Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Legend of the Seeker Series Debuts This Weekend
netflix has become my new Action Pack Bosco --- On Mon, 11/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Legend of the Seeker Series Debuts This Weekend To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 10:58 PM Well said. Same here. I like sword-and-sorcery stuff, but this wasn't scintillating, just acceptable escapist fare. Like I said last night, I miss the days when there were several shows like this on TV that I could watch (or not) at my leisure. It's fun to have shows like this that you can watch when bored, during a cold rainy day, etc., then ignore for a while. Not must-see's, but good time wasters. Remember when there used to be The Action Pack? It was a block of shows from Universal Television that were aired together in blocks, often on Saturdays. At its heyday it included Hercules, Xena, Team Knight Rider, Vanishing Son, TekWar, and others. I didn't watch any of them regularly, but it was so cool on some Saturdays to come home after running errands, plop down on the couch, and spend a couple of hours in worlds of fantasy or scifi. http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Universal_ TV's_Act ion_Pack -- Original message -- From: ironpigs3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] com So I watched the first episode. It wasn't great. It wasn't terrible. I don't really care that it's not faithful to the original material. In terms of television, I watch adapted material as if it is completely different. It can't ever be as good as the source material so I don't sweat it at all. The term reimagined gets thrown around a lot and that's how I view all made for TV adaptations. To date, I've not really been a big fan of sword and sorcery fiction in any form. Perhaps it's my ignorance of the genre and the qualities there in but I found it watchable on a purely cheesey escapist level. I'll probably give it a go for a while. It seems to me that the theme for this tv season is settling for less. since I'm already in that mind set, I'll run with Legend of the Seeker for a while. B --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Let us kn ow what you think. Responses in the group so far range from thinking it's okay to not that good.
[scifinoir2] Re: Legend of the Seeker Series Debuts This Weekend
So I watched the first episode. It wasn't great. It wasn't terrible. I don't really care that it's not faithful to the original material. In terms of television, I watch adapted material as if it is completely different. It can't ever be as good as the source material so I don't sweat it at all. The term reimagined gets thrown around a lot and that's how I view all made for TV adaptations. To date, I've not really been a big fan of sword and sorcery fiction in any form. Perhaps it's my ignorance of the genre and the qualities there in but I found it watchable on a purely cheesey escapist level. I'll probably give it a go for a while. It seems to me that the theme for this tv season is settling for less. since I'm already in that mind set, I'll run with Legend of the Seeker for a while. B --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let us know what you think. Responses in the group so far range from thinking it's okay to not that good.
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Legend of the Seeker Series Debuts This Weekend
Well said. Same here. I like sword-and-sorcery stuff, but this wasn't scintillating, just acceptable escapist fare. Like I said last night, I miss the days when there were several shows like this on TV that I could watch (or not) at my leisure. It's fun to have shows like this that you can watch when bored, during a cold rainy day, etc., then ignore for a while. Not must-see's, but good time wasters. Remember when there used to be The Action Pack? It was a block of shows from Universal Television that were aired together in blocks, often on Saturdays. At its heyday it included Hercules, Xena, Team Knight Rider, Vanishing Son, TekWar, and others. I didn't watch any of them regularly, but it was so cool on some Saturdays to come home after running errands, plop down on the couch, and spend a couple of hours in worlds of fantasy or scifi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_TV's_Action_Pack -- Original message -- From: ironpigs3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I watched the first episode. It wasn't great. It wasn't terrible. I don't really care that it's not faithful to the original material. In terms of television, I watch adapted material as if it is completely different. It can't ever be as good as the source material so I don't sweat it at all. The term reimagined gets thrown around a lot and that's how I view all made for TV adaptations. To date, I've not really been a big fan of sword and sorcery fiction in any form. Perhaps it's my ignorance of the genre and the qualities there in but I found it watchable on a purely cheesey escapist level. I'll probably give it a go for a while. It seems to me that the theme for this tv season is settling for less. since I'm already in that mind set, I'll run with Legend of the Seeker for a while. B --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let us know what you think. Responses in the group so far range from thinking it's okay to not that good.
