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BobA:
Little slow starting but Summer Glau in a miniskirt and working with computers.   It looks interesting for a super hero series.

crashwg:
I was looking forward to this one since I started seeing previews.  The premier was a complete letdown in my opinion.  Acting was corny and overdone and not in a good, funny way.  Flashbacks to ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- that happened in the episode you're currently watching is retarded.  Couldn't connect with any of the characters.  Yea... I probably won't watch another.

BobA:
Have to agree about the flashbacks.  I think they were just in there to increase the time of the first episode to 2 hours.

Howard_Casto:
I think it was just awful.  I concerned though that crash couldn't tell it woudl be awful from the previews though.  I was expecting it to be terrible, but a grossely UNDERESTIMATED how terrible it could be.  Acting was terrible, SFX were terrible (they used the same puff of smoke cgi, for every single disappearance and the chains in the underwater scene, as well as the cape itself were clearly cgi), and plot was predictable and cheesier than the lamest 60's comic book.  When the villian that ties you up calls himself "Chess" and has chess piece contacts in (one of which was crooked but nobody bothered to tell the actor to fix it) you know you are in for a ride in crap.

That being said, there are some good points to the series that might be enough to save it:

1.  Summer Glau.. not only is she pretty, but she has a habit of making lame shows less lame just by showing up... of course this will be her first role that features a character with actual, normal emotions, so we'll see.

2.  Keith David... one of the best voice actors in the business.  Right up there with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen.  It's really odd to actually see him though.

3.  A midget... err a little person! 

4.  The show isn't afraid to have comic book style villians.  Of course this is also what makes the show cheesey

So this might be one ot those train wrecks I have to follow to the end.  We'll see... many a good show started with a god-awful pilot.

drventure:
Gotta say, I agree with Howard on it. Hopefully, they can get into a better groove in a few episodes, but it's stepped way into the "cheesy without intentionally meaning to be so" territory, which is a bad sign.

+1 for Glau though.

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