Posted on 04/29/2010 9:01:41 AM PDT by EveningStar
Warehouse 13 will be back July 6.
I wish they would just go with no special effects then. If the budget is that low, just go with acting and bad guys in the shadows. I can’t do bad CGI effects any longer.
Yeah they’re pretty bad. But really everything about those things is horrid. I only watch them if there’s some “special” reason, like it’s got Bruce Campbell. Even then it’s usually quite painful.
I still haven’t decided if I actually like Warehouse 13, watched the whole season, but I still don’t know. Some parts are pretty fun, some parts are a bad combo of the Friday the 13th TV show and X-Files. The actors are all pretty good though, that keeps me coming back.
It seems like half the time I flick over to SyFy, they’re showing ‘Ghost Hunters’.
Ghost Hunters is the dumbest show ever.
A bunch of people walking through old buildings in the dark with night vision and pretending to hear noises.
Regarding the “mining ship.” I asked a geek(ier) friend of mine about that.
Apparently there is a whole back-story for the Romulan nutballs that explains their arming their ship with super-weapons. It also includes a long stay in on a Klingon prison planet (followed by their escape and wiping out a Klingon fleet). Maybe its in the novelization. It is not in the movie (obviously) because there was no time or space for it.
Doesn’t make me like the movie any more, but there ya go.
between the pc manure like caprica/galactica
or
the butchered “miniseries” which seem like they were made by a stoned druggie
or
horror movies
or
the ENDLESS STUPID GHOst huner junk
where is the scifi in syfy?
it is as if some clueless woman female dog exec or homosexual fashionista retooled the network.
I never liked BINO - the colonists were too stupid to live.
If it was a ship that plied modern Somolian routes, it would have a few tricks. Furthermore, space being a little more dangerous than an ocean, there would definitely be a few defensive weapons, and defensive weapons in today's era tend to beat offensive weapons 100 years ago.
Look at the typical merchant ship of the 1940's, who had (at the best) a .50 cal Browning on a pintle. It would make mincemeat of a ship of the line of 1840's.
How about a WWII Victory supply ship with 50mm or 25mm guns vs a sailing wood battleship.
metal vs wood.
power vs sail
Warehouse 13 was another SyFy show I liked. It was fun. The cast worked well together and the stories were interesting once disbelief was sufficiently suspended. It worked.
SyFy really sucks now.
It seems every time i turn it on there is some ridiculous wrestling show on.
If not wrestling then it is a marathon of the moronic Ghost Hunter shows.
When there is a movie on it’s a day of giant snake and alligator movies.
Bleh.
I should have read your post before repeating it in post 52.
I don’t count the new Star Trek as serious at all, I’m not sure if I’ll watch the sequel and this is coming from someone who’s not only watched every episode of every series, but also reads the books. I actually liked the way Romulans were protrayed in Enterprise and Nemesis except for them having a cloak too early. Having the Remans as Janissaries was actually a homage to the novels which described them as such since the 70’s.
There is a real trend going on about ‘dumbing down’ science fiction. Abrams himself said he was a Star Wars fan, not Star Trek growing up so for people like him, actually explaining stuff to the audiance is more of a boring chore that can often be ignored then something that crucial to a space opera. The context of your setting is everything and without it the story has less meaning.
So in Star Trek, instead of having your Data, Spock, Dax, (or even Seven!) you have this weird loverboy Spock who doesn’t for ONCE question the properties of this strange substance was that destroyed his planet.
In Stargate Universe you have these characters Rush and Eli that don’t hold a candle to Jackson, Carter, or Rodney. One plays around with floating balls everyday or pines for the hot chick he’ll never get and the other is just shady as hell and does things without explaining it to the audiance.
Creature from the Black Lagoon springs to mind:)
great, great movie!!
Simply look at the USS Texas-I know from 1912 but whats 2 years- She would laugh off anti ship missiles such as Harpoon and Exocet- with sweepers man your brooms-only torpedoes would really hurt her.
I read an article a couple of years ago about how SciFi made a deal: 100 made for SciFi channel movies for 100 million $.
Every time I see an ad for Mega-Whatever I think about how they absolutely churn those things out like a production line.
Nothing makes me turn the channel faster than rasslin’
Seems like a perfect fit to me. Every guy I’ve ever known that watched wrestling is a total nerd.
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