Post by Mr. Atoz on Sept 25, 2014 7:59:18 GMT -6
I know that television writers have a hard job. It can't be easy coming up with new ideas for TV shows every year. This one, "Forever", looked promising. You can think of it as a cross between "Highlander" and "Sherlock Holmes". Ioan Griffudd (otherwise known as the only thing worth watching in the Fantastic Four movies apart from Jessica Alba) stars as Dr. Henry Morgan (presumably no relation to the famous rum). Sometime in the early 1800s he was on a ship when a black slave onboard shows signs of cholera, and despite his objections the owners decide to throw the slave overboard. (I mean cholera isn't even contagious, you get it from drinking infected water!) When Morgan refuses to allow it, they shoot HIM and toss him overboard too! And from that point on whenever something kills him, he comes back to life!
It doesn't qualify as science fiction unless you relax the definition a bit. Don't even try to pretend it's some kind of natural phenomenon. His corpse magically disappears from wherever it was, his CLOTHES disappear, and he's "reborn", stark naked, in the nearest body of water! They don't say anything about perpetual youth, but apparently he doesn't age either, unless dying sort of "resets" his age. He managed to get killed three times in the pilot episode alone!
Which brings us to the present day, where he works as a coroner in New York City. And because he has lived so long and seen so much, he does the "Sherlock Holmes" bit of deducing all kinds of personal details from the lint on a person's shirt or something. :rolleyes: Now I don't want to make it sound like there isn't a lot of good stuff here. He lives in an antique store run by Abraham, a "son" he adopted in 1944 (played by Judd Hirsch), and there's some kind of mystery about HIS background, too. He has a love interest in the form of a beautiful NYPD detective. Plus he's getting mysterious phone calls from a man who claims to be an immortal too! (Any side bets on whether this one turns out to be "evil"?)
I just hope it gets better in the next few episodes, because right now it could go either way. For example if he has to get killed and reborn in every episode, that could get tiresome really fast.
It doesn't qualify as science fiction unless you relax the definition a bit. Don't even try to pretend it's some kind of natural phenomenon. His corpse magically disappears from wherever it was, his CLOTHES disappear, and he's "reborn", stark naked, in the nearest body of water! They don't say anything about perpetual youth, but apparently he doesn't age either, unless dying sort of "resets" his age. He managed to get killed three times in the pilot episode alone!
Which brings us to the present day, where he works as a coroner in New York City. And because he has lived so long and seen so much, he does the "Sherlock Holmes" bit of deducing all kinds of personal details from the lint on a person's shirt or something. :rolleyes: Now I don't want to make it sound like there isn't a lot of good stuff here. He lives in an antique store run by Abraham, a "son" he adopted in 1944 (played by Judd Hirsch), and there's some kind of mystery about HIS background, too. He has a love interest in the form of a beautiful NYPD detective. Plus he's getting mysterious phone calls from a man who claims to be an immortal too! (Any side bets on whether this one turns out to be "evil"?)
I just hope it gets better in the next few episodes, because right now it could go either way. For example if he has to get killed and reborn in every episode, that could get tiresome really fast.