Tim Kring’s New Show Looks Dumb, But Not as Dumb as Heroes (…Yet)
Forgive me if I am skeptical that Tim Kring’s new show, Touch, will be anything but an entertainment atrocity. While that certainly means I’m not giving it a chance, anyone who watched the last three seasons of Heroes (and followed the TR live-blogs) should understand my loathing. I will admit that Touch has a bit more going for it than Heroes: Keifer Sutherland and Danny Glover are both pretty good, and assuming that Kring doesn’t have to fit in a dozen characters, maybe he’ll actually have a chance to focus one writing one decent story for one set of characters. Of course, that doesn’t do much to mitigate the fact that this show is clearly Knowing with an adorable moppet instead of insane Nic Cage. In summary, I remain skeptical. Also, Tim Kring blows goats.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.