Subj : Re: Anyone watch Threshol
To   : John Iwaniszek
From : Finnigann
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 16:07:00

-=> John Iwaniszek wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=-

 JI> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

 JI> 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.
 >

 JI> Giada De Laurentiis

Is this a reference back to Nip/Tuck?




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