Subj : Re: Threshold
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 20:23:11

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:

> I know Chaya asked if anybody watched it, I had recorded it and got
> the chance to see it yesterday.
> 
> Production values were ok, the story was somewhat tolerable once you
> got past the NASA kid trying to talk over the audience, and the midget
> trying to do the same. Either of those two scenes could have stayed
> watchable by just lowering the technobabble-meter a notch or two.
> 
> I think Brent Spiner's character is asking a lot of the civil
> liberties questions that BSG does, and maybe that's a good thing.
> 
> Like him, like Molly, like the NSA guy, and the ghost.
> 
> It isn't and probably won't rise to the level of 'appointment TV' of
> couse the idea you should arrange a schedule around a TV program is
> laughable, but to some people that's the height of TV quality, so I
> use it as a watermark this thing won't reach.


I'm hoping it gets better.  Sometimes once all the exposition and
backstory is out of the way, writers can concentrate on the actual
STORY.  We'll see.

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