Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold? To : alt.tv.farscape From : Chaya Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 03:42:56 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > 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 > No, I've decided to stick with my current shows for the most part. But my students were raving about House the other day. That and "Prison Break". .