Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold? To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 03:48:09 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Chaya wrote in news:Xns96D4E711E3F3Achayaruth@204.153.244.170: > 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". > Add house to your list,go on, go and do it now, we'll wait. Prison break has been ok but it's no great shakes. Oh and whoever commisioned supernatural should have the complete Buffy box set inserted anally, with no lube, sidewards. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .