Joan of Arcadia - a new show w/similarities
Posted: Sep 25th 2003, 2:26 pm
Moved to the Other TV Shows forum
This is about Joan of Arcadia, I don't know if anyone's talked about this here or not, since there are other forum section, so I don't know. The premiere is tomorrow (26th) and for a month I've been thinking about that show and how it'll be like and how it'll do. That's because I've seen the ads for it and let me tell you this. When I saw the promo ad, my eyes widened because the character appeared Angela Chase-like as in curious, observant and deep. No red hair though, but you could see she's her own person. Like how Angela was. And the Joan character looks like the Angela character was studied! Then you have the school, which is the same one used in MSCL, the one with all those steps and thin rails. When I saw it, it was weird because I still only picture Angela and the gang there still fresh in my mind. Btw, Even Stevens uses the same school too, but not much. The plot of Joan is deep and thoughtful, not like some fake teen show or a cheap Friends kind of show. Interesting to see if this show will do well because there are a lot of mindless tv watchers out there who like cheap shows and bad plots. Also, interesting because audiences weren't ready for a MSCL kind of show back in the mid-90s. So a page of MSCL could probably have been taken because of all the talk in TV land about the private legacy of MSCL(all that ahead of its time stuff). So they're probably giving it a shot with this one, and in the 2000s. But the thing is that tastes have gone down as well so this "page out of MSCL" may not matter now. May not matter that it's in the 2000s now. Poor MSCL had to pave the way and suffer for other shows! I always find myself attatching naturally to stuff (bands, shows, etc) that are cult status and overlooked! :p But the differences are that this is on CBS, not ABC who cancelled MSCL because they didn't get it. I'll be watching.
If anyone wants to talk about this, post back here! or contact:
CrimsonGlow
This is about Joan of Arcadia, I don't know if anyone's talked about this here or not, since there are other forum section, so I don't know. The premiere is tomorrow (26th) and for a month I've been thinking about that show and how it'll be like and how it'll do. That's because I've seen the ads for it and let me tell you this. When I saw the promo ad, my eyes widened because the character appeared Angela Chase-like as in curious, observant and deep. No red hair though, but you could see she's her own person. Like how Angela was. And the Joan character looks like the Angela character was studied! Then you have the school, which is the same one used in MSCL, the one with all those steps and thin rails. When I saw it, it was weird because I still only picture Angela and the gang there still fresh in my mind. Btw, Even Stevens uses the same school too, but not much. The plot of Joan is deep and thoughtful, not like some fake teen show or a cheap Friends kind of show. Interesting to see if this show will do well because there are a lot of mindless tv watchers out there who like cheap shows and bad plots. Also, interesting because audiences weren't ready for a MSCL kind of show back in the mid-90s. So a page of MSCL could probably have been taken because of all the talk in TV land about the private legacy of MSCL(all that ahead of its time stuff). So they're probably giving it a shot with this one, and in the 2000s. But the thing is that tastes have gone down as well so this "page out of MSCL" may not matter now. May not matter that it's in the 2000s now. Poor MSCL had to pave the way and suffer for other shows! I always find myself attatching naturally to stuff (bands, shows, etc) that are cult status and overlooked! :p But the differences are that this is on CBS, not ABC who cancelled MSCL because they didn't get it. I'll be watching.
If anyone wants to talk about this, post back here! or contact:
CrimsonGlow