RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

Sat, 14 May 2005 18:26:28 -0700

Title: Message
"Two pretty boys who would've been lost without a geek"?  Say on, Martin!
-----Original Message-----
From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Pratt
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 20:52
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

Yep, none other than Rex "You Take My Breath Away" Smith (even after twenty-plus years, that song's worth a laugh). I won't try to defend Viper. I just liked it. As for "Stingray", the closest to an ending I remember was an ep in which his past came back to almost bite him on the can. He almost had to give up his "favor-for-a-favor" gig, if not for one of his favors being a Government big-wig who stepped in long enough to let him slip away. There were two more eps before the show ended, if I remember right. Oh, and "Riptide"! Two pretty boys who would've been LOST without a geek. The way the world REALLY works.

Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Street Hawk's star was former pop idol and broadway star ("Pirates of Penzance") Rex Smith, wasn't it? I never got Viper. Seemed kinda low-rent to me. Stingray was definitely cool. I remember one show when the star was arrested and printed. His prints were sent off for matching and he kept telling the arresting officer "You're wasting your time". The officer felt he had the guy, until the results came back: a fax showing a young Black man!  Never did figure out his story, and how did the show end?
Gotta tell you, that was another Stephen J. Cannell show, and he had a long run of good ones, from 21 Jump Street to Riptide to Hunter to (yes, even) A-Team.
-----Original Message-----
From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Pratt
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 19:47
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

Anything BUT. Street Hawk didn't do much for me, but Stingray was even cooler to me than The Equalizer, which I loved. Possibly the idea that Stingray might have some obscure government connection held some interest for a budding conspiracy theorist. Viper, I had every ep on video, got rid of them only because I began to convert my video collection to DVD and ran into a little thing called unemployment a few weeks in.

Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now what do you have against the story of a man and his car? At least they got rid of KITT's voice and the cheesy '80s music done by anyone but the original artists (didn't they? I never watched the Knight Rider redux series). As for men and their vehicles, did you like Street Hawk, Stingray, or Viper?
-----Original Message-----
From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Pratt
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 15:02
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

That it was. I came to like "Vanishing Son" more than any of the sci-fi shows. "TekWar" had me for all of a month, and let's not discuss "Knight Rider" in ANY incarnation. "The story of a car and his man."

Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I watched Time Trax maybe twice, but never got into it, and I think it was gone before I got around to trying. Was it part of the so-called "Action Pack" that came out a few years ago? Remember that?  It was a block of shows that would air together, including "Vanishing Son" (the martial arts themed show starring Russell Wong), "Knight Rider: 2000", "Hercules", "TekWar", "Xena", and maybe a few others. It was shows that I think were from Universal. At any rate, the Action Pack music would play and they'd show scenes from all the above shows. Usually it'd air on Saturdays and Sundays, and there'd be 2 -3 hours of series in the group. Even after the other shows were all cancelled, Hercules and Xena would still often be introduced as part of the Action Pack.   I used to love that gimmick even if all the shows weren't that great. It was just the ability to watch a block of scifi on Saturday afternoons that I loved...
-----Original Message-----
From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Pratt
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 11:09
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] RE: Scifi on TV

"Hard Time on Planet Earth". How CAN anyone forget that? What did you think about "Time Trax", if I haven't asked before? I liked "Space:1999" as well, but the budding scientist in me couldn't quite get around the idea of the Moon being blown out of Earth orbit because of excess nuclear waste (a gift of the anti-nuke lobby, I'll assume). "Wolf", I don't remember at all. Early to mid-90s, I was chin deep in work. Had a brand-new TV, and I think I turned it on four times in six years.

Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You ain't said nothing but a word! Gawd, remember when all those good scifi shows were being axed? They fell one-by-one like soldiers in a battle! Man that hurt, and it's not just Fox that did it. Showtime's Friday night scifi lineup was dissolved, the Sci Fi Channel cancelled some good stuff too. Y'know, Martin, back in the days before TNG and X-Files, I'd become extremely jaded about TV scifi. I've watched probably 90% of every scifi show ever aired on TV since, oh, 1971 or so. But I remember what I call The Great Scifi Dearth of the late 70s and early 80s. That was when programs and good movies had all but disappeared from television. Remember? There were no good series, rather, crap like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, or  Hard Time on Planet Earth (betcha don't remember that one about an alien sentenced to a prison term on Terra?), or The Man From Atlantis, (which started out okay but got old pretty soon).   So many of the programs were weak, not intelligent written, didn't deal with human issues in a mature or insightful way. And the few programs that were memorable were cancelled in short order. I don't remember many good movies or mini series during those years either.
 
It was so bad to my mind that by the time Fox came out with its new lineup of shows-- in what I call The Great Rebirth of Scifi--I was suspicious as hell. Sure, we had TNG, but I just knew that all these other shows were crap. I was hesitant to even give them a try. And those that I thought might be good? Well, I was so sick of good scifi being cancelled I actually stay away from those too, fearful that soon as I got hooked the idiot suits would pull the rug out from under me. Hence, i didn't watch the first season of the X-Files, missed that series "Wolf", ignored "Space: Above and Beyond", and overlooked several other shows as well. Heck, I even refused to watch Babylon 5's first season, not getting hooked into halfway through season two (and now I count it among the Holy Trinity of TV scifi that includes Trek and Farscape).  The fact that I missed so many good shows, even those that got cancelled, made me resolve to go back to my old ways of watching everything that comes out. So I've made a point of catching at least the premiere of every show I can. I've been there for Odyssey Five, Jeremiah, John Doe, Strange Luck, Wonderfalls, Tru Calling, Firefly, Total Recall 2070, Carnivale and countless others.
 
And just like back during the Dearth, the idiots in control have adopted this policy of axing good shows and trying to foist cheap crap on us (remember Point Pleasant, anyone?) Tru Calling gets canned but The O.C. rolls on.  John Doe is dismissed with nothing approaching a resolution, but Sci Fi gives us Ghost Hunters and Scare Tactics.  Showtime's all but abandoned the genre. It's almost been enough to bring back my old cynicism but I'm not gonna let it get to me. Fortunately there are enough tidbits of scifi or speculative fiction shows left to keep my interests, like Smallville (up and down in quality),  Medium, Battlestar Galactica. And, I've determined never to let a Wolf or Space: Above and Beyond come and go again without getting my support.
 
So let the suits tease me, then torture me. Let them bring out fine shows only to pull them after three weeks when they don't do American Idol numbers. Let them continue searching for that magical show that has nubile young blondes and hunky guys with a scifi theme tacked on that will be a hit, and let me continue punishing myself by giving such dreck a chance. I'm gonna stay the course this time...
-----Original Message-----
From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Pratt
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 08:34
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Get yourself some Serenity

Move over. You've got company in Pissedville.
 
When i first heard the premise of "Firefly", I was certain it would tank because it was a "wreck waiting to happen." Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be the only reason to turn on the TV Fridays. Then, I didn't expect it to last, because- let's face it, true believers, it was on Fox!

Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Same here. I even criticized the show to this group when it aired. Think I was prejudiced because Whedon had made a statement about not being interested in a universe populated with aliens and such. He wanted to explore a future where humans were the only sentient beings--at least, far as they knew. That irritated me, and the Wild West theme seemed to be unworkable too. But after three shows I was hooked and was pissed as heck when it was cancelled. Course, that was back iin the days when we had a slew of good scifi shows such as Odyssey 5, John Doe, Farscape, etc., --all of which were cancelled too.
Great, now I'm pissed again!
-----Original Message-----
From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bosco Bosco
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 01:46
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Get yourself some Serenity

They're on DVD so you can still catch them. I think there were like
13 episodes total. I am not sure of the exact amount. I was hesitant
at first but by the end, I was so sad knowing there weren't anymore.

Thank god he got to make the movie.

