# Why taken is shit
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 21, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026 "2003-01-21T19:06:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/1 "2003-01-21T19:06:52Z")
It’s inconsistent, boring, not much about aliens, little insight into what the military does with the spacecraft and aliens agenda, if you don’t agree with this and hate anything else, then please, put your feedback here.
I don’t wanna know about the ‘emotional upheaval of an alien child’ or the ‘trials and tribulations of a possessed military general or whatever’ lets get to the technology.
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/2 "2003-01-21T21:49:59Z")
Tell ya’ what. Why don’t we just move this on over to the Pit where you can just blaspheme to your hearts content.
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/3 "2003-01-21T21:51:21Z")
What, did you miss the _X-Files_ or something? Haven’t we had enough TV shows and films about alien conspiracies and military spacecraft?
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### Author:  [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/4 "2003-01-21T21:58:11Z")
Am I the only one who has no clue what’s going on here? Is this Yoda talking about his bowels in some sort of zen way? 😕
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### Author:  [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/5 "2003-01-21T21:59:05Z")
it is some scifi miniseries
didn’t see it, but my mom liked it
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/6 "2003-01-21T22:04:15Z")
Sooooo…
Lemme get this straight. The OP is complaining that a show about _alien abductions_ and massive _flying saucer alien crash coverups_ isn’t _realistic_ enough???
BWAH-HAHAHAHA…what an ultra-maroon.
What are they supposed to do Ryan: spend two hours with the camera focused on a sign that reads “IT’S ALL BULLSHIT YOU MORON!” ?
Fenris
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/7 "2003-01-21T22:08:29Z")
No. _This_, is Bullshit.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/8 "2003-01-21T22:17:22Z")
Blaspheme?
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/9 "2003-01-21T22:26:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by Libertarian_
> **Blaspheme?**
Maybe **Euty** worships _Taken_?
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/10 "2003-01-21T22:31:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Libertarian \*
> \*\*Blaspheme? \*\*
Maybe he posted it in GQ?
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/11 "2003-01-21T22:43:57Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Crusoe \*
> \*\*What, did you miss the _X-Files_ or something? Haven’t we had enough TV shows and films about alien conspiracies and military spacecraft? \*\*
No. Not military space craft, spacecraft reversed engineered by the military.
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### Author:  [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/12 "2003-01-21T22:44:00Z")
It was originally posted in Cafe Society. I thought Euty was just referring to the language in the title, but perhaps Euty **is** taken with Taken…?
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/13 "2003-01-21T22:45:51Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Monstre \*
> **It was originally posted in Cafe Society. I thought Euty was just referring to the language in the title**
Bingo! Give that man a cigar.
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### Author:  [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/14 "2003-01-21T22:46:13Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by Crusoe_\*\*
> What, did you miss the X-Files or something? Haven’t we had enough TV shows and films about alien conspiracies and military spacecraft?
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> > [@](#):
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> > \*Originally posted by Ryan\_Liam \*
> > \*\*No. Not military space craft, spacecraft reversed engineered by the military. \*\*
The difference being in the subtle nuances between stupid and idiotic?
Fenris
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/15 "2003-01-21T22:46:40Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Fenris \*
> \*\*Sooooo…
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> Lemme get this straight. The OP is complaining that a show about _alien abductions_ and massive _flying saucer alien crash coverups_ isn’t _realistic_ enough???
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> BWAH-HAHAHAHA…what an ultra-maroon.
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> What are they supposed to do Ryan: spend two hours with the camera focused on a sign that reads “IT’S ALL BULLSHIT YOU MORON!” ?
>
> Fenris \*\*
It felt false, the acting by that general really pissed me off. why don’t they gang probe more tramps?😛
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/16 "2003-01-21T22:50:05Z")
The military… right? Reverse-Engineering Alien spacecraft. And applicating it for thier own weapons.
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### Author:  [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/17 "2003-01-21T22:54:32Z")
This thread has “taken” a new and sureal tangent. Anyone know what the fuck is happening? Don’t you point that probe at me!
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/18 "2003-01-21T23:39:58Z")
Did “Taken” just play on your side of the pond? Because we’ve had several threads about it, all of which touched upon the theme of how much it sucked, albeit few of them with your God-given eloquence or Dorothy Parker-like ability to skewer an over promoted production with a few well-chosen words.
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### Author:  [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/19 "2003-01-21T23:58:32Z")
The problem with _Taken_ is that if you look closely at the video you’ll notice all these Tiny Anomalies and Weird Shadows that really shouldn’t be there.
What?
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### Author:  [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-taken-is-shit/150026/20 "2003-01-22T00:27:41Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Eutychus \*
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> > [@](#):
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> > \*Originally posted by Monstre \*
> > \*\*It was originally posted in Cafe Society. I thought Euty was just referring to the language in the title, but perhaps Euty is taken with Taken…? \*\*
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> \*\*Bingo! Give that man a cigar. \*\*
As we know, **Libertarian** can speak for himself, but I presumed he was questioning the use of the word “blaspheme” instead of something like “use vulgar language” which would seem a more appropriate criticism unless you’re a coprotheist or a devotee of _Taken_.
Having said that, the OP does seem to be shit to me and I wouldn’t be inclined to use language like that it Café Society. Couldn’t make it through the first episode of the show myself though, and won’t be watching any more of it.
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