Posted on 11/19/2006 8:53:37 PM PST by Snickering Hound
"143 posts, and nobody has mentioned The Unit."
I was also counting the posts and feeling very dissappointed in my fellow FReepers. I'd like to also add NCIS to the list of "must see TeeeVeee."
Not only do boomers have more money - they have more influence with the younger generation. What Grampa has to say has more sway than what Mom says... Same with Grandma.
And original series Trek every night. Watched a bunch of the marathon this weekend while working on my modeling stuff, and it was great. I had forgtooen how well-written those shows are...cheesy effects and overdone acting aren't nearly enough to overcome it.
Every time I see one of those Cialis ads with the couples in bathtbs, i can't help thinking, "If they do it in one of theose bathtubs, somebody's gonna break a hip!
It actually wasn’t the SciFi channel that resurrected it….per se.
It was a producer from one of the worst shows ever: Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I watched an interview with him where he said once he was done with DS9, he was done with Science Fiction for good.
But someone gave him a set of the original BSG series and as he was watching it he thought to himself “Wow, this is stupid and campy, but the story has incredible potential.”
Where upon, he approached the Sci Fi channel with the outline for the mini-series.
I think the thing that’s most amazing about the series is not that Sci Fi agreed to re-hash it but, that they didn’t insist on changing it and making it campy like the original…….that’s something they seem to do with everything they produce.
The writer stuck to his guns, determined not to let the new BSG turn into a insipid, childish series like DS9.
I kinda liked the allergy drug commercial with the guy and his girlfriend's cat.
I'm 20-something and I'm with what I'm seeing here. History Channel, Discovery Channel, HGTV, FoodTv, TLC (still learning to cook :) That's the vast majority of my viewing. I rarely watch the network stuff anymore. I do occasionally watch Reba, which is on whatever the WB used to be. That's a good clean reasonably decent show. Not earthshattering, but not bad and infinitely better than reality TV. I'm also a Golden Girls/Cosby Show/Designing Women addict. Yes, Designing Women had the flaming liberal, but at least she had good morals and the show was clever. Plus, it was the first show to show realistic southerners.
History/Discovery/A&E and sports. Television is not so bad if you stay away from the network crap and that PBS abomination.
I was replying to someone bashing Boomers. The spirit of my post mirrored his ... Gen Xer!
Good post, House is a good show.
Boo freakin' hoo .. of course, TV, in general, is very low quality entertainment within the realm of mainstream media broadcasting.
It was a producer from one of the worst shows ever: Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I watched an interview with him where he said once he was done with DS9, he was done with Science Fiction for good.
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The writer stuck to his guns, determined not to let the new BSG turn into a insipid, childish series like DS9.
That makes BSG even more amazing. DS9 was weak, among the Star Trek series, but to my mind, the weakest had to have been Voyager; the totally PC Star Trek. At least DS9 had the Ferengi, the original party animals. Making money, gambling, naked females; those guys know how to live.
I've never seen House and didn't list it.
Wow. Most Star Trek fans--at least online--regard DS9 as the best of the Trek spinoffs. Never seen it called "weak" or "insipid." It was the only human Star Trek since the original. None of this Roddenberry, liberal, "we're so perfect we don't even argue" crap. The Ferengi were always capitalist whipping boys on the other shows, but DS9 tried to make them a little more than that. And, capitalism got a positive spin on a few episodes of DS9, such as the one where Jake learned about capitalism while trying to get a baseball card for his dad. And, religion--even if it wasn't our own--got the only positive view in the spinoffs on DS9.
I didn't appreciate the underlying storyline of the CO sleeping with one of his men's wife--and sending him on missions just so he can get a little sack time! I stopped watching because of that. Maybe they toned that down.
The family dynamic on that show is great. They really sell that they are brothers. There were a couple of moments I didn't like, like when the crazy right-wing preacher's wife was using the reaper to kill abortionists or whatever, but that was just one episode, and the rest is good. I think the ratings are improving, so hopefully it'll be around a while.
1964 myself...
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