Bosco
--- Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I never saw any of them...It sounds like I missed a treat...
>
> Bosco Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I dont remember the names
> of the episodes but off the top of my head
> I really like the following:
>
> the episode where the captain gets married.
> The episode where Jane is a folk hero.
> The episode with the bounty hunter who comes for River
> The episode where the captain gets shot and the crew has to abandon
> the ship.
>
> I really liked pretty much all of them. The episode where the
> captain
> gets in a duel was a little silly but I even liked that one as
> well.
> --- Martin Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So, which one was your favorite?
> >
> > Bosco Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Yeah I got all the TV
> Shows
> > on like 4 DVD's I think. It was sooooo
> > good.
> >
> > B
> > --- Martin Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I hope you picked up the DVD set. You don't know what you
> missed.
> > >
> > > Bosco Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I simply cannot wait
> for
> > > this movie to be released. I never saw this
> > > when it was on TV but my Mom's partner made me a set of DVD's.
> By
> > > the
> > > end of the set I was completely hooked. If there were more
> shows
> > > that
> > > good, I would get cable.
> > >
> > > Bosco
> > > --- Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Lots of action. I see the assassin is played by the Brother
> > from
> > > > "Love,
> > > > Actually". I was concerned that Ron "Shepherd" Glass wasn't
> in
> > > the
> > > > trailers, but a search reveals he's in the movie credits.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > > > Behalf Of g123curious
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 18:33
> > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Subject: [scifinoir2] Get yourself some Serenity
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Given Yahoo's funkiness, this seemed especially appropriate:
> > > >
> > > > God, grant me the serenity
> > > > To accept the things I cannot change,
> > > > Courage to change the things I can,
> > > > And the wisdom to know the difference.
> > > >
> > > > Now, the sci-fi movie trailer:
> > > > http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/
> > > >
> > > > George
> > > > Captain
> > > > The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston)
> > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~ekistics10/mcnair/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   _____ 
> > > >
> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > *      To visit your group on the web, go to:
> > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > > *      To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > >
> >
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > > *      Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo!
> Terms
> > > of
> > > > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead.
> > > I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said.
> > >
> > > You know these things that happen,
> > > That's just the way it's supposed to be.
> > > And I can't help but wonder,
> > > Don't ya know it coulda been me.
> > >
> > >
> > >            
> > > __________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search.
> > > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >    To visit your group on the web, go to:
> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/
> > >  
> > >    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >  
> > >    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of
> > > Service.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Excuse me while I whip this out."
> > >                     Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles"
> > >            
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > >  Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.
> >
> > I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead.
> > I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said.
> >
> > You know these things that happen,
> > That's just the way it's supposed to be.
> > And I can't help but wonder,
> > Don't ya know it coulda been me.
> >
> >
> >            
> > Yahoo! Mail
> > Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour:
> > http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >    To visit your group on the web, go to:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/
> >  
> >    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >  
> >    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of
> > Service.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Excuse me while I whip this out."
> >                     Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles"
> >            
> > ---------------------------------
> > Yahoo! Mail
> >  Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour
>
>
> I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead.
> I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said.
>
> You know these things that happen,
> That's just the way it's supposed to be.
> And I can't help but wonder,
> Don't ya know it coulda been me.
>
>
>            
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
>
>
=== message truncated ===


I got friends who are in prison and Friends who are dead.
I'm gonna tell ya something that I've often said.

You know these things that happen,
That's just the way it's supposed to be.
And I can't help but wonder,
Don't ya know it coulda been me.


           
Yahoo! Mail
Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour:
http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html



"Excuse me while I whip this out."
Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles"

Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we.


"Excuse me while I whip this out."
Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles"

Yahoo! Mail
Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour


"Excuse me while I whip this out."
Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles"

Discover Yahoo!
Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!


"Excuse me while I whip this out."
Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles"

Yahoo! Mail Mobile
Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.


"Excuse me while I whip this out."
Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles"

Discover Yahoo!
Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online & more. Check it out!
Yahoo! Groups Links

Reply via email to