The fabled quadruble post!
Could you repeat that?
Okay, my wife and I stumbled across it in the listings. We were searching the cable guide for “Enterprise,” but we didn’t find the show because it had been retitled “Star Trek: Enterprise.” So we watched it tonight.
And hoo boy, did that stink.
The defining moment, I believe, was when Tit’Pol, Archermonkey, and Hoshimonkey had arrived at the end of the tunnel and were looking out over the ruined city. There was a shot with Archermonkey kneeling in the foreground in despair, with Hoshimonkey standing behind him. My wife said, “Look at how she’s standing.” And yep, Hoshimonkey was all curved up, hip cocked, torso at an angle, head bent back the other way, making a big S. It was a true “what the fuck?” moment: Why are you doing that? Is that the actor’s choice, or did the director say, “You gotta be more alien-like 'n shit,” and that’s what they came up with? I mean, I know Linda Park is a dancer and stuff, and she obviously moves really well, but it was just so… unnecessary. Remember the capering Ferengi in their first TNG appearance? Same sort of thing.
And yeah, I also know the director is Levar Burton, which makes this episode especially odd, because it was LaForge in that TNG episode who got infected with that one virus that made him invisible except when they set up the reverse-polarity tachyon emitter (read: black light) showing him as a black silhouette with glowing blue veins. “Extinction” made me think of that episode, combined with (based on the thing at the end about an entire species being contained in that test tube) “The Inner Light.”
Sorry, folks, especially to those who kinda liked it, but I thought it was dogshit.
Re next week’s preview: Aside from being another cringeworthy premise, apparently, the woman playing the sex slave seems really familiar. I know I’ve seen her somewhere before. I’m racking my brain, and I can’t think of it. Or maybe she just really looks like somebody else. I’ll wait for the episode to be sure…
What was that again, Aesiron? I didn’t hear you the first few times. 
Well…shockingly, I might not even tape tonight’s rerun for my usual extra back-up. There just wasn’t all that much to talk or reminisce about (I am forced to admit).
Is there any word on moving ENT to Tuesday nights due to the new season of Smallville (premiering this coming week on Wed. at 8)?
NoClueBoy:
Err, not quite. Don’t read The Ringworld Throne, at least, because it’s one of the worst novels ever written by anybody, at any time.
I was in the bookstore yesterday while waiting for American Splender to start, and saw there was a sequal to Mote in God’s Eye, is that any good or is it on par with the Rama sequals?
The Gripping Hand is actually better.
While Mote appeals to our lust for for action, Hand is a much deeper read, still fraught with danger for Blaine and Man in general. Cool stuff.
See also The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester ( a sci-fi retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo) for explanation of space jaunting and glowing tattoos.
Saw it last night on the repeat.
Rubbish.
Spock’s Brain bad.
Jeebus!
T’Pol’s ass was nice, tho. The GLOW scene would’ve been panda if Linda Park wasn’t wearing that horrid mask. I guess I’m just not bestial enough in my tastes.
Looking forward to Twilight in a couple of weeks.
She had a mask? Guess I was uhhh, looking at something else.
It would be hard to make her “undoable” not matter what she had on.
I guess B and B were going for the furry market.
:eek:
You know if they are going to do mild reharshes of TNG episodes, couldn’t they at least do the good ones?
:smack:
Hoo boy It’s only Monday and I can smell the stink of Panda covering a pile o steaming dog crap… must be Wednesdays episode.
But none of them can fire energy blasts!
Sure! They were fun! Christianity in those movies was basically like having a set of super powers. You get Antichrist Hypnosis Immunity, Super Luck, and the ability to summon singing guardian angels. Plus, the first conversion scene in the second movie was like reading a Jack Chick comic tract. I kinda think the scene in the second movie where Kirk Cameron and the other guy prayed aloud was the Christian equivalent of porn – normally in a movie, when somebody says “let’s pray,” they pan away tastefully to the fireplace and leave their prayers to your imagination, but here they showed you all the lurid details.
Yeah … and why are we whispering?
For a good Christian movie, i reccommend Meddigo: The Omega Code 2. It has some cool action scenes, and where else will you see the Presidents of USA, Mexico, and China lead troops into battle against the AntiChrist? (USA president played by Micheal Biehn of Terminator and Aliens fame. R. Lee Ermy plays the previous president, also)
Whooooooooooooooooooooosh! GLOW? What is this?
Tars, were you trying to say Megiddo ?
uhhhhhhhhhhhh… It was a test. Yup, that’s it! A Test!
GLOW was the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrasslin’
Long before all that primetime stuff, GLOW was on late at night during the 80s.
It was 80s, wasn’t it?
Ah, yes, Meggido. Along with the Torent Valley of Hebron. Real places that became a metaphor.
How’s yer sammich?
I thought you were talking about glowworms. Those 80’s toys. They drank moondrops, they did, and then they glowed. and they had their own TV show.