[scoopscandal]

Gosh...I guess I'm the only one who liked it.

It's definately slow, epics don't usually take off running. I'm going to save my judgement until the end.

Best Regards,

[Just another Joe]

You're not the only one.
I agree, epic mini-series don't normally take off with a zoom. If you're expecting a two hour adrenalin rush, this isn't it.
I'll give it the first three days to develop. If it doesn't go somewhere by then I'll fall back on my books.

[js1138]

You aren't the only one who liked it. I wouldm't give it an "A", but it is well done. I guess I'm just different, because I haven't found any sci-fi television worth watching in the last ten years.

Of course now the sci-fi channel has both John Edwards and Steven Speilberg -- a double dose.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I guess that makes three of us. I think it's somewhat believeable, unlike films like Alien. I also liked Close Encounters.

[mil-vet]

Gosh...I guess I'm the only one who liked it.

No, you're not. It appears that there are three or four of us who like it. *GRIN*

This is definitely not a series for the casual viewer - there are myriad subtleties in each episode which one will miss if one does not pay attention, sometimes merely one line of dialog buried in a whole paragraph, or a fleeting glimpse of something or other. Without catching these, it CAN become a mundane, boring program.

ATTEMPTED HUMOR ALERT:

Years ago, I took my then teen-aged daughter to see the movie "Pelican Brief" - she said she didn't like it because she had to pay attention too hard to follow the story (she's now a college graduate, so she has partially vindicated herself - *GRIN*). Perhaps like my then teen-aged daughter, y'all who don't like it just aren't paying attention?

END ATTEMPTED HUMOR.

All seriousness aside, I'm watching with interest, probably because it DOES track with the general nature of the mainstream stories about abduction, UFO's, etc., told by those supposedly involved. In my mind, there is simply too much smoke for there not to be a fire SOMEwhere out there....

[missmanhattan]

Taken will be nominated for an Emmy.

[Quix]

Given that I'm usually doing more than one thing while watching TV, it was entertaining enough for me.

But I expected a lot more from Speilberg--especially for 20 hours.

It looked like totally a money making sort of enertainmnet thing. . . . unless the 20 hours was a kind of consciousness raising effort just in it's mass of time.