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This Weeks Sci-Fi Thread (10/05/08)
10/05/08 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 10/05/2008 4:58:09 PM PDT by KevinDavis

This weeks Sci-Fi Thread 10/05/08:

Monday: 8/7 - Terminator -- Fox
9/8 - Heroes -- NBC


Tuesday:
9/8 - Fringe -- Fox

Wednesday:
8/7 - Knight Rider -- NBC

Thursday:
10/9 - Life on Mars -- ABC

Friday:
9/8 - Sanctuary -- SciFi


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: scifi
Well Sanctuary was ok.. I do miss seeing Amanda Tapping in Military Fatigues...
1 posted on 10/05/2008 4:58:10 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 10/05/2008 4:59:07 PM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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I taped it. Hopefully, I’ll get to watch it tomorrow.


3 posted on 10/05/2008 5:13:50 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
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It is different that is all I’m going to say..


4 posted on 10/05/2008 5:18:16 PM PDT by KevinDavis (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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Really liked Sanctuary. Kind of reminds me of Men in Black.


5 posted on 10/05/2008 5:41:51 PM PDT by make no mistake
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I thought Sanctuary felt a lot like a Hellboy rip-off (especially the girl in the tank), despite primarily being advertised as a Torchwood rip-off. It was decent, or at least better than anything else you’re going to find on cable on a Friday night and it contained a plot that you could follow. However, what the ‘forensic psychologist’ does, it’s pretty much nothing like what forensic psychologists actually do, but that made me laugh very hard so I didn’t mind as much.

Also, WTF was up with Amanda Tapping’s accent? It sounded like a cross between a bad English accent and a heavy Canadian accent. It annoyed me immensely.


6 posted on 10/05/2008 7:06:39 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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yes, I was wondering about the accent thing too. Maybe it was because of her age and she’s been around.


7 posted on 10/05/2008 7:46:35 PM PDT by make no mistake
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So what is ‘Life on Mars’?


8 posted on 10/06/2008 5:03:08 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (White Trash for Sarah!)
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Fringe was great. Too bad we have to wait a week.


9 posted on 10/06/2008 11:38:15 AM PDT by maclay (NObama!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

“Life on Mars” is about a cop that gets hit by a car and wakes up in the ‘70s. The British version was great, but only 12 episodes (2 seasons). It is basically a cop drama set in the ‘70s. I got a few good laughs out of seeing the politically correct future cop get verbally slapped around by the gritty cops of the ‘70s. Not really sci-fi, but very good.


10 posted on 10/08/2008 10:09:54 PM PDT by America_Right (Palin 2012!)
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Ugh... The new sci-fi shows this season are terrible.

I absolutely despised Sanctuary. Amanda's fake Brit accent is nauseating. The only redeeming quality of that show was the main antagonist, and he was only in a bit of the show. The whole premise is flawed, stupid, and way too politically correct for my taste. The whole "diversity" and "tolerance" thing is getting really, really old.

I gave Fringe a chance. Watched 3 episodes and gave up. Yuck. Total, complete rubbish. Oh, and it's BORING! 2001 - A Space Oddysey was an action-packed shoot-em-up comparatively.

Terminator continues to be the best "newer" sci-fi show on TV, imho.

11 posted on 10/08/2008 10:19:05 PM PDT by America_Right (Palin 2012!)
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Thanks, sounds mildly amusing. I am still awaiting the end of Battlestar Galactica.
12 posted on 10/08/2008 10:29:10 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (White Trash for Sarah!)
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I have been joking with an old Navy buddy of mine that the whole thing will come down to the Earth being destroyed by globull warming.

I can just see one of the crew saying to Adama "The CO2 concentration is so high that the planet became uninhabitable". I am putting up a remote shield so I don't break my rather expensive tv when that happens...

13 posted on 10/08/2008 11:26:44 PM PDT by America_Right (Palin 2012!)
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