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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?
I want my Stargate. Will someone please take Taken to some other day of the week?
Kent
... that means it'll be cancelled soon.
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.
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I was absolutely Taken by it.
(cymbal crash)
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
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.
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for those of us unable to grab the premiere, but interested in possibly watching going forward. thanks
No way in Hell do I have 20 hours to watch a "mini" series. Unless Sci-Fi reruns this in some all-day marathon session, while my wife and kids are out of town, this one will pass me by.
WTF were they thinking?
- Necron69
The whole series is a total of 10 - 2 hour events. Now with all respects, how much more space would someone need.
The series revolves around three families spaced out over 50 years of history. From strange lights over Nazi Germany, to modern day. As far as the first airing, it appears as though each family will receive 3 - 2 hours episodes, then a 2 hour finalie where everyone is brought together.
Myself, I was rather appauled by the use of Steven Speilberg so prominently. Each of these episodes was directed by a different director, then Speilberg looked it over and tried to alter it ever so slightly IN THE POST PRODUCTION!. By tagging on a big league name, the further drew people in. That mixed with constant TV commercial marketing.
My ignorance is a perfect shield against your logic.
Anyone know how long it will be before the DVDs are available? Amazon.com has no info, other than a DVD will exist sometime.
I must be a freak since I use the internet more than I watch TV. Well, I actually don't watch TV at all. Public broadcasts are only re-runs and I don't want to pay for cable (I pay for broadband instead). So for me the only way to see a series is either if it is released in DVD format (that I can rent/buy and watch a piacere)) or, as some series in Asia, in stream format over the Internet.
:-(
It wouldn't cost them much to put the content online, at a smaller quality, and charging a minium fee (like $1 per hour) for viewing. But we can't ask these kind of things as long as they are busy putting online services that have more DRM than music variety.
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...that the character dynamics and dialogue seemed cliche. I wouldn't expect a ton of originality from Spielberg, his claim to fame is the lowest common denominator, but this was so slow and predictable, it was a feat to even pay attention.
The casting was adequate, but not spectacular. The special effects were on par with any other TV miniseries. I perhaps just expected more from Spielberg, perhaps he could have thrown some more cash into some eye candy to keep me interested.
The plot itself was reminiscent of an archetypal heaven-hell scenario. Nothing new, but a tried and true storyline if told correctly.
All in all I'd give this maybe 4 stars out of 10, but I'll reserve final judgement until after the miniseries is complete.
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Lessee... they can take any shape. They can convert to energy and just vanish. They are telpathic. They can learn English really, really fast. I mean, what's next? Flying bicycles?
Sure, I guess that these things could be part of the same super technology that allows them to get here in the first place, but I'd think its a lot easier to move faster than light than to establish communications with a totally alien species, much less assume their biology and all that jazz.
Bottom line - too much fantasy is being injected into this science fiction.
Oh great, I guess that means I have to find another date to the prom.
By saying that he set up his Tivo to watch the rest of it is saying that he enjoyed the show enough to record it all, not that he was going to skip the commercials. Gawd, you sound like an AOL exec, expecting him to "steal" the programming.
By Tivo'ing the show, our dear author will be assured of not missing ANY episodes, because, like me, he probably has no time to slot for several hours worth of programming when Sci-fi chooses to air it.
And, like as not, our dear author is going to watch some of those commercials, because, since Tivo has no 30 second skip function, he will have to see some of them, even in fast forward, and will stop to watch commercials he is interested in. I do it all the time.
Now tack on the fact that the Tivo can track which commercials he is watching and narrowing down the demographic that our dear advertisers need to target, saving them money for not showing commercials to people that don't care about their products, and allowing Sci-Fi to charge more for their time because they can show exactly who is watching what. (assuming they all don't have their heads up their arses, the different companies ought to be doing this...)
So, no, Sci-Fi does not NEED to lose money on Tivo customers, and you are an unenlighted media conglomerate tool.
Well, I guess it was just a pipedream.
Next on the list-George Lucas!
And I have yet to hear a remotely reasonable explanation as to why an alien species would expend the enormous amounts of energy it would take to get to the one of the obscure spokes of the galaxy (way away from the interesting concentrated center) and spend even two seconds watching us. Denibian slime worms would more interesting.
...you'd be hurting right now.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
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...
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If that isn't a sci-fi premise, I don't know what is.
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.
As everyone knows, that movie isn't about Nazis. Due to budget constraints, they used Nazis instead of terrorist aliens. We feel that the new edit is closer to Mr. Spielberg's original vision, and Mr. Spielberg is unavailable for interviews.
