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Legend of the Seeker is kind of growing on me. A good combination of Lore and reasonable writing. Mix in good wardrobe and visual effects, now there is a good all around series.
Even though it is a fantasy/magic/dnd type show, there isn't a bunch of "superman" magic things saving the day.
if you want to see a show that stands almost entirely on its writing and acting, check out 'burn notice'. it's actually a low budget piece, but the story lines are engaging and intriguing to the point that it's the only show i stop to watch once 15 minutes have been tivo'd
Legend of the Seeker is done really well and is growing on me. And to me that's surprising because it seems most sword and sorcery TV shows end up going the Xena route where they're light hearted and campy. Seeker is one of the few shows I TiVo. I don't TiVo 'Burn Notice' but watch cause I've always been a fan of Bruce Campbell. Can you say 'The Adventures of Briscoe County?' That is one of my all time favorite TV series.
My TiVo list:
Dexter
Weeds
Californication
(I should say "I record Showtime" shouldn't I?)
Legend of the Seeker
And lots of one off documentaries like "Stealing Lincoln's Body" and stuff like that.
I'm sad to see T:SCC get axed too. Now I have to wait for the next TV show with Summer Glau in it :(
Anyways since people are listing their TIVO (called PVR here in Canada) listings, I might as well too. I'll probably get a few laughs on this but wth.
* Lost
* Amazing Race
* {terminator now gone}
* Being Erica (CBC show, so probably only avail. in Canada)
* Smallville
* CSI (just the original, never got into the spinoffs)
And then there's about 15 or so the wife tapes. *sigh*. At least it keeps her busy so I have time to play WOW lol. Just tired of seeing the PVR showing "80% full" and worrying if my shows will tape. And no, I can't add an external HDD to it, although it has an external USB and SATA port my cable provider disabled them in the firmware.
I thought the show ended well actually, its not at ALL a "sad" ending imo - his father/uncle alive, possibly 2 new allys among the machine people (John Henry and the Garbage singer), it goes back to the roots of T2 and "the future is what you make of it", instead of the "can't change anything" T3 message.
Sadly the new movie has absolutely nothing to do with the TV show and the two have no story lines in common other than involving terminators and John Conner.
Re: why it was cancelled, obviously viewership numbers weren't great but its also a numbers issue. Dollhouse for example is produced by Fox and they own the IP, whereas they have to license the Terminator IP from Warner Bros - season1/2 was licensed very cheap because WB wanted the universe in peoples minds before the movie. Also shows like Dollhouse and Chuck agreed to significant budget reductions going forward, it would have been hard for a special fx driven show like Terminator.
Its a bummer, next year may be a pretty dry sci-fi year. Lost is winding down, the only new shows afaik spinning up are Stargate Universe and Caprica, I think the quality on both will be pretty uneven (some good episodes lotsa crap).
I'm still depressed to find that William Peterson (who plays Gil Grisham) has left CSI. I stopped watching basically all TV about 3 or 4 years ago, but it still makes me sad to see all the shows I used to be interested in deteriorating before my unwatching eyes. Makes me feel old!
Well, they replaced him with Samuel L Jackson, one of my more favoured actors, but he just doesn't seem able to pull off an intelligent role.
I think they try to put Samuel L. Jackson in too many roles. I'm not saying he doesn't have range, but I once saw him in a pirate movie wearing a blond wig and saying stuff like "Avast ye muthaf*n maties!" :rolleyes:
All I watch on TV was Battlestar, TSCC, Dollhouse, and Burn Notice. It looked for a while that both Dollhouse and TSCC were getting canned which would have left me with one TV show left for the year. I liked TSCC more than Dollhouse but beggars can't be choosers. Even though they're based on separate timelines it seems kind of silly to can a Terminator TV show right before seeing how much renewed interest in the franchise the new Terminator movie creates.
Are ya sure that wasn't Chappelle doing S. L. Jackson doing a pirate movie? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 'Yamio',index.php?page=Thread&postID=203556#post20 3556
They replaced him with Lawrence Fishburne who is a little too mild mannered for that role, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Lokked',index.php?page=Thread&postID=203495#post2 03495