If you love Firefly, best you check out Dark Angel, another Fox victim.

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ZOOT

Monday, July 25, 2005 8:07 AM

27.5 out of 10??????

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GROUNDED

Monday, July 25, 2005 10:12 AM

It's okay...but I'm not too crazy about shows that have lots of cast members who hardly get to do anything.

EVILTOBZ

Monday, July 25, 2005 10:20 AM

when it was being shown on tv i recall enjoying it and tuning in to watch every ep, but not being totally in love with the show and i never had any plans to pick the dvds up. however, i saw s1 floating around pretty cheap last year and picked it up. watching it second time around with the added benefit of no adverts, no waits between eps (i usually watch a disc a night when going through dvd sets) and the fact i got to watch it on my projector and 5.1 sound system i thought it was far better than the first time and got absolutely hooked.

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eviltobz - that's lowercase gorram it!

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 25, 2005 2:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Grounded:
It's okay...but I'm not too crazy about shows that have lots of cast members who hardly get to do anything.

In the movie of your life aren't there lots of characters that hardly ever get to do anything? People you only occasionally ever hear from? People you see almost every day, but seldom talk to?
See, DA is like real life...

Findin' an angle Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 25, 2005 2:33 PM

I agree, dvd's is where I got totally hooked (hmmm...same way with that funky space-western...).

Yep Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Monday, July 25, 2005 2:36 PM

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Originally posted by Zoot:
27.5 out of 10??????

I think that's her way of goin' over the top. She may be a tad bit more obsessed than we realized.

Diagnostic Chrisisall

ZOOT

Monday, July 25, 2005 2:42 PM

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In the movie of your life aren't there lots of characters that hardly ever get to do anything?

That's funny cos in the movie of my life, there ain't nobody but me!!

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CHRISISALL

Monday, July 25, 2005 2:57 PM

A last-girl-on-Earth sorta thing, eh?

Chatty Chrisisall

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Monday, July 25, 2005 3:01 PM

I did have a problem with the newwave hip-hop lingo, but that’s not so much a criticism of DA as it is a criticism of newwave hip-hop lingo. I really think the whole hip-hop thing is kind of dumb. But I don’t think the use of this dialogue in DA was misplaced. In fact it might have even contributed to some degree of plausibility.

The acting was debatable. I think John Savage was miraculous. The rest of the cast were less then miraculous. I don’t think they were always bad, but it was obvious that they didn’t have the experience that Savage had. Jessica Alba had her moments when she was really good; often they involved her not saying anything. But she did have moments when she was really not that good. I don’t think she was bad most of the time, but it was clear to me that there were things she struggled with. I wonder if one of the reasons they phased out her “seizures” was because Alba had such a difficult time portraying them with any plausibility and they probably didn’t have the time or money on a television show to coach her. But there were a couple of moments, I remember particularly in the pilot, when I thought she was really impressive. Alba needed a lot of coaching I think.

I think season 2 was really not up to par. In fact, I don’t think I’ve watched all the episode of it even today. I just don’t feel I have the time to waste, and when I want to watch Dark Angel, I’m much, much happier putting in some of the early episodes from Season 1 that I think are just pure genius. Some of the season 1 episodes I could and have watched over and over again without loosing interest. So to me, there really is no reason to waste time on disappointing episodes from season 2. I guess I’m just easily amused.

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Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum.

ZOOT

Monday, July 25, 2005 3:03 PM

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
A last-girl-on-Earth sorta thing, eh?

Chatty Chrisisall

yeah, I like it - Zoot forced to make her way alone in a deserted world - everyone but her overcome by the radiation from a mysterious comet zooming too close to earth (ah, plagiarism is a dying art) … for some reason Zoot, a genetically perfect human being

, is immune and is left in a world EXACTLY like our own, save that all other life forms are little piles of ash … she roams as far as the local video store, where her story tragically and prematurely ends when she overdoses on non-fat Pringles and Robert Downey Jnr movies …

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