US TV: Touch

[_gigles_]

^^I think they're the same Japanese girls from the pilot, I wonder ano kaya connect nila bakit pinakita sila ulit

medyo naawa ako kay Sutherland, if I were in his place hindi ko alam gagawin ko sa kid na yun ang weird lang. Napapahamak na tatay niya parang wala lang sa kanya. Though so far this is really interesting.

[pixiedust]

^curious din ako. baka sa next episode malalaman na natin.

jake has autism kasi. but yeah, naaawa din ako kay martin kasi hindi niya alam minsan gagawin niya. nakaka touch lalo dun sa pilot nun hinug siya finally ni jake only to get his phone from the pocket lang pala. i would imagine how hard that would be for a parent to not be able to hug or touch your child.

[heavensent]

loving this show, just watched the first 3 episodes and so far sobrang nahook ako

[bertinelli]

I'm hooked with Touch too!
Ganda episode last night naniniwala na yung social worker na si Clea na may meaning yung numbers.

[sima]

I love Touch's soundtrack and the prologue each and everytime the episode starts.  I like the premise that all of us are tangentially linked which I believe is true. 

Just when I think Touch is a touch too complicated, it finds a way to peak my curiosity and have me waiting for more.

[pixiedust]

i like the latest episode! i'm itching for the next episode! what's the next number in the sequence? hehe

[heavensent]

watched the latest episode, this show is addicting.

^i've read from FB that 6 was the last number of the Amelie sequence and that means the end that is why the old man died, i think there will be a new one, so excited.

[pixiedust]

^i don't want to believe that teller is dead. sana he just had an aneurysm tapos paramedics don't want to touch him yet as a precaution or kakadating lang nila and di pa nauumpisahang bigyan ng medical attention. haha!

i hope it's not yet the end of the sequence kasi parang bitin. big question pa din sakin yung mysterious room #6 and the possibility of amelia (and teller) being connected to that.

[Mindy]

i like the latest episode! i'm itching for the next episode! what's the next number in the sequence? hehe

I may have to reconsider watching the episode this week. Nadismaya ako from last week, and this week, hindi ko ma-take 7 minutes into it. Parang naguguluhan na ako sa dami ng taong involved at connect connect na wala namang real answers.

Concentrate nga ako maya while watching, baka ma-sway ako into liking it again.

[FOURever]

now ko lang napanood to.. Yung first episode grabe medyo nakakaiyak sya.. And sa last episode, nainis ako kay Claire (tama ba?) sa umpisa pero nabalik naman sa pagiging like ko ulit sa kanya. Hahaha!

Medyo mabilis lang lahat ng events kaya nakakahilo tapos syempre konekonektado lahat, so parang ang hirap mag catch up pero swak naman

[pixiedust]

I may have to reconsider watching the episode this week. Nadismaya ako from last week, and this week, hindi ko ma-take 7 minutes into it. Parang naguguluhan na ako sa dami ng taong involved at connect connect na wala namang real answers.

Concentrate nga ako maya while watching, baka ma-sway ako into liking it again.

funny, i was just thinking kanina that this show is mala lost in a way na tipong pag may namiss kang isang event maguguluhan ka na sa next ones since connected sila lahat. haha!

ot: yung lost nga i ended up not watching an entire season kasi di ko naumpisahan yung season tapos naguluhan na ko. later on nalang ako nag catch up nung alam kong mapapanood ko siya ng tuloy tuloy. haha

back to touch. parang ganun tong show na to. i can even imagine this having a cult following with die hard fans getting addicted to trying to solve the number sequences. though it's probably not as confusing as lost. i mean, you can miss an episode and still kinda understand the next since, so far, each episode has once central story naman. like the last one it's all about "975". pero outside that, connected na yung events like si teller, jake, etc.

[Mindy]

I was addicted to Lost. Kahit hindi ko na rin naiintindihan hehe.

I think my problem with Touch is that parang pinapahaba yung kwento with these per episode stories. Parang pinipilit maging complicated just to come up with a resolution dun sa pinaka kwento ni Jake.

Lost wasn't like that. The confusion piles up. The more you get answers, the more there are questions, the more you process. It was engaging that way.

Here on Touch...I dunno, hard to explain. Parang you get answers pakonti-konti alright. Pero, to have to arrive to that particular answer in that particular episode, dinaan pa with this grand interwoven stories. For something like that, I would've expected real, mind-blowing answers, not...barya (so to speak hehe). That's the way I see it. Parang...hello, Tim Kring (show's creator) pinagod mo naman akong mag-process ng episode this week, tapos eto lang makukuha ko?? 



