Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 04:00:45

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Chaya <chayaruthNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in 
news:Xns96D4E86BED704chayaruth@204.153.244.170:

> 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. 
> 

Tell him it's research,besides what's there not to love about a sarcastic 
antisocial English cripple?
 Ted
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Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to 
hide the bodies

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