TV Series: Farscape and Dark Angel

smite · July 09, 2003, 11:19:53 PM

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The first series was, now it just 95% padding between 5% "unexpected" plot twists... :roll:

DM[/b]

Woot!

I win the prize for the first July spotting of the very rare and lesser-known, DogMeat. :lol:

lo Doggers - long time no here a peep from eh?

TL. [/b]

Yes i messed up on that one i spotted that lesser know DM and didnt really recognise it ...in fact i very nearly ran over it, i thought it was just a new species.. to my horror i recognised the old branded trade mark of the Dogmeat the "Homer Butt" and instantly tried to claim the victory being the first to point out its resurgence back into the old neighbourhood lets hope he nests in the area for some time.

8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O

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Gh0st Face Killah · July 09, 2003, 11:22:29 PM

DogMeat?

? Is this some strange and recently become rare species? Or am I missing something here?

Zok · July 10, 2003, 02:15:03 AM

QuoteFarscape was ........in my opinion the finest sci fi series screened on TV

me waits for all you trekkies out there !!!!!

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babylon 5 does it for me

star trek is crap

JonnyAppleSeed · July 10, 2003, 06:19:44 AM

im with zok on this one

Quotebabylon 5 does it for me

great program with some cutting edge CGI (well it was then)

TeaLeaf · July 10, 2003, 07:45:39 AM

Babylon 5 was huge. It collected a massive underground following with hardly any publicity. They mucked up the three films though......

TL.

Dr Sadako · July 10, 2003, 08:18:57 AM

QuoteBabylon 5 was huge. It collected a massive underground following with hardly any publicity. They mucked up the three films though......

TL.

Babylon five did what every series should think of to begin with. They wrote all five seasons before the recorded anything. It would only be 5 seasons and no more. There was a known ending and no sequals was planned. That made the story solid and much appreciated. A small event in season one could give a huge effect in season 4. That was rewarding if you watched it from the start.

smilodon · July 10, 2003, 08:24:26 AM

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QuoteBabylon 5 was huge. It collected a massive underground following with hardly any publicity. They mucked up the three films though......

TL.

Babylon five did what every series should think of to begin with. They wrote all five seasons before the recorded anything. It would only be 5 seasons and no more. There was a known ending and no sequals was planned. That made the story solid and much appreciated. A small event in season one could give a huge effect in season 4. That was rewarding if you watched it from the start.[/b]

Shame the writers of The X Files didn't pick up on that one.

DogMeat · July 10, 2003, 09:54:48 PM

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QuoteBabylon 5 was huge. It collected a massive underground following with hardly any publicity. They mucked up the three films though......

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Babylon five did what every series should think of to begin with. They wrote all five seasons before the recorded anything. It would only be 5 seasons and no more. There was a known ending and no sequals was planned. That made the story solid and much appreciated. A small event in season one could give a huge effect in season 4. That was rewarding if you watched it from the start.[/b]

One of very few sci-fi series that never jumped the shark...

DM

smite · July 10, 2003, 10:08:31 PM

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QuoteBabylon 5 was huge. It collected a massive underground following with hardly any publicity. They mucked up the three films though......

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Babylon five did what every series should think of to begin with. They wrote all five seasons before the recorded anything. It would only be 5 seasons and no more. There was a known ending and no sequals was planned. That made the story solid and much appreciated. A small event in season one could give a huge effect in season 4. That was rewarding if you watched it from the start.[/b]

One of very few sci-fi series that never jumped the shark...

DM[/b]

Yep Babylon 5 was the first sci-fi i really got into ... and it always stayed on track. You had the weekly story which was always good and then the underlying story which until you start to watch the old ones you never really noticed. Excellent program....shame about the ending but then again how could they end it??

Farscape was a series which i would always leave the room when my missus turned it on, didnt like the crappy looking puppets i would be heard saying...then i actually stayed and watched one and then the next week another and then got hooked.
Once you get over Rygel and a few other crap puppet things the program was excellent which is why i bought the lot on DVD.

Anonymous · July 11, 2003, 12:23:18 AM

I am still impressed with the Dune TV series (not the film which sucked like a sucky thing)

Dr Sadako · July 16, 2003, 07:21:43 PM

Ordered Babylon 5 season 1 and 2 from http://www.splashdvd.com/ for Â£30.81 and Â£37.62. A very good bargain as they cost twice as much in Sweden.

FBG · July 17, 2003, 09:42:02 AM

Babylon 5 was god like yet the STUPID MUPPETS ONLY KNOWN AS THE DUMB ASS TV SCHEDULERS FROM HELL seemed to think that 2 in the morning was a reasonable time to show it. They complete fecked the whole thing up for me, showing it on a sunday, showing it on a thursday, skipping it because of tennis.

I WILL KILL ANY TV SCHEDULER RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS GARGANTUAN FECKUP!

fume :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :x :x :x :x :x

ChimpBoy · July 17, 2003, 03:57:41 PM

Babylon five was great, but I never saw the ending - somebody spoil it for me please. The undercurrent stories were great, with the continued tension between the lizard bloke (J'kar?) and the dude with crazy halo hair spilling out into war when the shadows appeared. You could see it all simmering as the seasons went on.

I did watch a few episodes of that spin off series from babylon 5 where the lone ship had to find a cure for that virus. Starred the ever-excellent Gary Cole (from American Gothic, Brady Bunch movie, etc) but the show seemed to get binned after a couple of episodes, mainly due to it being total TANGO.

QuoteI am still impressed with the Dune TV series (not the film which sucked like a sucky thing)

I liked the mini-series on Sci-Fi channel - especially the cockney PH Moriarty playing Gurney Haleck. Couldn't quite spearate him from his character in Lock, Stock. The David Lynch film wasn't that bad and deserves it's place as a cult classic - the mainstream were never going to appreciate an epic tale of a supreme being conducting a religious jihad for control of a planet that contained a mind-altering drug that allowed space travel 8O . The Baron in that is a truly awesome performance of disgusting malevolence, and Patrick Stewart brings his usual acting prowess. Problem was that it was never going to do justice to one of the greatest sci-fi novels in history by cutting it to a 2.5 hour story.

Ho-hum.

smilodon · July 17, 2003, 05:47:03 PM

Squeaky there seems to be something wrong with the time stamp on your posts.

You appear to be posting messages to the forum in the middle of the afternoon on a working day :?:

Clearly you aren't in the office posting from your work PC , as I'm in the office and you aren't here.

Have you popped into an Internet Cafe between client visits to make a few posts and have a coffee :?:

The only other PC you would have access to is your own one at home. But that would mean you have skived of work, as well as missing the Wembley Briefing, and are lazing about doing bugger all when you should be at work. And that's just not like you mate. I'm confused :?

ChimpBoy · July 17, 2003, 06:07:21 PM

QuoteI'm confused :?

But then you are so easily confused aren't you Smilo :wink: