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“Weeds”
is my favorite show on Showtime and my favorite live-action sitcom that's not on NBC.
It tells the tale of thirtysomething suburbanite and mother Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker). After her husband gets killed without a paid-up life insurance policy, Nancy maintains her upper-middle-class lifestyle in Agrestic, Calif., by selling doob to all her marijuana-loving neighbors.
As with the first season, season two of this Showtime series , which streets today, indulges no exciting "Angels In America"-like Mary Louise nudity for us to enjoy. Still and all, Parker is never less than adorable, surely one of the milfiest MILFs in the history of filmed entertainment.
“Weeds” creators finally acknowledge Parker’s supreme milfocity in the show’s second season, when no less a pot icon than Snoop Dogg christens Nancy’s new brand of dope “milfweed.”
Season two was great for other reasons. I love protagonist Nancy Botwin’s grace under pressure, and how that grace has to evaporate as she falls into bed with an open-minded DEA agent and onto the radar of her violent Armenian competitors.
I love Nancy’s horny, cowardly slacker brother-in-law Andy (stage vet Justin Kirk). I love Andy’s frank and solid mentoring of Shane “Strange” Botwin, Nancy’s preteen son. I loved the arrival of big-deal movie actress Zooey Deschanel (“Elf,” “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” “The Happening”) as Kat, Andy’s sexy nutcase fugitive ex-girlfriend. I loved everything that happened with Shane and Kat and Andy.
I also love self-absorbed busybody/cancer survivor Celia Hodes (Elizabeth Perkins) and pothead accountant Doug Wilson (Kevin Nealon). Their storylines become firmly intertwined in season two when the widely feared Celia decides to run for popular Doug’s city council seat.
The new set is available in both standard-def DVD and Blu-ray.
To anticipate the question, the third season of “Weeds” launches on Showtime Aug. 13.
Land of the Giants: The Complete Series, arriving today, is an experiment for Fox Home Entertainment, which has heretofore broken up all of Irwin Allen’s TV work (e.g. “Lost In Space,” “Time Tunnel,” “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”) into half-season sets.
With “Giants,” Fox goes gigantic, initially issuing all 51 episodes from both its seasons with a lorryload of extras. The extra rundown from Amazon.com:
GARY CONWAY INTERVIEWS:
The Series' Lasting Effects
The Influence of Gulliver's Travels on the Show
Fight Scene in the Cage
Humorous Moments
A Couple Memorable Episodes
Memories of Irwin
DON MARSHALL INTERVIEWS:
Acting and the Actors on the Show
Memories of Kurt Kasznar
Memories of Cast Members and the Director
Popularity of the Show in England
Presentation Reel
Special Effects Shots (no audio)
IRWIN ALLEN HOME VIDEOS (no audio):
Meeting
Irwing Directing Actors in Interior Sets
Irwing Directing Actors in Exterior Sets
Rope Climbing
Escape Through the Tunnel
Glass Prison
Escape from the Giant Hand
Irwin Directing Forest Scene
STEFAN ARNGRIM INTERVIEWS:
Irwin's Direction
Dogs
The Mechanical Hand
Directors Harry Harris and Sobey Martin
The Popularity of the Show
The Tone of the Show
The Concept of the Show
The Second Season
The Stunts and Effects
The Ship's Name
DON MATHESON INTERVIEWS:
Perparation for Irwin's Shows
What Attracted Him to the Show
Imagination
Climbing the Rope
The Dog
Saying the Dialogue
DEANNA LUND INTERVIEWS:
Her Appreciation of the Show
Acting on the Show
How She Got on the Show
Ballet in a Bird Cage
Her Friendship with Don Matheson
The High Cost of the Show
Where Did the Story Take Place?
STILL GALLERIES:
Merchandise
Mad Magazine Parody
Publicity Photos
Episodic Photos
Deanna Lund Gallery
From the Fox press release:
The collectible DVD set also includes a full-color booklet with cast interviews and photos, a collectible Spindrift keychain, iron-on crew patch, reproduction of the first comic book, and trading cards. All of this is packaged is a collectible wooden cage themed directly from the show.
For those unfamiliar, “Giants” ran on ABC from 1968 to 1970. It was set during 1983, when spaceships ferried people from New York to London. One of these spaceships flew through a strange cloud and crashed on a planet where everything, including the girls, were of Brobdingnagian proportions.
The English-speaking part of the giant planet the Earthers crash into is ruled by a Nazi-ish capitalist dictatorship which has set up a Special Investigations Department (SID) to deal with dissidents and little people (the series’ protagonists, it turns out, are not the first Earth people to have crashed there).