Too many characters doing almost nothing. Notice that most characters weren't even named! They were just "that redhead" showing up and doing boring everyday stuff. No distinct characters (were there any blacks, asians, etc in the forties? - btw I am a white male), so you could barely tell people apart. Okay, so the aliens are kind of cool. They only showed about seven seconds of aliens in the first hour of boring crap, so I turned it off. I was VASTLY disappointed. So you want to make a miniseries - if you don't have DRAMA no is going to watch 20 hours!
10 - Commercials
9 - I'm never going to finish reading Cryptonomicon
8 - I'll miss night 9 due to being on a bus
7 - I'll miss night 10 due to being on the mountain drying out my clothes from a day of snowboarding
6 - It might be good
5 - I might like it
4 - I wouldn't be able to deal with the loss
3 - I don't own a Tivo
2 - If I buy a Tivo I won't have enough room in my entertainment center
1 - Tivo is just a slow overpriced computer.
Does this series only seem to me or is it a way of getting more geeks (people that believe in Alien stuff) to buy Tivos this Christmas?
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.
...just my 2 gil.
I watched both the 9-11 and 11-1am showing and I thought it was pretty interesting. I have always been intrigued and felt a sense of strangeness while watching it. Especially scenes like the plane going down and the lights engulfing it.
One scene that stood out was when the woman was walking through the ship wreckage and discovers the alien metal. I was waiting for something to either jump out and attack her or she was going to discover a body. Instead we see her walk off and the camera zooms in on the tree revealing an alien. That was eerie.
The rest of the episode was brief flashbacks and intricate character developement. I also noticed they tried to keep with the Area 51 crash and weather balloon coverup, these were blended into the story quite well. Dont forget the bits with the alien drivebys and cars/electrical equipment shutting off.
I will be tuning in the check out more....
I have been boycotting the Sci-Fi channel since they dumped Farscape. If Taken gets good reviews, I will just get it on DVD when it comes out.
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Missed it, maybe it's finally time for a tivo. But the last mini series rocked!
They teach you how to write a hook in writing classes for a reason. You only have a few seconds to get people's attention. That is a well established fact.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
The cancellation of Farscape is the direct result of SciFi wasting so much money on Taken.
Bonnie Hammer in action...
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.
wait ... taken was the name of a show ...
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Everything that has happened seems like it's just rehashing the cliche'd mythos: crash at Roswell, abductions, military cover-up, etc etc etc.
All of this stuff was really old news even back in the 60's; is the show going to dare to do anything new at all?
I doubt it, but I'll watch a bit more to give Spielberg the benefit of the doubt.
Professional Wild-Eyed Visionary
Do you have any idea how many aliens are employed by Galactic Anal Probing Inc.? If they didn't abduct us and anal probe us their economy would colapse!
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
I agree, given that it was intro I am going to give it another try as well but unless it REALLY picks up.....
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
I can't help feeling that I was watching a weird mélange of Spielberg's visual sensibilities all in one film.
I also am seeing, what appears to me, to be the beginning of the end for the Sci-Fi channel.
The first clue was canning Farscape. While it may not have been a ratings powerhouse, it was arguably one of the most creative shows on television - and elevated the SciFI genre far beyond it's peers. The show was perceived as the fledgling channel's flagship show and, when combined with it's on-air identity, really got folks pumped-up about the SCIFI brand. I wish more conglomerates understood the power of a franchise beyond it's initial ratings.
The second clue is the channels reaction to John Edwards and it's new-show-to-be "The Dream Team with Annabelle and Michael". These are shows that are cheap to produce, attract a strong female audience - if not skew heavy female - and get ratings. Despite the fact that these shows are only marginally related to "science fiction/fantasy" etc. and are better suited aired on it's USA sister channel - belies the fact that they are polluting what made the Sci-Fi channel so strong to begin with and what gives these shows such strong lead-ins.
The third clue is the new on-air ID and identity spots currently running. I speak from experience here, as I am a broadcast designer who has done some high profile work as well as sit-in on the meetings where the politics of changing something as momentous as a logo are in full-play. First let me say this: The new logo is clunky and horrible and the new spots that I have seen are mostly insipid and mushy. Everyone I know in the Broadcast Design/ID business has for years been in agreement with me when I say "SciFi has the best, most innovative broadcast design on the planet. No contest". The work now looks like it was designed by a committee and not a visionary. What's particularly telling is the new logo. Why on earth change the logo? The old logo is far superior to the ham-fisted hack-job logo they now use. The only thing I can think of, and if anyone has any information on this I'd love to hear it, is that "new management" came in and wanted to put their stamp on everything. The whole "If it ain't broke - I'm gonna fix it anyway 'cause im the new person!" seems pretty strong here.
