Calling All Eliza Fans! "Tru Calling"

[Jennpurr]

Anyone know where I can find a vid clip of that first kiss?



WOW... I really liked last night's episode. And damn... Eliza is so sexy. I really have a hard time concentrating!



Thanks in advance,



Jen

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[chilled monkey]

Alright! A show that isn't afraid to break from cliche. Very good



Does anyone have any idea when Tru Calling will be shown in the U.K.?

[urnofosiris]

Thanks for the brief recap Gatito. Man, I wish I could watch it. This sounds like the kind of ep that is worth watching and rewatching. I hope some Dutch channel will pick this show up soon.

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[FloatingRose]

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Anyone know where I can find a vid clip of that first kiss?

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ooh, please? I missed most of the episode..so if anybody knows that would be awesome. :)

Sarah

[TaraBaby77]

HOLY MOLY!!! Liz is awesome!!! BtVS didn't give her any justice in acting. She is really really good. And, there is the whole "hottie" factor, heehee. She is something. I just watched episode 3 and I am so loving this show. Does anyone know how many episodes are already out??? =)

Aaron

'TaraBaby77'

[Grimaldi]

i liked the ep and am glad that not only did Tru save both girls, but that the girls aren't going to run away and instead chose to stay.



btw, does anybody know if Tru's sister is still on the show?

I'm not stealing, I'm just taking things without paying for them. In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
They think she's innocent and sweet, but I know she's an evil bitch

[TaraBaby77]

I finally caught up to the sixth episode and I must say that I really am loving this show. I dummy told me that Tru was the one getting kissed in this episode. That is what I get to listening to bad info. Anyway, it was nice to see that Tru did help them girls out. This episode had me spinning in loops trying to figure out how it all ended and I agree with Grimaldi, about Tru helping the girl deal with there love for each other, than running away from it. Also, to add, I think Meri is still on the show, don't see why she wouldn't (that bad excuse for a sister, I don't like drugs). Anyway, there is my two cents, wait a sec... through pockets Nope, that will be a dollar and thirteen cents, heehee =)

Aaron

'TaraBaby77'

[tyche]

Buffy.nu have a scan of an Eliza photo from Sci-fi magazine:

www.buffy.nu/article.php3...ticle=2343

If you wait till the whole photo downloads, there are some general spoilers for Tru Calling at the bottom of the page.

[xita]

ooh thanks, that's a great picture of her. I am not like... in lust with Eliza but that picture sure made me a little short of breath.

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[J uk]

tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial...1|,00.html

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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Jason Priestley is returning to the network that made him famous, and getting a trip home on top of that.



Priestley has signed on to appear in seven episodes of the FOX drama "Tru Calling." He starts work in January in Vancouver, B.C., where the show films and where he was born.



The seven-episode arc will be his longest run on a series since he left "Beverly Hills, 90210" in 1998. He has worked on numerous TV movies and feature films since then, as well as making guest appearances on series like "Spin City," "Grosse Pointe" and "8 Simple Rules."



Priestley will play Jack Harper, a new forensic attendant at the morgue where Tru Davies (series star Eliza Dushku) works. Although he seems like a nice guy, he has a secret that may hinder Tru's ability to go backward in time to save people who die unjustly.



Priestley became an overnight heartthrob when "90210" premiered on FOX in 1990. In the years since his time on the show, he's avoided typecasting by taking parts in independent movies like "Love and Death on Long Island" and the recent "Die, Mommie, Die." He next stars in the ABC Family movie "I Want to Marry Ryan Banks" with Bradley Cooper ("Alias") and Emma Caulfield ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") .



An auto-racing fan and driver, Priestley was seriously injured last year while driving a practice lap for an Infiniti Pro Series race. He suffered a fractured spine and several other broken bones but has recovered fully.

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Edited by: J uk at: 12/18/03 5:07 am

[xita]

Ok, I finally caught this episode, I must make more of an effort to catch it because it's gotten a lot better. A lot of the annoying factors are gone, but some still remain. Anyway, I loved this episode. It was so cliche busting! This was your typical doomed lesbian thing, but then Tru came calling and yes!! the girls made it alive! It was so good to see that.

