It's incredible how I saw some of this show, but didn't pay much attention to Grayson back then...Now with me watching most of the eps on tape, I realized why. Sean had less airtime/story than the others! Jeremy(the new kid/troublemaker), Clay (the angry middle son), Alice (the daughter/mother figure) etc. Grayson played a good, noble guy tryin to break away from the horse breeding business to pursue his own thing--tobacco farming.
I got tapes from Greenlight productions (was mentioned on GM's official board), and I highly recommend it if you want to at least see Grayson in another series. Also, he's eye-candy here on a a shallow note with his Fwine 1880s clothing.
I recall the online interest on the show, and it's a shame UPN as a fledgling network didn't give it a chance beyond one season. I've read old interviews about the cast and how they said they loved Legacy and wanted to work on the show forever. I think Grayson was having the time of his life working with the horses and working in Virginia. As a personal aside, I think this was a PAX-like TV show and could've ran longer!
As a trivia note, I also had the original pilot to see, and I was like...umm where's Marita? Well, Sharon Leal wasn't in the original pilot, and it was another actress playing Marita (whom I thought really looked old). They redid the pilot to do episode one with Sharon on board and they changed the Marita/Sean ending...in the original, after Sean breaks up his engagement and admits to Marita he loved her, they share a kiss. Then I saw episode one, and they don't kiss; Marita backs away as Sean moved in closer. I guess this was to leave an out with the "attraction at a distance" motif to allow Sean in other pairings (well just one with the "authoress").
I thoroughly enjoyed watching and unfortunately, I believe this was the last Western that aired on network tv. Dang.
updated 1/14 twice: Okay I've watched a little bit more and I have 3 1/2 episodes left. I just couldn't believe how the show took a different turn with Charlotte's arrival? The music, the direction, the stories! After watching, I went to Brett Cullen's site, and it explained it all. UPN forced the exec. to make the show more soapy to make it more viable. Too bad it got axed anyway. It was too soapy and just got corny. I have been FF these last tapes (which I didn't even do the first 14 eps) to just the Sean scenes...I think the only consolation to the Charlotte's debut episode was sexy Grayson being shaved...the way the camera angled it was haunting with Marita helping Sean. Grayson's EYES ARE AMAZING! Times like this I wish I could do screencaps! Guess whenever I want to get a Grayson happy fix is to watch this scene and keep the tape there!
EEEEEE!!!! I found out a website does have the screensnappie!
That website is a fabu Legacy site...check it out!
I finally saw this this year, though I only got to see the first half. After hearing about how it ended, looks like I didn't miss much. Supposedly it was a "pilot" like movie that was going to evolve into a TVseries perhaps on Sci-Fi. While the special effects were okay, I wasn't too keen on the story much, and the salvation was Grayson playing the main character well for most of the movie (somehow we never see what happens to him in the end--ala suppose to be a tv series lead-off). Grayson in glasses, yum. Grayson seen jogging, double yum. And there's a corny telekinetic sex scene (that seemingly had zero build-up to lead to it) where I wondered how the actors kept their faces straight. I'm also thinking that Sci-Fi network may milk this movie and show it more often now that Teri Hatcher is frontburning on Desperate Housewives. She played an FBI agent. Anyway, watch it if you get a chance just to see Grayson period. That's all I can say.
updated: 4/10, I finally got to see the rest of the film; not too shabby second-half. It did seem like it was a pilot for a continuing series; I think it could've done good on Sci-Fi. I also think Teri's and Grayson's character looked good together; Teri did this a year before Desperate Housewives
so it seemed like fate that somehow the Momentum series never evolved. I can't get over how great G looks in scruff and jeans. YUMMERS
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