Fades episode one - review type thing
Sep. 22nd, 2011 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_sunJust watched Fades (BBC3 new supernatural type thingy) and it was pretty good. Tone wise it felt a bit like a cross between some of the early episodes of Supernatural (I kept thinking the one with the old haunted hospital/asylum) and Being Human.
It looks like being one continuous story over the six episodes of the series, rather than each episode being a self contained story. It looks like it should be able to carry a storyline over the six episodes as episode one left pretty much only questions about what is going on.
The title sequence is good, if rather spooky in places. The special effects are in generally good. It's not particularly specially effect heavy, a lot of it probably is more make up and lighting, but there's no rubber masked monsters or dodgy CGI creatures here.
The opening scenes in the derelict shopping centre and the fleeting glimpes of the Fade are well done, and there's the sense of antiscipation of knowing that you are going to see something scary.(And the Fade when you do see it doesn't disappoint.)
Paul and Mac's conversations are good, and they do come across as friends, despite the differences of opinion they sometimes have in the episode. Mac's film related geekiness is good too.
The teacher who didn't know his now missing ex-wife, Sarah, was somebody who hunted down ghosts (although it's not explained in the episode what Neil and Sarah did if they found them.) seems fairly likeable.
The bit with Helen and Neil in the caravan/shack with the eye, well if you don't like things about things happening to eyes you might want to skip that bit.
I'm hoping, despite the end of episode one, that Helen will be around for more of the series, as she did seem pretty cool. I mean how many house breaking, gun toting, possibly magically lady vicars are on TV?
The fact that they didn't play up any specific religious aspect to the whole ghosts/spirits trapped on Earth, and avoided the whole Heaven and Hell thing is something that I like - its been done on too many other shows before, and a new show needs to have something new. If they can make it to the end of the series with avoiding the whole 'church good/church bad' thing seems to usually happen in this sort of show I'll be very pleased.
So I'm looking forward to next weeks episode, as I really don't know where they are going with this one, but it looks like being an interesting ride.
It looks like being one continuous story over the six episodes of the series, rather than each episode being a self contained story. It looks like it should be able to carry a storyline over the six episodes as episode one left pretty much only questions about what is going on.
The title sequence is good, if rather spooky in places. The special effects are in generally good. It's not particularly specially effect heavy, a lot of it probably is more make up and lighting, but there's no rubber masked monsters or dodgy CGI creatures here.
The opening scenes in the derelict shopping centre and the fleeting glimpes of the Fade are well done, and there's the sense of antiscipation of knowing that you are going to see something scary.(And the Fade when you do see it doesn't disappoint.)
Paul and Mac's conversations are good, and they do come across as friends, despite the differences of opinion they sometimes have in the episode. Mac's film related geekiness is good too.
The teacher who didn't know his now missing ex-wife, Sarah, was somebody who hunted down ghosts (although it's not explained in the episode what Neil and Sarah did if they found them.) seems fairly likeable.
The bit with Helen and Neil in the caravan/shack with the eye, well if you don't like things about things happening to eyes you might want to skip that bit.
I'm hoping, despite the end of episode one, that Helen will be around for more of the series, as she did seem pretty cool. I mean how many house breaking, gun toting, possibly magically lady vicars are on TV?
The fact that they didn't play up any specific religious aspect to the whole ghosts/spirits trapped on Earth, and avoided the whole Heaven and Hell thing is something that I like - its been done on too many other shows before, and a new show needs to have something new. If they can make it to the end of the series with avoiding the whole 'church good/church bad' thing seems to usually happen in this sort of show I'll be very pleased.
So I'm looking forward to next weeks episode, as I really don't know where they are going with this one, but it looks like being an interesting ride.