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11-04-09, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by JessePS
I am surprised ABC cuts some decent shows off. Yet Desperate Housewives is still around. Honestly if I was on the board of directors at Disney I would be forcing them to get that horrible show off the air!!!
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quietly admits he loves that show and hopes ABC keeps it around.
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11-04-09, 08:20 AM
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Ol' Inkslinger
Join Date: Aug 2001
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 Hmmmmm . . . . lessee . . . .
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Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."
- By Glenn Garvin, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...,7062976.story
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Odd, that this review comes from the Trib. You have to wonder how they developed the plot line, although production had to have begun well over a year ago. Can anyone say "prescience"? I knew you could.
Jokes aside, there is a parallel here in the gullibility of the human race, and our ability to place instant credibility in our media. "If it's on TV it must be true!" It's what makes us pay $19.99 for a few scraps of microfiber.
When you consider it's the same human fallibility that punches the ballot, you have to experience a cold chill. Probably not what the producers intended, but it is odd how life often imitates art.
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11-04-09, 08:50 AM
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resisting entropy
Join Date: Feb 2001
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and doesn't that charismatic leader end up revealing that he wants to kill everyone? 
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11-04-09, 10:14 AM
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Will be watchin it tonight commercial-free! Had to watch my Mavs come back down from 16pts in the 4th and Dirk drain in 29pts in the 4th!!! 
Anywho...
Damn she's soooo hott!
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11-04-09, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by caymandive
What was so good about it? I must have watched it with higher expectations based on what I remember the show being like as a kid. I thought there were too many corny lines as well as bad acting. The women are cute though! Then again the gals that were on the new Knight Rider were also cute, but that only carried the show so far until it was yanked. |
What can I say? I'm a sucker for hot chicks in spaceships.
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11-04-09, 02:35 PM
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ok... just so everyone knows, i would collaborate with aliens against the human race if they give me a LF-A. VISITORS & CYLONS FTW!!!
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11-04-09, 03:54 PM
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So I watched last night and here is the basic plot: it turns out these aliens (V's) are reptilians who are trying to trick the human race into pure loyalty (with peace and technology) as they screw us over (possibly one world control). Now it is up to the lone FBI agent and her small rebel army to save the world. (while dealing with her hormonal teenage son that has a love connection with one of the aliens who is deceiving him but my gut tells me she'll fall for him eventually as there are a few reptilians who have betrayed their own kind for the sake of humans)
They gave us a lot on the first episode and if they continue to do that, I'll stick around. I've given up on flash foward, that show moves way too slow for people to want to follow.
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11-04-09, 04:54 PM
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***NO SPOILERS PLEASE***
Let's let a few episodes roll by first.
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11-04-09, 04:55 PM
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Ol' Inkslinger
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I've got it on the DVR and will watch this weekend - but it looks like its following the 1984 version rather closely. I liked the melonheads, now this one seems a good deal darker.
Somehow a teenage boy and a reptilian girl just seem like Romeo and Juliet, well, plus the "IIIICCCCCKKKK" factor . . . Hope her Earthian name isn't "Liz"- that would be a little much!
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11-04-09, 05:01 PM
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Aw man, it was on last nite and I missed it. I'm a big sci-fi fan so it would have to be absolutely horrible for me to not watch. Guess I'll have to wait until next week.
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11-04-09, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Ice350
Aw man, it was on last nite and I missed it. I'm a big sci-fi fan so it would have to be absolutely horrible for me to not watch. Guess I'll have to wait until next week.
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huh? in this the age of the internet? now i've 'heard' that some ppl actually download shows.... now is downloading shows legal or not, i was once told by a judge: 'only a judge in a court of law can determine if something is legal or not'  then he went on say you dont want to get to that point thou 
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11-05-09, 12:34 AM
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just go to ABC.com they are quite generous and up to date with their shows.
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11-05-09, 10:32 AM
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Watched it last night with the Mrs.
It was VERY true to the original in storyline and development. Overall so far so good.
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11-05-09, 05:08 PM
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resisting entropy
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watched the show... nice eye candy, but weak script.
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11-05-09, 05:09 PM
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resisting entropy
Join Date: Feb 2001
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oh and ms. V used a remote control to control the hologram on the spaceship. and of course the Vs would talk English among themselves.
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