The fall tv season started this week, and I was curious what everyone is recording.
Monday night is now my big TV night (and it happens to be the one night I am out during the week). I was very pleased that my 2-tuner recorded all them flawlessly.
CBS - Big Bang Theory
FOX - Gotham, Sleepy Hollow
Gotham is the one new show in the bunch, and it is the story of Batman’s Gotham starting at the day Bruce Wayne’s parents die. I was really impressed with the pilot episode, as you get to meet a lot of the characters in the Batman universe way before Batman exists.
On Thursday, my wife has Parenthood scheduled.
Then on Sunday, I have the Simpsons still recording.
I still have a lot of days open, so I am open to suggestions.
yep… again… what? Are people just so dense that you have to spell everything out now? It’s like George Lucas wrote the script… (we’re still trying to figure out who really wrote episode IV).
Gotham revealed way too much in the first episode. Nobody knows how to tell a good story anymore… of course, people are also too impatient. Build a story, build suspense. When you reveal everything all at once suspense is lost… most of TV has moved to this format for fear of cancellation. But horrible story telling…
Let the viewer guess about the penguin… don’t spell it out. Let the viewer guess about cat woman, don’t spell it out… sheesh… good writers are hard to find… (oh and by guessing, don’t make it too easy… ok?)
@cjcox - It’s a tough line to straddle. They have to foreshadow enough so that people who don’t know the Gotham universe get it, while still appeasing the die hard Batman fans. I don’t envy the writers…
There’s a big difference between foreshadowing and tattooing the information on every inch of a person’s body. In fact, you’ll get more new people drawn into it the less that you reveal. And do batman fans really really want the stories from the comic books? (which were quite childish?) I think they want the more edgy contemporary retelling… rather than the superfriends (where are those reruns of Shazam!).
@cjcox My cousin writes screenplays, and we always chuckle when we are watching a movie together and there is heavy handed foreshadowing, or the explanation of key plot points line by line… I agree, respect your audience a little more. Although, if you want to get a pilot picked up, I guess you need to make sure everyone buying understands where you are going.
Yeah, I cannot wait for The Walking Dead to return!
My shows (including the wife’s list) is below:
Gray’s Anatomy, Modern Family, Law & Order: SVU, Last Man Standing, Shark Tank, Big Bang, Criminal Minds, Scorpion, Nashville, Scandal, Resurrection, Revenge, Forever, The Voice, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Gotham, Utopia, Parenthood (grr… the final season), and then Bad Judge + How to Get Away with Murder when they premier.
@jbanks25 - Glad to see someone local has Tablo as well!
@jbanks25, yes… I think TV especially they all fear the reaper… it’s a shame though. The shows that last the test of time are the ones that keep you talking… not the ones where everything is explained down to the metachlorian.
