Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 03:50:55

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Chaya <chayaruthNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in 
> news:Xns96D4E711E3F3Achayaruth@204.153.244.170:
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> Chaya <chayaruthNOSPAM@gmail.com> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> <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. 
>>> 
>>>  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
> 

lol.  I'll try to catch it, but I'm gonna get shit from the husband for
watching so much tv.

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