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I’m enjoying it and hope it continues. A recent article says the ratings are decent and moving up slightly. I can’t be the only one here enjoying this show, or maybe I am because my taste in television sucks.
I watched the first couple of episodes and its not that bad. I’ll probably follow it when its on but its not one of the shows (like Lost) that are ‘must see’ for me at least.
-XT
I’m still watching it. I’m hoping we get to some real answers soon like who are these aliens and, well, are they really aliens? We’ve only seen some probe or something. Anyway, I like the show and the lead female is smoking hot. I’d probably watch just to see her walk around in those tight skirts.
I like the lead character’s dog.
MORE MONSTER, I say!
In general, though, I think there are too many technobabble solutions to problems. I like it better when they have to work with and/or manipulate people to contain information or the threat. I like the one where they told the cop that al-Quaeda was responsible for the signal. It was an elegant (if duplicitious) solution, something that would satisfy her curiousity, but something she is much less likely to blab about than if she knew it was aliens.
Then again, as bafaa do we KNOW it’s aliens? One of the major things that gets on my nerves about this show is scientists not acting like scientists, jumping to conclusions where they really have no data on which to base their suppositions, and not being skeptical about their own ideas. (Of course, the writers see to it that they’re almost always right, so that doesn’t bite them in the ass like it would real scientists in the real world.) The fact that they’re completely convinced that it’s aliens right off the bat is a prime example.
I like the show but some of their “science” makes me wince. I mainly stay with it because I like the characters and their interactions and I like the general concept. I particularly liked the episode Podkayne mentions and the most recent one (with the senator) since they dealt more with the interactions than with more of their increasingly awkward bogus science.
I do think they are going to have to come up with some sort of change in direction in the show soon though, or else they are going to have to keep coming up with more and more extremely convoluted ways of having someone exposed to the “signal” every week.
Plus, I agree. Bring back Monster!
I like it, and it’s getting better. Every episode has been less and less about the signal and more about the interactions of the people and how far they’ll go to maintain secrecy. I think it’s very clearly working in that direction.
–Cliffy
I just love sci-fi and am happy that Threshold doesn’t involve three eyed monsters in rubber suits. With this and Battlestar Galactica, I’m getting close to 100% of my sci-fi fix.
I enjoy it, especially in comparison with the interminable Invasion. It’s got a good cast who deliver the goods, especially the very funny Peter Dinklage. Important progress on the signal and our understanding of the “aliens” seems to be made each episode. I also like that the implications of the secrecy (morale of the group, Congressional buttinskies, cover stories and protocols) are gradually being revealed as well.
I also liked that in the episode 2 Fridays ago they weren’t afraid to kill off a fairly important secondary character.
Plus, Carla Gugino’s a hottie–but not in a way that they feel obliged to add the gratuitous “sexual tension” with the head agent. I’ll keep watching, but…
Was there a new episode last Friday? Anyone care to recap (since TWOP doesn’t)?
Nope, last Friday was a rerun of the Pilot.
–Cliffy
My only real annoyance was in the first episode, the North Korean sub. Real stretch on that one. The North Koreans also detected the object and were sending a sub off the East Coast of the US to investigate. That wasn’t done all too well. I can imagine it being the Russians and the US wanting to hide the evidence but the North Koreans…
Yeah, the North Korean sub kind of bothered me but the thing that stuck out for me (and continues to since they keep repeating) is that they keep saying that the ship that was (attacked? contacted? infected? ??) was a “Naval supply vessel” and seem to be saying that it was somehow connected to the US Navy.
Now, the ship to me looked a lot more like a commercial freighter than a Naval one. (Unless they are just using “naval” to mean “seagoing”, which they don’t seem to be.) No insignia, no uniforms on the crew and that sort of thing.
I know that the Navy uses contractors, but would a freighter operating under contract to the Navy be called a Naval freighter? From a plot point of view it doesn’t seem to matter if the ship was military or civilian so why do they continue to refer to it that way?
Yeah, I was a little thrown in that first episode when they said the Coast Guard was reporting such-and-such position for the ship. If it was actually a Navy boat, whouldn’t you get such info from the Navy? It seemed like there were two writers on that part, and one of them thought it was a civilian freighter (the production designer and wardrobe departments seemed to agree).
Mrs. Prefect and I saw the pilot and were intrigued. Then we saw the episode
where the “virus” spread via bank card microchips. A virus complex enough to modify DNA via sound is going to spread on a 32 byte (or 200 gig, it doesn’t really matter) microchip
For us Threshold jumped the shark right there.
Tonight was the return of Monster. The dream sequence where Threshold had lost was very interesting. Lettuce with teeth, no thanks