 

[pixiedust]

^ah ok. i kinda get your point. parang kumbaga yung lost it's more of a progression leading to a grander design (naks!) touch is more myopic, so to speak.

give it a chance sis. baka naman pag nagconcentrate ka nga, mas magustuhan mo siya.

i like it so far. but napaisip ako sa sinabi mo. i do enjoy the weekly stories. pero oo nga, they could probably push it a little further. i think may attempt naman to do that with the amelia sequence, tapos teller's story with amelia and possible cover up nung director. but yeah, if they don't get to a bigger picture, it risks being boring. parang every week, martin will just keep running after numbers in an attempt to communicate with jake. let's wait and see.

[FOURever]

^hahaha!

Ako nahihirapan kay martin. Ako hinihingal para sa kanya hahaha! Hinabol ko kasi mapanood hanggang episode 6 kaya siguro mas napagod yung isip ko.. But i think, matatagalan ko pa to panoorin hangga't bakasyon pa..

[Mindy]

^^ I was able to watch na ulit. Natapos ko naman ang episode. 

What you said, exactly! Every week na lang ba si Martin ganun? Episode 3 pa lang naloka na ako sa stress niya kay Jake. 

And maybe because there are weekly stories, iba iba yung characters (kum baga yung guest stars)...sa Lost kasi diba sila't sila lang rin, kung may iniitroduce mang new characters, you still have the main ones as anchor, you know they are the main event. With Touch, the main event gets lost in all these people Martin is trying to help...and they don't come back next episode. Maybe they will in the ending, hindi ko alam, pero....it's so easy to get disconnected kung ganito na lang every week.

Touch is a lot similar to Awake, I dunno if anyone else is watching Awake. Every week rin may "guest" but there's still that story behind why all this is happening to the lead character. The difference with Touch and Awake... the latter doesn't try very hard to give the viewers something about that big mystery. Wala pa talagang sagot, wala rin masyadong clues sa mystery...but rather, there are plenty clues to what the character is going through. In short, character building is solid kahit every week iba iba ang kwento. That's why I still connect.

Touch has little character building. Seriously, hindi ko talaga alam, ang daming trabaho ni Martin!!! Tapos may anak pa siyang ang hirap i-handle, bakit hindi pa siya nasiraan ng bait? May sense pa siyang tumulong sa problema ng may problema? Bakit sya ganun? Hindi siya napapagod? Ayaw niyang maglasing para kalimutan problema niya kay Jake? Wala syang therapist? Wala siyang ibang friends? LOL! Walang depth pa si Martin. Mas lalo naman si Jake.

Touch is going for story development more....which doesn't work for me, coz unlike Lost, iba iba nga ang story every week, even if connected kay Jake. Ang hirap i-reconcile minsan.

[_gigles_]

^same thoughts! bilib din ako kay Martin, he gets out of his way to help people at may oras pa siyang magtrabaho haha

The characters needs more character development

[pixiedust]

^^LOL! oo nga naman. hanga din ako kay martin at di pa siya naloka...or di nga ba? haha!

true true, narerealize ko na ngayon na medyo nakakapagod nga naman panoorin pag ganun in the long run. right now, i'm enjoying yung per story. i like how everything is connected in little ways. pero tama, it would probably be more engaging kung ieexpand nila. like kunwari, one story arc happens in a span of 3 episodes.

at hindi pa din kasi masaydong nakikita at this point yung big picture eh. all we know is that jake sees these number sequences that are supposed to mean something. pero beyond that, we don't know kung anong significance nung entire sequence, if there is any. and how it all plays together. so far, the only attempt to do that is with the amelia sequence story line pero we don't even know if that has any weight at all considering na the lead to that (teller) is possibly dead na and also possibly just crazy.

[Mindy]

Naku sana nga may saysay yung Amelia na story line niya. 7 more episodes to go right? Kasi 13 lang siya? May 31 ang finale, pero 2 hours naman. Sana nga matindi ang mga reveals.

To be fair, it was rating so well nung March. But when the April episodes aired, biglang bagsak na...hindi na-hold yung audience.

Dapat nag CIA agent na lang tong si Martin! LOL!!

[pixiedust]

^or CTU. haha! actually parang ganun na nga siya. always on a mission and following clues all over.

[sakura_bloom]

Na-hook ako at first.. pero nung tamagal na (episode 6) I got bored na.. parang paikot ikot lang. Puro chase.. I don't know where this is heading.. Parang kulang ng conflict?? Hindi ko alam kung magsasalita na ba si Jake, or end of the world sequence ang drama..