You were better off watching Mega Shark or Pirahana Picnic. Or Dino-Snake. Or whatever is on this week.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Keith Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > > > that's what I heard, so I didn't bother watching. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 11:36:05 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] SyFy Premieres New "Riverworld" Miniseries this > Sunday Night > > > > My comment on the first mini-series. It was garbage, didn't make sense and > ended weird. As if they didn't air an episode. > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Keith Johnson > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> Well, looks like SyFy is going back to the well, so to speak, with a new >> "Riverworld" miniseries, premiering this Sunday night. I have a few >> questions about Riverworld for the gang: >> >> One. I believe SciFi aired a Riverworld miniseries a few years back, that >> wasn't well received by fans. My understanding was much of the basic premise >> from the source material was changed, such as the protagonist of the movie >> *not* dying over and over, as in the book(s)? Can anyone here comment on >> that first miniseries? >> >> Two. From what you've heard and read and seen about the new >> depiction--such as getting the dying over and over thing right--do you have >> hope for this new one? Do you plan to watch it? >> >> Three. I have never read any of the "Riverworld" stuff. Is it good and >> worth seeking out? I was just deciding on my next big undertaking for >> leisure reading. It came down a choice of the "Wheel of Time" stuff (which >> I've never read), return to Raymond Fiest's world of Midkemia (the "Riftwar" >> saga and others), or Terry Brooks' latest works tying together the worlds of >> his books depicting the fall of our civilization with the ones that depict >> the rise of the magic that leads to the world of Shannara. Should >> "Riverworld" be on my list of potential choices? >> >> **************************************************************** >> http://www.syfy.com/riverworld/ >> >> What if, after you die, you are reborn on another planet, along with >> everyone else who has lived and died on Earth? And what if, in this >> incredible life after death, there comes death after death, after death, >> after death? Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and >> the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and >> not-so-recently) dead. It certainly isn't Heaven, but it just might be Hell. >> >> >> Matt, an American journalist, and his fiancee, Jessie, are killed in an >> explosion, but reawaken in this unusual afterlife. Everyone who has ever >> lived on Earth has been resurrected simultaneously in this strange new >> world. Determined to find Jessie, Matt joins forces with an intrepid crew, >> including a 13th century female warrior and riverboat captain Mark Twain. As >> they embark upriver, their adventure begins, all the while tracked by the >> watchful eye of a mysterious alien force. >> >> Tahmoh Penikett (*Battlestar Galactica/Dollhouse*) and Laura Vandervoort >> (*Smallville*) star in *Riverworld*, a four-hour miniseries based on the >> popular award-winning series of novels by Philip Jose Farmer. Others in the >> cast include Alan Cumming (*Tin Man*), Mark Deklin (*Nip/Tuck*), and >> Peter Wingfield (*X2: X-Men United*). *Riverworld* is directed by Stuart >> Gillard (*Charmed*, *Taking Liberty*) and produced by Reunion Pictures. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