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"Hard work often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now!"

[Gatito Grande]

Anyone catch the nepotism tonight? The guy who hugged Tru at the start of her party: that was Eliza's brother (last seen over on Joan of Arcadia).



Can *anyone* tell me why a person as obviously intelligent as Tru, would have someone as obviously an airhead as Lindsay as a best friend? This makes absolutely no sense (whenever they're together, I get the impression that Tru is gritting her teeth to get through the encounter). Would someone please ship her and Tru's brother (who are, admittedly, *perfect* for each other) outta here ASAP? (Nothing against the actress portraying "Lindsay": she does great airhead! The character just doesn't belong on the show)



GG I guessed the little drunken guy (yay me)! I didn't remember the reason why (not-so-yay me) Out



If Jason Priestly replaces boring "Luc w/ a 'c'", that would be fine by me: dude is SO not my type (and JP did an admirable job playing the object of John Heard's lust in Love and Death on Long Island)

[Ben Varkentine]

There's a review of Tru Calling in the new EW (Dated 1/9/04, Jennifer Connelly, Charlize Theron and Naiomi Watts on cover). They give it a "C," praise Eliza's hotness and the show's concepts but think the writing has been letting the side down.



This is also the issue with the mini-interview with Ally, reprinted in another thread, BTW.

[darkmagicwillow]

Overall, I've found Tru Calling to be disappointing. Eliza's cute, but the writing's weak and the characters seem flat and disconnected from each other. I'm giving it up and going to check out Joan of Arcadia for 2004.

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"Omnia mutantur, nihil interit." -- "Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost."

[sam7777]

I'm glad that Fox is giving the show time to find an audeince. Many shows stumble out of the gate but get better (Star TRek Next Gen for one). The Tru folks are working on improvements so I wouldn't give up on it yet:

www.eclipsemagazine.com/m...toryid=828

(it's a long article but heres a snippet) {quote]“Tru Calling” – A Star Vehicle That's Catching Up To Its Star

Posted by S_Wiebe on 2003/12/11 16:11:44



Despite an overcrowded pilot and a couple of shaky episodes, "Tru Calling" is showing significant signs of improvement - to the point where it is now a better bet than most of its creaky competition on Thursday nights.



Tru Davies has a problem. She works graveyards in a morgue, and every so often, one of the bodies she prepares for autopsy asks for her help. Then, she wakes up and replays the previous day – hopefully saving the person whose body she saw the previous night. “Tru Calling” is a mix of “Early Edition”, “Groundhog Day” and a dash of “Run, Lola, Run” – pun intended – with Davies, a poor, university grad, running everywhere in her effort to save lives.



The pilot episode introduced Tru [Eliza Dushku] and her siblings, Harrison [Shawn Reaves], who has a gambling problem, and Meredith [Jessica Collins] whose addiction is cocaine. We also meet her best friend, Lindsay [A.J. Cook], and Davis [Zach Galifianakis], the guy who hires her at the morgue. It also gave her her first “assignment”, a young lady who turned up at the morgue looking like she had been executed.



Between Tru’s backstory [she witnessed her mother’s murder, ten years before, and couldn’t do anything to prevent it], and setting up her relationships with her siblings, best friend, and boyfriend [a weasel who, thankfully, was gone after the second ep], there was enough material for a one-hour drama – but we got her first talking corpse along with two red herrings, before we got to the big finish. It was, frankly far too much material – a ninety-minute pilot would have been much better.



And then there were the intros and extros to each act – a kaleidoscope of images run at a near strobe light intensity that could cause seizures in any epileptics unlucky enough to be watching.



Fortunately, with all the necessary exposition done in the pilot, subsequent episodes have been lean enough that they have been able to tell good, solid stories. Indeed, each new episode has been an improvement over the last until, finally, the show has become almost worthy of its star – and make no mistake about it, Ms Dushku is going to be a star.



