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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 15:43:37 -0400
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anim8rfsk wrote:

> Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> 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~~~

Nyssa who always seems to like shows that get canceled
before they can find the rest of their audience