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Re: New Amsterdam - season 1 thread
Let's me summarize John's thought balloon at the end of tonight's episode:
"Doh!"
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03-11-2008, 07:51 AM
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Re: New Amsterdam - season 1 thread
He sure isn't trying too hard to stay under the radar with his whole immortality thing. When he says stuff to his partner, he doesn't even try and act normal. I find this strange.
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03-11-2008, 08:55 AM
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Re: New Amsterdam - season 1 thread
Why should he? Most people are just going to think him eccentric or, if they think he's nuts, it's in a highly-functional way. It's easier than remembering which lie you've told and it's not like there's any law against being immortal.
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03-11-2008, 09:04 AM
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Re: New Amsterdam - season 1 thread
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Why should he? Most people are just going to think him eccentric or, if they think he's nuts, it's in a highly-functional way. It's easier than remembering which lie you've told and it's not like there's any law against being immortal.
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Why tell a lie when they won't believe the truth anyway? Though the statement in AA was a bit off-putting.
I've enjoyed the three episodes so far. Interesting twist that his "one true love" is already married. That should slow his pursuit. If the series continues long enough the husband will probably be murdered at some point (though whether he will be shot while stuffed in a trunk is another question).
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03-17-2008, 10:04 PM
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Re: New Amsterdam - season 1 thread
Very nice use of the premise tonight, paralleling the different varieties of honor killings. I like that they're showing John wasn't always a saint, especially in his initial reactions to his employer.
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03-18-2008, 07:57 AM
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Re: New Amsterdam - season 1 thread
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Very nice use of the premise tonight, paralleling the different varieties of honor killings. I like that they're showing John wasn't always a saint, especially in his initial reactions to his employer.
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He was a man of the times until he had more time to think. I think they've been doing quite a good job using his past to reflect on the present. It definitely takes advantage of the premise of the show.
I was surprised that they plowed right past the end of the preceding episode with his true love actually being separated in her current marriage. Their relationship sure developed quickly this episode. I would have preferred things to have moved a bit slower.
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04-08-2008, 01:15 PM
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Re: New Amsterdam - season 1 thread
Not much talk about this lately, which is too bad - it's really grown on me, enough that I was mildly bothered last week when I couldn't quite reconcile Maggie and Rosey not being relatively contemporary. I guess Maggie could have been about 60 when John met Omar's mother, putting her birth in the 1880s while Rosey was born at the turn of the 20th Century, but it still seems kind of tight.
Aside from that, it's still a pretty good show, and I hope it gets picked up for next season - it's telling pretty good stories with its high concept.
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"What? Since when was this an energy ball movie?" - Overheard during a screening of Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive
"What the hell religion are you people?" - Overheard during the Captain Marvel serial at SF/29
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04-08-2008, 03:15 PM
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Aside from that, it's still a pretty good show, and I hope it gets picked up for next season - it's telling pretty good stories with its high concept.
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I've also been enjoying it. Last night I was thinking that perhaps we were getting a season ending cliffhanger. According to fox.com it appears that next Monday is the season finale. I would be pleasantly surprised if it does get renewed for next year.
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04-08-2008, 06:11 PM
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Re: New Amsterdam - season 1 thread
How am I gonna remember a name like Nikolaj Coster-Waldau?
I am hooked on the show but last night was a bit confusing for me. The jumping around in time for John and his ill ex-partner and then the apparent fantasy sequence toward the end.
You know, the one where the series seemed to be over.
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