The cast has terrific chemistry and the scripts have gotten much tighter. Even the intros and extros have been scaled back to the point where they are merely annoying – not hazardous to your health. Tru’s siblings have had some good moments. Harrison is deserving of special mention because Tru has confided in him and he keeps trying to get her prove it – despite her having done so a number of times [of course his idea of proof is getting the winning ponies for the day’s races…]. Shawn Reaves makes Harrison a charming scam artist/gambler, but also lets his real feelings for Tru come through in unguarded moments.[/quote]

[GiftofAmber]

This week's episode, while sad, was fairly well put together. It does seem to be improving from week to week, but it has yet to grab me and say "you must watch next week". Quite frustrating considering how much I enjoy watching Eliza.

[Gatito Grande]

I'm really looking forward to next week, as I believe it focuses on Tru and Davis (kinda confusing that her last name is Davies, and her boss is Davis, but hey) : he's the only cast member (besides Our Grrl!) that I care about. (I may even have to ship them, just because I don't see anybody else worthwhile on the horizon). I think the weakness of this week's ep, was directly related to the boring boyfriend she comes home to in the end.



GG . . . unless the producers want to make a bold move, and cast Me as Tru's Squeeze! Out

[TaraBaby77]

I will have to agree with GiftofAmber with the whole episode being sad but good. Being military, it kinda hit me a little harder than I wanted it to, but I still loved it. Anyhoo, just wanted to express my WAHOO with that last episode.... =)

Aaron

'TaraBaby77'

Edited by: TaraBaby77 at: 1/11/04 3:05 pm

[Shinnen]

i just watched the latest episode... and even though it's really sad and well put together... it's funny at a few areas. Eliza in a nurse uniform then when she finds Jake in front of the house where Bridgette used to live, he was telling her about his feelings and then she interrupted in the middle trying to console him... he made this gesture that he wasn't done and continued pouring out his utmost inner feelings. I think it's a pretty okay show compared so other second rate dramas that the local tv here show (purchasing the media must've been cheaper "cut cost! cut cost!" )

CheerZ

Shinnen



She's the most amazing girl in the whole world. She's the only girl who makes my heart beat faster and slower at the same time. When I'm not with her, I'm not living. I'm not existing until I can hold her in my arms again.

[tyche]

Apparently Eliza is going to be on the Craig Kilborn show on Jan. 16th - check your local listings for details.

[The Rose24]

Great show tonight.



The killer is never who you most expect.

Tara: My heart doesn't stutter.


Tara: Willow, I got so lost.

Willow: I found you. I will always find you.

[Jennpurr]

I KNEW it was the g/f! She was twisted, eh?



WOW... excellent episode! Tru's sister is just asking for it. I'm sorry, but... she's not a very smart cookie. I know an addiction can be a very hard thing to overcome, I'm not saying it's not. She just needs to be more careful.



Hee... there was at least one good butt shot tonight! Eliza's sexy! Weeeee...



I have an off the wall question and please don't hit me for asking it, but... does anyone else get the feeling that they might be leading up to a Davis/Tru pairing? If not, at least they are becoming friends. I just got that feeling. Might just be my weird imagination though. Wouldn't be the first time.



Anyway... Next weeks episode looks good too.



Jen

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[SySnootles]

I hate to be the one who rains on everyone's parade, but I found the writing in tonight's episode to be extremely poor. I mean, some of the lines were just painful. It seemed as though the actors even realized how painful and bad those lines were. Don't get me wrong -- I love the premise of the show, and the acting has indeed improved, but man, if they don't get some good writers in there soon, I'm afraid this will be the one and only season of Tru Calling.

Catie



When I'm 130 years old, I want a pill that makes me so happy and so unself-conscious and so randy I'm willing to make love to my fuzzy bed slippers on my front lawn and yodel at the same time. -- Scott Adams from Dilbert and the way of the Weasel

[Gatito Grande]

Huh: guess I'm just oblivious to rain then (Yeah, sure: blood to the "critic" part of the brain flows elsewhere when Eliza's on! ), cuz I found tonight's episode outstanding (one of the 3 or 4 best thus far).



