Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nyssa Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday) Followup-To: rec.arts.tv Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:51:46 -0400 Organization: At River's End Lines: 131 Message-ID: References: <79775795.731825420.082403.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Reply-To: Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Injection-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:52:18 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a5cb69ecee27052432dcd0282d4b7c59"; logging-data="3838397"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX195Nu7VufNTR+Vz7wH5yVKq" User-Agent: KNode/4.3.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:dUAQ1ezWhrr/od8t1phzMgdEhf0= Bytes: 6608 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? Nyssa, who wishes that there were a DVD available (that doesn't ship from Pakistan) of the 14 filmed (but not all broadcast) of "Brimstone"