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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 2, 2004 11:11:45 GMT -5
ok Jenn ur gonna hate me for this, but i may not even see the eps of Tru i rented, all of a sudden i'm tired of it or something lol and thats odd cuz i've only seen 1 ep on the dvd so fara nd on ep 2 now, whcih i have never seen, i think its just tv. i need a break from tv, well other than Smallville and Lost, i need a break. this includes Buffy/Angel as well, i need to concentrate on mnovies more, so i may send Tru back and rent it later, i know i'm so awful huh lol.
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Post by xander1girl on Dec 2, 2004 14:00:08 GMT -5
Booo you suck!
You already rented it why not watch it?
Your so wierd...
what am I going to do with you Luc?
*Shakes head*
Im so dissapointed.
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 2, 2004 19:36:16 GMT -5
sorry Jenn, i was just being my weird self lol, yah i am gonna watch them all, i guess this morning i just felt like i was bored lol, but anyways, different frame of mind. ![:)](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/ihateavril2woohoo/Soulless%20Mates/smilies/happy.gif) anyways disc 2 came today, so ihave a lot of eps to see still, plus the rest of Ju-On.
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Post by xander1girl on Dec 2, 2004 21:04:52 GMT -5
Yea its totally worth seeing. If you rent em and dnt watch emm I'll have to come there and beat you up! I wnt get to see em again till (HOPEFULLY) Christmas, if not that shortly after when I buy them myself ![:P](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/ihateavril2woohoo/Soulless%20Mates/smilies/tongue.gif)
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 2, 2004 21:31:45 GMT -5
yeah well, i love how its in widescreen, its funny how so many shows aren't wide on tv but on dvd are. i hear Lost is gonna be wide in its dvd format too, i love widescreen, actually Buffy seems to be one of the few recent sci fi shows that isn't wide.
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Post by xander1girl on Dec 3, 2004 12:46:57 GMT -5
Yea Joss wanted it that way. With the season 4 DVDS theres a letter from Joss (Typed of course) that states Buffy wont be seen in widescreen because thats not how it was taped or meant to be seen...I have the letter deal somewhere..If I can find it I'll scan it to my comp to show you. But yea Joss said Buffy wouldnt be seen in widescreen..oviously cept for OMWF, which was widescreen lol..ok im rambling now..
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 3, 2004 13:16:53 GMT -5
well at the time i wondered why he said that, cuz i was like well the show was never wide on tv save for OMWF, so why would anyone expect the dvds to be wide? see i had only seen some shows on dvd at that time, and none were wide but now i see most of them are, at least sci fi shows, even if they wre full on tv they're wide now. so now i can see why he did that, its odd how some shows are wide on dvd but not on tv, like Firefly or Smallville, yet shows like A ngel was wide on tv as well. and Smallville only just now went wide on The WB, yet all the dvds showed it that way from ep 1. anyways i prefer wide, its the only way to go, at lesat for movies, and on tv its great too, gives it more scope and depth.
and yea thats cool if u find that article, but i wish u found ur Buffy poem, i still wanna see that lol. man i remember when i almost did my own Summers Angel or something.
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 3, 2004 18:02:47 GMT -5
ok i just saw Putting Out Fires, man that ep is so sad at the end, i wanna shout noooooooooo lol. sure u know what i mean Jenn, i can't believe she couldn't save the guy, but at least the kid was ok, still with the sad though, cuz he was such a nice guy.
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 3, 2004 18:09:37 GMT -5
ok over at tvtome.com they have a couple new articles with Eliza, one is a video of her talking about what would have happened in season 2, and the other is about her guesting on That 70's Show. and it seems that Tru is cancelled. ![:(](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/ihateavril2woohoo/Soulless%20Mates/smilies/sad.gif) anyways here's the link for the vid and the articles and stuff. www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-17237/
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 5, 2004 17:13:30 GMT -5
from buffy.nu
Eliza Dushku - Tru Calling Season 1 DVD - Ign.com Review From Dvd.ign.com - By Tom McNamara - 2004-12-4th
Tru Calling: Season One
Someday, shows like this won’t get canned.
December 03, 2004 - Years ago, an ex-girlfriend dragged me into the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, which featured the lovely Eliza Dushku as a slayer who’d taken the path of evil. She kinda disappeared, though, and started a movie career that couldn’t develop much steam.
It was too bad, because she was talented, poised, and very likeable. Thankfully, she managed to grab the lead role in Tru Calling, where she plays a med student interning in a morgue. Oh, and dead people talk to her.
Yeah, there’s a strong The Sixth Sense vibe here, with a side of Early Edition, and Quantum Leap for dessert. But the show will surprise you in a few ways. The set is also packed with some nice extras, featuring bunches of deleted scenes, a few featurettes, a music video of the title theme, and of course commentary tracks with the executive producer, Dushku and Shawn Reaves, who plays Tru’s brother Harrison.
For those of you who never picked up on the show, here’s the rundown: a body comes into the morgue, opens its eyes at one point, says something along the lines of "Help me," and Tru Davies rewinds right there to the previous day. She works the night shift, so the whole day gets rewound, and it’s her job to pick up the clues and prevent the victim’s death.
I won’t say that the show is particularly innovative. In addition to drawing liberally from the above inspirations, it combines the classic WB-style teen drama, only a little more mature, since Tru is post-college at 23 years old. But I am grateful that I don’t have to slog through episode after episode of the same formula.
