Baywatch Nights RE: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" episode "Demons"--minor spoilers

[Tracey de Morsella \(formerly Tracey L. Minor\)]

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I know 
its crazy, after they switched from crime to paranormal I liked Baywatch Nights 
and started to watch it every week..  
 
Tracey

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      Hey, you didn't comment on "Baywatch Nights". Ever seen 
      it?
      
        
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        scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
        Behalf Of Martin PrattSent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 
        20:45To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: 
        [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" episode "Demons"--minor 
        spoilers
        I'll figure out a due penance for my sin later. The only reason I 
        thought of it was because I was looking forward in time (so to speak), 
        peeking at the upcoming eps of DS9. "Trials and Tribble-ations" is due 
        to air next week, and I couldn't help but think about those two bone-dry 
        wits from temporal Investigations who had to debrief Sisko. But think of 
        it this way. If it ever does come to pass, I've got the proof right here 
        that'll get me a chunk of the franchise... Keith 
        Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
        
          
          Nooooooo! Why'd you have to say it out loud? Now someone's 
          gonna start developing it. I envision a bunch of young hard 
          bodies--blonde women with fake boobs, dudes with surgically-carved abs 
          and impossibly white teeth--jumping through time trying to right the 
          wrongs created by Kirk and other offenders. Sooner or later they'll 
          have to create a nemesis for the team, and then the show will 
          degenerate into a catch-him-if-you-can scenario. I imagine something 
          on the level of "Baywatch Nights".
          
            
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            scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
            Behalf Of Martin PrattSent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 
            19:50To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSubject: 
            RE: [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" episode "Demons"--minor 
            spoilers
            I had the most horrible thought the other night, after reading 
            some of my backlog of e-mails, in particular the one about Shatner 
            pitching the Starfleet Academy concept to Paramount. An idea that 
            B&B would DROOL over. Are you ready?
             
            Starfleet Temporal Investigations (shoot me NOW, for even 
            MENTIONING it).Keith Johnson 
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              It wasn't bad, just weak, more like a Season one ep. 
              Please--no more time travel!!!!   :(
              
                
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                Message-----From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
                [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin 
                PrattSent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 
                14:51To: 
                scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [scifinoir2] 
                "Enterprise" episode "Demons"--minor 
                spoilers
                I'm still lagging in reading that thread, so pardon my 
                inexactitude. As for the show, it wasn't bad. Didn't give me the 
                "wow" that most of Coto's other stories have this season, but I 
                enjoyed it. I'm almost afraid to see how the matter of how the 
                baby is Trip's and T'Pol's. (B&B, the Return of the 
                Convoluted, Unnecessary Time Travel Story?) As for the 
                bright idea of sending a Vulcan undercover into a racist 
                underground netowrk- HUNH?Keith Johnson 
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                  Yeah, I guess you could say it's progress 
                  that they put Travis with a white woman in fairly 
                  intimate situations too (real kissing, not the quick peck 
                  usually shown with Black men and white women).  But I'm 
                  not as impressed with interracial couples as I am with good 
                  Black couples. That was indeed the focus of that thread you 
                  mentioned, where there was discussion about things such as why 
                  Will Smith lets the studios pair him with Latinas instead of 
                  fighting for a Black-on-Black love story. We need to get our 
                  own couples to be seen in a more positive light before we 
                  branch out to the others.
                   
                  By the way, did you see the show? 
                  Thoughts?
                  
                    
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                    Message-----From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com 
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                    Martin PrattSent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 
                    08:47To: 
                    scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: 
                    [scifinoir2] "Enterprise" episode "Demons"--minor 
                    spoilers
                    The one thing that struck me about this ep hearkens 
                    back to a thread we had running a bit back, about Blacks, 
                    Whites and love, how Black chars were rarely paired with 
                    Black love interests. I know, this is an offshoot of 
                    Roddenberry's vision, in which the world knows no color, but 
                    COME ON!Keith Johnson 
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                      Minor 
                      spoilers...
                       
                      What did y'all think about 
                      tonight's show? I wasn't too impressed. For some reason 
                      the pacing seemed rushed, as if the script had been thrown 
                      together. I mean, in about five minutes they go from the 
                      discovery of Tripp and T'Pol's baby to that Lunar mining 
                      facility with little of the moments to really explore the 
                      situation. It's as if they moved from one chapter in a 
                      story to another, with little connection between those 
                      chapters. At first I wondered if it was Levar Burton's 
                      direction, but I realize he simply filmed the script he 
                      was given. The characters seemed less realized, less 
                      multi-dimensional, than I've seen them in weeks. The show 
                      felt like a season one ep written by B&B, with a weak 
                      script and sketch characterization filling in for  a 
                      good story. Even my wife said something was off with the 
                      characterization and pacing.  
                      Also, several nagging things 
                      about it bugged me:
                       
                      --What sense did it make to send 
                      Trip and T'Pol on the "secret" mission to the Lunar mining 
                      colony?? You're gonna send a Vulcan to a hotbed of 
                      xenophobic activity, and, to boot, the parents of the 
                      hybrid child, *and* two of the most famous people in the 
                      world? WTF? What braindead person wrote that artificial 
                      device?
                      --Is it me, or did the mining facility seem awfully 
                      cliched-looking for that time? Dirty people hand-lifting 
                      Lunar rocks like a bucket brigade? In this time of 
                      artificial gravity and warp drive, people still have to 
                      work like a Kentuckian labouring underground in the 
                      coal mines? Looked like something from a bad Van Damme 
                      future flick.
                      --Could they have been more obvious using people of 
                      color in the anti-alien organization Terra Prime? Amazing, 
                      all this time they can't find any people of color for the 
                      series, and they criminally underuse the Black and Asian 
                      on Enterprise. Yet in short order they give us *two* bald, 
                      dark, menacing-looking Brothers who just drip anti-alien 
                      vitriol, and, among the supporters, copious numbers of 
                      Asians and more Blacks as well. A little obvious, folks, 
                      trying to press the point that this is a human hatred of 
                      aliens, and using Blacks to point out the 
                      irony.
                      --Poor Travis! They never use the Brother, in the 
                      Mirror universe they make him a strong guy who beats up 
                      people for the Da Man (or Woman), and now, in the final 
                      shows they give him some lines and some lovin'--and he's 
                      punked by a spy for Terra Prime!!! What kind of justice is 
                      this?!
                      --Is everyone tired and the money almost gone, 
                      'cause the FX of that Lunar mining colony were weak. 
                      Again, reminds me of season one's level of quality (or 
                      lack thereof).
                      --Burton's direction didn't fit the show, which is 
                      not really his fault. His camera angles were pulled back, 
                      giving it more of a cinematic look. it's just that for me 
                      at least, the script didn't live up the visual treatment. 
                      Maybe part two will be better.
                       
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