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<blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 2642643" data-attributes="member: 649"><p><strong>Threshold</strong> -- 2 episodes was plenty to convince me that while there were some neat ideas, the whole thing was too incohesive and directionless to be worth an hour of my week.</p><p></p><p><strong>Surface</strong> -- Ooh, look how mysterious things are! It works with <em>Lost</em> because the other parts are interesting, allowing the mystery to tie it together, but here I only care about one of the characters, and not enough to be worth another hour a week. Again, two episodes was two too many.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Night Stalker</strong> -- It only took one episode for me to dump this one... I thought the chemistry between the actors was bad, and really disliked the background mystery. I'm open to trying this one again if I hear enough good stuff, but I'm not going to burn time waiting for it to find its footing.</p><p></p><p>I probably give up on shows faster than the average geek, as I try to keep my overall TV watching down to six hours or less a week, so I don't have time for stuff that's not working for me. And with 60-90 minutes of HBO programming every Sunday, plus <em>Lost</em>, plus <em>Battlestar Galactica</em>, plus <em>Smallville</em>, plus <em>Veronica Mars</em>... and when I can there's <em>Gilmore Girls</em> and <em>Justice League</em> and... well, there's not a lot of room for even medium-quality shows, much less poor ones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fast Learner, post: 2642643, member: 649"] [b]Threshold[/b] -- 2 episodes was plenty to convince me that while there were some neat ideas, the whole thing was too incohesive and directionless to be worth an hour of my week. [b]Surface[/b] -- Ooh, look how mysterious things are! It works with [i]Lost[/i] because the other parts are interesting, allowing the mystery to tie it together, but here I only care about one of the characters, and not enough to be worth another hour a week. Again, two episodes was two too many. [b]The Night Stalker[/b] -- It only took one episode for me to dump this one... I thought the chemistry between the actors was bad, and really disliked the background mystery. I'm open to trying this one again if I hear enough good stuff, but I'm not going to burn time waiting for it to find its footing. I probably give up on shows faster than the average geek, as I try to keep my overall TV watching down to six hours or less a week, so I don't have time for stuff that's not working for me. And with 60-90 minutes of HBO programming every Sunday, plus [i]Lost[/i], plus [i]Battlestar Galactica[/i], plus [i]Smallville[/i], plus [i]Veronica Mars[/i]... and when I can there's [i]Gilmore Girls[/i] and [i]Justice League[/i] and... well, there's not a lot of room for even medium-quality shows, much less poor ones. [/QUOTE]
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