freekkuipers
It intrigues me that the letters that form "Touch" first form "To UHC".
I've been looking on the internet to find a lead for the reason why, but I find nothing. It's just like no-one has noticed before and the crew isn't intending to give a further hint.
Who has noticed, and what's more: who has a clue what it means?
hoytyhoyty
Really since nobody will read this, I'm just posting it to get the vague depression this series left off my chest, and the taste of it out of my mouth. Also I'm still reeling from Season 2 of House Of Cards jumping the shark massively a few eps before the end, so struggling to the end of 'Touch' didn't improve my mood.I like Kiefer, and I want him to succeed, particularly as he has a lot more talent that his father (who I also liked), but this wasn't the vehicle to do it with.Frustratingly it *could* have been. With the first episode I had vague hopes of something scientific, mathematical. By the end of the second episode I was resigned to ooga-booga nonsense and just settled back to enjoy the writing.For a few episodes, the writing actually wasn't bad. I did like the really tight way they made the numbers and the widely-thrown character threads interact. In Einsteinian terms, the characters' 'World Lines' were crossing at points that Jake could see.Then the producers took a bath in cocaine, the members of the writing team who cared left to do something better or go and join a cult, and poor Kiefer was left trying to produce something that became more and more lemon-shaped. Or pear-shaped."Don't let Jake out of your sight!" Then he lets Jake out of his sight. Again. His friend at the care facility finally believes in the numbers. Then forgets about it and has to be re-convinced next ep. Then forgets about it and has to be re-convinced next ep. Then Jake runs away. Then Jake runs away. Then his friend forgets about the numbers and has to be re-convinced...The numbers dwindled away till they hardly mattered. The back-fill on the principle of what was going on became increasingly desperate, until the inevitable 'prophecy' word appeared (more or less).The writer did succeed in creating three of the most irritating characters ever to hit television: Jake, Lucy and the scientist guy with the big ears and the messy hair. I ended up punching the air every time Jake got picked up and screamed. I *did* punch the air when they finally, finally shot Lucy in the head. And scientist guy's brother died and he got arrested, in the silly, silly wrap-up, which I also found to be good. I wanted him to hurt, bad.To be fair to Jake, the Autistic often *are* perceived as very irritating to norms, but that's because they only have access to (or care about) a fraction of the social noise that norms indulge in. Nevertheless Jake's was "Hollywood Autism", which is similar to the vile "Hollywood Crazy" (you know, do a little head shake, shuffle along, throw your fingers in the air a lot, maybe do some shouting whilst holding your head. Pretty much nothing that the insane actually *do*).About the only character I ended up liking was Avril, the Hacidic diamond merchant. He was actually interesting, as well as sincere (without Kiefer's breathless panting) - you could make a show around just him.Oh yeah, that's right, that was the killer: they had to turn it into '24' to try and save it, so it went from being a series to a serial, and got monumentally silly. Also half the characters dropped out and just got forgotten except in the recap.It showed in the credits sequence. It always irritated me anyway - let's show lots of feet, crowds, beaches, feet, farm animals, feet, meteorological stuff, and more feet - to show what an involved, everyday you! me! radical and earthy show this is. That was patronising but I could forgive it given the direction the first two or so eps pointed in.But when it went off the rails they started inserting action shots from the new '24' version (season 2) which just violently clashed with the atmosphere of the other snippets.And I ended up fast-forwarding through Jakes little pontifications, with their about 5% accuracy on a good day and his annoying little whiny voice.Sorry Kiefer. With the starting point and the resources you had - it was quite polished, *annoyingly* - it should have been something really good, rather than just something we watched to pass the time until POI comes back on air. Can you back something that actually has a story next time? Please, mate? This actually took up valuable media bandwidth!
SnoopyStyle
Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland) lost his wife in the twin towers on 9-11. He used to be a newspaper journalist, but he's struggling with his life especially his autistic son Jake. Jake is a mute, but he seems to be doing something with numbers that is foretelling events that hasn't happened.There is a high concept interesting idea, but it's a tiring show. Kiefer is ALWAYS out of breath, always chasing after the kid. It's all too repetitive. The other stories related to the main show are sometimes interesting. They don't always work and they don't really advance the main story. That's probably why that structure was eventually dropped. The second season was a feeble attempt to try to continue a failing show.
