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General => Reviews => Topic started by: Jester on August 30, 2006, 04:44:35 AM
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have you guys seen this show yet? It's clever, funny, adn original. I don't believe I've seen anything like it. I like this show alot and haven't missed an episode yet :)
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Yeah, I like the show, too. It's great seeing two mostly-normal people trying to deal with living in a city full of geniuses.
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Hunny got me watching it, and I must say its pretty good. Up to this point I was pretty much sticking to BBC. The lead is personable, the geeks pretty believable, and the auto-house is amusing. The lead always reminds me of someone, but I haven't put my finger on who yet.
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lol, yea. He's borderline nuts
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It's also entertaining to see what kind of trouble Zoe gets into from ep to ep.
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yea, I think she's gonna try and run away again next ep
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I only ever saw part of episode one. Has it gotten better since then???
Gabriel
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well, I've kept watching.
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me too
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Hehehehe, that didn't answer my question.
Gabriel
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It has gotten better- the pilot was a little shaky, as they slapped together a poor story (kind of a cool storyline, but not the greatest execution), and worked as many special effects as possible into the episode.
The episodes past the first one are more story, less all about flashy graphics.
There are cool little things- like the mechanic who has like four doctorates, and the sherrif's house that talks to him whenever he asks a rhetorical question. ;D
-kv
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yea, that's funny. I like when the house got mad at him for not calling in late
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The house? Is this the same house that had a wormhole pop up in it on the premeire??
Gabriel
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Didn't see the premier.
-kv
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No, that was the guy who cloned his wife. The talking house is the one Carter (the US Marshal-turned-Sheriff) lives in.
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Ah....... So when does Battlestar Galactica start with the new episodes?????
Gabriel
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If Starbuck ain't a guy it ain't Battlestar Galactica!
I think I figured out who Carter reminds me of though - Mike Rowe from 'Dirty Jobs' ever see it? My dad loves it.
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Yeah, he does remind me of that guy.
I like how Carter is an 'everyman,' so when all this extroidenary stuff is happening, he doesn't react like we do - since we're expecting extroidenary things, being used to watching the show, he reacts like a real person would.
I like it.
-kv
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he does look a little like mike. But yea, I like the deathray episode :)
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Deathray was good. I also liked the memory wipe ep.
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If Starbuck ain't a guy it ain't Battlestar Galactica!
You fraggin' zealot! One of these days I think you're going to strap a vest full of dynamite onto yourself and take a tour of the set.
BSG writers/casting director + Zone = (http://members.cox.net/gwire/Smiley - Explode.gif)
Gabriel
PS - I bet the Department of Homeland Stupidity just read my entire hard drive for that second sentence. :-\
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I think it's filmed in Vancouver (like most of Sci-Fi's stuff).
So the CANADANS ARE GOING TO ATTACK!
-kv
(p.s. I know I spelled Canadian wrong.)
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<SINGING> BLAME CANADA, BLAME CANADA!!!!!
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Why isn't there a Department of Homeworld Security? 'Cause that would mean Stargate is real.
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If Starbuck ain't a guy it ain't Battlestar Galactica!
You fraggin' zealot! One of these days I think you're going to strap a vest full of dynamite onto yourself and take a tour of the set.
BSG writers/casting director + Zone = (http://members.cox.net/gwire/Smiley - Explode.gif)
Gabriel
PS - I bet the Department of Homeland Stupidity just read my entire hard drive for that second sentence. :-\
LOLBT
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carter could beat the galactica with his death ray
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Not a chance. But he could probably infiltrate it as a cylon. I think the Galactica security protocal must be something like this:
Guard: Hey, buddy. are you a cylon?
Cylon #1: Nope.
Guard: Ok, go on into the reacter room.
:::5 minutes later:::
Guard: Hey, chump. Are YOU a cylon?
Cylon #2: Nope.
Guard: But I just saw you walk in there about 5 minutes ago.
Cylon #2: Nah, that was my twin brother who wears the same cloths as me.
Guard: Oh. OK.
:::5 minutes late:::
Battlestar Gallactica: BOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gabriel
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lol, that's funny :) Almost sounds like one of our Star Wars games
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Remember my mouse droid with all of the detonite tape lining the inside of his cover??? I wish the hell I could have used Squeak to his full potential that game. :::sigh:::
Gabriel
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I'd've loved to see that.
"Beep, beep bebeep. Beep, beep--BOOOM!!!"
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haha, yea. I was waiting for you to use him :)
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I never got the chance! :'( He was going to sacrifice himself for the nobel cause of galactic rebellion. Oh, and I was going to go buy a new one the next day and do the same thing. After all, who notices mouse droids??
Gabriel
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Obviously Chewbacca. Anyone else remember that smug look he got after scaring one off?
