Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:32:00 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 149 Message-ID: References: <761990837.731864061.072513.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:32:00 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4bcb4d3093f61ffb409034995dc67a1d"; logging-data="4012118"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/tDMnB/FW6xo8Yi2VMVdZGTtGiKFogAkU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:0nGgfqiqQrDM8D9AXXvv4Rv4O0w= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 7334 Nyssa wrote: >anim8rfsk wrote: > >> Nyssa wrote: >>> anim8rfsk wrote: >>> >>>> Ubiquitous wrote: >>>>> I watched: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> For whatever reason Cole himself didn?t need to snatch a >>>> body; he just built one from scratch based on the >>>> billboard of an underwear model that?s out in the middle >>>> of a field where no one could see it. >>>> >>>> He is aided in his mission by a plucky bar owner, who is >>>> the first person he runs into. She is aided in her >>>> mission by an extremely ditzy barkeeper. The running gag >>>> is that she inherited everything, including the bar and >>>> the barkeep from her grandmother, and anytime they break >>>> anything she says she inherited that from her >>>> grandmother. Ha, ha. >>>> >>>> Cole has a superpower that he uses surprisingly seldom, >>>> which either allows him to go back slightly in time or >>>> to stop time while he runs around. You?d think you could >>>> fix anything this way. For instance, the bad guy throws >>>> a girl out of a window. Cole stops time and runs >>>> downstairs and catches her (like that would help.) but >>>> then looks upstairs helplessly because obviously the bad >>>> guy would have escaped by now. Why? Hasn?t zero time >>>> passed? >>>> >>>> Towards the end, they start messing with the series >>>> format. Cole figures out how to use his image projector >>>> to look like anyone, so Adrian Paul can take the week >>>> off. In a very special two part episode, the ditzy >>>> barkeep goes to London to be chased by Jack the Ripper, >>>> and an incredibly young Kathryn Winnick replaces her oh >>>> so briefly. Everybody but the top two characters it >>>> disappears from the opening credits. But the evil >>>> forever >>>> night vampire Zin will soon be back. We find out the >>>> girl who owns the bar has been half alien all this time, >>>> and can do some of Cole?s magic tricks. Apparently she >>>> inherited this from her grandmother. >>>> >>>> In the conclusion of the evil Zin storyline it turns out >>>> there?s something buried 500 feet under Chicago that >>>> will kill everybody everywhere. Cole stops him by >>>> locking him in the vault with the device. Isn?t that the >>>> last place you?d want him to be? >>>> >>>> The senses shattering series finale is both a clip show >>>> and a will they or >>>> won?t they show. Cole figures out that if he just turns >>>> the knob on his Ghostbusters containment vessel to the >>>> left, it will suck in every alien in the world all at >>>> once. But then he only has an hour to get them all back >>>> to prison because reasons so he catches everybody and >>>> says goodbye to the girl and leaves forever. >>>> >>>> And then a couple hours later, he?s back because he >>>> decided he?d rather hang around earth and it doesn?t >>>> bother the girl that he?s not even a physical being and >>>> it?s just using an inducer as long as it makes him look >>>> like an underwear model. Then unknown to them his secret >>>> computer in the secret computer room Secretly puts up a >>>> secret screen that secretly shows hundreds of secret >>>> alien presences? >>>> >>>> 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!? >>>> >>> The premise sounds like "Brimstone" only the good guy >>> doing the chasing of bad guys on "Brimstone" doesn't >>> have any superpowers. He's just a dead cop recruited >>> by the Devil to round up the excapees. >>> >>> And the equivalent of the barkeeper lady is the clerk >>> at the two-bit dive the dead cop is sleeping in. >>> >>> The question becomes: Which series was first and stole >>> the premise from the other? >> >> Brimstone was 20th century; Tracker was 21st century. > >I thought so, but I wasn't certain until Adam set me >straight. > >"Brimstone" deserved better treatment than it got from >Fox. They didn't even broadcast the 14th episode. :P~~~ Ha ha All produced episodes were broadcast. They didn't order another season. >Nyssa who always seems to like shows that get canceled >before they can find the rest of their audience