Worst television mini-series ever
POSTED BY: liminalosity
UPDATED: Thursday, November 17, 2005 05:29
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Originally posted by Knibblet:
The Day After was wonderfully done.
I enjoyed the vast wave of horrified reaction from the people who still believed the 'duck and cover' theory of survival when this mini was shown. And yeah, Star Wars got shut down partly because of it, so I vote big thumbs up on this one, though I squirmed quite a lot at the 'bleeding from every orifice' costumes and props, and sometimes I thought it got a bit maudlin.
Thanks to viral marketing...SERENITY: reopening soon in a theater near you.
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Wow...way to take a worst mini-series thread and turn it into a weak-ass lefty rant. OK, you didn't like the fact that Reagan brought the country out of the Carter-Era malaise. Fine. You want to delude yourself into believing that an agressive stance and the policy of MAD didn't keep us safe and out of major conflict for decades. Fine. You want to pretend like the arms race didn't accelerate the bankrupting and economic collapse of a broken system like communism. Fine. But to claim that the folks of Lawrence, KS had a pivotal role in ending the horrors of nuclear proliferation and that the mini-series was well done...that's just utter nonsense. It was a preachy waste of a talent like Jason Robards. You want a hard core no-nukes movie? My money goes on Dr. Strangelove. By the by...don't recall the point of this thread being "which mini-series did you not find to be a smiley, happy good time for all." Don't know where the hell that came from...sure know I didn't say it. In the future, please try to keep your posts on topic and keep the punditry for the real world thread. Cheers...
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Still disagreeing on the talents and merits of "The Day After". Some cable station showed it last month and I watched for about 45 minutes before I remembered that I was channel surfing to figure out where HBO was. (Dog ate the channel list).
Even 20 years later, it is a great movie and the only irritating moment is the man who keeps asking the radio "Who pre-empted? Who started this?" The point of the story is, "it doesn't matter who starts it 'cause we're all gonna die if it happens".
BTW, I was at the time of the airing of that mini-series at home on leave from my Air Base in England which was a first strike target. I was an F-111 mechanic with the 'wartime additional duty' of personnel shelter manager and exposure control monitor. Exposure control as in ... how much radiation have you already taken and how much longer can you stay out before your eyeballs turn to slush.
I voted for Raygun, twice. I bought into the whole lie of mutual destruction being a deterrent. This world came too close to destruction too many times for my comfort level. Still does worry me and it will until we stamp out nuclear weapons completely.
As for worst mini-series, most suck so much I can't chose. - - back atcha
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When I saw the topic the first thing through my mind was Earthsea. Come on, Ged's *white*?
And where'd that plot come from, cause it's not from the books....
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Also, wasn't Ged supposed to be his real name, that no one knew? I may be mistaken, but I swear I remembre it this way. Everyone in the series was calling him by his true name.
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Touche Knibblet...and by the way, thanks for your service. From one vet to another. On the merits of the show...can we at least agree that it wasn't as good as "Lonesome Dove"? I mean, come on...work with me here! 
As far as MAD working or not...Although rather inelegant, I have to assume there was something more than high moral standards that prevented the Evil Empire from using their nukes. I mean after all they did gas Grozny on an unprecedented scale, showing a willingness to use WMDs in conflict. Also, most definitely agree on the "most mini-series suck" point.
Cheers... -- Still with ya'! 
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Wha
and I thought this thread just sank beneath the waves. Thanks for the reasonableability and clarity, guys.
How about Merlin?
Did anybody like that one? A waste of Sam Neill, I thought. Arthur legend is one of my favorites, and I couldn't finish watching it after getting all cozy with popcorn for the first ep.
Thanks to viral marketing...SERENITY: reopening soon in a theater near you.
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!
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Originally posted by Thanatus:
...thanks for your service from one vet to another... On the merits of the show...can we at least agree that it wasn't as good as "Lonesome Dove"? Also, most definitely agree on the "most mini-series suck" point.
Thanks back atcha. Being a mechanic was fun - it was my lowest ASVAB score so I figured they might as well teach me something I didn't know already. LOL What did you do?
I can't attest to the superiority of 'Lonesome Dove' as I haven't seen it. Yeah, I know. I'm a heathen.
Anyways, I still can't think of many mini-series that I truly enjoyed. 'Roots' of course. Other than that ... not so much. I'm enjoying the hell out of 'Rome' but I don't think that qualifies as a mini-series. 12 hours total, isn't it? I'll take an order of Pullo and some Marc Antony on the side.
Most television sucks and mini-series are only regular tv on steroids.
oh why do I bother turning it on? I could just go paint my toenails or something.http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/MN-Firefly/ Big Damn Shindigity Good Time
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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.
Oh, and Earthsea[/] WAS pretty bad...
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Originally posted by Knibblet:
Thanks back atcha. Being a mechanic was fun - it was my lowest ASVAB score so I figured they might as well teach me something I didn't know already. LOL What did you do?
I was a dogface. Army Arabic linguist/tactical voice intercept specialist...it was the longest job title I could find
I'm gonna throw this one out there for everyone's consideration...no take yourself back a bit in mindset and expectation. think entertainment, not high art...my suggestion is V. In retrospect the effects are a bit hammish, but was Jane Badler not the hottest thing you'd ever seen? wow...
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