It's tough to describe Touch without making it sound like crap. Basically, the whole point of the show is that a little boy named Jake, who has never spoken a single word in his life and doesn't make eye contact with anyone, can see patterns in numbers, and these patterns connect everyone in the world in some infinitesimal way.
The first season of the show mostly depended on showing these connections as Jake leads his father Martin (Kiefer Sutherland) through New York, following the patterns and connecting the red threads of life as needed. It's beautifully heartwarming and magical to see the intricate plotting of the show in action. Just watch a single episode from season one for proof.
While all this is going on, however, a Myth Arc is slowly being built, and it all has something to do with a massive corporation called AsterCorps, which seems to want to use Jake for its own unexplained purposes. This is further explored in the Darker And Edgier second season, which also introduces a Lone Wolf assassin named Guillermo who wants to kill anyone who sees the patterns - including Jake. All this serves as a great contrast to season one, and while it may be accused of They Changed It Now It Sucks, the higher action doesn't harm the show in any way.
Perhaps, had viewers (and of course Fox) been kinder to this show, the mythologies would continue to be explored, more connections untangled and unfolded like the flowers and other odd geometric shapes seen in the show's title sequence. Sadly, it was canceled after only two seasons. At least there was no massive cliffhanger involved, although it is clear that Tim Kring wrote the finale as if there was still a slight chance at a season three.
Now that the show has ended, I'm gonna miss it very much. It had so much potential and now, like so many other great genre shows, it's dead.
Great show, gone too soon.
It's tough to describe Touch without making it sound like crap. Basically, the whole point of the show is that a little boy named Jake, who has never spoken a single word in his life and doesn't make eye contact with anyone, can see patterns in numbers, and these patterns connect everyone in the world in some infinitesimal way.
The first season of the show mostly depended on showing these connections as Jake leads his father Martin (Kiefer Sutherland) through New York, following the patterns and connecting the red threads of life as needed. It's beautifully heartwarming and magical to see the intricate plotting of the show in action. Just watch a single episode from season one for proof.
While all this is going on, however, a Myth Arc is slowly being built, and it all has something to do with a massive corporation called AsterCorps, which seems to want to use Jake for its own unexplained purposes. This is further explored in the Darker And Edgier second season, which also introduces a Lone Wolf assassin named Guillermo who wants to kill anyone who sees the patterns - including Jake. All this serves as a great contrast to season one, and while it may be accused of They Changed It Now It Sucks, the higher action doesn't harm the show in any way.
Perhaps, had viewers (and of course Fox) been kinder to this show, the mythologies would continue to be explored, more connections untangled and unfolded like the flowers and other odd geometric shapes seen in the show's title sequence. Sadly, it was canceled after only two seasons. At least there was no massive cliffhanger involved, although it is clear that Tim Kring wrote the finale as if there was still a slight chance at a season three.
Now that the show has ended, I'm gonna miss it very much. It had so much potential and now, like so many other great genre shows, it's dead.