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Last night after watching the season premiere on Fox of the skiffy extravaganza Firefly -- more on that to you, holyoutlaw -- we stay-tuned to watch John Doe. I can't think of how many amnesia stories this brought vaguely to mind, but the superpower of the hero also ran a riff on the Pretender, who knows everything and does a robin hood number while he's on the run, or maybe the Fugitive in some incarnation, who doesn't know why he's on the run, or in its wildest dreams the Prisoner (it should be so lucky) who doesn't know why he's in the village. Maybe it will at least be good for Friday evening mindnumbing. "What if you suddenly knew everything?" Well then you'd be ME! that's the answer at our house. This guy seems to have more like an invisible undetectable internet search implant, so he knows most everything except some things which have to be researched, which simplifies certain aspects of plot development but doesn't seem to have been thought through. The important thing he doesn't know is who he is, which maybe has something to do with why he's mostly colorblind, or maybe that's just for the arty color effects. The real reason to watch this show was that the previews showed this really buff nude guy, about a zillion times over of course, and that was the opening and establishing flashback sequence when he is found Castaway in Puget Sound. Of course since this is the U.S. the only naughty bit you could see was his butt (the other naughty bits concealed in overhead shots by an excessively large chest). We don't know why he's in Seattle. Maybe they had some leftover after Dark Angel was cancelled.