In the second episode we learn at least some on the planet of giants (we never do learn its name) somehow know of Earth. We also come to learn that the giants have cloning and forcefields, but not the space flight that would allow the giants to conquer Earth. As a result, the Giants really want to get their hands on that Earth spaceship to see how it works.
Star Trek: Captain's Log has one episode that appeared on a previous fan collection, Harlan Ellison’s amazing “City on the Edge Of Forever,” but it comes with a new 13-minute introduction by William Shatner and Joan Collins, so it’s hard to begrudge.
The $29.19 set streeting today contains at least three episodes from each of the five “Star Trek” TV series. Two from each series were episodes that prevailed in a fan vote, and the third was chosen by that series’ lead actor.
New interviews and introductions with Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew and Scott Bakula are included. Somebody posted a breakdown of the extra material on Amazon.com:
00:12:55:07 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - WILLIAM SHATNER - THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
00:03:29:09 WHAT MAKES A GOOD CAPTAIN? - BALANCE OF TERROR & THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT
00:01:35:15 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE "CAPTAIN'S LOG"
00:02:19:03 CAPTAIN KIRK'S LEGACY
00:02:39:09 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - PATRICK STEWART - IN THEORY
00:01:12:08 CHAIN OF COMMAND
00:01:11:21 DARMOK
00:01:01:14 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE "CAPTAIN'S LOG"
00:01:27:02 PLAYING A CAPTAIN
00:02:08:03 LOOKING BACK
00:01:59:07 STAR TREK AND THE STAGE
00:00:46:23 PICARD'S FUTURE
00:01:39:22 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - AVERY BROOKS - FAR BEYOND THE STARS
00:01:00:13 A CAPTAIN AND A FATHER
00:01:06:00 SISKO AS EMISSARY
00:01:16:10 DIRECTING
00:00:41:19 IMAGINING THE FUTURE
00:01:00:02 SOCIAL COMMENTARY
00:00:54:06 ASPIRATIONS
00:01:52:15 STAR TREK'S IMPACT
00:01:52:18 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - KATE MULGREW - COUNTERPOINT
00:00:44:06 THE OMEGA DIRECTIVE
00:00:55:08 FLASHBACK
00:01:08:20 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE "CAPTAIN'S LOG"
00:01:40:19 CAPTAIN JANEWAY'S BEST QUALITIES
00:01:29:24 WHAT MAKES A GOOD CAPTAIN?
00:01:07:00 JANEWAY'S FUTURE
00:00:42:19 LOOKING BACK
00:02:38:12 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - SCOTT BAKULA - JUDGEMENT
00:01:34:03 THESE ARE THE VOYAGES...
00:03:16:11 WHAT MAKES A GOOD CAPTAIN?
00:01:30:23 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE "CAPTAIN'S LOG"
00:03:19:21 CAPTAIN ARCHER'S BEST QUALITIES
00:03:06:04 LOOKING BACK
00:00:35:21 ("CLOSING STATEMENT TO CAPTAIN'S LOG FAN COLLECTIVE WITH SCOTT BAKULA")
Episodes included in the set are:
1.29 "The City on the Edge of Forever"
3.2 "The Enterprise Incident"
1.15 "Balance of Terror"
4.25 "In Theory"
6.10/6.11 "Chain of Command"
5.2 "Darmok"
6.13 "Far Beyond the Stars"
7.25/7.26 "What You Leave Behind"
6.19 "In the Pale Moonlight"
5.10 "Counterpoint"
4.21 "The Omega Directive"
3.2 "Flashback"
2.19 "Judgment"
4.22 "These Are the Voyages … "
2.24 "First Flight"
The superheroine Isis is now part of the DC comic-book universe, and played a huge role as Black Adam’s girlfriend in DC’s recently concluded “52” title, but she was originally introduced in “Isis,” the distaff half of the CBS’s live-action Saturday morning “Shazam!/Isis” hour.
The new “The Secret of Isis: The Complete Series,” hitting shelves today, collects all 22 episodes shot between 1975 and 1977: the 15 half-hours created for the “Shazam!/Isis” hour, and the seven half-hours produced for its stand-alone spinoff “The Secret of Isis.”
Isis in the 1970s was secretly a hot American science teacher named Andrea Thomas who found a magical amulet that once belonged to Hatshepsut, an ancient Egyptian Queen. When Andrea spoke the magic words “Oh Mighty Isis,” she became Isis, and could do pretty much everything her pal Captain Marvel could: fly, run really fast and lift heavy things.
