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For anyone who has read Iain M Banks' Culture novels will like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8IFxPo61w
I suppose its a bit too late to expect a sequel
Brian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8IFxPo61w
I suppose its a bit too late to expect a sequel
Brian
I've never seen Firefly
Nor me, strange because I really rate Joss Wheldon's work.
Think I'll have to remedy this pretty quick
2 of my moderators have not seen Firefly....I have failed you all.
Am I allowed to give homework?
Am I allowed to give homework?
2 of my moderators have not seen Firefly....I have failed you all.
Am I allowed to give homework?
I am disgusted and ashamed that you have such people moderating us.
Dear Psykokow,
All I want for christmas is for you to watch Eastenders, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, home and away and Neighbours until they get cancelled and better TV made.
Signed,
Everyone with a brain.
Defying Gravity had promise but was killed by some rather crappy plots and the producers trying to sell it as "Greys Anatomy in space". I liked the whole idea of a solar expedition and the problems it would have encountered, I could have even accepted a storyline of finding something alien on Venus as a hook for future storylines. What I didn't quite like was the alien artifact onboard doing weird ****e to everyone. Also the plot about whether the inital Mars expedition was a complete disaster or that those left behind may have survived could have been a great plot about survival in a harsh enviroment. Again a missed opportunity.
Terra Nova was a great premise, Time travel, Dinosaurs, Survival and political\corporate greed. It was ruined by turning it into a teeange soap. Get rid of 3/4s of the teenage angst and it would have been a great show. Nothing wrong with making a family show except when it is over ridden by too much of a 90210 feel, then it gets ruined.
The trouble with US networks currently is the inability to a) not medlle and b) give time for something to blossom. Firefly got canned because certain suits kept trying to dictate the story and generally kept interfering and not leave it to Jos Whedon to get on with it. You can tell the episodes where the suits got involved and the ones where they didn't.
What makes me laugh is that ST: TNG was utter poo in it's first season and a half. However in that first season and a half you had enough time to establish the characters, set the scene and give it a chance. Then they introduced the Borg and the series went from strength to strength. The only difference between ST: TNG and things like Firefly and Space A&B was that the network stuck with it.
Why is Doctor Who popular currently? Because it has had time to restablish itself. The trouble is people are more willing to give Dr Who a go over a new Sci Fi show because it has a history (much like Trek) and they are likely to stick with it. Things like Outcasts (BBC) had an interesting premise and most of the time a decent plot/acting but got canned just as it got interesting due to the BBC ing around time slots and not giving it a fair shake of the stick. The conclusion to Outcasts set up a very interesting 2nd season, but like most Sci Fi show these days it got canned for something cheaper to make and reality based.
It's unfortunate, but to get quality product these days people really are having to rely on HBO and other cable/satellite channels to take a chance and spend the money to get a decent show. I sometimes wonder why I pay my TV license as the BBC have very rarely over the last 20 years produced anything that I find remotely worth watching and when they do they cancel it soon afterwards.
All I want for christmas is for you to watch Eastenders, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, home and away and Neighbours until they get cancelled and better TV made.
Signed,
Everyone with a brain.
Defying Gravity had promise but was killed by some rather crappy plots and the producers trying to sell it as "Greys Anatomy in space". I liked the whole idea of a solar expedition and the problems it would have encountered, I could have even accepted a storyline of finding something alien on Venus as a hook for future storylines. What I didn't quite like was the alien artifact onboard doing weird ****e to everyone. Also the plot about whether the inital Mars expedition was a complete disaster or that those left behind may have survived could have been a great plot about survival in a harsh enviroment. Again a missed opportunity.
Terra Nova was a great premise, Time travel, Dinosaurs, Survival and political\corporate greed. It was ruined by turning it into a teeange soap. Get rid of 3/4s of the teenage angst and it would have been a great show. Nothing wrong with making a family show except when it is over ridden by too much of a 90210 feel, then it gets ruined.
The trouble with US networks currently is the inability to a) not medlle and b) give time for something to blossom. Firefly got canned because certain suits kept trying to dictate the story and generally kept interfering and not leave it to Jos Whedon to get on with it. You can tell the episodes where the suits got involved and the ones where they didn't.
What makes me laugh is that ST: TNG was utter poo in it's first season and a half. However in that first season and a half you had enough time to establish the characters, set the scene and give it a chance. Then they introduced the Borg and the series went from strength to strength. The only difference between ST: TNG and things like Firefly and Space A&B was that the network stuck with it.
Why is Doctor Who popular currently? Because it has had time to restablish itself. The trouble is people are more willing to give Dr Who a go over a new Sci Fi show because it has a history (much like Trek) and they are likely to stick with it. Things like Outcasts (BBC) had an interesting premise and most of the time a decent plot/acting but got canned just as it got interesting due to the BBC ing around time slots and not giving it a fair shake of the stick. The conclusion to Outcasts set up a very interesting 2nd season, but like most Sci Fi show these days it got canned for something cheaper to make and reality based.