In conclusion, SCIFI is trading Farscape for John Edwards and in the process losing its soul. Instead of watching a particular show, I would watch "SCIFI" - I don't do that anymore, I pick and choose from a rapidly shrinking pool of shows I want to see. And the shows that do remain could be as easily shown on many other, less distinct, channels. I'm sure "The Dream Team" would do just as well on VH1. So sad to see you go SCIFI, it was fun while it lasted.
I mean, who can commit 2 hours every day for 10 days to watch the show (besides the slashdot crowd, I mean).
WWJD? JWRTFA!
What's the economic slant on watching versus skipping meta-commercials??
For what it's worth, I watched an unusually high percentage of them. I had fallen somewhat out of touch with the SciFi channel and I was fascinated by some of the teasers for next year.
(Although doubtless I'm a glutton for punishment...imagine me being gullible enough to actually look forward to seeing Children of Dune. They'll punish me with a poor production, of course.)
BTW you are implying that the Dot Com Bomb happened due to loss of confidence of advertising sponsors, but that's not the case.
Most of it was companies overspending without a good business model (including those who idiotically thought they could make billions from banner ads).
The exact definition of the boom and crash is multi-faceted, so it's also fair to say that another part of it was an unrealistic run-up in stock prices (by both professionals and amateurs) to unmaintainable levels measured by any means (price to book, price to conceivable future earnings, etc etc).
To imply that it was a matter of things like Replay users skipping ads, people installing ad-blockers on their browsers, Napster users sharing music, etc, is to grossly misunderstand recent history.
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Back in the 80's, the miniseries Roots and Shogun did manage to get people to ditch their lives for a little while, but they offered something new and different and informative. Taken is just a rehash of flying saucer mythos we've already heard endlessly.
I was however amused; instead of the usual (ahem) probing, judging by all the nosebleeds, they were getting nasal-probed instead. :-)
Professional Wild-Eyed Visionary
Gee, a Steven Spielberg movie about UFOs and it reminded you of Close Encounters... who would have ever thought that was going to happen
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My wife and I (both sci-fi fans as well as SF fans, for those keen enough to know the difference) tuned in to watch Taken last night, somewhat put out that it preempted our usual Monday night four-hour Stargate fix, but hopeful nonetheless.
Well, my wife was Taken by the sandman about halfway through, and I was Taken by a game of Rolling Thunder on my laptop. What a SNOOZEFEST! After about an hour, I found myself scrolling through the onscreen guide to see what I was missing.
I finished watching it out of the hope for some twist to keep me hanging on for the next episode... no luck. I think I'll pass on this series.
Anyone else notice that in the related links: bar? advertising slowly engulfs slashdot...
Heh, the part that reminded me of Close Encounters was the guy going nuts, boarding up his house, scaring his wife, etc. Smacked of CEOTTK.
I understand its a well worn topic, but I was hoping for something new and exciting. X Files was for the first few seasons. I'll probably give it another chance tonight though =)
1. I hate the logo. The 'A' in taken consists of a human figure with arms and legs out ascending through the sky, illuminated by a burst of backlighting. The lighting is more prominent than the figure, so it looks like the title reads 'TOKEN'.
2. I liked this series better the first time... when it was called "Amazing Stories".
(oh yeah, and 3. ???, 4. Profit.)
... it cured my insomnia.
There was precious little on cable my wife and I wanted to watch, and Farscape was the last straw. Now a peice speaker wire brings us Buffy over some kind of invisible "airwaves."
Screw me Sci Fi? No...screw you, and the AT&T you rode in on.
Now it's $20 a month for Net Flix, and I still save $30 over the cost of cable.
What were you expecting?
They teach you how to write a hook in writing classes for a reason. You only have a few seconds to get people's attention.
Did you watch the first two minutes of Taken? It was one hell of a hook. I wasn't actually that interested in watching, but when I saw the air battle over Germany and how it ended, I planted my butt on the couch and watched the rest of the two-hour episode.
That's a hook, friend.
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reminded my of Close Encounters
At this point you should be thinking, "Hey, Band of Brothers was an awful lot like Saving Private Ryan. And From the Earth to the Moon was a lot like Apollo 13."
Maybe the resemblance-- thematically and visually-- between Close Encounters and Taken is no accident. Just maybe.