You see, there are a couple things going on here. One, Tru’s family plays a large part of the show, and they have their own story arcs and problems through the span of the season. Harrison is an unstable gambler who’s protective of his older sister; their sister Meredith (Jessica Collins) is a coke-snorting executive; their father (the wonderfully subtle Cotter Smith) is distant and constantly disappointed by the children, who were all deeply affected by their mother’s murder ten years ago, which Tru witnessed while hiding in the closet. The show isn’t afraid to touch on fragile issues, like drug abuse, suicide, adultery, terminal illness, and of course, murder. And it’s not afraid to actually have subplots and to tell a story over the course of a season in easily syndicated nuggets.
Two, the "setup" doesn’t come within the first five to ten minutes. Take CSI, for example. You know what the problem is before you’ve even gotten comfortable on the sofa. The show hooks you in just enough at that point to get through the opening credits and commercial, then we’re on again.
Fox Home Entertainment How could you not want to watch this every week?
In Tru Calling, however, you can go fifteen to twenty minutes before Tru gets rewound to the previous day. You see, part of the appeal is showing how Tru deals with the problems the rewind has uncovered for her. She or someone else makes a mistake, the day rewinds, and she gets to fix little things that she remembers got screwed up before. So we go through after the rewind and chuckle to ourselves as Tru helps someone out without them being aware of what’s going on.
Unfortunately, by the time the rewind shocker finally swings around, it seems that most people have flipped the channel. Tru Calling is not being renewed for a second season, the producers have already reportedly moved onto other projects, and the sets have been dismantled. Six episodes were filmed for the following season, but it doesn’t sound like they’re ever going to see the light of day.
The cast was uniformly excellent, the season arc was compelling, the plot twists were great, and the overall substance of the show was quite rewarding in the face of all the dreck out there in TV Land. I do have to take points off for the size of Tru’s cavernous Boston apartment, though. (The show was shot in Vancouver, but I’ve never been to Boston, so it worked for me).
I think if the show had been smarter about pulling in the viewer hard and fast, it would have taken off. You may think that dead people talking to somebody is a little beyond your suspension of disbelief, but it’s handled well, and the supernatural elements remain tastefully restrained all the way to the finale.
Score: 9 out of 10
The Video
The way the cinematographer works with light and shadow is something that takes several episodes to set in, and the DVD transfer does an excellent job of preserving this softly moody artistic direction. The camera also loves Eliza Dushku and makes the most of her looks without exploiting them. The set comes in widescreen, with small black bars on the bottom and top of a standard TV screen. I didn’t notice any artifacts or other glitches.
Score: 9 out of 10 Fox Home Entertainment What’s going on in the background?
The Audio
Sadly, Tru Calling doesn’t get the 5.1 treatment, but Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround is in full effect, and the mix is solid throughout.
Score: 7 out of 10
The Extras
To be honest, the overwhelming majority of the deleted scenes are brief, usually no more than thirty seconds or so, and the commentary can be boiled down to the scene not being necessary to the narrative. However, the most powerful episode of the season, Daddy’s Girl, gets five extensive scenes featuring a subplot that was completely omitted from the final cut, and they really add to the texture of both the episode and the characters. Fans of the show should get some satisfying insights.
The featurettes are generally uneven and probably could have been rolled into one segment without losing much of the actual content. It’s great to hear the cast and crew talk about their involvement, but I felt there was some significant overlap in what they had to say. It’s also a bit sad to hear them talking about the next season and what they have up their sleeves.
About half of the episodes feature commentary, and about three-fourths have some deleted scenes to sift through.
Score: 8 out of 10
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Post by Skinwalker on Dec 5, 2004 17:17:43 GMT -5
oh and here's a pic for u, Jenn. ![:P](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/ihateavril2woohoo/Soulless%20Mates/smilies/tongue.gif) ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/american_werewolf/eliza-dushku-motorola-6th-anniversary-party-09-0750.jpg)
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Post by xander1girl on Feb 23, 2005 22:14:56 GMT -5
LUC!! I hope you come see this...I was on the fox website cuz someone siad Tru was on the scedule...its not BUT I went to the "ASk fox" section and there was this posted there:
Where is "TRU CALLING" - when will the show be back on the air? ANSWER: TRU CALLING will return to the schedule with ALL-NEW episodes sometime in 2005!! I hope those fuckers stick to their word..I'll cry tears of joy man.....BRING BACK TRU!!!
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Post by Skinwalker on Feb 24, 2005 12:24:46 GMT -5
wow, thanx for posting that Jenn. i hope thats true, but not gonna get my hopes up though, but i guess they will sometime this yr air the last 6 eps, and if they don't film any more, they need to do a special finale ep too maybe, i wish they did a whole season though, that would rock, like the original plan. grrrrr, but i hope they do show those 6 ones at least, and soon.
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Post by xander1girl on Feb 24, 2005 13:40:48 GMT -5
6 I was told there were 12...
And yea Im not getting my hopes up because FOx are a buncha Aholes.....but yea itd be cool to see those eps...*Sighs* I miss Tru.....
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Post by Skinwalker on Feb 24, 2005 14:28:15 GMT -5
well maybe now its 12, but yeah way back when they were talking about the eps they had made, it was only 6. anyways did u get Tru on dvd yet?
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