…and twice as much fun.
Had my fortnightly weigh in yesterday and I am down to 286 pounds, a total of 15 pounds lost since I began dieting & exercising about 6 weeks ago. Not bad. I’m walking an average of 2.75 miles a day, but have not yet added any situps or weight lifting yet. I’ll have to get going with that phase of things.
Well, I’ve watched all three of the new “invasion” series on tv and here are my opinions based on the premiere episode of each.
THRESHOLD: Has the most interesting characters, but the whole concept and plotline looks like Brannon Braga (the producer, late of various “Star Trek” series) watched all of the X-Files mythology episodes, tossed in a bit of Trek technobabble and baked it until done.
SURFACE: None of the characters grabbed me, but it has the most unique and interesting premise of the three. This looks like it could produce a few new twists on the genre.
INVASION: Has about a 50/50 split between characters that are interesting and those that you’d like to see meet a face hugger. The premise is pretty run of the mill so far and the post-hurricane setting will get old fast if they don’t change it.
I’ll give all of these my standard 3 episode chance. If, by the conclusion of episode 3 I’m not really looking forward to episode 4, they are off my viewing list.
LOST had it’s second season premiere last night and it was good, but the ending had my suspension of disbelief stretched to about half a micron thick. Hopefully, the writers were just hungover or something when they thought it up.
One more television note: I’m liking SUPERNATURAL. I’m hoping NIGHT STALKER will be as good or better. It’s interesting that my tastes in genre tv series have shifted away from sci-fi and towards horror. I couldn’t stomach the last two Trek series…couldn’t get into STARGATE SG-1, FARSCAPE, BABYLON 5, or ANDROMEDA…thought FIREFLY sucked…have yet to get up the energy to look at BATTLESTAR GALACTICA…but I’ll give any series with monsters in it my full attention. I’d give a Fantasy tv series a chance, but there aren’t any. Ah well, must just be my tastes changing with age.
NOTE FROM 2020: Threshold ran 13 episodes…Surface ran 15…Invasion held on for 22 episodes. None of them were really very good. I watched most of Theshold, all of Surface and 4 episodes of Invasion.
Supernatural ends soon, but it lost me about 3/4 of the way through the first season. Night Stalker sucked. My opinion of the sci-fi series above has not changed, except that I gave Firefly a second chance, watching it in the proper order, and it was okay. Watched 1.5 episodes of Battlestar Galactica and never watched it again.
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