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This looks great. The team of authors have a pretty good pedigree, it came from HBO, and the plot looks wonderful. Cant wait for it to come out.

Man, Goyer is just getting pimped out to the extreme. Good for him, but it's kinda funny

Oh yeah, read about that a few days ago, sounds interesting.

Didn't the pilot air the other night? (I saw the ads for it and thought they said it was scheduled for the 25th... ???)

Anyone catch it?

It has potential. The acting was pretty stiff, not really any characters that stood out imo. Also they were a little fast on feeding us the mystery and conspiracy bits - seems they could have held on to those a little longer instead of diving right in to the "smoking man" stuff. Still though, great premise, and the clip montage of future episodes looks intriguing.

Also, this is loosely based on a book of the same name. The wiki on the book looks very interesting.

my only weekly episodic TV this year is Sons of Anarchy on FX ....

and it's kinda turning bottom of the barrel ...

It looked like one of those things I might watch if it were on on the tube in front of me. But I think I've said before that I'm (a little?) less exacting when it comes to my mind-off-just-vegge visual SF.

From what I've seen of the premise, though... hmmm. And the original is by Canada's answer to KJA, Robert Sawyer, right?

Fuck. Missed it. But...Robert Sawyer? Perfect choice for mass-media, dumbed down SF.

SandChigger wrote:Didn't the pilot air the other night? (I saw the ads for it and thought they said it was scheduled for the 25th... ???)

Anyone catch it?

Saw it and didn't much care for it. I felt the same about Lost though and now I like that show. There are quite a few problems that I don't think they've considered in the premise, but the last 10 seconds of it were enough to hook me for a couple of more episodes at least. I'm sure it will get better. My wife and I had a good time pretending that the actors were actually other well-known actors.

Nekhrun wrote:My wife and I had a good time pretending that the actors were actually other well-known actors.

OK ... I'll bite:

SandChigger wrote:

Nekhrun wrote:My wife and I had a good time pretending that the actors were actually other well-known actors.

OK ... I'll bite:

My wife started it by insisting that the blond in the show was Juliet from Lost. I said, "No fucking way is that her!" She still insisted, and then every time a new character popped up I said, "Oh look, it's __________!" She played along for a bit; then she got mad and went to bed. So while I implied that both of us had a good time, it was really just me. That pretty much sums up every night around here.

In short, you were a dude and drove it into the ground.

So did you ever tell her it was actually Penny from Lost? Or maybe the commercials for V confused her as Juliette from Lost is on those commercials.

Star Dust wrote:So did you ever tell her it was actually Penny from Lost? Or maybe the commercials for V confused her as Juliette from Lost is on those commercials.

That would be helping, so...no.
Besides, if I did, she'd claim that's what she meant. Then we'd have to get into a whole thing about lying.

Nekhrun wrote:

Star Dust wrote:So did you ever tell her it was actually Penny from Lost? Or maybe the commercials for V confused her as Juliette from Lost is on those commercials.

That would be helping, so...no.
Besides, if I did, she'd claim that's what she meant. Then we'd have to get into a whole thing about lying.

Right, and clearly that is a discussion to be avoided. I like the way you think. My future ex-wife is...gullible. It is SO HARD not fuck with that. hee hee

Star Dust wrote:

Nekhrun wrote:

Star Dust wrote:So did you ever tell her it was actually Penny from Lost? Or maybe the commercials for V confused her as Juliette from Lost is on those commercials.

That would be helping, so...no.
Besides, if I did, she'd claim that's what she meant. Then we'd have to get into a whole thing about lying.

Right, and clearly that is a discussion to be avoided. I like the way you think. My future ex-wife is...gullible. It is SO HARD not fuck with that. hee hee

Well, I just had to try it. I brought it up again and the discussion went exactly as I predicted. She claimed that's who she was talking about, we argued for awhile then left the restaurant. I was done eating anyway.

DUDE SCORE!

Maybe I'll start a thread for stupid arguments (non-preeq).

Episode 2 treaded water, imo.

Nekhrun wrote:

Star Dust wrote:

Nekhrun wrote:

Star Dust wrote:So did you ever tell her it was actually Penny from Lost? Or maybe the commercials for V confused her as Juliette from Lost is on those commercials.

That would be helping, so...no.
Besides, if I did, she'd claim that's what she meant. Then we'd have to get into a whole thing about lying.

Right, and clearly that is a discussion to be avoided. I like the way you think. My future ex-wife is...gullible. It is SO HARD not fuck with that. hee hee

Well, I just had to try it. I brought it up again and the discussion went exactly as I predicted. She claimed that's who she was talking about, we argued for awhile then left the restaurant. I was done eating anyway.

Can't wait to be married to have so much fun !

AXN, one of my satchans (= AX[tio]N TV?), is going to start showing this soon. (Next month or March, maybe April ... you can tell how much attention I'm paying!) What was the verdict?

(I think the general idea, what I remember hearing about it, was shit, but I haven't looked into it since we were discussing it here last fall.)

From the mind of Robert Sawyer! No thanks. But...I didn't watch it at all, so what do I know?

Yeah, Canada's answer to KJA, right?

I figure I can go to my grave without having had the pleasure.

Yeah, I actually read and enjoyed a couple of his books when I was younger, but I don't think I'd enjoy them if I read them now. To be fair to Robert, he's not even on the same planet of hackery that KJA is. Robert is simply a mediocre/sub-par writer who's had a lot of undeserved hype, which makes him looks worse than he actually is.

He incorporates law into quite a few of his books, which is the only reason Ive ever crossed paths with his books. He gets a lot of that right, or at least right enough, but most of his books are just ho-hum.

Sndchigger, for all the scifi flubbery is just a time hole. Not worth your attention. I had the misfortune to watch it with t' missus. The shite you have to put up with for clean socks and hot food.

I'm not wild about time travel stories to begin with (as I'm sure I've mentioned repeatedly), and this new "can't send matter through time, but mental energy goes fine!" bullshit, I mean, concept is starting to wear a bit thin. (Not sure if that's what this one's really about, since I still haven't read anything definitive on it yet, but that's my general impression. Feh.)