Touch

[a whitmer]

I just starting watching this series - just came to where I live. Not sure what to think. I really like most of it, but kinda get lost with all the crossing back and forth across continents, islands and cultures. Maybe a little contrived if not off-the-shelf in some of the portrayals, but I suppose 'refreshingly different' covers the basics. I hear it was canceled, however.

Not much to choose from with all the police and zombie material cluttering up prime time. In truth I don''t watch much television anyways - maybe 6 hours a week if I'm bored. Even less with movies - maybe three a year. I do watch clips and trailers on YT, though.

Anyone watcing/watched Touch? Maybe it was too complex and multi-layered for general audience viewing? You come home from a rough day at the office and just want to watch people kill each other, eat their faces, and so on.

What a strange thing entertainment is.

Alex

 

[Marc Wielage]

Series star/co-producer Keifer Sutherland has said he was ready to work on a less violent show after 6 or 7 years with 24, but I think Touch was a disappointment for the audience, for the producers, and for the network. Like Heroes (another Tim Kring show), they tried to marry the concept of the supernatural combined with mysticism and interlocking stories that went on a global scale, to as many as four or five continents in a single episode.

I think it got bogged down towards the end, particularly with the multiple-multiple conspiracies, kidnapping, secret Biblical numbers, religious mumbo-jumbo, and pseudo-scientific explanations of the various numbers the kid would come up with each week. I think their stretches of credibility started to snap a few too many times, particularly towards the end.

But I think the production values on the show were very high, and they did a helluva job coming up with locations in the LA area that resembled Paris, the Middle East, India, London, Boston, and other areas. And I thought the show generally looked very good, photographically (all on Alexa, as I recall).

 

[paulherrin]

oh alex, hang in there... look where the light is shining towards.

 

[a whitmer]

I think it got bogged down towards the end, particularly with the multiple-multiple conspiracies, kidnapping, secret Biblical numbers, religious mumbo-jumbo, and pseudo-scientific explanations of the various numbers the kid would come up with each week. I think their stretches of credibility started to snap a few too many times, particularly towards the end.

But I think the production values on the show were very high, and they did a helluva job coming up with locations in the LA area that resembled Paris, the Middle East, India, London, Boston, and other areas. And I thought the show generally looked very good, photographically (all on Alexa, as I recall).

Ditto. I need to really, really pay attention, and be willing to stretch believability to tag along. Not really in a bad way, but I feel a bit drained after each episode.

And yes, locations are brilliant. Location scouts and set designers get a big kudos. And I really love the creativity and variety of shots. Seems not even a dixie cup is ever unaccounted for in the compositions.

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[Adrian Jebef]

And I thought the show generally looked very good, photographically (all on Alexa, as I recall).

I did the Pilot with Director Francis Lawrence and DP Jo Willems. ALEXA SxS to ProRes4444 with Master Primes. I know the series continued with ALEXA but I'm not sure what lenses they continued to carry.

 

[Marc Wielage]

What's interesting to me is a lot of the "foreign" locations they created (particularly the Middle East and India) were done in Valencia (20 miles north of LA), which has a few lots there with a couple of city blocks you can repaint, with architecture that could be in that area. Green screen then gets used to digitally extend the background. There were actually some very, very complex shots in Touch, ​given the time and budget they had to work with.

 

[a whitmer]

oh alex, hang in there... look where the light is shining towards.

You lost me, here.

 

[a whitmer]

There were actually some very, very complex shots in Touch, ​given the time and budget they had to work with.

I enjoy watching it just for that.

 

[paulherrin]

You lost me, here.

haha, sry i got sidetracked... i was referring to entertainment 'clutter'