Ahead of its June 2 Series Premiere, ABC Family has made the full first episode of it's new drama Stitchers available to watch online. Watch the episode below.
Stitchers - Episode 1.01 - A Stitch in Time - Full Episode Available to Watch + POLL
May 18, 2015
StitchersAhead of its June 2 Series Premiere, ABC Family has made the full first episode of it's new drama Stitchers available to watch online. Watch the episode below.
Watching mostly for Allison.
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ReplyDeleteThat was much better than I was expecting, I really enjoyed it. This is one is definitely a keeper for me :)
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ReplyDeleteDefinitely watching it, looks really good. BUT since it's a sci-fi/supernatural show i'm not getting my hopes up for it to last. Allison accepted the news of Stitching pretty fast, but cool to just get it out of the way.
ReplyDeleteI emailed them, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI'll watch this on the 20th, when they put it up on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon. Glad to see people seem to enjoy it though.
ReplyDeleteOmg I'm already shipping them lol.
ReplyDeleteSame, ha! she's nerdy too that was a surprise LOL
ReplyDeleteSurprised me. I want more. Stitchers is a HIT to me.
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They're both nerdy and I thought I wasn't going to like the girl but she was actually good in the role.
ReplyDeleteYeah she was, like you said it was hard to know if she was good, she's pretty much new so. Especially with her character's condition it's pretty hard to make that likeable but she did it, and that's a CRAZY condition.
ReplyDeleteYeah ive never heard of that before still dont know why its important to stitching lol.
ReplyDeleteMaybe because it's a limited procedure and she has no concept of time, what takes them an hour it takes her a minute. Because they said they can only stitch someone for a short time until they can't do it anymore so maybe that's why it's important?
ReplyDeleteTime doesn't affect her like other people and since they're going into someone's memories, maybe people with time perception end up mixing their own memories with the ones they uncover? And maybe being unable to feel anything her Whole life makes her less likely to be overwhelmed. If the person being stitched has lived through the emotions she is confronted by under stitching, maybe it triggers their own memories and screw with the process.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she percieves it faster. I think she doesn't perceive it at all. It's not like she goes through life any faster than any other person. she just wouldn't care or notice how long it took her. And then she'd never forget a moment of it.
ReplyDeleteIt was okay.... I liked it more than I thought I would.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't a huge fan of Krysten though (the actress or the character) and I think the guy playing Cameron is overdoing the nerdy-neurotic stereotype, but the rest of it was pretty decent... I'll definitely give it a couple more episodes.
Stitchers was terrible. It's so terrible that it's kind of fascinating. Spoilers below.
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An emotionless shrew of a college student, Kirsten, is recruited by a clandestine government program ("NSA-ish", that's actually how they explain it) to "stitch" a dead man's mind into her consciousness in order to obtain clues about a rash of bombings.
Characters:
Kirsten - She suffers from a (completely made up) disorder called "temporal dysplasia." She is also lacks the natural ability to recognize emotion (learned w/ flashcards) or experience emotion on her own. The info on the emotions would have been nice to know at the beginning of the episode instead of the end. We're left our own to wonder why she's so horrible throughout the entire episode.
Cameron - Works at Stitchers HQ. he's a plain, semi-nerdy, nondescript potential love interest.
Maggie - Stitchers boss. She's basically an amalgamation of everyone's procedural cop show boss. Yawn.
Alex - Stitchers techie. He gets few lines in the episode. I expect no different moving forward.
Camille - Kirsten's former roommate and inexplicable house stealer. Spends almost all of her screen time trading monotonous bitchy barbs with Kirsten.
Det. Fisher - Run of the mill, fly in the ointment character. If you remember DC detective Rossabi from Covert Affairs it's almost the exact same character.
All of these characters seem like they're in a fast-talking snark contest (like a parody of 1940's film noir dialogue only modernized) for the bulk of their screen time and they also seem to simply spit their lines out at each other rather than having a conversation. They also talk in very similar tones for long stretches, making entire conversations seem like white noise. Maybe this could be overlooked on another show but on this one (where almost every character is unlikable) there's no chance to focus on the positives.
Odds and ends that make no sense:
- The choice of cold open was bad. They throw you into the middle of the episode in a flash forward that leaves you scratching your head. Not in a good way, I assure you.
