Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshol
To   : Nick
From : Finnigann
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 16:06:00

-=> Nick wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=-

 Ni> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

 Ni> 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%


 Ni> Well, my mileage varies a bit because I think that the current five
 Ni> Rachel Ray shows is four shows too many.

While not your usual hottie, she's effervesant to the extreme.



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