Ditto on Outer Limits. The two Twilight Zone remakes had their moments, but quality was more haphazard. Again, they never got a showrunner/writer of Serling's abilities.
I tired of time travel stories, arguably the single most overused plotline in all of Trekdom. Not that I'm against time travel, mind you: "Yesterday's Enteprise" was one of my favs, as was the "Enterprise" ep where Archer lost his memory in a future where Earth had been destroyed by the Xindi. I loved the William Frakes-directed ep where the Enterprise got stuck in a time loop where it was destroyed over and over again. "City on the Edge of Forever" is a well-deserved classic. But Rick Berman and Brannon Braga used time travel so damn much I got sick of it, especially when they expanded the theme to whole story arcs, instead of just as good standalone eps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 5:36:43 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Outer Limits" Marathon on SyFy I'm a big fan of the outer limits old and remake. I'm happy that the series was made and wish they would bring it back with the remake crew for another 10 years. The Xindi alternate timeline on Enterprise was pretty good. It even influenced a video game from it. (although the game wasn't good) On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: Sorry you missed it. Good shows. You know, I realize how much i miss good scifi anthology series. One problem I have with all the shows on the tube now--good and bad--is that it's the same universe week after week. Shows like Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, etc., created completely new worlds each week, with different subject matter and different actors. Just in the brief marathon I saw today, I got to enjoy Rebecca DeMornay, John Savage, Timothy Bussfield, and a host of character actors from all over the place. Really miss that format.... And, there's a decent ep of "Enterprise" on now. It was toward the end of the Xindi storyline, where some of the shows were actually not bad at all. After the time travel foolishness (the exploding sphere, then Archer's in a Nazi-occupied NYC???) the show got much better. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" < truthseeker...@hotmail.com > To: "SciFiNoir2" < scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:54:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] "Outer Limits" Marathon on SyFy And guess who wanders in with six minutes left in the marathon? "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:08:31 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] "Outer Limits" Marathon on SyFy SyFy is running an "Outer Limits" marathon right now. They're running the eps from the second series from the '90s, not the original black-and-white eps. I will say, I always enjoyed this series. Unlike "Twilight Zone", Outer Limits seemed to me to have a higher quality remake. "Zone" was very hit-and-miss in both its reincarnations, but "Limits" was in the main very enjoyable. Perhaps it's because Limits tended to be more straightforward scifi, where Zone dealt with supernatural as well? Or maybe no one could do it as well as Serling? At any rate, they've shown some good ones so for. The one on now starts with a demonic looking teddy bear pulling a little boy under his bed into limbo. Gotta admit: that little toy with its glowing red eyes was downright creepy! Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
