Worst television mini-series ever
POSTED BY: liminalosity
UPDATED: Thursday, November 17, 2005 05:29
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Originally posted by Moose:
Was The Day After even a mini-series? I seem to recall it was aired on just one night. Of course, I was like 9 at the time so I could be wrong.
Ya know Moose, you're right. Apparently it was only 126 miinutes in run-time. Just seemed like 1260 minutes I guess! (Sorry 'bout the follow-up dig there Knibblet...)
I stand corrected.cheers...
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I promise to survive any digs or injuries.
OHHHHH! I just remembered the worst mini-series of all time. "Lace" was some horrid sudser about spoiled rich girls at a Swiss boarding school and one gets knocked up and gives up the baby for adoption.
18 years later, the little brat hunts down all the women to find out which one of them squeezed her out and poluted the planet's gene pool.
It goes downhill from there. What a dog of a movie.
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Originally posted by Thanatus: ...my suggestion is V.
V caused two of the most intense nightmares I've ever had. Now, my mom had just died and I was home for the funeral when I saw it so, that might have something to do with it but I can't attest to it.
I'm at my grandparent's house and experience a dream where the V aliens are climbing over the garage and coming in the window of my bedroom.
I got up out of bed and went into my grandparent's room. I woke them up and told them they had to get out! They're telling me, "Sweetie, you're asleep. Honey, you're dreaming." I'm not listening.
Picture it, I'm desperate. The aliens are coming to kill my grandparents and they won't evacuate. ARGH!
I go over and yank the covers off them as I scream, "You have to get the **ck out of here! I'll hold them off as long as I can!!!!"
My grandfather shook me and said, "You're dreaming! Go back to bed." I went back to bed thinking it was all a dream.
Next morning, I'm pouring milk into my cheerios when my grandmother said, "I didn't know you knew such language, Barbara Dawn."
My grandfather said, "We do appreciate that you would sacrifice yourself to save us. Exactly who were you saving us from?"
mortified doesn't even cover it A week later, I'm back in England.
My boyfriend was a security police dog handler. My roommate was a insomniac snack fiend. Add these two elements together and you have the boyfriend patrolling through our dorm at midnight finding my roommie buying a snickers bar from the machine.
He comes up to give me a midnight kiss. What he doesn't know is I'm having a dream where the V aliens have me strapped down and an alien wearing his face is interrogating me. "Tell me, Barbara. Where is the safehouse? You love me, don't you? Tell me." kind of stuff.
He touches me and whispers "Barbara" and I - sound asleep - open my eyes to find the V alien standing over me.
I nailed him for all I was worth. BAM!
It was only the pain in my fist that told me that I'd really hit him and !!!! holy frak !!!! "Clyde!"
I yanked the covers over my head and rolled up into a ball as Chris's huge german shepherd attacked. He yanked Clyde off of me and dragged the beast out into the hall.
Roommate missed the whole thing. Should have known right then that the relationship was doomed. LOL!
V might not have been high art but it did a number on me at a vulnerable time in my life.
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OK, Knib...wow. Just...wow! I think a show qualifies as good if it can cause you to assault a cop and fend off his K9. Cheers to ya'! The part where the girl gave birth to the V-alien-baby in her dream did a number on my psyche...but nothing like that! Have you watched V since? I have a hard time watching it now due to the cheese factor of the effects, coupled with the fact that everytime I see Marc Singer shoot an alien I expect to see a couple of ferrets emerge on his shoulder ala Beastmaster. Kinda ruins it, ya know?
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Now those are nasty dreams! I've had bad dreams from scary movies, but yours win the all time prize, and probably had everyone else thinking you were over the edge and gone. I'll bet you were jolted by it some in your daylight hours too, the way nightmares sometimes creep in to get you when you're awake.
For me, V was awful, and irresistable at the same time, like an old horror movie! Good catch, I had totally forgotten that one. Lace I don't remember at all, are you sure tht wasn't a Swiss mini-series? Ha.
Just think, there's never been a Bruce Campbell mini-series.
How do we manage to continue to get sucked into these things when almost all of them are really bad?
Ok, well I admit to liking some of Into the West, but it tried too hard for 'get out your hankie' like only Spielberg does. It was almost like he was channeling Ken Burns when he made it.
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Good lightbulb moment! I'll have to ruminate on that one. I shudder to think there's anything else out there that even comes close to Kniblet's Vmares.
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Originally posted by Thanatus:
I think a show qualifies as good if it can cause you to assault a cop and fend off his K9.
I'm not so sure about the 'fending off' Clyde part. I was more in the fetal position praying I hadn't knocked Chris unconcious.
As it was by the time he got up off the floor and got Clyde off the bed, I needed a new comforter.
Just lucky it was January in an uninsulated barracks in England. Cold kept me alive. If I hadn't have had a couple of layers of blankets, I'd be sporting some scars to this day.
As I said, my mom had just died and I was slightly unhinged to begin with. hmmmmm, I'm still slightly unhinged better not risk seeing V again.
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Quote:You're evil.
Originally posted by liminalosity:
Just think, there's never been a Bruce Campbell mini-series.
You put that out into the 'verse and now we're all doomed.http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/MN-Firefly/ Big Damn Shindigity Good Time
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Was Earthsea a miniseries, because that stunk.
I don’t watch miniseries’ (miniserii?), particularly if they're bad.
A few that I have watched are:
V was spectacular, but the subsequent series was a disappointment; it seemed so forced.
The Day After was good. It was so traumatic that I think it might have helped fuel my current career.
But my current fascination is Rome on HBO. That is really the only thing I’m watching on TV right now. That may be more of series then a miniseries, I don’t know how its categorized. I really like its frank portrayal of Roman life and politics, although I could do without the artistic license in historical matters.
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