Speaking of Mark Valley, if you're not watching this show, Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. on FOX, you should be.
Mark is Christopher Chance, a former...something, who is fighting the good fight with the help of a former cop and another former...something.
Very well written show with great characters made even better by perfect casting.
There's an overlying story arc to the whole series about a former boss of Christopher's who wants him dead. Last week's show introduced a fantastic new character, Baptiste, that Chance trained and now works for Chance's old boss.
The show reminds me a lot of Burn Notice, except darker and with much better fights.
Give it a shot.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
I like how very polished it is. Each episode feels like you just watched a good full-length action adventure movie. Somehow they cram two hours of high-quality entertainment into 40 minutes plus commercials.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
I'm only two episodes in, the train and the airplane. I liked the "maybe we should take a train home" joke at the end of the airplane episode, as a reference to the first episode.
Ah, my favorite X-Files non-main character and my favorite Alias non-main character in episode 6. Nice. I keep thinking this is basically a male Alias.
Hmmm, on 2nd thought, the Lone Gunmen and Cigarette Smoking Man may have been more favorite.
Few notes:
1) For action, it's great, and fun.
2) The dialogue is a bit hackneyed and trite.
3) It needs a deeper, underlying thread/plot. They've hinted at it with the "boss" character, but so far, nothing's really there.
4) The Guerrero/black guy dynamic is repetitive and needs to move on already.
He's not a bodyguard or problem solver...well, he is, but it's different.
In the book he actually assumes the life of the individual. He puts on their skin, ala the masks in the Mission Impossible series, and their mannerisms, and then lives their life until the situation is resolved.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
All the gratuitous Camaro shots? The gratuitous use of OnStar each of the past two episodes?
You'd better start getting used to this advertising because everyone is looking at it as it's the way of the future.
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“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
