Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:59:16 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 80 Message-ID: <7gouuiden3pt4t48hi6mhj44v54k8k6ev2@4ax.com> References: <79775795.731825420.082403.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <610615330.731865685.962341.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93fc44ee0e070d8d7d62b007919a8a35"; logging-data="4000773"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19OaXuxoPEPYeYT5KzmIdUjYKELmvbtIv4=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1EdQ7msorm4SwIsHnsdKQfknAN0= Bytes: 4475 On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:13:25 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >Ian J. Ball wrote: >> 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] > >I found two sources on the gray. One is 512x384. >The other, which says it comes from Tubi, is 640x480. >Then I found a complete German rip at 480 x 272 >Then I found 12 seconds of naked Alexa Doig taking a bubble bath from the >tracker 2000 >Finally (always the last place you look) I found the compilation movie >alien tracker from 2003. It’s 576 x 320. Which is at least 16:9 aspect >ratio. You forgot the 1080P version that had been upscaled from a lower version (and looks just as bad as you might expect.) I had completely forgotten about this show until I downloaded the first episode and took a look at it. Then I remembered watching it back when it first aired. No reason anyone should really want to watch this now. > > > >> >> P.S. I never saw this on Sci-Fi when it originally aired. In fact, I >> don't even remember that it existed!! > >Ditto