# Threshold
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 17, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082 "2005-09-17T02:56:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/1 "2005-09-17T02:56:10Z")
Anybody watching it?
So far in, it looks like it could be good, if done properly. Or it could be shit. Or anywhere in between.
It certainly is an interesting concept.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/2 "2005-09-17T03:03:22Z")
It’s over, here. Kinda crappy, IMO. Then again, I was only half-watching it, so I may have missed some subtleties that would have made it more interesting. But, from what I saw, I doubt it.
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/3 "2005-09-17T03:34:21Z")
It joins the category of “TV shows I won’t feel the urge to watch again” for me.
My suspension of disbelief crashed about 15 minutes in, when they sent a military squad down to that ship and who announced in what couldn’t have been more than 10 minutes (while the rest hovered in the helicopter) that it was safe to land because there were no pathogens or chemical hazards.
Damn! Even CSI can’t run get test results that fast.
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/4 "2005-09-17T04:58:27Z")
I was just a little bit confused with regards to how the North Koreans were supposed to get a Kilo-class submarine to a site somewhere off the eastern coast of the US within a few hours.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/5 "2005-09-17T05:14:45Z")
I give it an “eh.” I turned it off about 1.5 hours in.
It was nice to see Spiner back in action, though. He got old.
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/6 "2005-09-17T05:16:13Z")
It’s okay for a TV movie, but there’s not much of a storyline for a whole series.
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### Author:  [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/7 "2005-09-17T05:40:58Z")
It was okay. Not great, not terrible. I’ll probably watch it again, just 'cause I like Brent Spiner. I didn’t like the female lead, though. She was just a little _too_ perfect. Plus, some of the dialogue fell flat. It has the potential to be good in an **X-Files** sort of way, but it needs some work.
For now…meh.
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### Author:  [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/8 "2005-09-17T06:08:16Z")
Darn it, I really liked it. Since I really liked it, I give it 6 episodes, tops, before it gets canceled.
I thought the cast was great and there was some really creepy moments. Love the guy from the Station Agent!
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### Author:  [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/9 "2005-09-17T06:29:32Z")
What is it? This is the first I’ve heard of it.
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### Author:  [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/10 "2005-09-17T06:36:31Z")
It’s a sort of **X-Files** -ish show, only told from the conspirator’s point of view.
[This should tell you all you need to know.](http://www.cbs.com/primetime/threshold/)
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/11 "2005-09-17T06:53:44Z")
I really liked Peter Dinklage. And, of course, it’s nice to see Brent Spiner.
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### Author:  [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/12 "2005-09-17T14:23:20Z")
> [@Glory](#):
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> Darn it, I really liked it. Since I really liked it, I give it 6 episodes, tops, before it gets canceled.
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> I thought the cast was great and there was some really creepy moments. Love the guy from the Station Agent!
Me, too. I was totally absorbed and screamed a bit when the Zombie guy was behind the refrigerator door!
Good cast, especially Brent Spiner and Peter Dinklage. And I like Carla Gugino a lot. Good effects. I didn’t particularly like the “ghost guy,” who, I suppose, is supposed to be Molly’s love interest. He looks too much like he was lifted out of a comic book.
I don’t understand why this show is on Friday night which is pretty much the Doom time period. And I think maybe that’s why you’re right that it will get 6 eps before it is canceled. Looks like there’s a lot of money sunk into this show, though.
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### Author:  [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/13 "2005-09-17T14:24:42Z")
Dinklage and Spiner were great, but it pretty much failed to grab my interest. I was perhaps expecting too much, more along the lines of “Contact” or the early parts of “Sphere”.
I’d watch it, except I’ve got places to be Friday nights, and this just isn’t worth the effort to tape it weekly.
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### Author:  [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/14 "2005-09-17T14:58:34Z")
2nd rate X-Files rip-off. The dialogue was perfunctory, the cast was filled with 2 dimensional “quirky” archetypes and though the special effects were pretty impressive, I didn’t find them particularly eerie and the timing and editing of the scare sequences was off.
I’m pretty disappointed considering there was a certain amount of advance buzz for this show. I’ll give it another chace (mostly for Gugino) but I doubt I’ll be following it regularly.
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### Author:  [@Pope\_Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pope_Righteous)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/15 "2005-09-17T15:44:35Z")
It only peaked my interest because of Brent Spiner. I give it half a season before it’s cancelled. Maybe in time it will even out, but I found the plot and character rapport to be clumsy. I found the female character a little dull.
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/16 "2005-09-17T16:08:01Z")
I love the premise enough to give it another chance… but man the dialogue was for shit. And solid actors like Dinklage and Dutton each had scenes that made them sound like high school kids trying to sound like serious actors.
As soon as I saw the lead had a fing ugly pug for a pet I almost checked out… that the worthless pet was named “Monster” made it slightly palatible.
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### Author:  [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/17 "2005-09-17T16:51:40Z")
> [@Push You Down](#):
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> As soon as I saw the lead had a fing ugly pug for a pet I almost checked out… that the worthless pet was named “Monster” made it slightly palatible.
Monster is not a pug. Monster is a French Bulldog. Very trendy!
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### Author:  [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/18 "2005-09-17T17:33:43Z")
Anyone else think that William Mapother is just dialing in the Ethan Rom role from “Lost”?
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/19 "2005-09-17T17:44:44Z")
I liked Spiner, Gugino, and Dinklage, but I kept getting up and missing scenes. And then I realized that I hadn’t really “missed” them.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshold/322082/20 "2005-09-17T17:54:18Z")
**Hijack alert**
Brannon Braga will not get watched in this house.
He’s one of the Bergama. Together, Berman and Braga ruined Trek. Sad, 'cause they had potential. At the beginning. Well, it seemed like they did…
After vivisting with an old friend of mine this past couple of days who actually wrote and did other things for Trek (both herself and with her husband), I now have another reason to avoid Braga. He treated her like shit. (Her sister died, that’s why she came back to town.)
So, not to crap on anyone’s tastes, but I’m glad this show isn’t wowwing anybody. Yeah, I’m petty like that.
**End hijack**
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