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Everybody has an opinion, that’s what comment boxes are for, right? Here at SFUniverse we get everything from “Yes!” to impassioned responses that are longer than the original post.
So here’s a thanks to all of our commenters along with some of the best of what we’ve seen these past few months.
Let’s start with Donald who had a lot to say about how Stargate Universe can be saved:
The story points that MUST change are as follows.
1. WE NEED A HERO. No heroes here to root for. Who is the good guy here?
2. A soap opera plot line. Need I say more? What is this doing here?
3. Wife and boyfriend problems back on earth. These trips to Earth serve little purpose in the story that the audience in really interested in.
4. No control of their destiny (no pun intended) but really they can’t even steer the damn ship! Its nuts the way the writers think that we will support a plot line like this. I’ll grant that it could be a short story arc but it’s gone on way too long.
5. PLEASE FIND SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO USE A CAMERA! This handy cam/dirty style of shooting does not give the show any gravitas. Someone sold the producers on this idea and they were robbed. Please hear the collective opinion of the viewers, WE CAN’T STAND IT!
Joe had this to say about Ghost Hunters Academy:
Steve needs to lighten up. He tells of how a former colleague ran out of an investigation and forbids any one else to do so. But yet he runs like a little girl when he sees a spider. Gimme a break…. Susan Slaughter is a hottie…..
Scott was a bit more detailed in his comments:
Concept of show is great. I would have like to see one contestant eliminated after each investigation. Then the last one standing becomes a finalist. Then you bring in a new group of five and do the same thing until you have five final finalists. Then you start eliminating the finalist until you have a winner. The current five you have now are not good. Don’t really want to watch them all doing multiple investigations. That girl who claims to be a psychic should have gone two episodes ago. refusing to go on tours and covering up her ears in the van. She’s on the show to be a paranormal investigator not a pyschic. be a team player or should leave the show and open up a storefront and do psychic readings. The entire group taking her on a second tour of the N. Carolina ship showed a real lack of leadership. Steve tells the group to not forget to tag and what do they do? Don’t tag. I saw get rid of them all or go to the elimination process I suggested. Thanks…
And Mark had even more to say on the subject.
Here’s some of my observations and ramblings…
I am just starting to study the paranormal field and I have shows like Ghost Hunters to thank for that. One of the areas that I find increasingly fascinating is employing the skills of mediums in conjunction with a “scientific” approach to ghost hunting. The case studies I have been reading about actually don’t want the mediums to accompany the investigators when approaching a new client, this might bias her/him, and so they ask them to hang back. Then, after hearing the history and reports of activity they bring in the medium to try and validate what they were told or to sense the presence (or not) of any entities. I have heard the term trance medium mentioned in some case studies, but I am not sure all of them have this ability. Trance mediums channel an entities personality through themselves.
Click here to read his full comment.
Phoenix gives it up for Vampire Diaries
Oh, you’re *so* right about putting “Twilight” out of your mind! I was extremely reluctant to begin watching “The Vampire Diaries” because it looked so much like just another leap onto the massively overpopular vampire bandwagon, but I finally settled in to an online streaming website and watched episodes 1-10 a couple of weeks ago and I’m extremely glad that I did.
TVD is actually a fairly original story — it’s true that the Stefan/Elena relationship (and Stefan himself) at times seems like almost *too* much of a throwback to watching Buffy and Angel’s tortured relationship in season two of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but it’s just original enough — and just non-”Twilight”esque — to be enjoyable.
Not to mention, for a teen-show villain, Damon is actually rather frightening, if you take his murderously cavalier actions at face value. One thing the show never shies from is the grim reality of how Damon continues living — and thoroughly enjoys it. It’s nice that after so many sympathetic woe-is-me bloodsuckers we finally have a *real* bad guy to root against.
It’s just too bad that the culmination of this marathon is going to be on the same Friday that FOX will start airing the final episodes of “Dollhouse” or I’d rewatch “The Vampire Diaries” from start to finish. Oh, well — thank god for Hulu!
While Mark holds nothing back with his thoughts on the recent Prisoner reboot.
C-R-A-P!
I never got my hopes up with this farce of a re-make. The only thing that almost did was the casting of Jim Caviezel. I quote Tom above: “soul-crushingly disappointing” But now look, whomever says that Caviezel did a bad job portraying no. 6 is not thinking before opening their mouth. Did he not do as good a job as he could have, given that total CRAP of a script and story line by that Bill Gallagher genius? He was given too many dumb lines. Where Patrick Mcgoohan had the great ability to carry the original series with his dry humor and sardonic wit (Clint Eastwood also comes to mind), not to mention TRUE genius writing and directing skills. But what was given Caviezel, did not make that nearly as possible for him to do. Give him a deserved break huh! I could picture the original no. 6 falling for the old buried childhood momentos in the sand ploy, and having that give him doubts..lol! And standing in front of the Green Dome screaming his head off that he was going to destroy no. 2 …..sitting inside eating some f*#^ing fruit cake (well at least that was quite fitting, given the casting of the actor who played no.2). Can you imagine McGoohan doing that? Or being so CONFORMING and going along with the “brother” lies…..or the going “back” to his bus driving job? Let me guess. It was all part of 6’s plan right? lol suurrrre it was.
You can read his full rant right here.
If you really want to see the mother of all comment threads from the past few months, take a look at this post about the new Discovery Channel Show Ghost Lab.
Once again, thank you to everyone who reads and comments here at SFUniverse. We always welcome your opinions even if we don’t always understand them.
“Never underestimate the tenacity of a reprobate mind.”
—Mark Z.
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