There's one factor that easily accounts for my favorable review: No Boring Boyfriend! (and no Braindead Best Friend either) Plus, the action of the bullet retreating from it's Fatal Head Shot Path certainly upped the drama quotient.



In some ways, I really feel for Meredith: sure, she's the Queen of Denial (hopefully that's changing now), but Tru hasn't opened up to her to the same degree as Harrison (who is still Flat Out Annoying: it's like he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity). Maybe she (Meredith) would be just as dismissive as Harrison, but Tru won't know till she tries (and if Big Sis cleans up her act, maybe she will).



Yeah, what is going on w/ Davis? And w/ Tru and Davis? (And does Davis have a first name? ) What was he going to tell Tru tonight? (What was their exchange? Haven't checked the tape yet). Davis says that Tru has saved him twice, and Tru says? And Davis gives her a look . . . like? Has he saved her? I'm wondering if it has something to do w/ Tru's mom (Maybe Davis was there? Maybe he had a choice to save either Tru or her mom?) Looking forward to finding out!



GG Harrison: "I'm Too Kewl to Shave." NOT! Out

[BBOvenGuy]

I thought Davis was his first name, like the golfer Davis Love III.



Whatever his full name is, there's definitely something going on with him. I wonder if it has something to do with Jason Priestly's "anti-Tru" character, who will show up toward the end of the season.

"The stories we tell - that's us explaining how we think the world works. Once we speak it, once we say it aloud, that makes it real for us - and real for everyone else who hears it too. When we tell a story, we invite people to visit our reality. We invite them to move in. Our stories are the reality we live in." - David Gerrold, The Martian Child

[Grimaldi]

i enjoyed the episode, even though the writing was a little questionable- like with everyone letting Tru take the bride to the hospital with no questions asked, the cop worried about getting the bullet out of the body not realizing that it was his ex-girfriend's fingerprints on the gun.



the beginning with Tru saving that women, and then the women threating to call her lawyer because she thought Tru was stalking her was funny.



i hope that whatever Davis was going to tell Tru at the end will be explained in the next ep.

I'm not stealing, I'm just taking things without paying for them. In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
They think she's innocent and sweet, but I know she's an evil bitch

[TaraBaby77]

Okay, let's see here. I just finally watched the last episode and I do agee with the whole writing thing. But, still, I love watching this show. I'm not inclined enough to understand the mechinisms behind writing, but I know that this show has and is slowing molding itself. A little Bowflex here, a little Taebo there.... And soon this show will be something great. Greater than what it already is. Anyhoo, that is just my opinion. Oh, and I have this strange feeling that Harrison is going to get his butt handed to him, soon. Concluding my babblefest, I enjoyed that last episodes... =)

Aaron

'TaraBaby77'

[Gatito Grande]

Hmmm. Still not being bothered by the writing (plot points) that other are: Tru had the only unblocked car at the (pre) wedding, and the woman was dying. I think I'd take the offered help of a stranger too! (OK: someone else should have gone w/ them to maintain pressure on the wound, two-seater car or no).



Watching the last exchange w/ Davis again, I feel even more confident that he was somehow involved w/ Tru's mom's death. Did Tru actually see her mom get shot (it was a shooting, wasn't it?), or just dying? Could Tru's mom somehow have taken a shot meant for Davis (as improbable as that sounds)? Or did Tru's mom make it alive to the hospital, w/ Young Doc Davis in the ER discovering just how much "live people freak him out"? Does he hold himself responsible for her death?



GG I'll be embarrassed if I'm wrong, but I think the key is a link between Davis and Tru's mom Out



Anyone see ED in People? Cute puppy! (HOT owner! )

[tyche]

For anyone who wants to see a scan of the Eliza article in People, here it is:

www.buffy.nu/article.php3?id_article=2645

(It's quite a large file, so it might take a while to download.)

[so why so sad]

She is so lovely

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