Dead Like Me cancelled

I liked the ending of the movie and cheered at the resolution of one of the plot lines near the end.

But not the rest of the movie? 

I'm going to watch with an open mind and go in hoping to like it.  I sometimes like things others don't, so we'll have to see.

Let me know how you feel about it. I know you're a pretty big Laura Harris fan, and the recasting of Daisy is the main thing that's kept me from checking out the movie. If you can get past that, I suppose I'll have to try.

I wonder how they'll handle it.  I think Betty said something about reapers being able to change their looks, but nothing more was said about that.  I guess if they remembered, they could have Daisy say she decided on a change.  Or, of course, they could just ignore it like in other shows where a character is recast. 

Rube is going to be a big loss, though he was kind of doing his own thing for most of season two.  I had wondered if he was bored with the whole thing and asked to have a smaller role, but in the EPK featurette, he seemed happy with the Rose Sofer storyline they gave him.  I still get the feeling that they might have had trouble getting him back for a third season, but I don't really have anything to base that on.

The good news is that once I'm done with the movie, my ramblings about the show will be on hold for a while. 

The new Daisy is terrible.  According to the featurette, Laura backed out at the last minute, but the character wasn't even written in a manner consistent with the show.  I suppose Laura would have stepped in and demanded changes to keep her character intact, but they could have given Daisy a new name and I would barely have known it was supposed to be her.

There were also problems with the locations.  I get that the sets would have been struck long ago, but I just couldn't get into the new Happy Time.  I think the Lass house was supposed to be the same from the series, but the exteriors weren't even the same.  Some of this seems to be a conscious decision on the part of the director to "make things fresh."  From his comments in the featurette, I'm not sure he was watching the same show I was.  He said, "I went for the emotional in places where the show would have always gone for the darkly humorous."  The example displayed as he said that was of a death that was played straight instead of for laughs.  Well, the show did that all the time.  Sometimes it would be drop dead hilarious, and other times you'd be choked up.  The humor was mostly stripped out of this.

Having said that, there was a scene where George walked into a certain ice cream shop and that marked the time the movie turned the corner.  From that scene on, I'd say it was consistently good through the end.  It's like they finally connected with the material.  Steve, I'm curious if that's the point you're referring to as the ending of the movie.  As for the plot resolution, did you mean (and please don't click on this, Adam):


Warning Spoiler! Click to show Outside of hating the new Daisy and having a hard time warming up to the movie because of the changed looks of the various locations, I think it might be one that will improve with a second viewing.  I know what I'm in for now.  I liked the last half (or third), so now I just need to see if I can like the rest.

Reggie's turned out to be a pretty young woman.  It was strange seeing the three year jump in age.

Yes, to the plot point resolution, especially since I'm a Science Fiction reader and fan.
I liked the final shot with George alone just before the credits.

I join the unanimous assessment that the new Daisy was terrible, both in being written completely out-of-character, and in the poor casting -- but, about the casting, I have to note that they cast an actress, Sarah Wynter, who had worked with Laura Harris before (she played her sister in a season of 24), so perhaps they were friends or something. And I actually like Sarah Wynter (have ever since The Sixth Day) -- she was just terribly miscast. For a replacement Daisy, they needed someone frail, not someone who could take you in a fight.

Ideally, if Laura Harris was not available, Daisy would have already moved on into her final reward, which would have given Mason something to dwell on -- that he wasn't mature enough to move on (or whatever the criteria to move on may be), even though he'd *started* to mature thanks to his love of Daisy as seen in season two. He'd been left behind. That would have provided a reason for him regressing back into a thoughtless dick again. Instead, both Daisy and Mason's character development was completely abandoned. It was as if the new writers hadn't watched season two at all. Grr.

Oh, and yes, I agree the new office setting was bad -- it was the place where ComiCon is held, right? The same convention center that appears in far too many science fiction films. They probably just got a good rental rate for it. Indeed, the mansion also gave me the impression that their settings were based on whatever the production could rent for cheap, rather than on what the writers had intended.

Was that the same mansion that served as the country club in season 2?  It looked familiar, and I guess its existence in the movie was explained by it being Cameron's place, but it really didn't fit in with DLM very well.

Rube:


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Has anyone else had issues with the movie DVD? I got it when it first came out and it's unwatchable. My player seems to vibrate too much and I don't want to break it. I'm very tempted to try to return it for a while but never decided to. I'm rewatching the series again, just started series 2, should go and return the movie again when I finish this up.

Dead Like Me can be seen on Hulu now.

i didn't like the movie at all.  but then i didn't really like the 2nd season that much either.  i really liked the 1st season though.

I just finished watching this.  I enjoyed seeing the characters again--though I admit Mason never did anything for me, and Wynter was more of a miss than a hit.

I enjoyed the theme of breaking reaper rules, however I really had a hard time getting past two rules that were shattered:


Warning Spoiler! Click to show I watched the featurette on the DVD, but it was far too short.  Can anyone explain how and why this show was resurrected?

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