- Camille kicking Kirsten out of her own house without a fight all because she threatened a lawsuit is maybe the most nonsensical thing I've seen on TV in quite some time.
- Why did the script have the detective badgering Kirsten about her relationship with her foster dad when he ruled the death a suicide and he knows Kirsten has an alibi? That line of questioning also makes no sense.
- The super-secret NSA-ish clandestine project (that is already being threatened with having their funding pulled?) lets the girl they just hired basically run an investigation and ignore orders without any consequence or oversight besides sending Cameron after her? C'mon. Really?
I could go on but it's exhausting rehashing how insane this show is.
You were much, much more lenient on this show than I was.
ReplyDeleteLOL! I noticed...
ReplyDeleteI'm telling you man, sometimes lowering your expectations all the way down to the gutter helps...
Heh. They were pretty low to begin with. I was being honest though when I said this show was fascinating to me. I know ironic viewership is looked upon as hipster douche behavior but I can't help myself. I need to keep watching to see if it can get worse.
ReplyDeleteAll of these characters seem like they're in a fast-talking snark
ReplyDeletecontest (like a parody of 1940's film noir dialogue only modernized) for
the bulk of their screen time and they also seem to simply spit their
lines out at each other rather than having a conversation. They also
talk in very similar tones for long stretches, making entire
conversations seem like white noise. Maybe this could be overlooked on
another show but on this one (where almost every character is unlikable)
there's no chance to focus on the positives.
OH THANK GOD! I thought I was alone! It was like somebody was doing a bad
exercise on writing Amy Sherman-Palladino dialogue... And thank you for
pointing out that EVERY-SINGLE-CHARACTER speaks the same way! There was
zero variety in voices, characters and tone...
So in the end my point is... It's not that I disagree with what you're saying, because I don't... I'm right there with you on pretty much every single point actually...
Buuuuut:
- I'm still kinda liking the premise of the poking in dead people's consciousnesses. So that bit works for me.
- And really, I am factoring in that this is an ABC family hour-long show we're talking about.
Unless it's rom-com traditional sitcoms (which is a venue the network has actually been doing pretty well, I have to admitt) I expect the quality to be low across the board.
So I'm willing to sit through maybe one or two more episodes to see if it gets any better. But I doubt it will, in fact my money is on "It'll get worse".
And in the off chance it does improve, I doubt that even then will be appointment TV for me.
Personally I'd rather drop a show than hate watch, but I do understand the fascination of "the train wreck" phenomenon...
ReplyDeleteNo no no. I'm not hate watching. Usually hate watching is for shows that you start out genuinely liking and then the quality bottoms out but you keep watching because you can't seem to give up on it in spite of severe dissatisfaction.
ReplyDeleteI have no animosity toward Stitchers and I have no expectations either. I'm genuinely interested in the dubious decisions made both in front of and behind the camera. I will continue to watch for a while to see if I can keep enjoying the show on that basis. If I can't even do that anymore then I'll drop it.
I should clarify that I have no problem with the premise of the show. It's the details and the execution that baffle me. This show needs a "common sense and logic script editor" to approve scripts before they're filmed.
ReplyDeleteI think one script editor won't do the trick.
ReplyDeleteI believe the show needs a whole new set of writers.... Throw whoever wrote that pilot off the train, keep his premise and try to move on from there...
I'm on board with that idea.
ReplyDeletewith it being Sci-fi alone I'm already in, and on top of that it was fun cast. 2 familiar girls from past favorite sci-fi shows.
ReplyDeleteI liked Kirsten's personality- In tv I like it when people are different.
hope Camille joins the team so we can see more of her.
Watched the first episode (and yey, no generic title of a "Pilot") and I like it. To really enjoy the show, you just need to have some level of suspended disbelief and I think they were able to achieve a potentially strong premise as the show moves forward.
ReplyDeleteBy the sound of the comments, I thought it was really that bad but turns out, it really wasn't.
Alison actually revealed a HUGE twist with her character.
ReplyDeleteI hated Cameron. It was interesting until he appeared. He and Kirsten had just met and interacted as though they knew and had been annoyed by all of each other's faults for a long time. It was totally unrealistic. He has an annoying voice, he doesn't look like someone who would be in his job, and he acted like he was trying and failing to be Topher from Dollhouse, who was *such* a better character.
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