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Dillon Pyron

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Oct 6, 2011, 10:18:55 PM10/6/11
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Now this is a show that SyFy should have been making. It's exactly
right for the network

Good premise. Crap writing. Crap acting. Crappy crap crap effects.

We watched episode one, might pull #2 off of on demand but I doubt it
will go beyond that. We never saw Playboy Club, but that couldn't
have been much worse than this. At least it was hard to through the
episodes in the air and do a "pick & choose" in re broadcast order.
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- dillon I am not invalid

"You idiots, it's rape, pillage,THEN BURN!!!"
--- chief of the Aggie Vikings

Lynn McGuire

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Oct 7, 2011, 12:17:00 PM10/7/11
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On 10/6/2011 9:18 PM, Dillon Pyron wrote:
> Now this is a show that SyFy should have been making. It's exactly
> right for the network
>
> Good premise. Crap writing. Crap acting. Crappy crap crap effects.
>
> We watched episode one, might pull #2 off of on demand but I doubt it
> will go beyond that. We never saw Playboy Club, but that couldn't
> have been much worse than this. At least it was hard to through the
> episodes in the air and do a "pick& choose" in re broadcast order.

I thought it was excellent.

Lynn

Dillon Pyron

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Dec 21, 2011, 12:33:36 AM12/21/11
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Thus spake Lynn McGuire <l...@winsim.com> :
The first episode seemed pretty bad, but they've grown on me. But
we're catching them in bursts through on demand since we now have
wierd assed work schedules. But hey, it pays for the cable.
--

- dillon I am not invalid

So Kim Jung Ill shows up at the barbecue. "Wait,"
says Qadaffi, "you don't have any peircings." "If you
starve your people enough they'll be too weak to rebbel."
"You have the same number of holes in your head as when
you were born," says bin Laden. "My compound had radar
and antiacraft misslles." "Your neck," shouted Hussein,
"it's the same length." "I didn't piss on W's father."
"Then what happened?" the three asked. "Damned counterfiet
Lipitor and insulin!"

Jerry Heyman

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Dec 21, 2011, 5:09:23 PM12/21/11
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Dillon Pyron wrote:

> Thus spake Lynn McGuire <l...@winsim.com> :
>
>>On 10/6/2011 9:18 PM, Dillon Pyron wrote:
>>> Now this is a show that SyFy should have been making. It's exactly
>>> right for the network
>>>
>>> Good premise. Crap writing. Crap acting. Crappy crap crap effects.
>>>
>>> We watched episode one, might pull #2 off of on demand but I doubt it
>>> will go beyond that. We never saw Playboy Club, but that couldn't
>>> have been much worse than this. At least it was hard to through the
>>> episodes in the air and do a "pick& choose" in re broadcast order.
>>
>>I thought it was excellent.
>>
>>Lynn
>
> The first episode seemed pretty bad, but they've grown on me. But
> we're catching them in bursts through on demand since we now have
> wierd assed work schedules. But hey, it pays for the cable.

It's ok. It's much more a human conflict story than a story of survival
in 75 Million BC. Not everyone is whom they seem to be, and the colony
is an interesting starting locale, but since they're not doing big
exploration type episodes, the human conflict gets magnified.

jerry
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// Amigan Forever :-) | to pay its own debts as it goes. A
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Dillon Pyron

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Jan 2, 2012, 12:37:54 AM1/2/12
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Thus spake Jerry Heyman <hey...@acm.org> :

>Dillon Pyron wrote:
>
>> Thus spake Lynn McGuire <l...@winsim.com> :
>>
>>>On 10/6/2011 9:18 PM, Dillon Pyron wrote:
>>>> Now this is a show that SyFy should have been making. It's exactly
>>>> right for the network
>>>>
>>>> Good premise. Crap writing. Crap acting. Crappy crap crap effects.
>>>>
>>>> We watched episode one, might pull #2 off of on demand but I doubt it
>>>> will go beyond that. We never saw Playboy Club, but that couldn't
>>>> have been much worse than this. At least it was hard to through the
>>>> episodes in the air and do a "pick& choose" in re broadcast order.
>>>
>>>I thought it was excellent.
>>>
>>>Lynn
>>
>> The first episode seemed pretty bad, but they've grown on me. But
>> we're catching them in bursts through on demand since we now have
>> wierd assed work schedules. But hey, it pays for the cable.
>
>It's ok. It's much more a human conflict story than a story of survival
>in 75 Million BC. Not everyone is whom they seem to be, and the colony
>is an interesting starting locale, but since they're not doing big
>exploration type episodes, the human conflict gets magnified.
>
>jerry

There are three kinds of fiction. Man vs man, man vs nature and man
vs himself. Once you get past that it's all just throwing words on
paper. This from my creative writing prof in college.

My oh my she could write. Taught me well enough to have published a
few shorts and have a book almost ready for polish.

JKConey

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Jan 3, 2012, 12:21:21 PM1/3/12
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I do watch it but it's far from great, it's OK. Love to see more
dino conflict when they're outside. Anyone other than me realize how it
ends? They all have to be destroyed by an asteroid. IF they were to
survive, wouldn't it be having a direct influence on the future they are
in contact with?


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JK Sinrod
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