Subj : Re: Threshold-- Looking Goood! To : alt.tv.andromeda From : KT3000 Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 19:48:09 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.andromeda "Ron Hubbard" wrote in message news:11inrq2fmp2qa2c@corp.supernews.com... > Despite Brannon Braga being associated with it, the new show really looks like it > has great promise. Unknown aliens, woman running around half-naked, and Brent > Spiner-- a winning combination I think. Zombies from Outer Space All good. The problem I think is stated right in the series signature tag line, "What to do if we're screwed". People like to have a sense of hope in their weekly entertainment, especially these days. "WTDIWS" didn't exactly attract me to watch this in the first place (being scifi and featuring Brent Spiner did) and after the first two hours I'm left with a bit of a downer feeling. If _Threshold_ continues to be crisis management week after week, keeping our heads above water but with no hope of rescue in sight, it's going to disappear fast. Being on CBS sets a much higher bar for ratings survival than on any other network these days. And last night's overnight's were sort of a wash. _Threshold_ finished second behind NBC. CBS expects to win Fridays. And this was for a premiere episode against mostly repeat programing. Plus series playing to more sophisticated tastes usually do better in the overnights than the final nationals. On the plus side _Threshold finished number one in the key 18-49 demo where CBS is looking for improvement on Friday night. The key may be if _Threshold can sustain that margn. Some over the top reality check items which bugged me: Why the concern about the North Koreans? This was a USN ship two hundred miles off the US coast. Wouldn't the USN just tell the Koreans hands off, keep your distance, all while holding a very large *shotgun*? A home video camera which records multi-spectrum images? And if the aeronautics expert's fiancoe turns out to be the zombie sailor's emailing ex ... OTOH - "You are not Borg" LOL!! .