I haven't watched it since the pilot (I've meant to, just no time), but I read somewhere that they're going to do a major revamp of the show to make it even *more* about their personal lives. Which does not bode well!
You put your finger on exactly why I found the pilot so boring, though. All of the characters seem to be simply out for themselves, so their conflicts don't raise the kind of moral dilemmas that I would be interested in. Whereas moral dilemmas were pretty much the entire *point* of LFN!
I do find it vastly amusing that this show is prompting you to talk about Paul in a (relatively) favorable light! I agree with you that his arc was very Lear-ian - including the ego, stupidity and blindness that led to his downfall. But he *did* genuinely seem to believe in his cause, no matter how wrongheaded some of his decisions were, and he was even willing to put himself at personal risk for that cause from time to time - which I can't imagine Percy ever doing.
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Date: 2010-10-22 08:37 pm (UTC)You put your finger on exactly why I found the pilot so boring, though. All of the characters seem to be simply out for themselves, so their conflicts don't raise the kind of moral dilemmas that I would be interested in. Whereas moral dilemmas were pretty much the entire *point* of LFN!
I do find it vastly amusing that this show is prompting you to talk about Paul in a (relatively) favorable light! I agree with you that his arc was very Lear-ian - including the ego, stupidity and blindness that led to his downfall. But he *did* genuinely seem to believe in his cause, no matter how wrongheaded some of his decisions were, and he was even willing to put himself at personal risk for that cause from time to time - which I can't imagine Percy ever doing.