Isis was integrated into the DC universe via her crossover appearances in the “Shazam!” half-hour and via DC’s “Shazam!” and “Isis” comic-book series of the late 1970s.
An animated version of Isis was a component of 1980’s “Freedom Force,” itself a component of CBS’ then-ongoing “Tarzan and the Super 7” series.
In 2006, the DC funnybooks introduced a new post-Crisis Isis who begins life as Adrianna Tomaz, a hot and helpful slave from Egpyt who is given Hatshepsut’s amulet by Captain Marvel’s old frienemy Black Adam. In the comic we learn Hatshepsut, like Marvel and Adam, was a champion of the ancient wizard Shazam. Cool.
Herc’s Popular Pricing Pantry
IFC’s Dinner For Five , not to be confused with the exciting Neve Campbell/Matthew Fox family drama, is the best talk show ever, and one every filmmaker or aspiring filmmaker must and will enjoy. All 49 episodes for $42 is one premium deal.
“Elf”/“Iron Man” director Jon Favreau chats up (usually) four drunken filmmaker friends in a pricey Los Angeles restaurant, then cuts out all the small talk in the editing room. It’s IFC, so no “fuck” is bleeped.
Here’s who participated:
1.1 Joey Lauren Adams, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Peter Berg, Kevin James
1.2 Vince Vaughn, Garry Shandling, Peter Falk, Cheri Oteri
1.3 Jeff Goldblum, Fred Willard, Illeana Douglas, Christian Slater
1.4 Sarah Silverman, Ron Livingston, Kevin Pollak, Rod Steiger
1.5 Andy Dick, Daryl Hannah, Marilyn Manson
1.6 Bonnie Hunt, Sean Astin, Kevin James, Ray Romano
1.7 Sarah Silverman, Saffron Burrows, Faizon Love, Michael Rapaport
1.8 Adam Goldberg, Seth Green, Jennifer Beals, Dwight Yoakam
1.9 David Cross, Famke Janssen, Denis Leary, Martha Plimpton
1.10 Juliette Lewis, Vincent Pastore, Sean Combs, John Leguizamo
2.1 Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner, Kevin Smith
2.2 Richard Lewis, Peter Falk, Dom Deluise, John Herzfeld
2.3 Peter Bogdanovich, Larry Miller, Penelope Ann Miller, Liev Schreiber
2.4 Carrie Fisher, Ed Asner, Ed Begley, Jr., Blair Underwood
2.5 Janeane Garofalo, David Byrne, Dave Eggers, Joe Pantoliano
2.6 Will Ferrell, Louis C.K., Illeana Douglas, Eddie Izzard
2.7 Vince Vaughn, Brian Cox, Cole Hauser, Rory Cochrane,
2.8 John Landis, Fran Drescher, Leland Orser, David Alan Grier
2.9 Beverly D'Angelo, Rosie Perez, Cathy Moriarty, Catherine Kellner
2.10 Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen
2.11 Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson, Sean Hayes
2.12 Judd Apatow, Paul Rudd, Famke Janssen, Peter Berg
2.13 Maggie Gyllenhaal, John Sayles, Lili Taylor, Vanessa Martinez
3.1 Gina Gershon, Ron Livingston, Dennis Farina, Faizon Love
3.2 Burt Reynolds, Richard Lewis, Tony Shalhoub, Kevin James
3.3 Kevin Smith, Jason Biggs, George Carlin, Stephen Root
3.4 Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean, Jeff Garlin, Joe Mantegna
3.5 Laura Kightlinger, Kevin Pollak, Hector Elizando, Jeff Ross
3.6 Ted Danson, Laura Dern, Mary Steenburgen, Ernie Hudson
3.7 Jennifer Esposito, Barry Pepper, Luis Guzman, Stephen Dorff
3.8 Alec Baldwin, Carrie Fisher, Peter Dinklage, Tracey Ullman
3.9 Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Dom DeLuise, Charles Nelson Reilly
3.10 John Waters, Colin Quinn, Danny Aiello, Delroy Lindo
3.11 Alan Cumming, Amy Irving, Isaac Mizrahi, Faizon Love
3.12 David Cross, George Hickenlooper, Molly Shannon, Phillip Baker Hall
3.13 Richard Donner, Michael Madsen, Ray Romano, Ron Eldard
3.14 Neve Campbell, Dave Foley, Henry Winkler, Jeff Garlin
3.15 Billy Bob Thornton, Peter Berg, Brian Grazer, H.G Bissinger
3.16 Martin Scorsese
4.1 David Milch, Tim Olyphant, Michael Rapaport, Jay Mohr
4.2 Jeffrey Tambor, Bonnie Hunt, Jason Bateman, Tracy Morgan
4.3 Bruce Campbell, Roger Corman, Rob Zombie, Faizon Love
4.4 Luis Guzman, Michael Chiklis, Henry Rollins, Michael De Luca
4.5 Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Root, David Duchovny, Dax Shepard
4.6 Bill Maher, Bob Odenkirk, Alanis Morissette, Rosanna Arquette
