Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 03:36:08

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..

I watched it out of loyalty to Brent Spiner.  He's why I'm giving it one
more chance next week. 

As for the lothario little person, his casting is perfect given his role
in Tiptoes.  I know you didn't see it, but he rocked.  The casting
agents for Threshold must have seen his performance and asked for him. 

What pisses me off about Threshold is there's only one woman on the "red
team".  I mean, women are molecular biologists, and engineers, and
linguists...  why just the one?  

 
> "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.

Did I miss this pilot already?  I meant to catch it.  Let me check
Tivo... 

D'oh!  On at the same time as Arrested Development.  No contest.

 
> "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.

<sigh>  That's on the same time as the CSI season finale that I MISSED,
directed by Quentin Tarantino.  I guess I'll have to spark up the VCR. 

 
> 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.


I was going to watch it, but the teaser for the pilot had some squirting
blood in the OR and I decided against it.

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