Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 03:28:09

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

> 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.
> 

LOL.  Good show.  He rocks.

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