{"id":11025,"date":"2007-04-22T14:10:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T21:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/22\/painkiller-jane.html"},"modified":"2007-04-22T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T21:10:34","slug":"painkiller_jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/22\/painkiller_jane.html","title":{"rendered":"Painkiller Jane<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a near-future dystopia, Jane Vasco is shanghaied from the DEA into a secretive law enforcement organization out to take out “neuros” — mutant psi talents who usually leave a trail of death and destruction behind them.  An interesting enough premise — but on top of that Jane has, suddenly, mysteriously, become a quick-healer, ultimately immune (so far) to any physical damage she takes, from bullet wounds to 40-story drops.  But not immune to the pain …<\/p>\n

After two eps, Painkiller Jane<\/a> <\/em>has turned into entertaining, violent, vaguely grim fare.  There’s clearly the normal wheels-within-wheels as to who knows what regarding the neuros, plus how Jane got  her particular talents — talents which regularly get put to use.(Hmmm — room full of mind-controlled cops ready to shoot anyone who tries to get down it?  Send in Jane!)  We have a grim-gritty world that seems like ours only a scosh worse<\/p>\n

The series is based on the comic<\/a> by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada (which I’ve not read, though I’ve now ordered).  The acting is fairly decent to date — a few stock characters, no real call for Shakespearean form.  Kristanna Loken, as Jane, gets to emote a bit more than in her previous “hit” role as the TX Terminator in Terminator 3<\/em>, though that’s not saying much.  <\/span><\/span>The stories have been reasonably imaginative action fare, with heavy (sometimes too heavy) use of the “shaky-cam” to make it all look (along with quick intercutting) “real.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s too early to tell if this will be a must-watch or a let’s-see-what’s-on kind of show, but it’s starting with a modicum of promise.  I’m leaving it on the DVR schedule for the nonce.<\/span><\/p>\n

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