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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 : Dave Fain
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 12:14:46

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

Honestly, I fell asleep during it twice.



"Bozo the Evil Klown" <Evilklowwn@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> Short version: Much better than I expected.
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> 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.
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> Signals from the CBS network caused the following patterns to form in
> my theta waves:
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> - 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.
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> - 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?
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> - 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.
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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.
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> - 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.
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> - "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.
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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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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> - BTW, did it remind anyone else of the animations for the growing
> polyhedrons in "Andromeda Strain?"
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> - And then knowing the power of the signal they later start
> broadcasting part of it, through loudspeakers, for hours.
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> - When dealing with alien, multi-dimensional tech you really shouldn't
> be surprised by people appearing and disappearing at will.
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> - 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.
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> 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.
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> NEXT WEEK: Update your firewalls, folks, 'cause the aliens figured out
> the obvious *really* fast!!!
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> *****
> The Joker in the Eeeeeeevil Cabal Deck of Cards.
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> OZ: So... do you guys steal weapons from the Army a lot?
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> WILLOW: Well, we don't get cable, so we have to make our own fun.
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