"Salvation" on Amazon Prime

[Lynn McGuire]

"Salvation" on Amazon Prime
https://www.amazon.com/Pilot/dp/B073WN254K/

I have been watching Salvation on Amazon Prime and really enjoying it
through episode seven. It is about a seven mile diameter rock
forecasted to hit the Earth in the Atlantic in 186 days and being kept
secret by the various governments. They just invented a working EM drive
in episode seven.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive

Lynn

[Your Name]

Don't get too excited. It's yet another show they cancelled without
finishing the story. :-(

[danny burstein]

And the last bunch of episodes weren't even phoned in..




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[Dimensional Traveler]

On 7/21/2021 4:47 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> In <sda7md$1ona$1...@gioia.aioe.org> Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> writes:
>
>> On 2021-07-21 21:55:02 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
>>>
>>> "Salvation" on Amazon Prime
>>> https://www.amazon.com/Pilot/dp/B073WN254K/
>>>
>>> I have been watching Salvation on Amazon Prime and really enjoying it
>>> through episode seven. It is about a seven mile diameter rock
>>> forecasted to hit the Earth in the Atlantic in 186 days and being kept
>>> secret by the various governments. They just invented a working EM
>>> drive in episode seven.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
>>>
>>> Lynn
>
>> Don't get too excited. It's yet another show they cancelled without
>> finishing the story. :-(
>
> And the last bunch of episodes weren't even phoned in..
>

It was another Rancid Onion Blowing Soap Bubbles of Flaming Stupidity
(ala the 'Lost' model). They were throwing brown stuff on the wall
every script and not even really paying attention to what stuck and what
didn't.


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[Joe Morris]

Some of the sets were nice. Yeah, I did want to like it

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[Your Name]

On 2021-07-22 01:53:22 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:
> On 7/21/2021 4:47 PM, danny burstein wrote:
>> In <sda7md$1ona$1...@gioia.aioe.org> Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> writes:
>>> On 2021-07-21 21:55:02 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
>>>>
>>>> "Salvation" on Amazon Prime
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Pilot/dp/B073WN254K/
>>>>
>>>> I have been watching Salvation on Amazon Prime and really enjoying it
>>>> through episode seven. It is about a seven mile diameter rock
>>>> forecasted to hit the Earth in the Atlantic in 186 days and being kept
>>>> secret by the various governments. They just invented a working EM
>>>> drive in episode seven.
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
>>>

>>> Don't get too excited. It's yet another show they cancelled without
>>> finishing the story. :-(
>>
>> And the last bunch of episodes weren't even phoned in..
>
> It was another Rancid Onion Blowing Soap Bubbles of Flaming Stupidity
> (ala the 'Lost' model). They were throwing brown stuff on the wall
> every script and not even really paying attention to what stuck and
> what didn't.

As with far too many shows these days, it seems to have been created as
a one-season show, but then they got a second season and it became a
case of "what the {beep} do we do now" style of storywriting.

[Dimensional Traveler]

It was a current day set SF show where private probes around Jupiter
were communicating instantaneously with Earth.

[Your Name]

It's a parallel universe Earth with different physics. ;-)

[Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha]

Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote in
news:sdalu2$8l6$1...@gioia.aioe.org:

Was it as bad as as the Syphilis Network's attempt at Flash Gordon?
("I was looking forward to the commercials.")

--
Terry Austin

Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
Lynn:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
(May 2019 total for people arrested for entering the United States
illegally is over 132,000 for just the southwest border.)

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

[Dimensional Traveler]

I didn't watch that so I don't know. Some regulars in rec.arts.tv did
so you may want to ask there. (And its a much livelier group than this
one.)

[Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha]

Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote in
news:sdcbrt$8bl$3...@dont-email.me:

I did, but I have a perverse taste for bad movies and TV. It had
the same appeal as watching a train wreck.[1]

> Some regulars in
> rec.arts.tv did so you may want to ask there. (And its a much
> livelier group than this one.)
>

I don't actually care, since there is zero chance of me watching
anything streaming from Amazon.

[1]Ming the Accountant, who ran a water processing plant. And was
caucasian, because of course he was. Evidence Hawkmen were there in
the form of feathers left behind. Except when the Hawkmen actually
appear, they don't have feathers, they fly by flapping their arms
while wearing a ratty suede cloaks that look like they were made
from a moldy couch someone had paid them to haul away - and tripled
their props budget. While making a screeching sound thought up by
someone who listend to a bad recording of . . . something other
than a hawk. Mongo isn't a rogue planet they fly to in spaceships,
because they couldn't afford the cgi, so it was in an alternate
dimension they traveled to with a poorly recycled effect from
Sliders. And Flash wasn't an American football player. Or an
American. He was a Canadian marathon runner. And Dale had a fiance,
who wasn't Flash. And the Princess was played by a woman with less
acting talent than a lifesize carboard cutout of her would
displayed (seriously). The only person who seemed to be even
vaguely aware of what a train wreck they were in was Don S. Davis,
who played Dale's boss at the TV station. He chewed on the scenery
with more hammy enthusians than William Shatner as Kirk, and was
clearly having the time of his life.