4.7 Frank Darabont, Alan Cumming, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard
4.8 Jon Heder, Stacy Peralta, Tony Hawk, Seth MacFarlane
4.9 J.J. Abrams, Jason Lee, Stan Lee, Mark Hamill, Kevin Smith
4.10 Christina Ricci, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Steven Drozd
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Dinner For Five: The Complete Series
The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark
Grafters 1.x
Gunsmoke 1.x
The Incredible Hulk 2.x
Masters of Horror: The Black Cat
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman 1.x
Most Haunted: Castles of Britain
Most Haunted: The Collection
Most Haunted: London Haunts
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Rising Damp 4.x
The Rookies 1.x
Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series
Vincent: The Complete Series
Voyagers! The Complete Series
Wanted: Dead Or Alive 2.x
William & Mary: The Complete Miniseries
This Week
Beer Nutz 1.x
Benson 1.x
A Bit of Fry & Laurie 3.x
A Bit of Fry & Laurie 4.x
A Bit of Fry & Laurie: The Complete Collection
The Crow: The Complete Series
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law 3.x
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law 1.x-3.x
Land of the Giants: The Complete Series
Philip Marlowe Private Eye 1.x
The Pink Panther Vol. 6
The Real McCoys 1.x
The Secret of Isis
Spawn: 10th Anniversary Gift Set
Spenser: Judas Goat
Spenser: A Savage Place
Stargate SG-1 10.x
Star Trek: Captain's Log
Suspense: The Lost Episodes Vol. 1
Tales From The Crypt 6.x
Three Sheets 1.x
Underdog: Ultimate Collection Vol. 1
Underdog: Ultimate Collection Vol. 2
Underdog: Ultimate Collection Vol. 3
Weeds 2.x
Weeds 2.x (Blu-Ray)
Woody Woodpecker & Friends
Next Week
The Archie Show: The Complete Series
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
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Hawaii Five-0 2.x
The Kids of Degrassi Street: Complete Series
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Sons of Hollywood 1.x
Space 1999: The Complete Series
Thunderbirds: The Complete Series
August 7
The Adventures of Jim Bowie: Complete Series
Charlite & Lola Vol. 5
Daniel Boone 5.x
Darkwing Duck Vol. 2
The Dresden Files 1.x
8 Simple Rules 1.x
The Film Crew: Killers From Space
The Foursome 1.x Vol. 1
Full House 7.x
The Godzilla Power Hour Vol. 3 <--- NEW!!
Happy Tree Friends Vol. 3
The Hills 2.x
Home Improvement 7.x
Hopalong Cassidy: The Complete Collection <--- NEW!!
Inside The Actors Studio: Barbara Streisand
The Jimmy Dean Show: Best Of Vol. 2
King Kong: The Animated Series Vol. 3 <--- NEW!!
Man Stroke Woman 1.x
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00:12:55:07 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - WILLIAM SHATNER - THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
00:03:29:09 WHAT MAKES A GOOD CAPTAIN? - BALANCE OF TERROR & THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT
00:01:35:15 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE "CAPTAIN'S LOG"
00:02:19:03 CAPTAIN KIRK'S LEGACY
00:02:39:09 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - PATRICK STEWART - IN THEORY
00:01:12:08 CHAIN OF COMMAND
00:01:11:21 DARMOK
00:01:01:14 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE "CAPTAIN'S LOG"
00:01:27:02 PLAYING A CAPTAIN
00:02:08:03 LOOKING BACK
00:01:59:07 STAR TREK AND THE STAGE
00:00:46:23 PICARD'S FUTURE
00:01:39:22 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - AVERY BROOKS - FAR BEYOND THE STARS
00:01:00:13 A CAPTAIN AND A FATHER
00:01:06:00 SISKO AS EMISSARY
00:01:16:10 DIRECTING
00:00:41:19 IMAGINING THE FUTURE
00:01:00:02 SOCIAL COMMENTARY
00:00:54:06 ASPIRATIONS
00:01:52:15 STAR TREK'S IMPACT
00:01:52:18 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - KATE MULGREW - COUNTERPOINT
00:00:44:06 THE OMEGA DIRECTIVE
00:00:55:08 FLASHBACK
00:01:08:20 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE "CAPTAIN'S LOG"
00:01:40:19 CAPTAIN JANEWAY'S BEST QUALITIES
00:01:29:24 WHAT MAKES A GOOD CAPTAIN?
