Where force fails, cunning prevails
...Alright, I honestly hope she was kidnapped as a kid because that sounds fucking hilarious. It's like the home alone of kidnapping!
And there's a quote from this book on character sympathy I have which feels so relevant here.
"Too many difficulties, past or present, make it harder and harder for the reader to sympathize with our character. She begin to feel less like a real person and more like a laundry list of problems. To borrow an analogy from socioeconomics, if you had one bee sting, you would most certainly take care of it. But if you had six or ten or twenty bee stings, fixing just one of them isn’t going to make a big difference in your overall pain level. Likewise, if your character’s got ninety-nine problems, readers care less and less about resolving one."
edited 16th Jan '17 12:08:37 AM by Prime_of_Perfection
Improving as an author, one video at a time.
10 percenter here, hopefully we get a full season to see where it goes, unlike some other NBC shows...
Actually going by the trailer the story goes thus: Bryan as a regular dude loses his sister/wife/whathaveyou in a train shoot-out, during which he goddamn bulldozes through the robbers. So this convinces some shadowy organization to recruit him for a team specifically geared at rescuing people who have been "taken" (i.e kidnapped).
It's a slight retcon of his original implied profession (the first movie strongly hints he was a sort of black-ops assassin) but it's doable and it explains how he knew down to a minute what the kidnappers would do in the original.
As for me, the fun of Taken was that he was an aging father as an action hero (before this trend of "old Retired Badass" became commonplace in modern day action heroes). Make him young and childrenless and he's just a generic by-the-numbers action hero. Which is exactly the show's issue.
edited 16th Jan '17 6:54:24 PM by Gaon
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is on the verge of a great collapse today
The first one was pretty decent but it went downhill fast.
What IS with all these TV reboots of kinda average/ok-ish movies? I mean, it worked wonders for Westworld but was anyone really pining for a TV version of Rush Hour or Limitless?
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Followed by Bates Motel, Lethal Weapon (2016), Hannibal, Fargo along with Limitless (soft continuation) gaining varying degrees of good press.
Though, that's not to say that Taken 2017 is going to join that list.
edited 25th Feb '17 4:43:03 PM by XMenMutant22
I haven't watched Bates Motel or Hannibal yet, didn't know about Lethal Weapon, and only recently learned that Limitless the Series was actually a continuation - and I liked that movie so, yeah, going to watch that soon.
There's actually been a couple of unprecedented TV remakes that have been okay to decent.
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As one of the 10 percent who liked the first two Takens... I'm not really sure how to feel. What with Limitless the Series, Emerald City, Riverdale, and Powerless coming out I suppose it's not the craziest idea for a television series.
From what I gather, Bryan is looking for
ShannonKim. So that means his daughter was kidnapped during childhood as well. Or maybe it's somebody else's daughter. Either way being kidnapped seems to be a gene in this family.edited 15th Jan '17 9:27:31 PM by Soble
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