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- Organization: University of Maine System
- Date: Sunday, 3 Jan 1993 07:03:22 EST
- From: My Baloney has a first name..... <IO10712@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Message-ID: <93003.070322IO10712@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
- Subject: Re: mystery TV series (was Childhood Misting)
- References: <karpen-311292113012@shiva4175.nrl.navy.mil>
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- <Dec.28.18.45.19.1992.17249@pilot.njin.net> <1hvf37INNfg8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1hvf37INNfg8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
- says:
- >
- >In a previous article, karpen@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil (Judy Karpen) says, in part:
- >
- >>Anyone else
- >>(besides me) think the Sci-Fi channel is a big waste of time? Most of their
- >>material is only good for MST3K treatment, & unbearable without it.
- >>"Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion" is a riot, though.
- >
- > No, I don't think SFC is a waste of time. For example...
- >
- >"The Prisoner" Sundays at 10pm
- > What "Twin Peaks" fans watched before there WAS "Twin Peaks". Not for
- >the faint or literal of mind. Excellent stuff.
- >
- >"Probe" Weeknights at 10pm
- > A show created by Isaac Asimov? No wonder it didn't last long...the
- >average American is incapable of keeping up. I LOVE this show.
- >
- >"Battlestar Galactica" Weeknights at 8pm
- > Okay, so it's cheesy. It's still a great nostalgia trip, and some of
- >the episodes are actually sort of good. (Okay, so it's just a nostalgia
- >trip.)
- >
- >"Alien Nation" Saturdays at 7pm
- > I say this based on the episodes I watched when the series was originally
- >shown, and all of those were from the first season. What I saw, I liked.
- >Later epsiodes/seasons may not be worth it; I don't know.
- >
- >"War of the Worlds" Weeknights at 9pm
- > Okay, so most of the episodes are average, and some really stink. Some
- >of them are also quite good. The dialogue is better than any first-season
- >episode of ST:TNG you care to name, and later seasons took on an interesting
- >cyberpunk flavor.
- >
- >
- > Those are the five I can think of right away. Granted, the channel offers
- >a lot of room for improvement--where's Star Trek? Star Wars? Alien(s)? and
- >so on. However, I attribute these to infancy. If given time to develop,
- >the quality could improve dramatically. Especially by showing better movies.
- > Oh, and you're right--"Mysteries From Beyond the Other Dominion" is
- >utterly hysterical. I just have one question: Is that guy REALLY serious,
- >or is he sort of a retro-skeptic? I still haven't figured it out...
- >
- > -EMeyer
- >
- >--
- >"Unstable condition--a symptom of life | Eric A. Meyer
- >(eam3@po.CWRU.edu)
- > In mental and environmental change | Library Information
- >Technologies
- > Atmospheric disturbance--the feverish flux | Software Support Technician
- > Of human interface and interchange-" -N.P. | "What do you think, sirs?"
- >-Joel
-
- I don't have cable, but i have heard of the Sci-Fi channel, and i was
- wondering, do they play reruns of the show "V"???
- If anyone knows if this is on, PLEASE write me and i'd probably subscribe
- to cable just to get it. :) Thanks...
-
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