Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:32:52 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <79775795.731825420.082403.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:32:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f3e9988719dca47f9569f61580e22d7a"; logging-data="3796748"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX185gotxU7AJgyE4K9iKgF7F" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:XtdcY/4mJcqXvX3xqIhe1cGIn7M= In-Reply-To: <79775795.731825420.082403.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3454 On 3/10/24 11:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Ubiquitous wrote: > >> What did you watch? > > Hey, thanks for asking! > > TRACKER > > No, not this silly uncredited remake that Adam is watching starring Green > Aquaman. > > The one and only original series from 2001, starring the Highlander versus > the vampire from Forever Knight! > > An incredibly goofy one season wonder from Canadia’s space channel. > > Adrian Paul is Daggon, a.k.a. Cole a prison guard from Cirron who comes to > earth chasing 218 prisoners that the Evil Zin released and came exactly 100 > light years (sometimes it’s 100,000,000 light years) from their planet SAR > TOP in the Migar solar system. > Some of the aliens are Cirronians, some Desserians, some Enixians, some > Nodulians, some Orsusians, and some are, of course Vardians, with the > occasional prisoner, being of one species and pertaining to be another so > he didn’t get beat up in the prison yard. Apparently, none of these beings > are corporeal. So when they landed here, they all inhabited nearby, living > beings usually but not always human. Cole tracks them down and puts their > life force in a little version of the containment vessel from Ghostbusters, > murdering the host in the process. Which is sort of amusing as he goes to > these missing peoples families, and promises to help them, find them, not > bothering to mention to the grieving mothers, that he’s going to murder > their missing sons. > > All these characters have different inconsistent abilities. When Cole tells > us that Joanne Kelly from Warehouse the 13th the series does not hesitate > to use her Desserian abilities against him, she demonstrates by hitting him > over the head with a 2 x 4. > > They finally start explaining all this in the show opening about halfway > through the series. > > [snip] > On Freevee and other services. Freevee seems to have the running order > right; Ian‘s IMDb episode listing is completely wrong, based on people > leaving the series and their storylines being wrapped up. > > Fred-Bob sez “check it out!” I asked Anim, but it sounds like this series is in SDTV, not HDTV, which is a turnoff to me... [shrug] P.S. I never saw this on Sci-Fi when it originally aired. In fact, I don't even remember that it existed!!