wow, Tracey, you're bad as me: you'll sometimes watch almost anything to get a
scifi fix. if *you* hate it, it must be bad.
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From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Craptastic is being kind. there was a robot in it who was always dieing
> an coming back to life. They actor would crack/title his nect to the
> side whenever he came back. I wanted to break it for him.
>
> Tracey
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Can't believe I've never seen this show, not even to dog it out. Was
> > it as bad as the awful series Adrian "Highlander" Paul was in, the one
> > where he was tracking down rogue aliens on Earth, "Alien Tracker"?
> >
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> > From: Martin > > >
> > Keith, whyfor you insult Vulcans so?
> >
> > Seriously, this is nothing more in my eyes than "Codename: Eternity"
> > (was that the name of that craptastic show?) with a slightly
> > better-looking lead. *Slightly*...
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Anyone catch this besides me? Man, this was just awful: cliched,
> > predictable, boring. Some of the stuff that hit me from the start:
> >
> > * Kristanna Loken isn't a very good actress. She was stiff and
> > delivered her lines with all the emotion of a Vulcan. Maybe it was the
> > dialogue and uninspired writing, which were sho' 'nuff problems,but I
> > doubt it. But then, what reason is there to expect the latest
> > Terminator to have acting ability?
> >
> > * Within five minutes of the opening, the show was in one of those
> > cliched (using that word again!) underground rave-type clubs with the
> > pulse-pounding music and young people from Central Casting posing and
> > dancing wildly, while obvious bad guys skulk in their midst doing drug
> > deals. Truly one of the most overused scenes in such shows outside of
> > strip clubs. Booorinng!
> >
> > * The first--and only, I might add--of the good guys to get killed was
> > a brother. Sad thing is, soon as I saw him I thought "This show's
> > gonna kill that Black man". Bingo! There is another Brother left, but
> > of course he's older and out of shape, not young and/or hunky like the
> > rest of the cast. he was already punked by Jane. Surprise!
> >
> > * Will someone *Please* teach these new directors that herky-jerky and
> > tilting camera work is *not* a good way to add action to a scene? Just
> > makes it confused and amateurish-looking. Who's running film school
> > these days, Michael Bay?!
> >
> > * The good guys are another one of those shadow-type groups that hang
> > out in a hidden warehouse HQ with high-tech equipment, and who are
> > "answerable only to ourselves". How original!
> >
> > * There is of course a resident computer geek, and of course he's the
> > oddball who wears stocking caps, tennis shoes, warmup suits, etc. Just
> > once nowadays I'd like to see an IT expert that's not pushing the Gen
> > Y look.
> >
> > * The doctor on here appears to be Indian or Middle Eastern, but has a
> > British accent. I'm really getting tired of Indian, Pakistani, or Arab
> > characters with British accents. From Bashir on DS9 to Sayid on "Lost"
> > (who is British in real life and fakes an Iraqi accent)
> > American-produced shows are replete with such characters who speak the
> > Queen's English or their "native" tongue with such an accent. Is there
> > a reason we can't get actors who actually *sound* like they're from
> > their characters' country of origin?
> >
> > * Man, I think half the profits of the drug trade and the budget of
> > government law enforcement agencies, must go to leather wear! Amazing
> > how every henchman and supposedly underpaid government agent is
> > wearing thousands of dollars worth of leather jackets and pants!
> >
> > Can you tell I wasn't impressed? There were several fights, all of
> > which were dizzying (not in a good way) and too fast-paced. Everyone's
> > too busy posing and speaking bad lines as if they have sticks up their
> > arses. This show reminds me of the late, unlamented "Mutant X", and
> > that ain't a good thing. Not sure I'll watch this one again unless it
> > improves drastically or I'm very bored.
> >
> > What did y'all think?
> >
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> > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will
> > get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man
> > Without A Country"
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