My Own Worst Enemy

It's got a sci-fi "twist", so I figure we could toss it into the discussion jumble.

As a product of the generation that grew up on "Pump up the Volume" and "Kuffs", I'm always curious as to what new avenues Christian Slater will be taking...hopefully "Good" ones...and I must say this, at long last, appears to be a role for which he seems appropriately suited.

the angst of teenage Christian Slater of the early 90s becomes a bipolar schizo in the new millennium...it's a social commentary as much as a cool premise for explosions.

I'm looking forward to a network series...I must be ill or old...perhaps both.

 

The more I hear about this, the more I'm intrigued, but on the other hand I'm not a fan of Slater's acting, so it's a toss - up for me.

 

Ha!

Just to ease minds.

I'm a fan of Christian Slater...not his acting.

I'm sure he'll be his typical "Slaterific" self...I just think the role suits that personality well.

This kind of reminds me of "Very Bad Things"...which was a messed up, but rather underrated film. He was good in it.

 

This is in the Heroes "death slot" right?

The same one that killed (the great show)Studio 60 and (the just getting good)Journeyman? So at best, My Own Worst Enemy can get a season?

 

Starts tonight!

 

Ok...caught this on DVR yesterday.

Have to say...I REALLY liked it...it was exactly what I expected...the Christian Slater deadpan sarcastic wit coming through in spades...interesting camera work helping to portray action rather then clunky choreography...a unique twist I hadn't expected (I won't post it here...if you saw it, you probably know to what I refer).

My buddy drooled over the 2010 Camaro in it.

Looks like there is at least one offering worth while this fall.

I recommend catching this one.

A Jedimarine thumbs up!

How rare is that!?

 

I thought it was okay. Just as preposterous as Chuck (I like Chuck!), but a little more grown up and less fun. Probably won't watch regularly.

What's the benefit to this split-personality program, by the way? What security/secrecy/deniability benefit is gained that isn't outweighed by the cost of keeping it all secret?

 

theoretically?

Plausible deniability for even the most involved of participants?

A flawless cover story as even the person being covered doesn't know the truth.

Difficult to extract the details in one reality from the other...even under duress.

Of course, all of this is completely ruined by the fact that the dude "malfunctions" in the pilot episode. Which essentially means the show is not so much about how this works and why...but the system is broken, how does he adapt...

 

Two episodes in and I'm already tired of Henry's whining.

 

I caught an episode last Friday and thought that it was pretty crappy. It seems like the writers who came up with the show watched way too much Bourne Identity or something.

I mean honestly, isn't it far easier to find some poor sucker with no family or ties to anything and send them on these sorts of missions before brainwashing someone with billions of dollars worth of equipment where it might backfire like it does in the show?

 

But I think that's the point.

this is not James Bond...orphan in the charge of the state with a dozen crafted cover stories.

In this story, the agent "vanishes"...the reality is suburban dad with a real home, real family, and whole lot to lose...not someone that would fall into the radar of those hunting a secret agent.

except...like you said, it goes wrong...and that's the driving interest of the story...not a perfect system and imagining it's real world use...but why did it screw up...this show is going to be as much about theories on the mind, on force of will, of power of suggestion...as it's going to be about secret agents and gadgets.

 

Why they take their best agents, trained to kill and disappear and attach them to families. Whether the agent disappears or not that doesn't seem to bright.

 

****! I thought this show was awesome...and yet they give that awful knight rider remake a full season order.

 

That post heroes slot is the new death slot apparently.
I learned after Studio 60 not to get attached to anything that follows heroes.

 

I think the real reason for this is Monday night is a bad night for TV...always has been...which is why Monday Night Football dominated network viewing on Monday Nights for nearly 30 years, and even it couldn't hold on forever..."Heroes" is not a hit on Monday Night..."Heroes" is a hit because of DVR and internet buzz...and it survives on Monday because of it's strengths elsewhere.

Monday Night, I've heard, is second only to Saturday night in being the worst night to be slotted in.

Has Heroes always been on Monday? Or did they gain an audience elsewhere and moved it to Monday? That's what a great many networks do...they start a show on one of the "big" nights (Thursday, Tuesday, Sunday) and then ship it to Monday to anchor an evening with a dedicated audience.

the problem with "Heroes" is that it's not a dedicated audience...at least to the watching "then and there"...most people I know who watch heroes watch DVR or online...and as such, the "run in" from Heroes to Worst Enemy is slim pickings...probably old people who started watching Heroes because their grandkids told them about it, and they don't change the channel because "Johnny" will be on in another hour and a half.

 

Heroes has always been on Monday nights.