Leap of Faith spinoff

Originally posted by KingOfViceCity But I wouldn't call it the worst episode of Miami Vice because it's not Miami Vice. Miami Vice has these people in it: (cast shot or whatever you call it)

Great Pic KoVC! "Leap of Faith" certaintly was a leap of faith.....the only good part of Leap is the teaser, the acting is weak, the characters are weak and the cast (particulary the males) have little chemistry either as a team or as individuals.  21 Jump Street's 5 season run progression is almost on par with the progression of Vice from 84-89, many ppl like the first two seasons of Jump Street and the writing in Season 2 is strong, the tone is much lighter the first two seasons, whereas the 3rd Season the tone is much darker and the look is darker. Many ppl believe Jump Street peaks with Season 3, many ppl believe Season 4 was a transitional season for 21 Jump Street, particularly because of Johnny Depp no longer wanting to be a part of Jump Street and letting it show on screen, furthermore the scripts and direction were dull and usually uninspired compared to the previous seasons, but visually the show looks great. By Season 5 Depp is gone, Ioki is even gone, popularity fell which caused many Season 5 episodes to premiere in syndication. Sound familiar?

I actually think the first 5 or 10 minutes of Leap of Faith(where Crockett and Tubbs appear) are OK. It does have Guns N Roses' Paradise City after all. But then when it turns into 21 Jump Street/Beverly Hills 90210 with teenybopper cops and Rodney's son from Back To School as the villian, it's horrific, garbage, trash. Just unwatchable.

Oh lord my eyes are bleeading...Why...It was on last night...Leap of Naff....Why oh why did they make this stinking pile of dog turd...and attatch the name Miami Vice to it!....Even with Crockett and Tubbs in the first few seconds could not save this giant turd of an episode. It was episodes like this that ruined the name of Miami Vice. If i could id remove it from my DVD collection so as not to burn anyone elses eyes. So the end is near and we are jumping straight to Freefall P1 tonight....shame.

Pastelsuitsrock...

I hated the Cell WIthin worse than any other episode until I saw Leap of Faith. I might actually watch the Cell Within Again but Leap of Faith....... was really awful and truly not worth watching again.
    

I turned it off after watching about 50% of this episode.
Part of season 5 sucks unlike anything that has ever sucked before :)

The Cell Within for instance.... what the hell did they do during season 5? give leftover blow from the previous seasons to the writers?

I still need to find the right motivation to finish this dvd box.

Just watched this ep. Ages away I know before we can review this ep in the discussion forums, maybe that's a good thing and I'll manage to forget how awful this ep was by then, cos at the moment I am about as close as I'll ever get to giving an MV ep 2 out of 10. What a shame.

OK, guys. I said I didn't know how the writers could have managed to insert C&T into the college kid situation more. But they needed to be in the episode more...

Originally posted by countezero Just watched the episode in question. It wasn't all that bad, I think, dated effects aside. Who would have thought the dork from Back to School could play such a great part as the creepy professor? But the trio of actors at the center of the plot weren't anything to write home about. And I hated how they kept trying to forge what I call "buddy moments that build trust" between them all. Still, all in all, had Crockett and Tubbs been the guys on the inside of the college, something which I admit I don't know how they would have managed, this episode might even have been one of the season's best.

C&T or any of the Vice squad would've NEVER worked for "Leap of Faith". The whole point was that the professor was using his students, because he was in a more authoritive and adult like situation. C&T were too old buzzards to go undercover in that situation. In a college, to get kids to trust you, and to nail a teacher who only controls the kids because he's the adult.

If you're gonna do that, you should've just rearranged "Leap of Faith" to exclude the undercover thing, and make it more about C&T trying to track down a designer drug maker, who's make kids turn up dead on the streets, and make it more of a homicide procedural.
    

Just watched the episode in question. It wasn't all that bad, I think, dated effects aside.

Who would have thought the dork from Back to School could play such a great part as the creepy professor? But the trio of actors at the center of the plot weren't anything to write home about. And I hated how they kept trying to forge what I call "buddy moments that build trust" between them all.

Still, all in all, had Crockett and Tubbs been the guys on the inside of the college, something which I admit I don't know how they would have managed, this episode might even have been one of the season's best.