It's unfortunate, but to get quality product these days people really are having to rely on HBO and other cable/satellite channels to take a chance and spend the money to get a decent show. I sometimes wonder why I pay my TV license as the BBC have very rarely over the last 20 years produced anything that I find remotely worth watching and when they do they cancel it soon afterwards.
I knew when I admitted to that there would be repercussions.
*Hangs head in shame*
check out the movie trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY3u7bB7dZk then go and buy the series. they only made 1 season, and it will leave you wanting more.
That's just it, no disrespect to our American cousins, but an awful lot of their population has the attention span of a goldfish. If it doesn't have large explosions, action sequences, car chases and general eye candy to keep bums on seats then the show does not have a chance.
seconded.
LOL....I must be the only terra nova fan then...
no wonder it got axed
no wonder it got axed
LOL....I must be the only terra nova fan then...
no wonder it got axed
i recorded the series, watched one episode where teenagers run off or something, once i relised that it had teenagers in it, i knew that I could never get into it and as such deleted the series. buy the sounds of it i didnt miss anything.
anybody watch Warehouse 13 ?
2 of my moderators have not seen Firefly....I have failed you all.
Am I allowed to give homework?
WAAAAAAAAIT a minute, wait a minute, hold the homework!
I forgot, I did see the pilot episode/movie type thing. I cant afford SKY telly to see the series. Um it was ok from what I recall, but hard to tell without seeing how the characters developed over the course of a series. For now B5 & Farscape are my favourites, Oh and Taysiders in Space. Nearly forgot about that. Taysiders in Space?
Is that similar to Geordie Star Wars?
Is that similar to Geordie Star Wars?
LOL....I must be the only terra nova fan then...
no wonder it got axed
I thought it was quite weak overall. The acting and plot were lacking but the CGI was I in places.
Shame about Lie To Me, I thought that was Ok.
I'm waiting for the end of Falling Skies before I go for actually watching it. If it gets cancelled or ends badly, I don't want to invest my interests in a series that ends with the total eradication of the human race. I used to get enough of that every week on the Outer Limits. It's like 80% "Everyone is doomed".
War of the Worlds, presumably you mean the old 80's series with the rubber suited aliens running around screaming "Too Doe Nakotae" while bodysnatching humans with their third arms? You didn't kill that. They did it themselves with the second season when they killed off half the cast, made the military totally forget that they were supporting them, had them move into the slums, got that bloke from the Highlander series to join them, totally changed the way the aliens behaved, their species name and home planet, the way they controlled humans, completely changed their reasons for actually being on Earth in the first place, had a teenaged alien that falls for the human girl for no sensible reasons, and totally ignored the cliffhanger of the first season regarding the Synth from Qar'To...
Within a few minutes of the first episode of the second season, it was jumping sharks ar a rate of megahertz.
Apologies for the double post but I've been on a night shift and this thread has really run away while I've been out...
There was no season 2. They just had a long mid-season hiatus. It ended on a big old open cliffhanger. Much like The Event but less dramatic.
Ah, The Event. I really liked that one. It was like Lost, but with an actual plotline that had a preplanned ending. None of this "Saying that they aren't all in purgatory and they're all dead then making it so later on they actually are and then forgetting about half the mysteries we set up" nonsense. Still, they did a lot of running around without much development, and when the most plot development happens in the final episode it's a bit late. Spread your reveals out evenly guys, if you want to avoid the TV-Exec-Axe...
Codename: Eternity was a great series I used to watch but that also ended on a cliffhanger. The plotline was that an alien race from a dying planet had a mutually exclusive biology (One race's atmosphere is lethal to the other). One alien discovers a way to temporarily assume human form (lasting 5 years before reverting) but flees after finding out his associate's plans. The associate assumes the name "Banning", and takes his nanobot-based assistant with him to Earth. They both assume human form and he uses his knowledge to set himself up as a "Bill Gates" of the day, with the plan to manufacture atmosphere converters to kill humanity and save his race (against his own species' ethics). Another alien also assumes human form (Ethaniel) to come and stop him, forming a small underground resistance. The best part of the series was the nanobot creature, "Mr Dent". He was sarcastic, overly cocky, with barely repressed violent tendencies, probably because he knew that no matter how many times people killed him he would always self repair. Also he had the ability to shapeshift. Think "TV show budget T1000". Near the end of the series he was reprogrammed by Ethaniel to be capable of ignoring Banning's orders if he cared to, enabling him to develop his own Ethics. And then they ended on a cliffhanger where all the Earth's atmosphere was converted to the aliens' specifications. Oh well.
