Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshold?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 04:05:18

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> 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


Yes, but he plays an American on TV.

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