Shadow and Flame with Magik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godsend_%28film%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_%28U.S._TV_series%29

I keep seeing these commercials for Resurrection and keep thinking about Godsend.

Godsend is written by Mark Bomback and directed by Nick Hamm.  The film stars Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn as the parents and Robert De Niro as the scientist.  The film came out on April 30, 2004.  I have no idea why I watched this in the theater, but I did.   The story follows the parents as they lost their son when he was eight.  De Niro’s character offers to clone their son.  When he does, he also mixes in the DNA of his own dead son.

The ABC series is based on a novel by Jason Mott titled The Returned.  This series has the dead coming back from decades of being dead.

Writing the above, I guess the two are not that similar but because of Godsend, I have no interest in Resurrection.  Resurrection though, does confuse me as why would someone wait 22 years to clone someone?  If the parents were 20, now they are 42, and have made peace with the fact that their son is dead.  I guess that’s the point of the show but ooof, I can’t sit through that.

Sort of like NBC’s the Blacklist and how they promoted this secret that we all knew wouldn’t be answered by the first episode’s end.  Which really kills my buzz for these season long storyarcs.  I do like how CBS’s Intelligence hinted at a season long arc, and it must not have tested well as they nipped that in the bud after three episodes.

I do like how Resurrection has Kurtwood Smith in it, that guy deserves to escape  That 70s Show.  I know he was on 24 but he didn’t work again for a while after that.

Anyways, the Resurrection was picked up for a season but if the ratings are not there, then who knows how many episodes we’ll get.