Spielberg's Taken

A few people submitted asking for an open discussion for Spielberg's Taken miniseries that premiered last night on SciFi last night. I watched it, and I gotta say I dug it, and set Tivo up to snag the rest of it. I wish that they were spacing it out a bit more (in terms of scheduling, not in terms of leaving the Earth's atmosphere ;) What do folks think?

Comments

Taken No, Stargate SG-1 Yes.

[kperrier]

I want my Stargate. Will someone please take Taken to some other day of the week?

Kent

Oh great, Slashdot likes it..

[Anonvmous Coward]

... that means it'll be cancelled soon.

Re:Oh great, Slashdot likes it..

[Ponty]

The correct term for which, as all TV aficionados know, is miniseries rot. Originally, all television series were planned as miniseries, but the scourge or miniseries rot kicked in and none of them lasted for more than fifteen episodes or so. Finally, scientists from NBC and Bell Labs, working together, discovered how to prevent miniseries rot. The problem is that their discovery was both very expensive and very unpredictable: there was a 75% chance that any product treated against miniseries rot would instead turn out to be total crap. So the television producers of the last sixty years have faced a dilemma: they can produce short-lived, high quality programs or they can produce longer-lasting programs that cost a lot and have a 75% chance of being "Emeril." I, for one, am glad that I don't have to make that decision.

Re:Oh great, Slashdot likes it..

[Anonvmous Coward]

"well given that its a miniseries, it'll be off the air due to natural causes soon enough."

Well I'm glad you were around to clear that up. I apologize to everybody who thought my joke was funny.

Will they reair it?

[Julius X]

I missed the first episode, does anyone know if they'll re-air it? I can't seem to find the info on SciFi's site.

What do folks think?

[tmark]

I was absolutely Taken by it.
(cymbal crash)
Thank you, I'll be here all week.

Re:What do folks think?

[cybermace5]

Cymbal crash, eh?

I thought it was "BU-DUM-CHING!" or just (rimshot).

But then, a cymbal is kind of like a gong. So maybe you were going for more of an Oriental atmosphere. Sort of like your comment was the wisdom of an ancient Zen master.

"Meditate on this my students, and learn the wisdom I speak. Why did the boy throw a clock into the air?"

Four hours pass....

"Students, you have meditated long enough, and the answer will be revealed. It is because the boy wanted to see time fly."

GONG: BWAAASSSHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh......

"Thank you. I will be here all decade."

i can't believe it

[tps12]

I watched it, and I gotta say I dug it, and set Tivo up to snag the rest of it.

So you'll watch it without commercials, the Sci-Fi Channel will lose money on the show, and in a few months you'll be running a story about how a group of fans are raising money to keep it on the air...incredible.

Re:i can't believe it

[Java Pimp]

I'm not gonna steal programming...

I'll set up my VCR timer to tape it. And I already broke the Fwd button off my remote! And set a timer lock on my refrigerator so I can't make a sandwich during commercial breaks. I know every time I watch a commercial $0.07 is automatically drafted from my wallet and given to sci-fi cause I know the advertizers didn't already pay them for the air time. I don't want to see sci-fi lose any money now.

I wonder... since skipping commercials is stealing, is it also stealing to watch the commercials with no intention of buying the product? I mean really, for the advertizers to get my money, I've got to buy the product, right?

Re:i can't believe it

[jhines0042]

So what you're saying is that if I set up my Tivo to record a show and then I watch it once and the commercials 47,000 times that the show will suddenly become profitable and they'll split it off? ;-)

Spielberg's Taken

[lunenburg]

Oh great, I guess that means I have to find another date to the prom.

First take confusion.

[Night0wl]

You know, I should really go to sleep. I saw the title and thought, "Speilberg's getting married?" ...

And earlier this morning, watching the rerun of Tech TV's Screen Savers I was cought off guard by there "Bitch chat" with George Clooney.
It was moments later I realized the height difference in Bit and Chat...

Well obviously, though they may take our lives ...

[burgburgburg]

They can never take
our freedom!

If that isn't a sci-fi premise, I don't know what is.

Probing

[Ann Coulter]

Alien abduction stories are so bland that the only way that they can possibly excite me is if they actually showed an uncensored anal probing. I seriously think that alien abductions are at around the same stylistic level as any mediocre porn film and therefore they should be made into real porn so that they can actualize the full potential of these contrived mythos. It's sad how much the quality of a culture's mythology says about the culture.

Spielberg trademark

[Shamashmuddamiq]

After seeing the commercials, I just couldn't bring myself to watch it. Is it just me, or is it true that "the little kid who knows everything" cliche is SO FREAKING OVERUSED by Spielberg (and other) films that it's almost embarrasing to watch??

Once a week, when I see a commercial for a new movie or show where "the little kid knows everything," I can't change the channel fast enough. And I don't tire of these kinds of things easily.

Charles Darwin didn't dress like an iguana

[burgburgburg]

The Beagle sailed up to the Galapagos Islands. The men, including Darwin, got into boats, rowed over and explored the islands (and got water and food, etc).

They didn't skulk about. They didn't dress up like swimming iguanas or giant tortises.

They explored, and observed (and for Marco and Chris, traded). None of them hid, themselves of their purposes.

Ohhh sure ..

[SuperDuG]

You all mod the "Steven King Dead at 55" posts to -1, but you publish "Spielberg's Taken" on the front page???

wait ... taken was the name of a show ...

Glad it was on, ...

[r_j_prahad]

... it cured my insomnia.

Somebody got took

[Lord Apathy]

Well I watched it last night and I can say it lived up to it's name sake. Someone got took and it wasn't by they aliens.

"...premiered last night on SciFi last night."

[eatenn]

A few people submitted asking for an open discussion for Spielberg's Taken miniseries that premiered last night on SciFi last night.

Today Slashdot destroyed my ability to speak properly today.

Re:WHO TOOK HIM!?!

[erat]

Who cares who took HIM?

I want to know who took his PRESENTS. I mean, every time the show returned from a commercial break, the "Steven Spielberg Presents Taken" newsflash would pop up.

Poor guy, it being Hannukah and all (okay, YOU try to spell it...).

Re:Galacttic Anal Probing Inc..

[mcmonkey]

Why do we do these anal probes anyway?

All we've discovered is 1 subject in 10 doesn't mind.

Not sums, hyphen abductions!

[Phong]

I think you have witnessed an actual hyphen abduction in progress! I had been wondering why so many hyphens were missing from people's text these days. Now, all is clear -- they have been taken away by an alien race for nefarious purposes!

Witness the original sentence, as we imagine it must have looked at the start of the event:

The whole series is a total of 10, 2-hour events.

Note that the hyphen is in its correct place. Now, the snapshot you took shows the aliens starting to pull the hyphen to the left, which manages to obscure the comma:

The whole series is a total of 10 - 2 hour events.

If you had dropped by /. just moments later, the hyphen would have undoubtedly been completely gone.

Good work! You've solved another mystery that has been baffling mankind for decades!