Ok, writer's strike has hit home

[SamSpade]

I have been going back and seeing if I can catch reruns of shows I really never got around to watching, at least not all of it.

One of them is Farscape, a show I never saw but a few episodes of - on a similar vein - Andromeda, but it is slowly getting less interesting, and from what I recall - because I used to religiously follow the newsgroups where - amazingly - the writers and creators POSTED - that I am at the point where the original writer left the show - and the style and direction of the show totally changed.

I considered watching X Files from beginning to end, but there are just too many shows where I just got too damned bored to finish a whole hour of it.

 

[Kinnakeet]

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Although only two seasons I enjoyed Jericho.

Other series I liked that were less known Rome, Hung, Mixology, Primevil, Frontier, Black Sails.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I have been going back and seeing if I can catch reruns of shows I really never got around to watching, at least not all of it.

One of them is Farscape, a show I never saw but a few episodes of - on a similar vein - Andromeda, but it is slowly getting less interesting, and from what I recall - because I used to religiously follow the newsgroups where - amazingly - the writers and creators POSTED - that I am at the point where the original writer left the show - and the style and direction of the show totally changed.

I considered watching X Files from beginning to end, but there are just too many shows where I just got too damned bored to finish a whole hour of it.

Andromeda was really good for 4 seasons, they cut the budget and had to change Trans color and it just got weird.

 

[GURPS]

Andromeda was really good for 4 seasons, they cut the budget and had to change Trans color and it just got weird.

The writers changed after the 3rd season

 

[black dog]

Although only two seasons I enjoyed Jericho.

Other series I liked that were less known Rome, Hung, Mixology, Primevil, Frontier, Black Sails.

We enjoyed those two.

 

[Kyle]

Although only two seasons I enjoyed Jericho.

Other series I liked that were less known Rome, Hung, Mixology, Primevil, Frontier, Black Sails.

We enjoyed those two.

I need to add Black Sails to my list.

Rome and Primeval were good.

 

[SamSpade]

The writers changed after the 3rd season

Yup. Robert Wolfe, the show's writer and creator, used to post on rec.arts.sf.tv along with a handful of other tv writers, years ago.

Quite a lot of writers posted on newgroups back then. Straczynski did on the moderated B5 newsgroup but he was QUITE adamant about ideas and suggestions, as there were legal ramifications - hence, moderated. Occasionally, there were very subtle nods to posters on the actual show. (An obvious one is on newsgroups, people who don't post are called "lurkers" - the nickname given on the show to the denizens of the darker parts of the station.

There was once a much beloved poster who went under the name of Plain And Simple Cronan (Thompson) who died of leukemia at a young age - being black, he used to joke about how black characters got killed early in sci-fi shows.

Wolfe therefore had a character named Thompson get killed in the opening scenes of Andromeda's pilot, as an homage to him.

 

[Kyle]

Quite a lot of writers posted on newgroups back then.

There are times I miss the old newsgroups.

Havne't logged onto a news server since 2009 or 2010.

 

[SamSpade]

There are times I miss the old newsgroups.

Havne't logged onto a news server since 2009 or 2010.

Way before that, for me.

Back then, folks like us had an ISP - an Internet Service Provider, just for Web, mail - and Usenet, which they provided a free server. Most Usenet servers now come at a cost, and last time I was on, it was so overrun with ads, some newsgroups I frequented had NOTHING but junk.

 

[Kyle]

Way before that, for me.

Back then, folks like us had an ISP - an Internet Service Provider, just for Web, mail - and Usenet, which they provided a free server. Most Usenet servers now come at a cost, and last time I was on, it was so overrun with ads, some newsgroups I frequented had NOTHING but junk.

for me it was about 1994 -2009.

My first local ISP was Eaglenet in LP.

 

[HemiHauler]

Just get rid of the TeeVee. A much better solution.

 

[black dog]

There are times I miss the old newsgroups.

Havne't logged onto a news server since 2009 or 2010.

Alt Newsgroups, 56K dialup $9.95 a month.
It was a new world... LOL

 

[black dog]

for me it was about 1994 -2009.

My first local ISP was Eaglenet in LP.

AOL version one, 9,800 I still have an active AOL email.

 

[Sneakers]

for me it was about 1994 -2009.

My first local ISP was Eaglenet in LP.

SOMDOnline for me.

I worked in the building where EagleNet was based. What a hodge-podge of wires and crap in the modem room, surprised it ever worked properly. And the guy running it (boss's son) was not computer literate.

 

[SamSpade]

Just get rid of the TeeVee. A much better solution.

YIKES! THEN we will have to TALK to each other.





I am so screwed.