Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshol
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 17:11:15

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek wrote:

> Nick wrote:
> 
>> Finnigann wrote:
>> 
>>> To: Nick
>>> -=> Nick wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=-
>>> 
>>> Ni> From Newsgroup:
>>> alt.tv.farscape 
>>> 
>>> Ni> 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..
>>>> 
>>>> "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.
>>>> 
>>>> "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. 
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ni> Sorry, but the best thing currently on TV is Good Eats with
>>> Alton Ni> Brown.
>>> 
>>> Followed by  anything with Rachael Rae... she is Sooo danged
>>> perky... I can cut back on coffee by 50% 
>> 
>> 
>> Well, my mileage varies a bit because I think that the current
>> five Rachel Ray shows is four shows too many.
>> 
> 
> Giada De Laurentiis
> 

Watching her now.

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