Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Pushing Daisies (ABC) #1: Imagine if you could bring things back to life - Page 3

**Cryostar** · 07-26-2007, 05:40 AM

It is 4 year old friendly?

dukesmom · 07-29-2007, 11:49 AM

Took my niece to see Harry Potter the other day and one of the commercials before the movie was for Pushing Daisies. I don't remember the whole thing but there was a bit about solving murders by touching a corpse to resurrect him long enough to ask him who killed him and then touching him again so he goes back to being dead. Not exactly what I thought would be happening on the show but I'll still give it a try.

**Cryostar** · 07-31-2007, 05:18 AM

Yeah, it's his gift and his curse......1 touch brings someone back to life....a second touch kills them, permanently. Not sure how it effects living people.

**John Crichton** · 07-31-2007, 06:30 AM

On the first episode of Torchwood there is a glove that the team uses to reanimate a recently Murdered person (they do this a lot apparently) and do the same thing, ask them about their last memory before they died, then after 1 minute the person goes back to death forever.

dukesmom · 08-01-2007, 07:14 PM

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Yeah, it's his gift and his curse......1 touch brings someone back to life....a second touch kills them, permanently. Not sure how it effects living people.

IIRC, I've seen reports that his love life will be hampered by his gift/curse. That is one part of the show I'm not looking forward to. I'm a little sick of shows keeping couples apart for the sake of keeping them apart. I know this should play out differently but it may be too close for my comfort. YMMV

**John Crichton** · 08-02-2007, 03:57 AM

Cryo, I have not watched the first episode of Pushing Daisies yet, but I have watched the first episode of Reaper, it was darn-good imo!

I will watch the Pushing Daisies pilot episode tonight some time.

**Cryostar** · 08-02-2007, 05:12 AM

I agree dukesmom....why are shows always afraid to embrace relationships? Why must there be tension?

So reaper was pretty good, eh?

**John Crichton** · 08-02-2007, 05:26 AM

You've heard of Reaper right?

My god! This show is great, you will not be disappointed, I reapeat, you will NOT be disappointed!! You know what style to expect if you loved Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me.

**ROCKSTAR** · 08-06-2007, 01:36 AM

I *FINALLY* saw a commercial for this show on ABC Fam. Of course, it's from the creators of "Wonderfalls" and it has Lee Pace.. I would watch no matter a lot of things. But I'm happy to see some images to go with the excitement.

**Cryostar** · 08-06-2007, 06:06 AM

So you saw the Pushing Daisies promo too then?

**John Crichton** · 08-06-2007, 06:26 AM

I am trying to not spoil anyone by not discussing it in depth for it has not aired yet. I have seen it and it is bloody-good! You know that I only use the B-word when I really mean it.

Rakeboy191 · 08-06-2007, 07:39 AM

I'm with John Crichton, the Pushing Daisies pilot was amazing!

**ROCKSTAR** · 08-06-2007, 01:45 PM

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So you saw the Pushing Daisies promo too then?

I did.

dukesmom · 08-06-2007, 04:05 PM

A rather long Q&A from one of Matt Roush's columns over at tvguide.com:

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Question: I know that you and every other critic seems to be in love with Pushing Daisies. I just watched the pilot, and while I was thoroughly entertained, there are three problems that I think could become much bigger over the long run. Firstly (in order of escalating seriousness), I imagine that the extensive narration, though helpful in the pilot's exposition, will become very grating after a few episodes. In the pilot, I think the narrator had more lines than any individual character, including Ned. The second is the weakness of the supporting cast. Lee Pace does such an amazing job portraying the whimsical and fast-talking Ned, and Chi McBride plays a great strait man to his oddball. But Kristin Chenoweth and Anna Friel absolutely cannot keep up with him and his fast-paced dialogue. I feel like every scene where he talks to either one of them slows the whole thing down. Was Alexis Bledel not available? Chenoweth is so distractingly short that she can't properly interact with Pace. They had to have her stand on a coffee table in one scene to get it to work. Friel and Pace have no chemistry, and their forced separation is contrived. The third, and, I think, biggest problem, is that the reason this is so beloved by critics is that its tone and general air of whimsy is so different from anything else on television. The problem is the novelty will wear off, and fast. It won't feel so new after the fifth week. Borrowing your dessert metaphor, while people go out for a decadent cake every once in a while, no one has one every night.— William L

Matt Roush: So what, the backlash begins before the show even premieres? To be so skeptical about a show that you find "thoroughly entertaining" hurts my heart. The biggest problem I think the show faces is that there will be some who find its fairy-tale, fablelike qualities overly "precious." Cynics will certainly choke on the whimsy. But what floors me each time I've watched it is how extreme it all is: in its look, in its colors, in its theatrical performance style (and I respectfully disagree about the supporting cast), in its overwhelming charm. Even the narration, by the masterful Jim Dale (of the Harry Potter audiobooks), is exquisite. Could it be overdone? Easily, and the show's creator says the narration will be dialed back considerably as the show continues, probably limited to the beginning and end of most episodes. Is the premise going to be tricky to sustain? Absolutely. But I'll insist to the end that I'm not liking the show merely because it's different. That's the road that leads to good reviews for John from Cincinnati. I love the show because it's lovable. Whether and how the audience responds is out of my hands, but at the moment, I'm mostly concerned that the maximum number of viewers is made aware that something special is coming and to miss it is unthinkable.

Here's another take on Pushing Daisies, from Jake L, who screened the pilot as part of ABC's "Red Carpet Screening Tour." He reports:

"I was presold and went specifically to see it. (I loved it, of course.) A couple of friends went with me, and I was really interested in their reactions. One of them loved it and the other one didn't care for it much. The crowd that came out for the event, as a whole, seemed to enjoy it, though. I think this is going to be a show where you either "get it," plug in to its different-drummer beat immediately and love it obsessively, or you don't like it at all. Therefore, its fate will be easy to determine quickly once it gets under way, but I really do feel that there is an audience ready to embrace it and that it will stick around."

That's my gut feeling as well. But without question, it's among the new season's biggest risks.

**John Crichton** · 08-06-2007, 04:41 PM

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I'm with John Crichton, the Pushing Daisies pilot was amazing!

Your avi is the final scene in the pilot eppie.