Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 03:19:09

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

RR wrote:

> weirdwolf wrote:
> 
>>>>> I bailed on SG-1 last night to watch it (and I probably won't
>>>>> go back to SG-1 unless Claudia comes back.  I watched the
>>>>> first 30 minutes this morning and just gave up).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Pretty formulaic, but I'm going to give it another chance next
>>>>> week. 
>>>> 
>>>> What do you get if you cross Jaws with close encounters of the
>>>> third kind? 
>>>> A load of steaming rancid chum apparently.
>>>> Ted
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> mmmmmmmchummmmmmmmm
>>> 
>>> Oh, wait.  That's bad.
>>> 
>>> ;)
>> 
>> Mind you the same could be said of that surface show.
>> I don't know what it is recently but a lot of the shows/screeners
>> that are about really seem to have their roots in the 50's red
>> menace form of sci-fi. Now watch Ross's head explode when I say
>> that sort of movie does nothing for me. 
> 
> No way, man. I concur. I've seen all three of the new sci-fi
> pilots and they are alarmingly similar in various ways.
> 
> Hated what I saw of "Threshold". Turned it off about 15 minutes
> in. The fact that Braga (or whoever) had to toss a "Trek" in-joke
> 10 minutes in was about the time my blood started to boil. That
> and a horny lothario dwarf? Gimme a break..
> 
> "Surface", despite the overwhelmingly negative press, I liked
> quite a bit. It's got potential to go cool places. Most of all
> though I totally dug on the underwater photography.
> 
> "Invasion" is probably the best of the lot, despite having a
> seemingly weak "Body Snatcheresque" premise. It's got a great cast
> and well-written characters which is probably it's saving grace.
> 
> But the real truth is that it's highly unlikely that any of these
> shows will be appointment TV for me. None of them blew me away and
> made me ache for the next installment.
> 
> "Nip/Tuck" S3 starts on Tuesday. There is no better TV currently
> available than N/T. *That's* appt. TV.
> 

Sorry, but the best thing currently on TV is Good Eats with Alton 
Brown.

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