I write in my journal
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.
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heh, sorry, couldn't resist...
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
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.
"But the cars are all flashing me, bright lights are passing me, I feel life passing me by" - Stiff Little Fingers
Not so in the USA. How many years has Friends been running? Has anything really happened? Not really. Most shows in the USA feel the need to conclude an episode with all issues being resolved so that nothing has changed in the world that has been created. Contrast this with 24. It has a season-long plot and watching the episodes in order is important. Hopefully the popularity of 24 will lead to more shows that are actually going somewhere plot-wise instead of running in place for the whole season, an hour at a time.
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Well, assuming anyone even bothered to cap it, it could easily take a day or two to encode it to DiVX;-) or SVCD (VCD generally doesn't take very long). Then you have to add in the time to post/upload it. I'd give it a couple of days.
I liked how the aliens were not sweet and good but have a dark agenda of some kind.
Yeah, because that's never been done before... *cough*X Files*cough*Independance Day/V*cough*Invasion of the body snatchers*cough*Plan 9 from outer space*cough*war of the worlds*cough**cough**cough*
You can't take the sky from me...
Stargate is returning Monday December 16th and 23rd. According to scifi.com's stargate-sg1 page, Stargate will be airing new Episodes on Friday's starting January 10th.
...quicker, easier, more seductive the darkside is...but more powerful, it is not.
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...).
the aliens want to not be widely known, or at least aren't advertizing themselves. so we only have to cover up the occasional slip.
The cover up is against the humans, not the aliens. Your idea would be correct if we were trying to hide OURSELVES from the aliens, which is not the case.
There were some ads for taken about a month ago, and she was talking about how she is 1/4 alien, because her dad was 1/2 alien.
she is the kid of the kid.
I told you it was a spoiler, and it was in the commercials, so that isn't really even a spoiler. So there.
With all the restraining orders and paid security, you would think he would have some peace. Poor chap, and now he's been TAKEN. We should take a moment to remember there's always time for Kubrication. (owiee..owiee...I won't do that again, I promise.)
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Nay nay! Confidence is exactly the mechanism that makes many useful systems work:
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...That would have made a better title. It's like somebody took away his special-effects dept. and so he had to make do with things like bad matte paintings and the oh-so-clichéd alien-appears-as-human device.
The coolest thing about this episode were the commercials the Sci-Fi Channel ran. That mutant kid with the wings and the suction-cup fingers almost made me spill my beer. Little fucker.
I'll tune in tonight, just to see if there are new commercials.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Yet that is inherently absurd. Movies are for audiences. Percentagewise, almost no one has made a serious movie.
I prefer the old saying that "Everyone has a right to an informed opinion. Ignorant opinions are antisocial."
(Someone will doubtless now explain that this is a form of totalitarianistic censorship and how dare I do that, etc, but at least now it's clear in advance that I think they're antisocial to say so. ;-)
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He's married to Kate Capshaw. Duh. Don't you people watch E! except for the Anna Nicole show?
Sheesh.
Lots of petrified grits
...naw, can't do it.
I mean really. "Field of dreams" is sci fi? "Cape Fear"? "The flintstones"? Give me a fucking break.
Colonels are very powerful. Management of a project like this could easily fall under a colonel while Generals did the overseeing of the project. I am not surprised by this. There have been many historical projects run by colonels that seem to scale to this one in size (though nothing would scale to it in importance).
On the point of horny aliens making lonely housewives pregnant, this too jives. The source material is American Mythology, not Science. It certainly fits in with the UFO mythology.
Further they take the story and successfully kill Roswell's part in it! It needed to be done. Mogul needed to be put in it's proper place. I give them a huge thumbs up for that. The smoking gun on Roswell has always been what was recovered. Even Dee Proctor admits it could only fill two (2) wheel barrows. That couldn't possibly be enough material for the alleged UFO. By confirming that what hit Corona (the actual site of the crash is Corona but Roswell has and AFB so it got the name recognition) the writers have breathed fresh air into a story that would otherwise have had a very tough time allowing people like me to suspend disbelief.
Why was that movie on Sci-Fi?
Because it was cheap? Hell, it was on the "Food Network" last week.
I can't get enough of that one guy getting shot in the left cheek with an arrow...
Kinda like how James Camerons name got used in Dark Angel when he only directed one episode in 2 seasons.
Grrr...I've been cracking that joke ever since last night in person and on a bunch of discussion sites, and all I've been met with are blank stares and chirping crickets.
AND THEN YOU GET MODERATED "FUNNY" FOR IT.
