I'm sorry to sound like a broken record here, but again, the show is really dragging. We got a little excitement this issue with the firefight between our antagonist and our team of "good guys". Basically, we have a "neuro" that can see the future. So, on one hand he's living this nightmarish existence because he sees all this pain and conflict. He tries to help and warn people, but nobody wants to listen to him. And it just keeps happening to him over, and over, and over. On the other hand he feels like he can't live without his gift. It makes him special. It makes him feel larger than himself. So when Jane offers to help him get out of this cycle of pain and conflict, he denys her flatly because, as I said, he also can't live without his gift. Anyways, they're brought in to conflict when he gets a vision of himself killing off her team, and then Jane shooting him " . . in front of the orange door". From then on, basically, everything that either side of this conflict does, leads directly to the aforementioned premonition. I really want to like this series. I really, really do. I think Kristanna Loken is hot as hell. But it's not a "super-model" type hot. It's like a "biker-chick, bad-ass, tom-girl, who happens to be hot" type of hot. I'm not saying that's her style in "real-life", but that's how she's portrayed on the show. And that part of the show works. The rest of the characters though . . . . forgettable. In the books, it works with just her best friend and occasionally her doctor. And she has a gift. In the series we don't get to see enough of it. In the book she's not a refined detective or investigator. More often than not, it's her recklessness and self-endangerment that helps her break the case she's working on. Also, she doesn't really do cases in the book. It's more like she gets stuck in the middle of these situations, and then she ends up helping someone, or trying to figure something out, just to get past it. Almost like she's a "weird magnet". But we get none of that in the series. Yes she's a great character. But you can't just take the person and the "gift" without the rest of it. Well . . . you can, but then you end up with the flat stories like we've been getting. If you want to do a show about a secret Govt. team that hunts down these "neuros", then fine. What do you need Jane for that for? It would work just as fine without her. Put her in her own series, with her own stories and with her own character. Because her character is lost in this setting.
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