if you don't have to have the sets brand new, you can find all the B5 seasons on half.com for very reasonable prices.
Bosco --- On Sun, 10/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Worst TV Shows You're (Hopefully) Not Watching To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 5:28 PM I watch a decent amount of TV, but it's a part of me in that I love keeping up with popular culture. But what you've done is really cool. Babylon 5--aw man, don't get me started! Love that series, trying to save the ducats now to buy the whole thing on DVD. If you've never seen it before, you're in for a treat. It is much more epic than most of Trek, with the possible exception of DS9 once the Dominion War and the Prophets storylines got underway (and you know JMS claims Paramount stole DS9's idea from a show proposal he submitted, which they turned down, but later used for the series?) As you watch the show, pay close attention to the cool way that each season uses a different opening theme, with a different narrator, script and music. By the time you hit season 5, the opening, with it's quick summary of all that has come before, is very poignant. See the debut movie too, which may not be presented as a two-part episode. It's got some weaknesses, but is worth watching for continuity. ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: Daryle Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED] rt.com> I've maintained a "two non-sports shows per week" practice for a few years now, and it's been great. Then I discovered hulu. I now watch more TV than I have in about 15 years. Great thing about that is, it's pretty much all the shows I hadn't watched in the same 15 year period. In December I plan on starting to watch Babylon 5 from the beginning. On Oct 25, 2008, at 11:42 PM, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: It's not you--the season just isn't that impressive. I've watched a fair amount of television my entire life, but it's never interfered with my reading. I still buy 5 - 10 comics a week, read the newspaper, and always have at least one book in reading, which is currently the awesome "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny. The reason I can watch a lot of TV and still get in reading time is that I reserve times for my reading, such as during meals, when I'll read a book or comic while eating (I enjoy taking time with my meals, so it's at least 30 minutes), and I always read 30 minutes to an hour before going to bed. ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- From: Bosco Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> I was so disappointed with the selection of available new shows. Of course after a decade plus of living without television, I probably had outside of reality expectations. On the upside, my reading time has not really suffered with advent of available broadcast TV. I am almost finished rereading the complete Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I've got 20 or 30 great titles on my to be read table. I think I'll just pick one at random this time. B --- On Fri, 10/24/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> Subject: [scifinoir2] The Worst TV Shows You're (Hopefully) Not Watching To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 7:35 PM Don't know about y'all, but for some reason I've found the new TV season to be very mediocre. Unlike previous years where there were lots and lots of new shows to watch, this season seems to be very sparse. That's especially true when some of the "new" shows are actually remakes ("Life on Mars", "Eleventh Hour"). There's a lot of returning stuff that isn't generate huge buzz even if it is good ("Heroes", "Chuck"), and the seemingly small number of original programs aren't exactly scintillating either. I don't see "My Own Worst Enemy" or "Fringe" exactly taking the viewing audience by storm, even if I enjoy both. The mediocre season is therefore highlighting especially bad shows like never before, and two that have stood out as awful to my mind are "Knight Rider" and the Greek-gods-on- Earth "Valentine". "Knight Rider" is so godawful bad it's not even funny. Too crappy even to be good cheese, it has bad acting, bad writing, uninspired action, and bad camera work (more of that too fast video work that's the rage). The car is some kind of Transformer clone, Val Kilmer as KITT sounds bored, and it makes the original series seem intelligent and fast-paced by comparison. I lasted ten minutes with the pilot before turning away from it forever. "Valentine"- from the producer/co- creator of shows like "Reaper" and "Desperate Housewives"- -is one of those "WTF? Who greenlit this?" shows. It deals with some of the Greek gods who now live among us. The goddess Aphrodite is matron of her clan, who work together as a group to bring soulmates together. Seems the gods are concerned abou t the lost of true love among humanity, and feel that preserving it is of utmost importance. To that end, they run a dating service call "Delphi", which they use to hook up people who can restore true love to the world. If you imagine some bit of Greek mythology mixed with "Desperate Housewives", and how bad that would seem to be, then you're right on--it's as bad, as unfunny, as unengaging, as moan-inducing as you'd think. I lasted seven minutes on that show before turning it off in disgust. Heck, with stuff like this, "Sanctuary" almost seems like must-see TV!
