Worst television mini-series ever
POSTED BY: liminalosity
UPDATED: Thursday, November 17, 2005 05:29
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Ok, I felt an OT episode coming on, so for once I am doing the sensible thing and starting a new thread.
Oh goody, gleeful badness on a dark and stormy day.
I'm going to have to go with Earth Sea, just because I foolishly had hope for it, having loved the books since forever.
Every time they used someone's real name, I winced.
Every time there was another female wizard, I cringed.
Everytime someone kissed Sparrowhawk, my eyes rolled without any help from my brain.
I couldn't finish watching it.
Then I read what Ursula said about it, written in the air with a flamethrower, and I was at peace.
Next Please!
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The Stand, great build up, sputtered to a fizzle.
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So true! My favorite King too, so doubly disappointing. I did kind of like the (obligatory King) Maine scenes. But ugh, was it Molly Ringwald playing the girl? Whiney? I just didn't see that coming. Liked Rob Lowe though, and the big towheaded guy playing moon moon moon. They were good and good together. The evil was flat and it wrecked it. Flagg never made me want to run from the room. There could have been scarier crows for heaven's sake. The Nebraska evil in the corn scenes were...they looked like they were filmed on Mr Rodger's backlot.
Yup, not so hot.
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Taken
granted I never watched it to the very end, so maybe I can't really write it off as being "the worst" but I was excited about it. What could go wrong? It had Eric Close, Julie Benz... plus others I can't remember right now. It was produced by Steven Spielberg! It was part X Files, part Dark Skies.
Turns out, the fact that it resembled a show like Dark Skies only hurt it. I found it to be slow and more than a little bit dull.
Now The 4400, which Joel Gretsch starred in after, is a hell of a lot better
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Oooh Taken, that was unfortunate. Loved the little blonde girl though. I didn't watch my pick to the end either...just...too...horrid.
I have watched some of 4400, I get all boggy in it, though I liked the eps with Summer, and I like some of the regular characters.
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Worst ever? The Day After Tomorrow...easy...hands down. Jason Robards, world gets all nukified, lame-ass melty flesh types, "nuclear everything bad" message. Lame, plodding, dated (even at the time!), overhyped, and WAY overpreachy! 'Nuff said.
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Originally posted by Thanatus:
Worst ever? The Day After Tomorrow...easy...hands down. Jason Robards, world gets all nukified, lame-ass melty flesh types, "nuclear everything bad" message. Lame, plodding, dated (even at the time!), overhyped, and WAY overpreachy! 'Nuff said.
There was a miniseries entitled The Day After Tomorrow? And it was also about worldwide destruction? What a coincidence...
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Doh! My bad... it was actually called The Day After. Not The Day After Tomorrow as previously reported. Still sucked though... that hasn't changed! 
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The Day After was wonderfully done. Sorry that you didn't find the picture of slow, agonizing, painful death after a nuclear war to be a smiley, happy good time for all.
It was movies such at The Day After that helped bring Ronald Raygun under control and help end the madness of the arms race.
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