NBC prequel "Taken" series thread
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Kill Dat Noize
Banned
3 weeks before its cancelled.
blackestofpanthers
God forgives, you are forgiven.
Nobody rates it highly
King Koopa
All Star
Really? 
Why?
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
Unfortunately they do, strange thing is it only had 1 good movie the sequels were trash. I seriously wonder what a network tv series will produce
R.E.N. Spells Ren
Veteran
Why y'all hating on this?
A show about a bad ass special agent could be dope. No one need get taken every week, it's just showing him use his special set of skills on behalf of the government. That his daughter gets abducted years later after he retires would need only be a footnote.
Not saying it'll be good, but why write it off without knowing anything about it?
A show about a bad ass special agent could be dope. No one need get taken every week, it's just showing him use his special set of skills on behalf of the government. That his daughter gets abducted years later after he retires would need only be a footnote.
Not saying it'll be good, but why write it off without knowing anything about it?
We'll see who get's cast as Liam's character first.
steadyrighteous
Veteran
Maybe because when you strip away the conceit of a movie and/or the star of that movie, what you're left with is a generic network procedural.
Minority Report minus Tom Cruise and the PreCrime unit from the movie = Minority Report the TV show which is essentially a cop show set in the future. And the same network (Fox) had a show last season, which was a cop show set in the future, which was cancelled - Almost Human.
Limitless minus Bradley Cooper and the fact that Bradley wasn't a cop and was an independent citizen = Limitless the TV show which is essentially a cop show where the guy has special abilities. Again, the same network (CBS) had a show a year ago which was a cop show about a guy with special abilities which was cancelled - Intelligence.
My overall point is, don't try and hide a generic show behind the name of a movie if you're not going to even bother to use the movie's conceit as a crutch.
I'm all for giving something the benefit of the doubt, but there's a difference between giving something the benefit of the doubt, and falling for a flailing industries version of the okey-doke.
They're basically cutting toast into a circle, sticking it in a pizza box and telling you it's Dominos and most people are like:
"Tell me more..."
Dr. Narcisse
Veteran
PRE-Taken?!??!?!? 
YES!!!
YES!!!