00:01:07:00 JANEWAY'S FUTURE
00:00:42:19 LOOKING BACK
00:02:38:12 STAR TREK - CAPTAIN'S LOG - SCOTT BAKULA - JUDGEMENT
00:01:34:03 THESE ARE THE VOYAGES...
00:03:16:11 WHAT MAKES A GOOD CAPTAIN?
00:01:30:23 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE "CAPTAIN'S LOG"
00:03:19:21 CAPTAIN ARCHER'S BEST QUALITIES
00:03:06:04 LOOKING BACK
00:00:35:21 ("CLOSING STATEMENT TO CAPTAIN'S LOG FAN COLLECTIVE WITH SCOTT BAKULA")
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As close as we're ever gonna get to closure on the SOAP cliffhanger finale. And trekkies can marvel over Ethan "Neelix" Philips and Rene "Odo" Auberjonois.
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I am just saying......and I am her man.
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Does 3.5 inches count as deep?
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...dealing with some seriously funky slish vapor when it comes to Sarah Silverman.
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First! Second! Benson! I found that highly amusing. Soooo yeah... rant bitch rant Wonder Years rant bitch rant.
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Just in case anyone's interested.
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...except it's subtitled "Fan Collective" (ugh), and I don't think I can stomach owning (much less paying for) anything related to "Enterprise" (double ugh). But boy howdy, Isis sure does bring back memories!
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I won't lie. I'm going to buy ISIS today. I have already purchased Filmation's Star Trek Animated, Jason of Star Command, and Space Academy, and despite the cheesy content of the programs, these sets deliver better features, etc than most mainstream, respected series. Let's face it, I was 5-10 during what I call the Filmation heyday. I suppose He-man came a few years after that, but either way, I was young enough to enjoy them. Most of these programs were no Battlestar Galactica. Hell, they weren't even Buck Rogers level, but I loved watching them as much as Looney Tunes, Lone Ranger-Zorro Adventure Hour, Superfriends, etc. I'm not going to buy every Filmation series, but I still plan to also purchase the ISIS Freedom Force animated, Flash Gordon animated, Ark II, and Blackstar. Don't let these cheesy gems go out of print before you buy your copy. They'll be a lot more expensive on Ebay when the 100 people around the world(who didn't buy them now) want them after they're out of print. You just can't go wrong with these, unless you hated them to begin with. Acting, script, and stories are largely bad. Special effects in Jason and Space Academy are surprisingly good. At least the ship and space effects. Enjoy!
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Folks, I wouldn't have believed it, if an acquaintance hadn't told me that the SNL-esque series SCTV was selling for as low as $10.00 per season. And, of all places featuring these drastically-reduced discs...Dollar General! Sure enough, I went to the two locations in my town. Each store had the 2 copies each of the four boxed sets for $10.00. I was too young to see much of SCTV back in the day, except on rare occasion. And, just like SNL, some of the sketches are hot, some are not. But, for a fan of Candy, Levy, Moranis, Short, etc...you can't go wrong. If you have a Dollar General store, you'd better seek these out before they're gone. Don't ask why(DG has them), JUST BUY! It's been two or three weeks since I bought mine, hopefully they still have them.
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This will be the first of these Trek fan sets that I pick up...
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Seriously, just look at her.
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Hey, if I'm sending $60 on a dinner, I better be getting some good lovin afterwards - or a handjob at the very least. Damn, I hate it when the Amazon price rises!
