Century City
So as I was channel surfing tonight (after a rousing run at Jak and Daxter), I suddenly see Horatio Hornblower talking to a bad hologram of the Psychologist from Law & Order. Not something I expected to see...
Apparently this new show takes place about 35 years in the future when all sorts of new advances in genetics, and this show is about a law firm in that time. Imagine "LA Law" with really bad futuristic clothing or "The Practice" with holograms.
The big case tonight involved a guy who had cloned himself in Singapore years before, then did it again when his son/brother clone needed a liver transplant. Turns out the feds have a law against that, and arrested the guy and wanted to destroy the embryo. Of course since the States Attorney was going to lose either way ("You win the kid dies, you lose and you set precedent") so they settled and let the guy run off with his son/brother clone to get his liver fixed.
Either way, the show has an interesting premise (and using one of the guys from Stargate SG-1 was a nice touch) and might be worth watching again. Unfortunately, the show airs on regular TV and I can't Tivo it. Seeing as how it's just showing up in March, my guess is that CBS doesn't have any faith in the program and will pull it soon for "Survivor: Fort Wayne Nightlife".
Comments
It's just showing up in March for a good reason... three words "mid season replacement". Lots of shows start their life that way (Buffy, for example)
I liked it... the general concept is interesting, and it has a lot of potential for doing things like "showing the potentially very different from what is expected outcome of laws we're passing today".
Posted by: Derek | March 16, 2004 10:38 PM