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Defance 5/13 - just watched it on DVR
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Ashton Crusher
May 19, 2013, 3:34:09 PM5/19/13
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Just to continue the ranting.... I'm only watching because my better
half wants to... God, what a stupid show. The ENTIRE first half could
have been transposed with virtually any old 50's TV western where the
plot was taking the money from the bank, heading out in the stage
coach and getting waylaid by crooks, including the predictable
transport of the criminal in the stagecoach, their escape, and all the
rest. Totally devoid of anything remotely connected to scifi. The
second half of the show was equally stupid and recycled westerns with
just a hint of some scifi thrown in to give lip service to the notion
this is supposed to be scifi, not a rerun of Abbott and Costello go
West. They may as well just start rerunning Wagon Train if these old
west plots sell so well to the public.
half wants to... God, what a stupid show. The ENTIRE first half could
have been transposed with virtually any old 50's TV western where the
plot was taking the money from the bank, heading out in the stage
coach and getting waylaid by crooks, including the predictable
transport of the criminal in the stagecoach, their escape, and all the
rest. Totally devoid of anything remotely connected to scifi. The
second half of the show was equally stupid and recycled westerns with
just a hint of some scifi thrown in to give lip service to the notion
this is supposed to be scifi, not a rerun of Abbott and Costello go
West. They may as well just start rerunning Wagon Train if these old
west plots sell so well to the public.
Ken from Chicago
May 22, 2013, 9:16:00 AM5/22/13
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"Ashton Crusher" <de...@moore.net> wrote in message
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an older series or another genre?
-- Ken from Chicago
Ashton Crusher
May 22, 2013, 3:53:16 PM5/22/13
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"original" Defiance gets a 2. It's not just that it's basically
recycled 50 westerns but that no significant scifi plays a part in 95%
of the show. Heck, the Wild Wild West TV show (65 - 69) was better
science fiction by far and it WAS a 50's style Western.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058855/
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