A Touch Too Much?

A couple months ago Fox premiered a new show, Touch, starring Kiefer Sutherland. The basic premise of the show is that Kiefer is a single dad (wife died in the Towers on 9/11) and he has an autistic son. His son can see the patterns of the world, lives intertwined and crossing, as a series of numbers. Using those numbers he gets his dad (Kiefer) to help some situations come together the way they were meant to.

The first episode was good. As a wanna-be writer I can see how difficult it would be to make the various situations all come together in a way that works and still relate to the numbers that Jake (the son) gives Kiefer. I liked the first episode,it was well crafted, but was a bit worried about how well it would translate to a regular series.

The regular series (months after the first episode appeared) finally aired. We watched the second episode (the first being a rerun of the premiere from months ago) the other night.

It's still a well crafted show. It takes alot of work to make those divergent people all cross paths in the way needed and still provide motivation for why/how they get to where they are. Like the premiere, some of the connections feel forced, but it still comes across decently.

The show has potential, but not if it ends up being the same thing over and over. But I don't see what can be added to keep the show fresh.

It has some comparasions to Alcatraz. That show has the same plot ('63 returns to present day, must stop them) but there's some mysteries throughout and most of the episodes end up answering part of the questions or adding a new question. So it keeps the repeat premise fresh.

Touch needs that, but I can't see where/how it will come from. And any potential aspect added will only come across as forced. Which won't help the show at all.

Also, Kiefer is annoying. He says the same things over and over and over. Big negative.

The Sad Part Of TV Watching

What is the sad part? It's the time when all your shows are on hiatus. You've just watched a bunch of season finales and now have nothing but repeats to look forward to.

Months and months of repeats.

Yeah, occasionally you'll find the rare show that starts at this time of year and is decent. But that's rare.

I'm not a big tv watcher. For years would barely have it on. The most work it would get would be football Sundays. But recently, we (my girlfriend and I) have found some shows we actually enjoy. We'll DVR 'em and watch when we get a chance.

And as of last night, all our shows are on hiatus until the new season starts this fall. Now this does't include "fall back" shows, shows that we'll put on and watch but don't care if watch in order or on time. These are shows that will put on and watch if there's nothing else on.

What do we like for shows? Here's a quick run-down:

The Walking Dead
Alcatraz
Person Of Interest
Grimm
Lost Girl
The River
Touch (This is one of the rare shows that starts this time of year. First two episodes have been okay, but not sure if this will end up making the cut. The premise is quirky and I'll go into more depth on it in another post.)

The fall-back shows:
Storage Wars
Any of the housing shows (House Hunters, Property Virgins, etc..) on HGTV
Tosh.0
Duck Dynasty

The girlfriend also watchs Sons Of Anarchy, but because it was so far along in seasons, I won't be watching it unless we start getting it a season at a time. She also watched Dexter as well.

I'm hoping to be able to get ahold of A Game Of Thrones and watch the first season soon.

If you haven't been able to tell, we're not into the "one and done" kind of shows, the periodicals like CSI, NCIS, Law & Order, etc...

And we especially don't get into sitcoms.

We like the fantasy/action/adventure shows. We like shows that have depth. We like shows that are quirky. Basically the shows that not that many other people do.

Aside from Touch, which just started, only one of our shows is guranteed to be coming back next season: The Walking Dead.

We're both big fans of Firefly. Which of course only lasted one season. We keep hoping one of our favorite shows will become the next Lost or Buffy, lasting for awhile. It kind of sucks knowing we only have one show to look forward to next season. Can only hope we'll have more.

So this time of the year is now doubly sad for us.