I treasure my DVD set.

[Blueshirt]

On 22/07/2021 19:02, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>
> I didn't watch that so I don't know.  Some regulars in rec.arts.tv did
> so you may want to ask there.  (And its a much livelier group than this
> one.)

Livelier with politics, spam, gobbledygook ... and hooters!

[Jack Bohn]

On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 11:49:06 AM UTC-4, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
> >
> Was it as bad as as the Syphilis Network's attempt at Flash Gordon?
> ("I was looking forward to the commercials.")

Interesting sort of anti-commercial: they took to running a few minutes of a serialized Battlestar Galactica story during one of Flash Gordon's breaks to try to draw eyes to the show.

This brought the show to my sister's attention: during a phone call, she -knowing I was a Flash Gordon fan- asked if I was watching the new series. In my best Marvin the Paranoid Android voice I said, "Yes, but I'm not enjoying it."

--
-Jack

[Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha]

Jack Bohn <jack....@gmail.com> wrote in
news:01687fdd-7ef2-4416...@googlegroups.com:

The sad thing is, the producers and writers actually took the
audience feedback seriously and adjusted the scripts based on it
(including killing Dale's fiance in such as way as to bring him back
the next season as a villian, followed in the third season by his
redepmtion - they set it up perfectly). Unfortunately, that process
takes so long it didn't show up on screen until the last three or
four episodes, and by then it was *far* too late.

Turned out that (other than the Princess), if you gave those people
something to work with, they could actually act.

[Jack Bohn]

Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
> Jack Bohn <jack....@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:01687fdd-7ef2-4416...@googlegroups.com:
> > On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 11:49:06 AM UTC-4, Jibini Kula
> > Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
> >> >
> >> Was it as bad as as the Syphilis Network's attempt at Flash
> >> Gordon? ("I was looking forward to the commercials.")
> >
> > Interesting sort of anti-commercial: they took to running a few
> > minutes of a serialized Battlestar Galactica story during one of
> > Flash Gordon's breaks to try to draw eyes to the show.
> >
> > This brought the show to my sister's attention: during a phone
> > call, she -knowing I was a Flash Gordon fan- asked if I was
> > watching the new series. In my best Marvin the Paranoid Android
> > voice I said, "Yes, but I'm not enjoying it."
> >
> The sad thing is, the producers and writers actually took the
> audience feedback seriously and adjusted the scripts based on it

Interesting, I did not know that. Someone here at the time noted that the fewer people watching it, the better it was getting. I said that made me sorry I would be traveling and miss the season finale (it was guaranteed two seasons), but gave a "You're Welcome" to the few(er) that would see it.

> (including killing Dale's fiance in such as way as to bring him back
> the next season as a villian, followed in the third season by his
> redepmtion - they set it up perfectly). Unfortunately, that process
> takes so long it didn't show up on screen until the last three or
> four episodes, and by then it was *far* too late.

I may have been reading too much into it, but something about one of the moons of Mongo held out the possibility of space travel in the second season. (It was guaranteed two seasons!!)

--
-Jack

[Ninapenda Jibini]

Jack Bohn <jack....@gmail.com> wrote in

news:e0df6aac-f4ab-4a38...@googlegroups.com:

> Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>> Jack Bohn <jack....@gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:01687fdd-7ef2-4416...@googlegroups.com:
>> > On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 11:49:06 AM UTC-4, Jibini Kula
>> > Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> Was it as bad as as the Syphilis Network's attempt at Flash
>> >> Gordon? ("I was looking forward to the commercials.")
>> >
>> > Interesting sort of anti-commercial: they took to running a
>> > few minutes of a serialized Battlestar Galactica story during
>> > one of Flash Gordon's breaks to try to draw eyes to the show.
>> >
>> > This brought the show to my sister's attention: during a
>> > phone call, she -knowing I was a Flash Gordon fan- asked if I
>> > was watching the new series. In my best Marvin the Paranoid
>> > Android voice I said, "Yes, but I'm not enjoying it."
>> >
>> The sad thing is, the producers and writers actually took the
>> audience feedback seriously and adjusted the scripts based on
>> it
>
> Interesting, I did not know that. Someone here at the time
> noted that the fewer people watching it, the better it was
> getting.

The last three or four episodes were actually decent.

> I said that made me sorry I would be traveling and
> miss the season finale (it was guaranteed two seasons),

It didn't get them.

> but gave
> a "You're Welcome" to the few(er) that would see it.
>
>> (including killing Dale's fiance in such as way as to bring him
>> back the next season as a villian, followed in the third season
>> by his redepmtion - they set it up perfectly). Unfortunately,
>> that process takes so long it didn't show up on screen until
>> the last three or four episodes, and by then it was *far* too
>> late.
>
> I may have been reading too much into it, but something about
> one of the moons of Mongo held out the possibility of space
> travel in the second season.

Possible. Maybe that's where Ming the Accountant ended up after his
"execution."

> (It was guaranteed two seasons!!)
>

Only if the budget was increased. A lot. Or they were willing to
use Troma Studios quality props, which wouldn't have surprised me.

--
Terry Austin

Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
Lynn:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.