Greek Default Looms With A Touch of Schadenfreude: The Ticker.Touch the new drama seriously has his heart in the right place and his mind to drift into unknown areas. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Martin Bohm, a New Yorker whose wife died in the attacks of 9 / 11 terrorists, and has raised its 11-year-old son, Jake (David Mazouz). Jake, who tells much of the pilot episode on Wednesday night, did not speak since he was born, and cannot stand to be affected. He spends much time working out elaborate series of numbers.
Touch was created by Tim Kring, who also made heroes, and there is some Grand Design that shows the ambition here. Jake seems to autism, although Kring and Sutherland gave interviews saying that the character is not, but the child is clearly both extremely talented and poignant disabled in dealing with its immediate surroundings. SPOILER ALERT FOR SOME ACTION details of the plot.
Danny Glover appeared as a single teacher, apparently strange, reality-wise Arthur Teller, who was there to tell us that some people have amazing gifts to find patterns, and indeed, we saw that the capacity of Jake finished connecting people via the phone numbers and cell phones and what appeared to be coincidences, to resolve a number of problems of the people "and avoid at least a very dangerous situation. (When the bomb timer clicked to "1", I must admit that I was not exactly sweating with fear - no way was this thing going to explode, right?)
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I can see why touch call Sutherland - on the surface, at least, Martin Bohm is not something like an action-man Jack Bauer. But they share a sense of pervasive anxiety. Martin worries that he is not doing everything he can to his son, and once these magic numbers are starting to make their stuff in the world, he scurries around with the intensity understandable and almost frantic; trying to do something sure is not going horribly wrong. Which is like a scenario 24: Touch circles back to what Sutherland has done well on 24 - to heroic efforts seem to bear the weight of the world on your shoulders.
What could be more admirable is the way to touch the show tries to present his stories as narratives idealistic, seizing on the idea that inter-connectivity we experience through technology can lead to good things (as opposed to the other a fantasy or sci-fi-ish often show that the rotations - that is, the technology that separates people, or go wrong in humans). I admire the fact that Kring tent for storytelling that is boiling without going Touched by An Angel sticky. (And if I could be wrong, I also detect a certain amount of 12-step philosophy woven into touch, as when Martin said, "God does not give you more than you can handle," and speaks of Glover Teller the realization of things "beyond our wildest dreams.")
But I'm not sure I'll get addicted to a show every week, will present some variations on Jake linking disparate people, making good in the world, and then it's off to the next sequence Fibonacci. (With names like "Teller" and "Tesla" [the name of the street Teller] floating around, you know Kring should have some broad plan lurking.) It was only the driver, and drivers still have a lot distribution of information to, and time for the meager shade character - the show will air weekly in March. So we'll see how it develops.
Touch was created by Tim Kring, who also made heroes, and there is some Grand Design that shows the ambition here. Jake seems to autism, although Kring and Sutherland gave interviews saying that the character is not, but the child is clearly both extremely talented and poignant disabled in dealing with its immediate surroundings. SPOILER ALERT FOR SOME ACTION details of the plot.
Danny Glover appeared as a single teacher, apparently strange, reality-wise Arthur Teller, who was there to tell us that some people have amazing gifts to find patterns, and indeed, we saw that the capacity of Jake finished connecting people via the phone numbers and cell phones and what appeared to be coincidences, to resolve a number of problems of the people "and avoid at least a very dangerous situation. (When the bomb timer clicked to "1", I must admit that I was not exactly sweating with fear - no way was this thing going to explode, right?)
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I can see why touch call Sutherland - on the surface, at least, Martin Bohm is not something like an action-man Jack Bauer. But they share a sense of pervasive anxiety. Martin worries that he is not doing everything he can to his son, and once these magic numbers are starting to make their stuff in the world, he scurries around with the intensity understandable and almost frantic; trying to do something sure is not going horribly wrong. Which is like a scenario 24: Touch circles back to what Sutherland has done well on 24 - to heroic efforts seem to bear the weight of the world on your shoulders.
What could be more admirable is the way to touch the show tries to present his stories as narratives idealistic, seizing on the idea that inter-connectivity we experience through technology can lead to good things (as opposed to the other a fantasy or sci-fi-ish often show that the rotations - that is, the technology that separates people, or go wrong in humans). I admire the fact that Kring tent for storytelling that is boiling without going Touched by An Angel sticky. (And if I could be wrong, I also detect a certain amount of 12-step philosophy woven into touch, as when Martin said, "God does not give you more than you can handle," and speaks of Glover Teller the realization of things "beyond our wildest dreams.")
But I'm not sure I'll get addicted to a show every week, will present some variations on Jake linking disparate people, making good in the world, and then it's off to the next sequence Fibonacci. (With names like "Teller" and "Tesla" [the name of the street Teller] floating around, you know Kring should have some broad plan lurking.) It was only the driver, and drivers still have a lot distribution of information to, and time for the meager shade character - the show will air weekly in March. So we'll see how it develops.
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