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No "Vanished" coverage? Why not? I baffled at the shows TV Squad gets high hat with. What makes "Vanished" any less review-worthy than, say, "Invasion" or "Bones"? Is there a TV Squad criteria? Frankly, I'd rather read about "Vanished", complete with viewers's comments than a hoary "retro squad" episode !
At least give it the old college try . . .

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dont blame you for not covering Vanished, sucha lackluster pilot,i dont see it lasting more than 6 episodes.

plus,there is some GREAT new shows coming up this fall

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I have no interest in "Vanished" and probably won't watch it, but I have to say this:

This is not exactly a shining moment in TV Squad's coverage of TV.

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I'm interested enough in Vanished to give it a few more episodes and actually think it fits in somewhat well after PB. I'm a bit disappointed that the Squad won't be reviewing it, but, understandable.

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Thought the pilot was pretty cool.. enough to keep me watching.. and from what i have read on the wikipedia page of the show, it sounds like some pretty interisting things comming up!!

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I thought the show was medicore at best. Gale Harrold and Ming Na just had no chemistry together, which is a shame since both are capable actors. Considering the ratings Vanished got with no real competition on the other broadcast networks I wonder if this show will last. Poor Ming Na; she's is quickly becomming television's Angel of Death.

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"I thought the show was medicore at best. Gale Harrold and Ming Na just had no chemistry together, which is a shame since both are capable actors."

I have to disagree concerning Gale Harrold; I found his acting on the pilot to be pretty bad, and he seemed like a poor choice in casting. The whole cast seemed to me to be too many improbably young pretty people. The plot had a few cliches (stepdaughter angry with stepmom for amysterious reason, ex-wife / wif rendezvous, law enforcement officer tortured by a past bad incident, said LEO viewed as a "loose cannon" by his authority figures, to name three)that I saw coming a mile away. Even Rebecca Gayheart (oops, another cliche ... the career driven journalist), who shone in "Dead Like Me", is coming off as bland.

This is a thoroughly mediocre show that I don't see lasting more than half a season.

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Gale Harrold grows on you -- it took me a few episodes of "Queer as Folk" to like him, but then I loved him.

I'm sorry that TV Squad won't be covering this show. I didn't think it was the best thing on television (currently a tie between "Veronica Mars" and the soon-to-be "Studio 60," but I'm interested enough to give it a good try this season as pilots are generally not so great. I'd say it's on par with and has just as many unbelievable facets as "The Closer" or "Bones."

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I thought the show went to enormous effort to make me feel sympathetic for the characters. And in the first episode, that offends me. Make me like the characters first, through their personalities, and then give me their backstories later. Don't force emotion onto your audience, it's insulting.

Besides that, the normal type of stuff that irritates me to no end about network TV (even good shows). Like how any time a supposedly smart character is met with an obstacle of some kind, they immediately solve it purely with intuition (like when they found that dead body and immediately knew what happened).

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I am not disappointed that TV Squad won't be covering Vanished. I thought the pilot, like others have said, felt forced, and there wasn't any real chemistry between anyone. I also would have liked a bit more "story" - not that I'm a "stupid" viewer and need to be told everything, but it seemed that they wanted to rely on the viewer doing more in work in their head, creating questions, instead of laying out more of the ground work.

Having said that, however, it probably won't lose it's spot on my TIVO until something else interesting starts airing during it's time slot, it gets cancelled, or I get completely bored with it.

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