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 : Wade Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 19:37:51 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise I thought it was just okay. I didn't have any prior knowledge of the show, so I didn't have any expectations. The lead character was nice to look at it, but aside from that it was just okay. "Dave Fain" wrote in message news:gRfYe.8486$Ew4.1088@bignews5.bellsouth.net... > Honestly, I fell asleep during it twice. > > > > "Bozo the Evil Klown" wrote in message > news:1127241507.361115.142290@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >> Short version: Much better than I expected. >> >> S >> >> P >> >> O >> >> I >> >> L >> >> E >> >> R >> >> >> S >> >> P >> >> A >> >> C >> >> E >> >> Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood. No doubt a lot of suits >> were expecting Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" to be the big Summer >> blockbuster, which is why all Big Three have alien invasion shows out >> this Fall. I'm a bit behind, so I've only just caught the first to >> premiere. >> >> Signals from the CBS network caused the following patterns to form in >> my theta waves: >> >> - The Navy spent a lot of tax dollars installing those monitors on the >> Bridge (to say nothing of the R & D and manufacturing of the sensor >> tech feeding them). You could at least glance at them once in a while. >> >> - They can round up anyone at a moment's notice, whisk them to >> Washington via chopper, but it's not until The Most Important Person >> goes down to Control HQ to brief the Cabinet that they think to find >> someone to hand Fido over to? >> >> - They need the best work from the A-Team, so the ghost tries his best >> to make the linguist feel put upon and undervalued- doubly strange , >> since later on we see the ghost does have rudimentary skills. >> >> - 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. >> >> - 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. Dutton is also >> every bit as good as expected. In fact, the entire cast came across as >> believable. I hope future scripts will live up to their potential. >> >> - "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. >> >> - 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. >> >> - The linguist guy is also supposed to be a hot-shot mathematician, but >> it took him quite a while to recognize the tie-dye pattern was a >> fractal design. >> >> - 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. >> >> - BTW, did it remind anyone else of the animations for the growing >> polyhedrons in "Andromeda Strain?" >> >> - These guys do not watch enough movies. When the corpse started >> moving their very first response should have been to put all the bodies >> in restraints. >> >> - I can buy a multidimensional doohickey manipulating us from the >> inside out (much like us three-D critters can reach inside a two-D >> drawing on a piece of paper) but for recordings of the "signal" to have >> similar powers is *really* pushing the credibility envelope, even by >> skiffy standards. I had the same reaction to this as when the "CSI" >> folk take a digital picture of someone's eye two or three pixels across >> and "enhance" a picture of the picture-taker reflected in the eye. >> >> - And then knowing the power of the signal they later start >> broadcasting part of it, through loudspeakers, for hours. >> >> - A gun is a ***LOT*** more effective when you're not standing close >> enough to the intended target for him to grab it. Granted it wasn't >> too effective in any case, but the ghost should have seen that coming. >> >> - BTW, when you put three or four bullets into someone's chest and >> they're still moving, either A) Find a better weapon or B) Find some >> means of increasing the distance between you and it. Something that's >> merely annoyed by bullets + pissing it off = *not* your best day ever. >> >> - When dealing with alien, multi-dimensional tech you really shouldn't >> be surprised by people appearing and disappearing at will. >> >> - 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. And then no one is even looking outside the plant, so >> the appearance of all the townsfolk is such a big surprise... Look, >> Braga, Trek is dead for now. It's too late to try to make Starfleet >> Security look competent by comparison. >> >> - At least they had a semblance of a plan, though given the target >> instead of moving the troops within grabbing range with the cattle >> prods, standing off and machine-gunning trank darts into him until a >> minute or so after he goes down would have been my preferred plan. >> >> - Once the camera zoomed way up from their car who could doubt we'd see >> another fractal spiral? Surely someone is going to take notice of the >> pattern of the blackout. They really need a canny spin doctor on the >> team. >> >> The pilot was much better than expected (much credit to the cast). 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. 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. >> >> NEXT WEEK: Update your firewalls, folks, 'cause the aliens figured out >> the obvious *really* fast!!! >> >> ***** >> The Joker in the Eeeeeeevil Cabal Deck of Cards. >> >> OZ: So... do you guys steal weapons from the Army a lot? >> >> WILLOW: Well, we don't get cable, so we have to make our own fun. >> > > .