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Chewie roaring at the mouse droid and then laughing about it was one of my fave scenes when I first saw it, lo these many moons ago.
<topic stabilization attempt> Why are there mouse droids in Eureka?</attempt>
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If there aren't, there should be. Maybe Henry can build one...
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Is he the automechanic/super-geniuos???
Gabriel
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there definatly are a lack of robots
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maybe because they consider them to simple to build
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true, never thought about it like that. But they did have nanites in the last one so I guess there have been a couple
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just watched it last night and the tow truck driver is leaving eurka
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I hope he doesn't. he's pretty damn cool
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Could just be the season finale, or working up to it- they like to drop at least one character out, to explain why they haven't been interacting in the three months before the show comes back on the air again.
-kv
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you mean the 3 months the show isn't on? because otherwise he's been in every episode
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Which one is the tow truck guy? Max Headroom?
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no, the rocket science mechanic who fixed the sherrif's car in the pilot
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I love Eureka
one of my favorite shows
and you know if you go to scifis site for it, they have actually been showing the dang things out of frellong order!!
idiots
thats why it seems so disjointed at times.
Like last weeks show was supposed to air b4 the prior weeks episode.
I HATE when networks screw with shows, thats what happened to FireFly and the Tick
oh and yeah sorry but I have never been able to find that new battlestar galactica thing interesting, ever
cylons dont look like people man
they are supposed to be shiny and cool
KOTORs sith troops looked more like cylons than the things on that show
that and starbuck being a chick and boomer going from being a black man to an asian chick to a cylon asian chick or whatever was just silly IMHO
you want to have a chick pilot who smokes cigars (yuck) then fine just dont call her starbuck
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heh sorry ;)
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ROFL! that was awesome!
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Damn Swireler, I may just have to take that one, measly little karma point away from you for talking trash about BSG. But then again, I think EVERYONE would give you some just for smacking down my favorite SciFi Channel show. Damn, guess I have to play nice for now. ;)
Gabriel
PS - BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ROCKS!!!!!!!! ;)
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heh
sorry
i think its just I was looking forward to the show when they advertised it, then it just didnt deliver what I wanted IMO
It just didnt seem interesting.mYabe if it werent called BSG maybe I'd have felt differently.
dunno
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Well, you certainly aren't the only one who gives me hell about this show. Zone is another one of the Starbuck-Needs-a-Schlong kind of people. :::sigh:::
Gabriel
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lol, I'm the one that gave him the karma. great rant :)
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*bows*
thanks
It's what I do
;D
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Zone is another one of the Starbuck-Needs-a-Schlong kind of people. :::sigh:::
Gabriel
Well, duh, I'm a girl... AND STARBUCK ISN'T ;D
Don't worry Swirler, any karma he smites on that score, I'll put back - maybe even double
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heh heh
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yea! we got your back!
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I told you, Swirler, they are a bunch of back-stabbing cockbites if I ever ran with any. Oh, and watch your testicles. Zone has a fleet of drones equipped with large scissor attahments. :-\
Gabriel
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hey no hurty the testes, they are already owned by another woman
she wouldnt look too kindly upon anyone hurtin em
;D
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Ah the naivete of the newbies. ;) Don't think your girlfrined can save you from a vengful Zone. There is a reason we have talked about cybernuts on this board before. That girl is VISCOUS!! :zone:
Gabriel
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you'd be suprised
she's an irish redhead and has the temper from both
::)
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zone never done me anything...
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Of course not Twinkie King - only Gabe has that exact combination of smarts and dumbass that serves as a major irritant to females the world over. ;D I'll let you all try and figure out the preportions.
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Yeah yeah yeah. It's keeps YOU coming back for meore, Z. 8)
Gabriel
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i don't wanna figure that out. If I do then I'd alwasy be in as much trouble as him
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and swirler I agree with you I can enjoy it by looking at it as a altentine timeline
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yeah i kinda figured I'd try that too, but any time I tried watchin it, it just seemed kinda dull to me so I gave up.
I'm a quitter
bad me!!
It's only been a few weeks and I'm already missing "Life on Mars"
dang it!!
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Season finale tonight.
...and I'm still hurting over missing the last 15 minutes of the Life on Mars season wrapper...
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Okay, once y'all watch it, you need to tell me 'the secret of Eureka,' because I'm going out with my girlfriend, and won't be able to watch it tonight.
Spoliers please, people! Spoilers!!!
-kv
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we always watch it the day after it airs so I wont see it until tomorrow :(
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wtf is life on mars?
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wtf is life on mars?
one of the coolest shows to come out in a very very long time
it was on BBC America
basically its a modern day cop who is ivestigating a serial murder/raping/kidnapping case and one of his officers (process of becoming his exgf) gets hit by a car While he is standing outside his car and his ipod in his car is playing Bowie's "Life on Mars"
he wakes up next to the car that hit him in 1973 and its playing the same song on its 8track.