*sigh*
Oh well, maybe if I make some cracks about abusive boyfriends, I'll get a snicker...
...a flagrant DMCA Copyright violation.
You see, watching the comercial without buying the product is a DMCA violation as the chain-of-process protecting the advertisers intellectual property starts at the invention of marketing plan and ends at the city dump.
By using your brain to abort the process of conception to advertisement to purchase to addictive use to discard-with-immediate-repurchase you are interupting the process which protects the intellectual property (e.g. the senior partner's Jaguar ownership) of the marketing firm. This is identical to interrupting the delivery-chain inside your DVD by DeCCSing the movie.
So your brain, by recognizing the worthlessness of the comercial and the product constitutes a circumvention of a technology intended to provide the marketers with access to their Jaguars.
The FBI will be by shortly to arrest you, confisiate your brain, drain your wallet into the hands of the marketing company, and repatriate you as an afgan so that you may then be held by the CIA as a forign terrorist.
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
The single thing I noticed about the inset logo (annoying little thing in the lower right hand of the screen) is that the new one is *MUCH* less visually intrusive.
Yes, I noticed it, and yes, it is different.
But by slimming down the letters, and turning the "base" ringed planet into the dual-silloette (spelling?) of just the ring and the planetary arc they reduced the "this covers crap up" factor by about 50%. It is still suggestive of the ringed planet, but now it is (were you to do a 3D analysis of the image 8-) just the user in near syzygy with the star (light source) roughly behind the planet, so two swooping arcs replace the planet. This moves the bulk of the planatary body OFF MY DAMN VIEWING AREA.
Reducing the screen clutter is always better. 8-)
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
I really did not like this show at all. For all the hype it had nothing particularly interesting to offer. There was certainly nothing for hard science fiction folks. It was mainly a very human drama type flick with a few "aliens", a bit of hardware and the common assumptions and assertions thrown in. Afterwards I wished I at finished configuring the new house network instead.
Generally I am considerably underwhelmed by the so-called "SciFi" channel. They will put any piece of B (or worse) trash on, give a lot of time to "Crossing Over" and other psychic hokum and pad with way too many and too many of the same low-grade commercials (this show was an exception on the commercials). If you want to see just how braindead our culture is, watch the SciFi channel.
What about mountain gorillas? We skulk around for those and are very careful not to interfere. Well, not interfere except when we drug one and cart it back someplace to be studied. Anyone know if we reintroduce them into the population after study? If mountain gorillas could talk eh? "These tall slender beings with barely any hair at all abducted me, probed me, stuck me with needles." Yeh, no way some alien civilization would treat us like we treat mountain gorillas right?
"In conclusion, SCIFI is trading Farscape for John Edwards and in the process losing its soul. Instead of watching a particular show, I would watch "SCIFI" - I don't do that anymore, I pick and choose from a rapidly shrinking pool of shows I want to see. And the shows that do remain could be as easily shown on many other, less distinct, channels. I'm sure "The Dream Team" would do just as well on VH1. So sad to see you go SCIFI, it was fun while it lasted."
/.ers consider real Sci Fi doesn't sell to the masses unless its action-packed. Actioned-Packed Sci fi is expensive... too expensive for TV.
Of course it is, this is the nature of all cabel channels. They do really well in the beginning but then they just skew to their audience to get better ratings and settle into a funk of turning out crap.
Every year a cable channel is remaking itself into one thing, something that can make money. Several years ago it was The Learning Channel which no longer teaches anyone anything but is mostly melodrama about emergency rooms, police chases, and weird medical sob stories. Recently they got back to their roots by actually putting something on during prime time that educates about science or history, but I have the history channel now so pffffffft (God how I long for Connections:2).
Last year it was "The new TNN!" and their revamp around Star Trek:TNG, Baywatch, and Wrestling, from a country and western style station (If you weren't enough of a redneck to know before, it used to be the Nashville Network, now its The National Network).
This year its the Sci-Fi channel, and I'm surprised it didn't come before. What most
John Edwards is cheap, and he pulls in ratings.
I don't see this as a death, just the natural order of that evil thing called cable.
If I want sci-fi, I'll tape Adult swim on Saturday night on Cartoon Network (mmmmmmmmm Cowboy Bebop *incessant drooling*)
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Debian makes slime worms?!
So now they have two products, Linux and slime worms. Interesting.
I would doubt that the researchers in the wild drug and drag the gorillas (it would provoke the whole troop).
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!
..wayne..
... did you remember to lock your toilet shut so you won't be tempted to visit it while watching television?
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.