Subj : Re: Threshold-- Looking Goood!
To   : alt.tv.andromeda
From : Ron Hubbard
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 02:29:14

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"KT3000" <kt3000@mad.scientist.com> wrote in message
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> "Ron Hubbard" <hubbard_ron@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > 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!!

Oh, I didn't know they were of the coast of the US; then the Korean angle
was just a red herring after all they were international waters. But I'm not
gonna nit-pick over minor things like the camera when it's in a pilot.
They are trying to find their way and Threshold seems
to have gotten of to a better start than Enterprise ever did.

I have a 6th sense when it comes to whether or not a series will survive,
and Threshold seems to me it's going to last a while. If it's going to be
good, only time will tell.

That other new show, Surface, seems intriguing but
if that kid has a cutesy alien critter like E.T. or something, then that's
going to sink it straight to
the bottom.

Supernatural is looking really cool despite that made-for- the young & hip
feel to it that all of the WB's
shows have (except for 7th Heaven). But I'm not too impressed by those kind
of superficial flashy video
effects. Overall, it may not be a bad new season
after all.

Ron

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