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Threshold

 
 
chucklehound
15:48 / 09.09.05
Anyone else seen the pilot for this one? Impressive, if bizarre, casting (Carla Gugino, Peter Dinklage, Brett Spiner, Charles S. Dutton). First half is pretty lousy action fare, but then goes pretty far off the deep end (at least as far as network tv goes) and gets into fun stuff like extradimensional entities and dna resequencing. Pilot is also directed by recent comics-to-film go-to-guy David S. Goyer, for what it's worth. I don't want to get too detail heavy until it airs, but at least the premise is a little more interesting than the other alien invasion shows coming this fall.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
10:17 / 11.09.05
So what is the set-up here? What's the starting point for the story? And are there any really annoying prepubescent girls who have special powers?
 
 
chucklehound
19:44 / 11.09.05
no prepubescent girls at all (yet). setup is roughly alien ship crash lands in ocean, gov't team goes out to investigate, crew turns out to be either dead or "changed."

not really sure how the show will continue after the first few hours (which is apparently the trend this season), but spends more time discussing extradimensional constructs, the concept of sufficiently advanced technology appearing supernatural, genetic restructuring using audio, fractal design, etc. than one might expect. also featured some pleasantly creepy dream sequences and fixation on a coriolis fractal that reminded me of "uzumaki."
 
  
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