Thunderstruck at the generally positive appraisals of this one -- I find it cringe-inducing and poorly executed in the EXTREME. If you are to introduce a character that has apparent amnesia but extraordinary abilities, you MUST, MUST be very clever and attendant to detail and consistency to avoid looking inept and foolish in your presentation -- this series is the very definition of inept and foolish.
One moment Kyle will display perfect civility, the next utter some Tourettes-mimicing contemporary verbal flourish which we know he would understand is inappropriate. That kind of stuff really galls me and really is just so tired and hackneyed as to boggle the mind -- didactic enlightenment of our quaint ways shed through the fresh perceptions of the innocent -- barf-inciting dreck that has been done ten times better ad infinitum.
Example: Kyle meets Principal and slaps his palm and follows with a knuckle-to-knuckle backhand, in the manner of some cool dudes he has just seen in the hallway -- later when we are not calling for such a heavy-handed statement, he extends his hand with perfect conventional civility to meet someone else. He is baffled that everyone responds to a bell and knows where to go -- it is inconceivable he would not comprehend this perfectly -- or at VERY VERY LEAST, had it explained to him before being taken to his first day (which is OBVIOUSLY OBVIOUSLY ill-advised, in any event) -- he knows he is there to learn as he states at some later point, but we are subjected to some pathetic pointed cliche about his being left alone when everyone goes to their designated class, when we know he would expect this -- being left alone, come to mention it, to take entrance exams -- of course, he never would be left unsupervised with presumably very well-guarded entry placement tests, let alone that he could cheat as well as steal the tests -- yuck!
We see him show the initiative and enterprise to soak up massive amounts of info from World Books, which demonstrates prodigious memory, but that same memory and that wondrous attendant deductive ability is so so faulty on other matters. Just little details like the pile of books being arrayed in front of him left open at halfway points and heaped on top of one another, reveal the lack of thought operative here -- if he were efficiently knocking back these volumes one by one, they would either all be open toward their last page, or more likely, shut and stacked, but instead we get the look of someone doing specific research, with the volumes cracked open to relevant passages. We know he did not miss a single question, so he presumably read everything the volumes contained (and it was all the right stuff to read). And of course that extraordinary reasoning ability later just seems to completely evaporate in the maddeningly naive and insipid narration.
Don't get me started on that Good Will Hunting solution and the teacher bursting in on a private conference and basically telling to the Principal to shut up, that what he is asking is important -- that whole hurtling toward the hurry-up abbreviated end was appalling -- the Principal just caving to Kyle's admission while all the characters stand around beaming -- YUCK YUCK YUCK!
The fact that you guys seem to like this (and the fact that I have watched it myself), really only reveals to me how starved we are for good entertainment in this reality summer, as well I suppose, how famished we are for good HD no matter what the vehicle.
One moment Kyle will display perfect civility, the next utter some Tourettes-mimicing contemporary verbal flourish which we know he would understand is inappropriate. That kind of stuff really galls me and really is just so tired and hackneyed as to boggle the mind -- didactic enlightenment of our quaint ways shed through the fresh perceptions of the innocent -- barf-inciting dreck that has been done ten times better ad infinitum.
Example: Kyle meets Principal and slaps his palm and follows with a knuckle-to-knuckle backhand, in the manner of some cool dudes he has just seen in the hallway -- later when we are not calling for such a heavy-handed statement, he extends his hand with perfect conventional civility to meet someone else. He is baffled that everyone responds to a bell and knows where to go -- it is inconceivable he would not comprehend this perfectly -- or at VERY VERY LEAST, had it explained to him before being taken to his first day (which is OBVIOUSLY OBVIOUSLY ill-advised, in any event) -- he knows he is there to learn as he states at some later point, but we are subjected to some pathetic pointed cliche about his being left alone when everyone goes to their designated class, when we know he would expect this -- being left alone, come to mention it, to take entrance exams -- of course, he never would be left unsupervised with presumably very well-guarded entry placement tests, let alone that he could cheat as well as steal the tests -- yuck!
We see him show the initiative and enterprise to soak up massive amounts of info from World Books, which demonstrates prodigious memory, but that same memory and that wondrous attendant deductive ability is so so faulty on other matters. Just little details like the pile of books being arrayed in front of him left open at halfway points and heaped on top of one another, reveal the lack of thought operative here -- if he were efficiently knocking back these volumes one by one, they would either all be open toward their last page, or more likely, shut and stacked, but instead we get the look of someone doing specific research, with the volumes cracked open to relevant passages. We know he did not miss a single question, so he presumably read everything the volumes contained (and it was all the right stuff to read). And of course that extraordinary reasoning ability later just seems to completely evaporate in the maddeningly naive and insipid narration.
Don't get me started on that Good Will Hunting solution and the teacher bursting in on a private conference and basically telling to the Principal to shut up, that what he is asking is important -- that whole hurtling toward the hurry-up abbreviated end was appalling -- the Principal just caving to Kyle's admission while all the characters stand around beaming -- YUCK YUCK YUCK!
The fact that you guys seem to like this (and the fact that I have watched it myself), really only reveals to me how starved we are for good entertainment in this reality summer, as well I suppose, how famished we are for good HD no matter what the vehicle.
to bad they cant be robots instead of teenagers 
