Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold? To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 03:41:58 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Chaya wrote in news:Xns96D4E5EABEDC5chayaruth@204.153.244.170: > 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? I would watch a show with a female cunning linguist in it, the more the merrier. >> "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. > > 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. Watch the C.S.I. trust me on this. >> 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. > Did you watch the first in the new series of House? Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .