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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:32:52 -0700
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On 3/10/24 11:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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!!