Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold? To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 03:38:19 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape "RR" wrote in news:F44Xe.16796$w46.8121@tornado.texas.rr.com: > 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. Ah, Doctor Doom in a good thing for a change, I swear if somebody here says Charmed I will beat seven shades of shit out of them. Have you ever seen Rebbeca's daughters? Weeds man is all about relaxing and kicking back with a little weeds. Invasion reminded my so much of a tv show that was on here week in week out for what seemed like an eternity, the INVAders Dumdum duuuuuuMM! Maybe I am carrying over the baggage from that. Besides wasn't it Gary Cole in that or whatever the hell his name is and isn't he in that bloody awful cop show Wanted now? Yes I can't see it lasting long but he can't be in two places at once can he, unless he is an evil alien clone sent here to play bad policemen? I miss American gothic. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .