The old UPN series Special Unit 2 is airing on the Sci Fi Channel on Friday. I thought it was a much better show than it was given credit for being, a lighthearted, almost sitcom approach to modern fantasy. It’s entertaining, in short. And one or two people other than me on the Dope seem to like it, which according to our Deciderer, is a mandate!
I loved this show. It always reminded of a set of children’s books I read as a kid called Bureau 13. I’ll definitely be watching.
Well, Amp it looks like it’s just us. A Republican mandate, as it were. Well, I’m gonna link to an article I put up on my website in honor of Special Unit 2’s return. It is TOTALLY Not Safe For Work, even though what makes it Not Safe For Work is just a vidcap from a network TV show that aired during prime time on a weeknight. To wit:
http://www.bondagerotica.com/articles/su2.html
Kinda weird when you think about it … stuff that’s safe for prime time is Not Safe for the Dope. What special folks our administrators must think we are, to need such protection.
Well, Special Unit 2 was a three-fer on the SciFi Channel tonight, and it was just as good as I remember it to be. such fun. I have no idea why it tanked after just two seasons.
Watched the first two, switched away for the third one to watch something else. Seems like the series went into repetetive mode pretty quick. Cop seeks Link, Cop asks Gnome, Cop finds Link.
The lead male cop was the first Jimmy Olsen on “Lois and Clark.”
I don’t think the creative energy was focussed so much on the plots but on the monsters and the fights with the monsters. I mean, I can see the writers’ meeting for this ep:
Writer 1: How about a mummy this week?
Head Writer: Mummies have been done to death.
Writer 1: Ah but what about a WARRIOR mummy?
Head writer: Nahhh, still no big.
Writer 2: How about an ancient warrior NINJA mummy?
Head writer: That’s IT!!! Nobody’s every done an ancient warrior NINJA mummy!
Writer 1: He could do all those kicks and flips and cool moves and stuff when he fights Logan!
Head writer: Logan?
Writer 1: Whomever. Point is, we get all the ninja fighting goodness. And he could wear a neat leather outfit instead of just ancient band-aids.
Writer 2: And he could have to sacrifice a hot babe so he could get all flesh and bloody again. On a stone altar. With chanting. Oooga-booga-nooga-ram, that kinda thing.
Head writer: OK, that’s been done to death, too.
Writer 2: OK, how about instead of sacrificing ONE hot babe, he has to sacrifice THREE hot babes?
Head writer: Better, but still …
Writer 1: How about, instead of sacrificing them on a stone altar, he ties them to a pillar and sets fire to them? They get rescued of course, because one of them has to be our female lead. But still, getting that Salem witch trial goodness mixed in with the ancient mummy thing, that could be nice.
Head writer: Of COURSE. That’s the VERY THING!!!
Then they all jump up and run around like ninnies high-fiving each other and cackling gleefully as any Doper who’d come up with such a concept would do.