Subj : Re: [SPOILERS] [Threshold] Can't See the "Trees Made of Glass" For the Forest
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.fan.tom-servo,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv
From : Mac Breck
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 19:42:59

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

"Bozo the Evil Klown" <Evilklowwn@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1127241507.361115.142290@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Short version: Much better than I expected.

Same here!

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> - OTOH, nice to show a brainy character with some good old-fashioned
> vices.  Hollywood loves the stereotype of intelligent people as cold,
> aloof and emotionally retarded.  Seeing him gambling with a drink in
> one hand and a stripper in the other was one of the highlights of the
> pilot.

Heh, and later coming on to the most important person on the planet. :D



> - Part of it is Spiner not trying to hide his age (as in "Nemesis"),
> but he's shown for years the range to play very different characters.
> Here he's entirely credible as a non-Data scientist.

First role of his that I liked since ol' Data.



> Dutton is also
> every bit as good as expected.  In fact, the entire cast came across
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> believable.  I hope future scripts will live up to their potential.

Agreed.



> - "And on the eighth day God created Klingons."  Point for getting the
> obligatory Trek reference out of the way early on, two bonus points
for
> it being in character and appropriate to the scene.

Good for a chuckle.



> - I'm not quite clear where the ship was attacked.  It *seemed* in
many
> scenes to be 80 miles off of U.S. shores, but the North Koreans were
> the first to get a ship there, and nobody even suggested towing it in
> instead of splashing all that alien contamination all over the water.

Wasn't it ~ 80 miles off the EAST coast?  North Koreans in the
Atlantic??


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> - Once the rocket scientist realized the Xmas ornament was
> multidimensional, he should have realized there *could* be infinite
> space deeper inside than the outer leaves that were unfolding and
> retracting.
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> - When dealing with alien, multi-dimensional tech you really shouldn't
> be surprised by people appearing and disappearing at will.

I can't remember.  Did they ever put 2 and 2 together?


> - These are the brains that are supposed to be our very only chance to
> save the planet, so when planning to lure the bad guys to one location
> you put the Most Important Bait On The Planet in an unarmed,
unguarded,
> unobserved van.

Especially when the aliens can pop in and out of normal space wherever
they want (kind of like B5 jumppoints).



> The pilot was much better than expected (much credit to the cast).

Agreed.


> Of
> course given the production team's track record I was expecting such a
> sucktacular shitfest that my "Mystery Science Theater" tapes would be
> physically repelled from the TV.

Exactly.


> They had some genuinely good ideas,
> like sending information to change us into them instead of the
> stereotypical invasion fleet, but too many lapses that would have been
> caught if they'd just proofread the script once.  A sci fi show on
> Friday night on one of the Big Three nets already has too many strikes
> against it; with just a little care and thought a decent show could
> have been great.
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> NEXT WEEK: Update your firewalls, folks, 'cause the aliens figured out
> the obvious *really* fast!!!

Better update my Norton.   :-O

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
[Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church]
Gina: Who's that for?
Ezekiel Stone: Me.

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