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Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/22/12)
07/22/12 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 07/22/2012 1:49:53 PM PDT by KevinDavis

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/22/12)
Sunday:
9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT

Monday:
9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy
10/9 -- Alphas -- SyFy

Wednesday:
10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: scifi
Well I give the series finale of Eurkea a D.. It was nice to see Taggert, but I thought I have seen better series finale.. It was rushed....
1 posted on 07/22/2012 1:49:57 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 07/22/2012 1:51:09 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Radical Islam is a bigger threat than the LDS...)
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I finally made the connection that the hot blonde sheriff’s deputy in Longmire is Starbuck. She certainly ping worthy...


3 posted on 07/22/2012 1:56:28 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: KevinDavis

I finally made the connection that the hot blonde sheriff’s deputy in Longmire is Starbuck. She certainly ping worthy...


4 posted on 07/22/2012 1:56:51 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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It would have been a better ending if Beverly’s Consortium bought GD...


5 posted on 07/22/2012 2:02:45 PM PDT by null and void (Day 1279 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: neodad

I liked her in BSG.


6 posted on 07/22/2012 2:09:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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The Eureka Finale was obviously rushed.

SyFy gave them one week to do it.

The Final scene was obviously in the showrunners head before the first episode was made.

It came around and tied into the first episode even though the show went off on another tangent.

But it was still a good Finale IMO.

B- or C+

It hit all the right notes and gave a satisfactory ending.

Not a hipster,pseudo-artist,anti-hero nihilist ending.


7 posted on 07/22/2012 2:26:00 PM PDT by Reaganez
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The whole final season kind of sucked.

Why change for the finale?


8 posted on 07/22/2012 2:40:08 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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9 posted on 07/22/2012 6:44:13 PM PDT by Krankor
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It was definitely rushed, but it isn't obvious that they went back to shoot it. They had the principals and the co-stars available and they continued the storyline from the previous episode, which was, frankly, a terrible cliffhanger. Worse than when the Sheriff was fired (which itself wasn't bad -- except for the fact that as a US Marshall he should've been re-assigned, not fired -- but the resolution was an *ss-pull).

The whole Senator Wen storyline was poorly conceived, and Ming-Na was the wrong person for it. And I still have problems with the fact that Beverly conveniently woke up first (that in itself, not too, too bad) but had time to drag Wen out of there (somewhat iffy) and then when everyone else comes to, they note Beverly's absence, but no mention is made that Wen isn't present. You would think that that would've bothered somewhere at that time, instead of a mention a scene or two later.

I liked the final scene and had hoped that they'd remember to put that in. As far as most of the characters go, I would've preferred to see more Zoe and less Kevin over the past two years, and (I'll say it again) "normal" Kevin was a much less interesting character and I don't see how he could've saved the world earlier if he was in his present state.

Overall, the reboot didn't pay off. Those first six episodes of the reboot were good, but there needed to be some kind of reset button, instead of wondering what, if anything, in the first four seasons actually happened and what didn't. A show with as few episodes as Eureka has should not have needed a reboot to keep things fresh.

10 posted on 07/23/2012 8:49:41 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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That could have been a backup plan if Trevor Grant wasn't available. Initially, I thought that's what she did to redeem herself on top of the Grace thing.

But, in the end, that would've been the same as if the NID finally "rescues" the Stargate program after the government defunds it. Hey, the villain isn't really a villain after all; they just want to make the world a better place; can't we all just get along?

11 posted on 07/23/2012 8:52:48 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Krankor
the man with two brains.

12 posted on 08/12/2012 10:29:30 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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