Posted on 09/14/2008 8:06:53 PM PDT by KevinDavis
This Weeks Sci-Fi Thread (09/14/08):
Mon:
8/7 - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- Fox
Tues:
8/7 - Fringe -- Fox
8/9 - Eureka -- SciFi
Fri:
10/9 - Stargate Atlantis -- SciFi
I've had the cliffhanger for season nine on the DVR for a while. It's been on twice, in fact.
Then, last week, they had a marathon of Season 10 episodes. But they DIDN'T start with the season opener!
I only watched the 199th and 200th episodes. The rest are still saved and waiting.
This past weekend was the last time SG1 aired in Syndication..
Fringe - Decent show, but it was REALLY boring. They took a half-hour Twighlight Zone and made it into a movie. Waaayyyy too long. The future episodes should be better, since they will be 40 minutes instead of 1:15.
Eureka - Not as good as last season, plus they killed off one of the best characters. The hippie chick is VERY irritating. I guess that is mostly my conservative bias showing, though.
Atlantis is officially cancelled. No idea how many more eps we are going to get. Too bad, too. It was getting good.
I kind of liked Fringe...Broyles reminds me of a friend from awhile back, and I’m really looking forward to seeing more of him. A very promising character.
I never watched it in syndication but hear it's a good show...
The hippie chick is going to cost viewers I have been hanging in there since her appearance, but much more of this character and I am going to pass on Eureka.
The biggest problem I have with getting involved in a new series is that most of them get discontinued before a legitimate ending.
Kinda like reading a good novel then discovering that the last 75 pages are missing........
HEROES.....7 days and counting..........
I actually liked Fringe... it could become really good or really awful, and I think it’s going to go one way or the other really fast, but so far it was fun to watch for the special effects and explosions, and it had a halfway decent plot, but super-lame dialogue and acting. Why they even advertised the fact that it was scripted by ‘the writers of Transformers’ was beyond me, cause as far as I could tell, the writing in Transformers could have been done by giving an 8-year-old some action figures and writing down the results. Beyond that, it really looks like my type of show.
I haven’t seen last weekend’s Stargate Atlantis yet cause I still haven’t got DVR, but the one before it, “Whispers” was really good. I’ve been missing that kind of TV since the X-Files and Buffy went off the air =( Although, I agree with you on Teyla. The one thing about the Stargate franchise that always appealed to me the most was that there were cool female characters that were more than just completely useless eye candy (although I NEED Teyla’s clothes. She’s the best-dressed female character currently on TV, IMO.)
If you have broadband you can watch every season of Lost on ABC TV in high-def. Lost is my personal favorite TV show of all-time. I think it's riveting. And I just turned 50 so I'm no "kid". :)
Terminator - Still works well, but I’m afraid they are about to go on some strange plot tangent
Fringe - Idea is good, execution is ridiculous. Needed another 2-3 plot points to hold the time it was given for the pilot, and a slightly more believable basis. “Basement of Harvard” may have sounded good in the writing room, but unless some explanation was cut out, it was too unbelievable for the audience.
Eureka - Average show, and I have to go against the flow and say I like the sister being there as a foil/problem causer. Stark was getting too 1-dimensional and any character growth was cut off because the writers could not allow him to marry Blake. It would be nice to see some of the scientists be put off with her rather than wanting to date her though.
Atlantis - The Wraith have to die or be cast off quick for a new enemy. My dream would be for them to discover “ascension” isn’t just some Buddhist thing and that the Ancients and human evolution are not the only path to some “heaven” existence. Of course, if they could explore that, then they wouldn’t be getting cancelled.
I would be more excited if season 2 didn't almost completely ruin the show.
I liked Whispers cause of Nicole Deboer. The about Stargate is that they made smart look sexy..
BTW, I was watching the second episode and I was pretty darned certain that Data [Brent Spiner] had a bit part as the county coroner, although I can't find credits for it anywhere.
If true, then oh, how the might have fallen.
Is it me or is Terminator the most “Christian” Sci-Fi??
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