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From: Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday)
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:51:46 -0400
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anim8rfsk wrote:

> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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"