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From: Quiksilver
, 283 months, post #1 |
Good Episode, too short though... only 30min long. not much to be
said of the acting since it was so short, not much time to
establish what they could do in each other's bodies. One good spot
was when the rockstar as the girl showed her breasts to a security
guard to get up to a penthouse suite. as he walks away and closes
his blouse, he says "nice? arent they?"
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From: c jones
, 283 months, post #2 |
Now that I see it i am disappointed. So much more could have been
done. the scene in the elevator was the best scene, and the only
one dealing with a new body physically.
The story was predictable. The ending was also predictable. Good
acting from the leads, though. Neither character was presented as
likeable, but the girl was worse, a fanatic who planned murder when
the switch occurred. The story seemed to favor the girl far too
much. They tried to be cute with the ending instead of meting out
true justice.
Try imagining the ending like this instead. The rock star in the
girl's body uses his stage training to become a star again,
becoming a better woman than he was a man along the way. Maybe they
just ran out of time at 30 minutes.
I rate the tg as minimal since it was acted that way. I will note
that the swap lasts thru about half the show, though.
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From: Dale Ribbons
, 283 months, post #3 |
In his review, c.jones missed a very important plot point: The rock
star RAPED the female character! This gives a girl a reason to want
to kill him, even if it is the wrong thing to do. It also gives the
ending a true sense of justice. The rock star got what he deserved,
and the girl didn't have to resort to murder. As far as the writers
playing it cute, I have to agree. That's one of the basic problems
with the show in general, not just this episode. Still, this
episode is one of the best of the series, in my opinion.
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From: Corwin
, 278 months, post #4 |
Ho hum. What a letdown.
Virtually no acknowledgement by either character about having
swapped sexes.
Instead, the rock star, who's spent a lifetime as a man and is
suddenly a teenage girl, gets all worked up about...
MONEY! As in "Give me my body back... and stop giving away my
money!"
Huh?
This, even though the story takes place over at least a couple of
days, certainly adequate time for the two of them to experience
living in a completely different world from what they were used to.
Likewise the fan, a starstruck young woman who's now become a hyper
testosteronic male rock star, merely makes a point of:
...acting like a bigger jerk than the guy himself had been.
...messing up a big concert by condemning all those hokey rock and
roll cliches that, only a few minutes earler, had seemed sooooo
touching!
...chasing away a groupie with a maudlin speech.
...and giving away the guy's money!
And as if all that weren't ridiculous enough,
(SPOILER!)
we wrap up with an incredibly contrived twist as they swap back
just in time (and we're talking a matter of seconds) for the fan to
frame the rock star for rape! Okay, we can chalk that up to Karma
and, I guess, just ignore the fact that, by then, BOTH of them had
provided the rock star's manager with ample clues that something
strange had happened and things were not as they seemed.
This one was extra disappointing for its violation of the hitherto
relentlessly edgy, clever and dark spirit of "Strange Frequency,"
which usually never hesitated to sweep innocent and guilty alike
into the maelstrom of rock's dark side.
Perhaps if, say, once the shoe were on the other foot, the
disillusioned fan had found the star's glittery, indulgent, corrupt
world too seductive to resist, we might have been off and running
into something interesting. Instead, we got a slightly twisted
After School Special.
Yes, justice was done; Karma was balanced; and in the end, the
creep got his.
But with such anemic execution, ultimately the best part of this
episode was Roger Daltrey's rock-star-as-Rod-Serling/voice of
wisdom opening monologue on the mind of the groupie:
"If you (the fan) could spend just a few minutes with him (the rock
star), you just know he'd 'get' you the way you 'get' him.
...and surely nothing good can come of that."
A promising start, but a promise unfulfilled.
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From: guest (seamus)
, 231 months, post #5 |
Well I for one thought this episode was awesome.. Lindsay Sloane is
Valerie from Sabrina the teenage witch for those who didnt know.
Acting was spot on, and a good revenge story with a tg element. I
enjoyed it if no one else. Infact- the whole film was great in my
opinion, if not just for TG. In the first installment in the film,
Spike (James Marsters) from Buffy plays a roadie who finds a piece
of music,...
SPOILERS!
plays it, the devil appears to make him famous, and kills him by
making him play his guitar till his fingers bleed- and eventually
leads to his death. Highly enjoyable.. And as i say the whole film
gets top marks in my vote.
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