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thanks for the heads up. I rememer first seeing SCTV (Lorene Micheals produced too I believe) on Nick at Nite years ago with LaughIn and SNL, great show, I may be running down to my DG to see if they've got it
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I'd be the first to say that Berman and Braga made a lot of mistakes with Trek in the later years. Even the best of the TNG movies were never really great, and Voyager and Enterprise had problems aplenty, despite a few good moments. Voyager...where do I start? Some of the crew was good. Tuvok, the Doctor, and maybe Paris. Some of the others were so-so, or completely useless. The premise of the show was good, but there should have been more(new Battlestar-type)angst, and less getting along, between the Starfleet crew and the Maquis crew. That would have improved the show a great deal. And, I'm sorry, but Janeway was a liberally-written pansy. Had nothing to do with her being a woman. There were occasional standout episodes, but the series may have been the worst or 2nd worst ST program. As for Enterprise, going back to the past timeline and adding things that never happened was the first mistake. I thought Archer was pretty good, and Tucker was great. T'Pol(obvious looks and body aside) was okay. Hoshi and Mayfair were given little to do, except for a few episodes. There were times when I think they got less screen time than Uhura and Chekov in the old show. Malcom and the Doctor were alright, I guess. Truth be told, my viewing of Enterprise was sporadic during seasons 1 and 2. I would record them on RPG night, forget to label the tape, and end up not watching some of them. Can't comment on all those ep's, except to say that season's 3 and 4 were a vast improvement. The addition of Manny Coto behind the scenes, and Pocket Star Trek book writing veterans, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens was gold. Admittedly, they went back to the time travel well, but when you combine Enterprise and shuttles being attacked in Earth's atmosphere by the Luftwaffe, and some Nazis...I'm there. There was an ep that went back to 2004 which was dreadful because they tried to recreate comedic moments from ST:IV handbook. ANd, for me, that movie was never Wrath of Khan, and hasn't aged as well in the later years. That said, some of the Romulan storyline, and the two-part Mirror Universe story were great. Apart from the CGI dino-gorn. :-( Hoshi was even given much to do. The Peter Weller two-part Mars and Moon excursion was fantastic. ANd, then Berman and Braga laid that series finale turd with Riker and Troi on us. It's not the fault of the actors. You can't blame Frakes and Sirtis for taking the paycheck. If you ever plan on watching season 4, stop watching after the 2nd to the last episode. Do yourself a favor. Sorry about the overly long Trek rant from a guy who mainly loves the ST orginal, most original movies, TNG, and DS9.
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It's what the fans want!
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Mine would be (if I had the scratch): Isis, Flash Gordon animated and Day of the Triffids miniseries. I was laways a sucker for the Filmation stuff-- when it was good- it was very good. I really only about half of the BBC mini of DOTT when it was on PBS in the late '80s- can't wait to see it all....!
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Isn't it just a copy of one of the Mary Tyler Moore sets where she was sitting in a letter? Thing is, MTM has much better legs than Robert Guillaume.
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She may have better legs, but politcally, she's cracked. A woman once called a local New York tv station to complain about a reporterette who was wearing what appeared to be a genuine fur coat, during coverage of a blizzard. The woman was outraged that the reporter would dare wear this on tv. The employee was questioned in the field about the coat. Turns out it was fake fur. The irrate caller could put her mind at rest. That caller was Mary Tyler Moore. Talk about not keeping things in perspective. People city-wide were being adversly affected by the weather, and all she could worry about was a damned (fake)fur coat. Glad to know she could sleep peacefully at night. *whew* that was a close one. PETA was probably one step from being mobilized! BTW, I had the pleasure of doing a radio phoner interview with Robert Guillaume about his biography. What a nice guy.
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comedy not on NBC. Make a decision, dude. Mine is for WEEDS. Great fucking show.
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Snow isn't a big issue with them, even a blizzard.
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There is no way fans of Star Trek voted "these are the voyages" one of the best enterprise episodes. That list is bunk.
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Sounds like something I'd love to watch once, but not own.
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It would be interesting to see what Lex's father was doing in jolly old England.
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Arent all Germans into that?
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I was just thinking the exact same thing.
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Need three more seasons to fill my collection. Come on Paramount. Show a Cheers fan some love.
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Why mention Triffids? I must be getting blinder than I already am because I browsed through the page twice without seeing anything about "Day of the Triffids". I almost hoped the BBC mini-series from the 80's had been rescued from the vault.
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http://thetvaddict.com/2007/ 07/24/check-out-mary-louise-parker/ Milfy goodness indeed.
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was total knob.Instead of being a vengeful spirit ,meeting out justice to those who killed him and his fiance.He went round in broad daylight , sans the harlequin make-up, got a job to support himself and ended up in court for beating up Top Dollar!!{wtf!!!!}He didn't even have a fucking crow with him most the time
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"Triffids" is listed under the November 6 arrivals. Based on the Amazon link and IMDB listings, it looks like it is the 1981 miniseries.
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