Topic: Tru Calling
RainbowTrout's photo
Fri 07/25/08 05:22 PM
Tru Calling had a great premise, unlike anything else on TV at the time, and most episodes were interesting and mysterious. Eliza Dushku was in top form and had an excellent cast behind her, including Shawn Reaves as her wheeling, dealing brother Harrison. Everything fell into place on Tru Calling but it was on Fox which seems to be a curse for so many potentially good shows. I don't understand how so many bad shows manage to last so long while the few good ones that get on the air don't last much more than a season. Tru Calling now joins the ranks of some of the best shows that never got a fair chance: Firefly, Undergrads, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, and Clerks. In the years to come when more and more people discover these hidden gems they will wonder why some of the best TV from 99-04 got the axe while other shows that nobody will even be talking about got season after season. Perhaps the reason that TC didn't last so long is that it was too smart for the average viewer. It helps when you think about TC when your watching it. Tru Calling is not the pop song that so many other shows are, it is an opera filled with all sorts of layers. Tru Calling had such a good set up and did not get the chance follow through on its potential. There were so many amazing stories that they could have told if given the chance.

I love the show. It is so inticate. Tru's mother had the same gift. Just today I found that Tru's father was the opposite of Tru just like the guy who is the opposite of Tru. The hard part to understand was when her father is behind the guy who let Tru's brother die but Tru saved. What an intriguing show to watch.:smile:

writer_gurl's photo
Fri 07/25/08 05:27 PM
yeah,I saw it today...on the sci-fi channel

TheCaptain's photo
Fri 07/25/08 06:40 PM
What an awesome show.bigsmile

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Fri 07/25/08 06:44 PM
I used to watch this show cause I liked Eliza Dushku.

alicat4213's photo
Sat 07/26/08 05:28 AM
You have no idea how excited I am that they put it on sci-fi I think I almost wet my pants I got so excited :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Sat 07/26/08 05:29 AM
I havent heard of this show... I will have to check into it.

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Sat 07/26/08 05:56 AM
I haven't heard of TC, but you mentioned Firefly, I am amazed it only lasted 1 season, it was an incredible sci-fi series. You can still see it on Hulu. If you never seen it before watch it here:http://www.hulu.com/firefly. Then go rent the movie "Serenity". If you like good sci-fi then you will not be disappointed. (watch all the episodes before you watch the movie)

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Sat 07/26/08 05:57 AM

I haven't heard of TC, but you mentioned Firefly, I am amazed it only lasted 1 season, it was an incredible sci-fi series. You can still see it on Hulu. If you never seen it before watch it here:http://www.hulu.com/firefly. Then go rent the movie "Serenity". If you like good sci-fi then you will not be disappointed. (watch all the episodes before you watch the movie)


WILL DO.

fjr's photo
Sat 07/26/08 05:58 AM
Hope I didn't get off topic. What is the story line behind TC?

fjr's photo
Sat 07/26/08 06:03 AM


I haven't heard of TC, but you mentioned Firefly, I am amazed it only lasted 1 season, it was an incredible sci-fi series. You can still see it on Hulu. If you never seen it before watch it here:http://www.hulu.com/firefly. Then go rent the movie "Serenity". If you like good sci-fi then you will not be disappointed. (watch all the episodes before you watch the movie)


WILL DO.

:wink: Let me know what you think of it. I really believe it was one of the best.

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Sat 07/26/08 06:05 AM

Hope I didn't get off topic. What is the story line behind TC?


Basically theres this girl named Tru that works in a morgue. When a body comes in it sometimes asks her for help and she has these like "rewind" days where she goes to the day that they die and she tries to prevent it from happening.

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Sat 07/26/08 06:06 AM


Hope I didn't get off topic. What is the story line behind TC?


Basically theres this girl named Tru that works in a morgue. When a body comes in it sometimes asks her for help and she has these like "rewind" days where she goes to the day that they die and she tries to prevent it from happening.

That sounds interesting.

fjr's photo
Sat 07/26/08 06:07 AM
Does she ever succeed?


MysteriousMaiden's photo
Sat 07/26/08 11:41 PM
Eliza Dushku is my hero! I love her. Tru Calling was an amazing show.

RainbowTrout's photo
Sun 07/27/08 01:56 AM

yeah,I saw it today...on the sci-fi channel


Here they had it on all day. I love it when they do the marathons of shows I like. Especially when they do it in the original sequencing because sometimes one can miss an episode due to things like having to go to work or the inevitability that we all have to sleep sometime. What is bad is when I miss it again because I still have to sleep sometimes. What is the longest time that you have been able to keep up with a marathon?laugh