;-D "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: astromancer2...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:13:02 -0700 Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now Yup, but I won't tell... From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: SciFiNoir2 <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:45:38 AM Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now Is the sigh of contentment that just rolled from my lips wrong? "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: astromancer2002@ yahoo.com Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:56:12 -0700 Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now I'll just settle for the knit skirt every week, thank you... From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ lycos.com> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 7:25:43 PM Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now Ohyeaohyeaohyeaohye a... shame they couldn't figure out a way to get her on the ship. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now Date : Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:15:54 -0700 (PDT) >From : "C.W. Badie" <astromancer2002@ yahoo.com> To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com P.S. I almost forgot...Baby Gurl wifey is Phoyne!!!! Okay...my son is kicking me off his comp for attempting ghetto.... ____________ _________ _________ __ From: Martin Baxter To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 3:05:54 PM Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now I'm still wondering if the leadenness isn't by design. The flashbacks do put a little pep in the proceedings, though not much. The first few reviews I read on this from other viewers marked it as " 'Grey's Anatomy' in Space". I'm seeing more " 'Lost' in Space" with every viewing. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- >Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now >Date : Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:06:58 -0700 (PDT) >From : "C.W. Badie" >To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com > >Leaden...That' s the word! > > > > >____________ _________ _________ __ >From: Martin Baxter >To: scifino...@yahoogro ups..com >Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 8:24:50 AM >Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now > > >Keith, I almost missed it, stumbling across it two minutes before it bbegan. I > >I enjoyed it overall, though the pacing was a bit leaden at times. (Maybe on >purpose?) The mysterious nature of the real mission has me hooked, without saying. Can't wait until the MC ventures into Pod 4 to find out what's really up. > >As for the incidental music, I really don't take notice of it as I watch a TV >show or movie, unless it's a song near and dear to my heart. > > > > > >---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- >>Subject : [scifinoir2] "Defying Gravity" on ABC now >>Date : Mon, 3 Aug 2009 02:13:45 +0000 (UTC) >>From : Keith Johnson >>To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com >> >>Anyone watching ABC's entry into the "Big Brother in Outer Space by way of >>BSG-style drama"? It deals with a seven-year mission in the year 2052 that >>sends eight astronauts to visit six planets in the Solar System. Very quickly >>into the show, we're made aware there's some kind of secret involved. The two >>most experienced astronauts in the program (one of whom is played by Malik >>Yoba) are initially left off the mission aboard the spaceship "Antares". Later, when some kind of heart problem keeps cropping up among the crew--evidently tied to the "secret"--the two astronauts are blasted into space to join the mission. One comment I overheard makes me think some kind of sentient race has been encountered by humanity--perhaps on a previous tragic mission to Mars in which one of the current astronauts had to leave three of his fellows behind. Perhaps this sentient race is controlling the mission somehow? Not sure. >> >>Also not sure yet if I'll like the show. It has some decent actors and decent >>lines. But just when I'm starting to get into the mission and the scifi >>aspect of it, I'm distracted by overpowering music that attempts to heighten >>a scene, the lead astronaut's self-reflective monologue, too much of the >>newly-hot camera work (a la BSG and Star Trek) with a shaky cam to convey >>reality. Or I'm watching two astronauts make nekkid love in zero g and feeling vaguely manipulated at an attempt to make me feel awestruck or something. There's a lot of flashbacks and flashforwards that make following the story a bit confusing at times.. "Lost" this ain't. There's also a odd flow: a mix of serious drama, melodrama, camp soap opera type moments, silly humour supported by "Desperate Housewives" type music, and a lot of titillation. It makes it hard for one to get a feeling of the overall nature of the show. Is it a drama, a reality-type show like "Virtuality" , a mystery? >Don't know, but I ! found myself losing interest a lot, then picking it back >up, then losing it again as the standard nighttime soap feel comes back in the >mix. >> >>Lots of TV veterans, including the blonde lady from "The 4400" (the one who >>feel inlove with a black man), and Cristina Cox "Blood Ties", who's been a >>guest in more series than Michael Michelle. They're all okay, but again, the uneven pacing, writing, and flashbacks undermine their acting. The constant shift from a high-tech spaceshp to mundane scenes on Earth are abrupt and off-putting. >> >>Like "Virtuality" , this show seems to be another clone that tries to copy >>the delicate balance of reality-type drama mixed with scifi that BSG (mostly) >>did right.. and like "Virtuality" , it bores me as much as it >>intrigues--somethin g that BSG didn't do in the main. >> >>Not sure if the show's even being picked up, but if it is, not sure I'll keep >>watching. >> >>Anyone else's thought's? >> > > >http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds > > > > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. 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