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November 3, 2009
Paradox, 5 Reasons It Will Be Better Than FlashForward
Paradox is a new show to be shown soon on the BBC (no confirmed date yet). Here's the blurb:
If you could see the future, would you change it? That's the dilemma facing Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint (Tamzin Outhwaite) and astrophysicist Dr Christian King (Emun Elliott) in Paradox. They find themselves thrown together when a series of rogue images are transmitted into Dr King's laboratory from space.
The fragmented images appear to be of a major incident, but shockingly they suggest it has yet to happen; it's in the future. Christian, Rebecca and her team, DS Ben Holt (Mark Bonnar) and DC Callum Gada (Chiké Okonkwo), have just 18 hours to work out the clues and prevent a tragedy.
Sounds like FlashForward right?
Except that there are a few reasons why it's likely to be better than FlashForward:
- No one is doing a terrible fake American accent.
- There is no Jack Davenport character, played by Jack Davenport.
- It's a five episode series. Not a (hopefully) five year series. Which means that the story will actually be concluded.
- There's a hard and fast time limit. Eighteen hours, five episodes means all thriller, no filler.
- They're already talking about "the moral and emotional implications of changing the future".
Check out the trailer embedded below:
Amen, brother! The hokey American accents in FF are, well, hokey. I don't pretend to understand that casting - it's distracting as hell.
And yet even though I have only watched 2 episodes (ep2) and last nights I am suddenly drawn in to watch more....
Probably because there are members of lost in the cast.
I need more lost.
There are hokey American accents on FF? I can't say that I've noticed anyone with hokey accents.
Well, except for mysterious chick who called Dimitri with her weird accent.
Yeah, as Paul says, after last night's Im suddenly drawn to watch more too.. it suddenly got interesting.
Alas! The sinister video embed dislikes Americans! How are we supposed to demand your programs from our cable schedulers if we can't view your promotional materials! Tragic!
@JP - Yeah, Mark, Olivia, and Aaron are all non-American actors who are playing Americans for the show. Olivia's accent has gotten better, but Aaron's is fuzzy as hell, and Mark's only works when he's talking like Aragorn, any louder and it gets mushy as well.
There might be others, but to their credit, if there are, I haven't noticed 'em yet.
It's Joseph Fiennes accent that grates the most. It just doesn't sound natural. Maybe it's just because I expect him to have an English accent. Every time I hear Hugh Laurie in House it sounds really wrong! At least Jack Davenport didn't try an accent, although that does mean that stereotypically the baddie has a proper English accent...
Sorry, it's from the BBC, and we pay for it with our taxes, and therefore the logic goes that no one outside the UK is allowed to see it. Personally I'd be quite happy for you to see it.
Oh, that's ok, when I hear Hugh Laurie in MI5, I'm like "Wow, that's a really good British accent...oh, wait, he's British..."
I'm going to be pedantic, sorry ;-), but there's no such thing as a British accent: it's English, Scottish and Welsh. Although the variation in those accents is of course w-i-d-e! The difference between England, Britain and the UK is a bit tedious....
Fair enough. And of course the guy playing Aaron is none of the above, as he's Irish. I will endevor to change my ignorant ways forthwith. I just meant it in the "You UK guys" general sense, not a specific "He's from Cornwal, probably somewhere west of Camborne" kind of thing.
There's not really a generic American accent, either.
It's not insulting or anything, well, to me, I'm English, the Scots and the Welsh would probably get stroppy ;-) it just wounds weird!
No umbrage on my part, I take correction well. This way I'll know enough not make an ass of myself at that big SF convention at the Firth of Forth next year...Thank you!