Now he's a cop in 1973 and every nopw and then he sees or hears things that make him realize he's in a coma
it can be very very creepy at times
but very very cool
I hope they make another season
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WOW. That sounds pretty wiz. Too bad I havne't ever heard of it until now. I might have the see about DL'ing it if I can.
Gabriel
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yeah its a wonderful show
just finished the season finale of Eureka, not exactly what I was expecting. Not bad just not what I figured it'd be.
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SPOILERS AHEAD
Actually I thought the Eureka finale was a bit of a let down, especially since I quite like Kim and Henry. I'd much rather have seen Stark deep fried on a slab than her. I'm guessing if Henry leaves this will be the out.
As for Life on Mars, Lets give it its own thread....
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yeah it sucks she bought it
and it seemed more like another ep instead of a season finale kinda show
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You know, I still don't watch this show.
Gabriel
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Okay, so what happened?
-kv
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man, too much for me to explain. Maybe someone else can give it a shot
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Its easier to crip it from the website:
On Zoe's graduation day in 2010, the citizens of Eureka are enjoying a bright future. Henry has married his beloved fellow scientist Kim, and Carter and Allison are happily wed and expecting a baby. Then Fargo interrupts Zoe's celebration by summoning Carter and Allison to Global Dynamics to solve a gruesome mystery. A woman's body has appeared out of nowhere, badly burned by exotic radiation and fused into a wall within the top-secret Section Five.
Henry, who now leads Global Dynamics, explains that the body's DNA is too badly damaged by radiation to identify. The radiation, oddly, comes from Stark's mysterious artifact, which remains safely stored in Section Five although Stark himself was fired a few years ago.
As Kim struggles to identify the body using an experimental DNA reconstruction program, Allison and Carter return to the graduation celebration, only to be interrupted again when Carter's old Jeep — a relic of the year 2007 — materializes in the middle of Main Street. Because the body also seems to have come from another time, Fargo theorizes that Eureka is suffering from temporal anomalies caused by the tachyon accelerator at Global Dynamics — a time-manipulation device that has been locked up since its near-disastrous invention.
Upon investigation, Carter discovers that only one man possesses both access to that device and the knowledge of quantum physics needed to use it: Henry. Meanwhile, Kim faces an even more chilling truth: the dead body is hers. She, Carter, and Allison confront Henry, who sadly confesses that he's responsible. In October 2006, he explains, Kim died in a radiation blast while helping Stark drill a core sample from the mysterious artifact. Grief-stricken, Henry seized Stark's job at Global Dynamics to gain access to the tachyon accelerator. He then used it to travel back in time to the day Kim died. He saved her life, thus initiating a second timeline that Eureka has now experienced for four years. But the original timeline has begun competing with its replacement. The temporal anomalies will only increase, eventually tearing this space-time apart.
Henry can help Carter make a dangerous journey back in time to set things right. But if Carter succeeds in erasing the second timeline — essentially resetting the clock to 2006 — the family he's built with Allison will vanish and Kim's death will ravage Henry all over again. As the temporal anomalies grow more destructive, Carter, Henry, Kim, and Allison must choose between clinging a few moments longer to happiness — or saving the world.
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Great Ghost, I HATE Time-travel stories!!!!! (http://members.cox.net/gwire/Smiley - Explode.gif)
Gabriel
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i like time travel when done well
this one wasnt so muc time travel
well in a way it was
in a way it wasnt
more reality bending
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I was actually a bit disapointed in the last episode. It was lacking something
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closure?
or something else?
they couldnt do closure or theyd be at an end
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they save that for the season opening
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I dunno, it wasn't the best one of the year for sure
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that is certainly true
more of Allison in her undies!!!
wooo!!
;)
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rofl! I like this guy :)
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Is allison the fed?? She's hot as Georgia asphalt (to quote Morph)
Gabriel
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Is allison the fed?? She's hot as Georgia asphalt (to quote Morph)
Dang Skippy!!
course all the women are hot. the evil psychiatrist, the cop chcik (when she lets her hair down) but yeah Allison is the favorite around here
;D
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See, I always thought the cop bim was just too flat of a character. She is pretty much just Worf and nothing else.
Gabriel
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that was one thing I liked in the last ep, they let Jo be a lil more "alive". That ep with the weird pollen was fun with her being all goofy. course that was the one where allison stripped down. Coincidence? I think not.
;)
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Don't suppose you can post some still pics of that can you??? ;)
Gabriel
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I suspect we will find that jill will play a major role soon
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I so want to know who the evil psychiatrist is working for - you gotta know its not just Kim Jong Il or any such prosaic bad guy.
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I've been wondering that myself.
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Still waiting for those still pix, chummer...
Gabriel
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lol