Comments on: Burn Notice: The Fix

By: Glen Davis

Glen Davis — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:27:49 +0000

I finally read this. Pretty good for the most part, but you can tell the author is the brother of the author of the MOnk series. Sometimes Michael’s voice is identical to Natalie Teeger’s. That’s not good.

By: R

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:58:51 +0000

“If you’re not willing to hit something yourself, than you ought to keep your thoughts to yourself.”

What does that mean? Hit something myself? I don’t understand. I understand about keeping my thoughts to myself, though. If you say something that people disagree with, they want you to shut up. What is it about my opinion, Shane, that threatens you so much.

Grow up.

And yes, the narration worked fine in Magnum, PI.

Keep my thoughts to myself. God, what a child you are.

Rod, I don’t really hate the lead. I actually like him, and I watch the show from time to time. It’s the narration I don’t like. It sounds like someone lecturing a small child. It just grates on me. Same thing with Sex and the City. It’s the actual cadences of her voice when she’s narrating that make me cringe. The show itself, isn’t my bag, baby, but that’s a whole other subject.

By: shane

shane — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:07:59 +0000

If you’re not willing to hit something yourself, than you ought to keep your thoughts to yourself. There’s nothing wrong with the narration of Jeffery Donovan. It worked in Magnum PI and it worked in other shows. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sex & The City is many things including vapid at times, but the narration was never the problem with that show either. You should just turn the sound off and use the closed captioning.

By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:54:52 +0000

Like all character-driven series, if you hate the lead, yeah — you’re gonna have a big problem. I understand (but don’t agree about BURN), because the other shows you mentioned do that to me, particularly SEX & THE CITY, which makes me physically ill just thinking about it. I don’t like MONK, either, but not to a degree of hate — just something that doesn’t sit well.

By: R

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:36:55 +0000

“Goldberg apes that. You can hear the actor (Jeffrey Donovan) speaking every word in your head…”

That’s my biggest beef with this series. The way the lead actor reads the narration just seems to make me want to hit something, or hire someone else to hit something, so I can watch and not hurt my hand. It’s the same way if I’m surfing and stop on Sex and the City for a minute. Hopefully they’ll never make a series called “He Narrated, She Narrated” with alternate narrations from Sarah Jessica Parker and the guy from Burn.

I wanted to like this series, because I like Monk (although the joke has worn off quite a bit by now) and I really like Psych, which cares less about the mystery than the humor.