"Will she forgive him especially since he also lost his mother due to his powers? (Okay, technically, she didn't die because of him but her second death was because of his powers.)"

Maybe He is responsible for his mother's "first death." Remember that he gave life to a fly just before she died.

@ketoile - wow, with all that plagiariasm from Amelie, and the bringing people back to life at the expense of another, or only for a limited time being taken directly from the UK show Torchwood, this show has nothing unique to it at all.

Some other commenters have compared this show to Amelie, but Bryan Fuller's use of elements from Jean-Pierre Jeunet's movies goes way beyond homage or influence (which he's admitted to in interviews). If he were publishing and did this, he'd be slapped with a plagiarism suit in short order. The look of the show, the color palette, certain shots, the deliberate quirky winsomeness...I found so many things similar that I watched Amelie again just to pinpoint as much as I could:
-Chuck's aunts are twins - there are similar creepy conjoined twin sisters in the City of Lost Children
-they worked in a water show - so did Amelie's boss
-Ned has a nervous eye twitch - so did Amelie's mother
-Chuck's aunt doesn't like to be touched, neither does Amelie's mother
-Amelie as a little girl is convinced by a neighbor that by taking pictures of things, she has inadvertently caused several serious accidents and killed many people.
-both Amelie and Nino were shut-ins growing up just like Chuck and Ned - in Amelie's case this was caused by the accidental death of her mother (a tourist jumping from Notre Dame), just like Chuck's was by the bizarre death of her father
-Ned lives over the resturant just like the grocer lives over his store in Amelie
-the use of the narrator
-the noting people's ages down to the second
-in the scene at the aunt's house, there's a song playing that is also on the Amelie soundtrack
-the globe-trotting monkeys/ globe-trotting gnome
-the aunts are freed from their isolated lives by getting the reward, Amelie's father is convinced to travel by the photos of the traveling gnome

Fuller is using someone else's material as a crutch, and for a show that's being hailed as so different and creative, I think that's a real black mark.

I haven't watched it yet, but reading the premise of the show, it sounds like a direct steal from the storyline that runs through various episodes of the UK show "Torchwood".

On that show they have an alien artifact and with that they have the ability to bring people back to life. They also have the limitation of keeping them alive only for about a minute. The time they do it longer than that, the person is fully revived and can't die. In order for her to stay alive though, she's gradually draining life away from another person, who must die if the revivee wants to stay revived permanently.

Does that not sound exactly like the premise for this Pushing Daisies show? OK they replaced an alien artifact with a person's "ability", but that was hardly a creative stretch with so many shows/films around with people having special powers (X-men1/2/3, The 4400, Taken, Heroes etc).

I'll get around to watching it, and probably like it, but thought someone should point out how this show isn't an original idea, and don't think Torchwood is an old show either. It's 2006 and was a huge success.

Loooved it.

Loved the characters, and the narrator; loved the story; loved the way the pilot was shot. I hope this series sticks around. Can't wait to see what they did with the second eppy.

This series was definitely inspired by Amélie. They even played the song "Guilty" which played when Ned met Chuck's aunts. That same song also played in Amélie, as well as appearing on the Amélie soundtrack.

The Pushing Daisies pilot is undoubtedly the best of this season. However, I have serious reservations. I'm not sure this show has the legs to last multiple 22 episode seasons. The main characters are charming, but they're not what I would call "deep". At least not deep enough to allow the show to be character-driven. Since Daisies is a kind of mystery procedural, the characters HAVE to carry the series, otherwise the "mystery of the week" will fall flat despite how offbeat or colorful it is. I'm not sure that Ned, Chuck, and Emerson are strong enough personalities and have enough layers to carry this premise.

I hated Big Fish, I cringe at Tim Burton Movies...But I loved Amelie.

I dislike the Narrators "Willy Wonka style" on Pushing Daisies, but Anna Friel is so charming that I am going to keep watching. We'll see which one wins out.

It was hilarious when she kicked the dead body of her murderer.

Could be a bit too quirky for its own good but it has to roll out over a few episodes before I decide whether it's good or bad. The first show will get me to do what it wants me to do: watch next week.

Sooner or later this show is going to get screwed up either by network execs sticking their noses in and making unnecessary changes or by viewer pressure to find a loop hole to Ned's 'power' so he can touch--or at least kiss--Chuck. When that happens (it's not a question of if), they have to do something more clever than sticking gloves on the man or doing some true love conquers all crap.

I fell in love with this show from the first minute of it I saw. The bright candy-colors and the whimsical narration sucked me right it. I just adore the visual look of it, and the whole feel of the show itself. It's one of those times where you realize that it's exactly what you've been wanting, but weren't aware of it.

Ned and Chuck's situation is absolutely heartbreaking, though. They're so cute together, but everytime they want to touch each other but can't, it's like a little knife in my heart. I was tearing up at that part at the end with them holding their own hands and pretending they're holding each other's. It's kind of painful to watch them, not being able to have the slightest touch between them, but it's such a sweet pain.