibe as Almost Human, which I loved. I'll probably watch it again.

YES! Minority Report is on Hulu! Watching now! XD

I pulled up the first episode of Minority Report and watched it through. It was tropey and average.

I followed it up with the Blindspot pilot and found myself thinking how awesome Minority Report was.

;)

Fox can take a few episodes to get into the swing of things, so I'll certainly give Minority Report a chance.

I was pretty bored. I'll probably watch one more.

I actually really liked it. I like how the story is laid out and what the possibilities are. I also liked the main characters. I definitely want to see more. Misti was right. It has an Almost Human kinda vibe and I miss that show dearly.

I'm watching the pilot repeat right now. The first 15 minutes is already better than the movie.

Blindspot was annoying to the point of becoming terrible. Memento meets La Femme Nikita with a rote color-by-numbers story that was stupidly predictable.

We'll keep watching but 2 things are bugging me. First, tbis is yet another series in the "buddy cop with special powers" trend that's popular now (Sleepy Hollow and Limitless both spring to mind). We'll see if this can separate itself from the others. Second, I really hope they tone down the "sexiness" of the cop. Compared to most everyone else in the show, her attire seemed pretty inappropriate; especially as an "on duty homicide detective". Maybe all cops are hip/hot dressers in the future?

With few exceptions, all women cops on TV wear heels. It's one of those annoyingly stupid things they can't stop doing.

Actually, one of the reasons why I liked the show so much was because of the fashion. It's highly stylized and I didn't think the detective was dressed as sexy to me. More like she's more fashion conscious. I'm a sucker for highly stylized fashion though. I love when clothes have real character in SciFi. Not many take too much advantage of that.

P.S. I don't mind the heels either. I think that has to be a running gag for most women, like in the new Jurassic Park movie. =p

Trike wrote: "With few exceptions, all women cops on TV wear heels. It's one of those annoyingly stupid things they can't stop doing."

Have you ever noticed all the super heroes do it too? It's the strangest thing to see Wonder Woman in heels. First off it's impractical, second, she's already over six feet tall.

The shoes women heroes should wear:

Pink! Foisting your outdated gender roles on women in a different way! J'accuse!

I was going to try this but apparently the ratings are extremely disappointing meaning this show is almost certainly going to get cancelled after one season if not before.

Yeah. I gave up mid episode 2. Visually it's pretty cool, but it's just another cop story/week format show. Like half the other things that seemed to premiere this year.

People must love that, but at this point I'm pretty much done with non-serial stories, which is most of the network TV shows it seems.

Well, non-serials are easier to pick up after a few eps or in a second season. It would be really hard to start now with, say, Game of Thrones without committing a lot of time to catchup. So there are two sides...

I think they need to emphasize the risk to the precogs more, that they'll end up back in the pools, slaved to Hawkeye again. That's really the thing they should play with - it's what makes it different from a "standard cop and her awkward buddy" show.

Yeah, they've squandered the promise of the first episode and it's devolved into a typical procedural. Last night's episode was so boring that I switched over to the Top Gear "Best Of" episode. I came back during commercial breaks but what I saw didn't impress me.

It was no different than an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man from the 1970s. They come up with an interesting bit of tech and then use it as a one-off, employed by a bad guy. There's no nuance, no discussion of how this technology could be used in the wider world. Everything has a downside, just as every medicine has side effects. But if something helps a majority of people while hurting only a few, we typically continue using it. There was none of that in the show.