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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday)
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Nyssa  <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote:
>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~~~

Ha ha

All produced episodes were broadcast. They didn't order another season.

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