Sci Fi Channel The Triangle

[Dagger75]

Watching this right now on Sci Fi. Its not as bad as some of the Sci Fi movies and its keeping me entertained. I am a little partial to the Bermuda Triangle ever since a certain CoC game and this has a Chtulu feel to it. Mysterious rich person hiring different people from all different types of fields to study something occult.

There was a commercial break so thouht I would post.

 

[trancejeremy]

It's on already? I caught the dozens of preview shows for it on more than one occasion, sending a guy from NBC news to do an "unprecedented trip" to the bermuda triangle. But missed out on when the show would actually start.

Probably because I tend to blank out anything involve Sam Neil.



edit:

You know, I spent a great deal of my life studying mysterious stuff. And I have yet to ever get a call from a really rich person. Or the government. You wanted to investigate something, you had to pay for it yourself. And unlike on Supernatural (the TV Show), the ones with problems aren't really hot women. Mostly just lots of really really weird people. The only really hot one turned out to be a lesbian.

<sigh> Some careers are much better in the world of fiction. You don't even get categories for the occult or paranormal on game shows...

 

[Black Omega]

I thought it looked promising but they lost me in the first five minutes when they insisted on started with a morality tale about whaling. Don't know why, but it just felt like a blatant addition to make someone with an environmental slant happy. I turned it off then.

 

[Umbran]

You know, I spent a great deal of my life studying mysterious stuff. And I have yet to ever get a call from a really rich person. Or the government. You wanted to investigate something, you had to pay for it yourself. And unlike on Supernatural (the TV Show), the ones with problems aren't really hot women. Mostly just lots of really really weird people. The only really hot one turned out to be a lesbian.

A friend of mine has an explanation for this - our Universe has a Way Too Cool Rule. Some things cannot happen in our Universe, because they'd be Way Too Cool. This is why none of us ever gets bitten by radioactive spiders, or discovers we're the last of a race of alien super-beings or anything neat like that...

 

[frankthedm]

I thought it looked promising but they lost me in the first five minutes when they insisted on started with a morality tale about whaling. Don't know why, but it just felt like a blatant addition to make someone with an environmental slant happy. I turned it off then.

Good choice, the hollywood fringers have a habit of doing this so often in sci-fi it is insulting. Star Drek four anyone?

 

[Crothian]

ITs pretty good. THe whale thing is a who cares, it actaully turned into some cool footage. I'm liking it.

 

[Dagger75]

I was afraid of some big envirmental movie but so it seemed just a schtick for one of the characters.

 

[Crothian]

I was afraid of some big envirmental movie but so it seemed just a schtick for one of the characters.

One minor character is part of Green Peace, but after the first scene it hasn't been importnat to the story.

 

[Crothian]

THis is a good show. Interesting, creative, seems well thought out.....

 

[RangerWickett]

Good choice, the hollywood fringers have a habit of doing this so often in sci-fi it is insulting. Star Drek four anyone?

Aside from the fact that I liked Star Trek IV, also consider that it was sort of a first, in that before then not that many movies were big on saving nature. Plus, it wasn't too preachy, no more so than Star Trek ever was: "Hey, people, you're doing something stupid. In the future, you'll realize how stupid you were being. Why not speed it up a bit?"

It used the whales as a MacGuffin to drive an interesting plot, and it was well-written. Somehow I have a hard time trusting any movie created by the Sci-fi Channel to be anything above 1 star.