By which I mean the old TV show. The basics are the same, although you've got the Seven dropped into it. So Vin loves fall in love with the wife of the head homestead, Buck and Ezra try to get an attractive widow by trying to make friends with her bratty son, the Chris/Mary sorta-relationship drags on.
There are good parts. I like Bruce McGill's Dicky O'Shea, who seems bound and determined not to get anyone killed and disdaining his dead father while trying to triumph. Ron Perlman, who has a brief bit with endearing the bratty kid (and thus his mother) to him by lecturing the boy on going to Hell for his ways. And minor actor Tim DeZarn, who dances and sings while setting explosives. Even Ezra gets something to do, which isn't always the case except provide comic relief.
There are some minor bits that are kind of irritating, particularly since it's a two-parter. It looks like Nathan is actually going to have a subplot, with losing a patient and having a crisis of faith. But that's quickly overcome by the end of the episode. Robert Vaughn as Oren doesn't have much to do. Bringing him in for the pre-credits intro seems like a waste of the character, and Vaughn's talents. And like I said, the Chris/Mary romance is past it's sell-by points. I suppose given it's a regular TV series, they can't together. But the "will they/won't they?" routine is a bit old when if it can't get resolved.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
There are good parts. I like Bruce McGill's Dicky O'Shea, who seems bound and determined not to get anyone killed and disdaining his dead father while trying to triumph. Ron Perlman, who has a brief bit with endearing the bratty kid (and thus his mother) to him by lecturing the boy on going to Hell for his ways. And minor actor Tim DeZarn, who dances and sings while setting explosives. Even Ezra gets something to do, which isn't always the case except provide comic relief.
There are some minor bits that are kind of irritating, particularly since it's a two-parter. It looks like Nathan is actually going to have a subplot, with losing a patient and having a crisis of faith. But that's quickly overcome by the end of the episode. Robert Vaughn as Oren doesn't have much to do. Bringing him in for the pre-credits intro seems like a waste of the character, and Vaughn's talents. And like I said, the Chris/Mary romance is past it's sell-by points. I suppose given it's a regular TV series, they can't together. But the "will they/won't they?" routine is a bit old when if it can't get resolved.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
