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Title: Daybreak.
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 01:41:15 AM: Groundhog Day with guns? You lose. (http://abc.go.com/primetime/daybreak/index.html)

I kinda' like Taye Diggs, but... come on now. How can this possibly not suck?
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: PyroMenace on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 01:44:20 AM: You posted this because of the ad on the eternal damnation page didnt you?
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 01:53:14 AM: Actually, I saw that ad and said, "Oh look, Taye Diggs is doing TV." Then I saw a TV spot for it like five minutest later and thought, "God, that's horrible."
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: ender on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 07:21:16 AM: Haha, how strange. I was going to just make a reply saying "Groundhog day with guns" but you beat me to it.
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: Ghandi on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 10:05:47 AM: That is strange. When I saw the trailer for the first time I thought, "That's like Groundhog day. With guns."

But yeah, it looks horrible. Watched the trailer and I pretty much got the whole plot. His girlfriend dies, he was probably involved with gambling or something stupid like that. No desire to see this one.
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: Antares on Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 04:57:09 PM: Looks terrible to me. Groundhog day itself was hard to watch because the same stuff kept happening over and over again. I can't imagine myself willingly tuning into a TV show that is going to recycle the same day over and over again. Stupid.
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: Quemaqua on Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 10:59:53 PM: Groundhog Day is my all-time favorite movie (don't ask), but... yeah, this doesn't work for a show.
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: sirean_syan on Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 11:32:06 PM: It sounds like a cool idea on paper, at least, but after a few episodes they're going to get old unless they pull some really crazy stuff.

I do think it'd be a cool idea for something like a six part miniseries or something. You know, that's what TV needs to hop on. More miniseries. Do like half a season of some really cool stories. You can get some huge stuff going, but you can also wrap it up and actually write stories that don't have to either last for several years or potientially go on forever.
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: ender on Thursday, November 16, 2006, 06:08:27 AM: Quote from: Quemaqua on Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 10:59:53 PM
Groundhog Day is my all-time favorite movie (don't ask), but... yeah, this doesn't work for a show.

I hear ya. It's definitely in my top five. The acting, script and everything is pure genius... especially for a suposed "romantic comedy".
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: Antares on Friday, November 17, 2006, 10:24:28 PM: underrated for sure... I wouldn't stick it in my top five though.
Title: Re: Daybreak.
Post by: Pugnate on Friday, November 17, 2006, 10:46:20 PM: I haven't seen it yet, though the trailers on TV always made me interested. It looked tedious in concept though.