Oct
2010
Once again proving that TV is just mindless junk, ABC has picked up enough episodes of No Ordinary Family to give it a full season.
It is not unusual for a television network to pick up only 13 episodes of a new series initially, and then after a few weeks they will orders what known as “the back nine”, bringing the total order to 22, or a full season of U.S. television. Yesterday ABC placed the order for the final nine episodes needed for No Ordinary Family which just tells me that no one has any sense any more when watching TV or producing it.
This past weekend I watched the first four episodes as they were on my TiVo from my dad recording them. I’d watched everything else, and even though I had planned to skip this show, I gave it a try out of boredom.
… I wish I had remained bored.
Things on this show just … happen. It wouldn’t be so bad if the writers weren’t obviously aware of this, but they instead insult the viewers by acknowledging it, and almost mocking it. A primary example of this is as Stephanie Powell (Julia Benz) is testing out her recently acquired super speed by having her lab assistant use a speed gun on her. As she runs around a horse track at crazy speeds, the assistant keeps shouting out, “How are your clothes not burning off? Are you generating some-random-word force field around you that protects them?” She finally dismisses her own questions and just decides to accept it.
Well, isn’t that just handy? They acknowledge that in theory her clothes should burn off, but obviously that isn’t going to happen since it’s a network show. Instead of just ignoring it and letting viewers wonder, they instead decide to point it out and essentially go, “Don’t ask, we don’t know.” Thanks for the insult.
This is just one example of the show doing this, but they’ve done it again and again. And don’t even get me started on the assistant district attorney who seems to have a bottomless well of money that he can just keep buying all sorts of tech equipment to help the family out. Because, as we all know, city government employees are rolling in cash.
So, yes, a full season of drivel has been ordered … and people wonder why people look down on the television medium.
It’s time for 
