Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Sunday, 3 Jan 1993 07:03:22 EST
From: My Baloney has a first name..... <IO10712@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.mst3k
Subject: Re: mystery TV series (was Childhood Misting)
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 <Dec.28.18.45.19.1992.17249@pilot.njin.net> <1hvf37INNfg8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>

In article <1hvf37INNfg8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
says:
>
>In a previous article, karpen@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil (Judy Karpen) says, in part:
>
>>Anyone else
>>(besides me) think the Sci-Fi channel is a big waste of time? Most of their
>>material is only good for MST3K treatment, & unbearable without it.
>>"Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion" is a riot, though.
>
>   No, I don't think SFC is a waste of time.  For example...
>
>"The Prisoner"          Sundays at 10pm
>   What "Twin Peaks" fans watched before there WAS "Twin Peaks".  Not for
>the faint or literal of mind.  Excellent stuff.
>
>"Probe"                 Weeknights at 10pm
>   A show created by Isaac Asimov?  No wonder it didn't last long...the
>average American is incapable of keeping up.  I LOVE this show.
>
>"Battlestar Galactica"  Weeknights at 8pm
>   Okay, so it's cheesy.  It's still a great nostalgia trip, and some of
>the episodes are actually sort of good.  (Okay, so it's just a nostalgia
>trip.)
>
>"Alien Nation"          Saturdays at 7pm
>   I say this based on the episodes I watched when the series was originally
>shown, and all of those were from the first season.  What I saw, I liked.
>Later epsiodes/seasons may not be worth it; I don't know.
>
>"War of the Worlds"    Weeknights at 9pm
>   Okay, so most of the episodes are average, and some really stink.  Some
>of them are also quite good.  The dialogue is better than any first-season
>episode of ST:TNG you care to name, and later seasons took on an interesting
>cyberpunk flavor.
>
>
>   Those are the five I can think of right away.  Granted, the channel offers
>a lot of room for improvement--where's Star Trek?  Star Wars?  Alien(s)? and
>so on.  However, I attribute these to infancy.  If given time to develop,
>the quality could improve dramatically.  Especially by showing better movies.
>   Oh, and you're right--"Mysteries From Beyond the Other Dominion" is
>utterly hysterical.  I just have one question:  Is that guy REALLY serious,
>or is he sort of a retro-skeptic?  I still haven't figured it out...
>
>                -EMeyer
>
>--
>"Unstable condition--a symptom of life       | Eric A. Meyer
>(eam3@po.CWRU.edu)
> In mental and environmental change          | Library Information
>Technologies
> Atmospheric disturbance--the feverish flux  |   Software Support Technician
> Of human interface and interchange-"  -N.P. | "What do you think, sirs?"
>-Joel

I don't have cable, but i have heard of the Sci-Fi channel, and i was
wondering, do they play reruns of the show "V"???
If anyone knows if this is on, PLEASE write me and i'd probably subscribe
to cable just to get it. :) Thanks...

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