Annoyingly improbable, yet.....
This is one of those TV shows that I find absolutely maddening.Within the first 10 minutes of the program you're already pulling your hair out because it's all so hokey, but you find yourself watching the whole thing from beginning to end.Most everyone here who has posted comments on this show have mentioned "The Pretender," but the first show that leapt into my head when I discovered the premise of "John Doe" was "Quantum Leap," and following that, good old let's-build-an-atomic-bomb-with-a-paper-clip-and-a-wad-of-chewing-gum favorite, "MacGyver."Maybe I have been spoiled to death with good old 2 hour fingernail-chewer movies with twists and turns in the plot that still leave me scratching my head at the end.It's hard for me to compact everything into an hour long show, complete with commercial breaks.
I can't help wondering when the wonderful folks who bring us these shows will absolutely slam up against a wall when it comes to new plots for TV shows.But until that happens, am I the only one who notices that the new shows out now are conglomerations of past shows?Not necessarily a progression *past* the old shows into new territories, but simply a goulash all mixed together."John Doe" struck me as not entirely without merit, but simply a little bit of this and that and the other, all stuck together with a new "premise."The amnesia of "The Pretender," the knowing-who-he-was-but-never-knowing-where-he'd-land-next of "Quantum Leap," the ingenuity of "MacGyver" or even the unintentional knowledge of "Rain Man," and as long as we're going this far back, what is more fascinating than the man with no name or past?I'm even hearing the theme from "Kung Fu" in my head.The wandering hero reappears!
I realize this little review of mine does not seem very favorable.I actually got a few more laughs out of this show than I'm sure were intended. I watched the episode on 6 December 2002 that took place on an airplane, and it ended with our hero kissing the fair maiden, and all I could do was hoot out loud, much to the dismay of my spouse, when I declared, "Ewww, who'd want to kiss him?You don't know where he's been!!"
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Eyes_of_Emerald 6 December 2002
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0876626/15072
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