Conference noted::sf

Not much.  Set a few hundred years in the future.  Earth II is a colony
planet around another star, the "Here, we are the aliens" means that
the natives are getting restless.  I've heard it may be another Spielberg
project, but I've also heard that he pulled out of it.  From the one
commercial I've seen, it looks like they are using CGI, much like Babylon
5.  And that's about it.

PeterT

    	There was a TV film of the same title made around 1974 concerning
    the goings on of an Earth-orbiting space station just a few decades 
    in the future.  All I remember of it is that they captured a Chinese
    satellite that was actually an orbital bomb (those pesky Commies!).
    One of the crew members decided to rid the station of the bomb by
    herself by aiming the docking port at the Sun and ejecting it.
    Instead the bomb headed towards Earth and was threatening to spread
    radioactive material everywhere once it entered the atmosphere.
    They sent out a rescue team and that's all I remember.
    
    	Oh yes - the first parts of the Earth II space station were
    actually taken from the Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) design of
    the late 1960s.  It was a military station with a Gemini craft
    attached that was cancelled in 1969.
    
    	Larry
    

>    One of the crew members decided to rid the station of the bomb by
>    herself by aiming the docking port at the Sun and ejecting it.


Guess she didn't know much about orbital mechanics, eh?

PeterT

    re .3
    
    I guess it depends on how strong she is.           
    
    With realistic manual ejection the bomb is just going to return to the
    station. Earth is not going to be threatened. I'm not sure how the
    threat to the station is altered if the bomb detonates before returning.

I'd be interested in hearing your opinions of this show.  I'll be in
the States in the month of October, and plan to spend a significant
percentage of the time horizontal.  I'd be delighted for any viewing
tips you can give me.

Steve

    Did it get canceled? 
    Sunday @ 7 was football (overtime) followed by some show about angels.
    
    Dave

I don't think it's started yet.  Sometime in the next month or two probably.
When I know more, I'll let you know. If I remember ;-)

PeterT

    Hey, no sweat... I read the base note to mean _next_ Sunday; 
    didn't know it was 'some future Sunday'.
    
    Dave

NBC "Earth 2" (premieres Nov. 6) at 6:00 MST.

Centures in the future, Earth's people are forced to live in giant space
stations, a lo "Silent Running". Scientists lead secreat expectations
to distant planets.

    So, what did everyone think about the pilot?
    
    Personally, I think it shows promise; much better than Seaquest.
    
    Dave

    I thought the pilot was a strong effort; we'll have to see if they
    stumble in the weekly grind.
    
    Something they did much better than Seaquest was give us a strong sense
    of who these people were.  Seaquest got too caught up in its technology
    (big sub, talking dolphin) to define its characters.

    I was encouraged.  The characters were well drawn, much more
    sympathetic than those on Babylon 5.
    
    Personally, I detest cutesy little ETs, so I was very pleasantly
    surprised to see what the little guy could do with those suspicious
    looking claws.  
    
    If they can put some imagination into the scripts, and they don't fall
    into a rut, it may we worth watching.
    
    -Steve

    I wonder how much of a story arc they have pre-defined...
    
    We already know that in 6 monthes the ship with the colonists arrive.
    
    Dave

    Right now, my only complaint is that I'm getting tired of hearing the
    little girl scream.

I'm just wondering how may times they're going to kill off that older guy.
Bummer.  Dies twice in the first two episodes ;-)  Definitely a bad introduction
to a new planet!

PeterT

My guess is that he's now "not only merely dead, he's also most
sincerely dead."  He was a real moron, anyway.  If it was me, I'd
just cut my losses and thank God that I was alive.  But, no, he has
to go mucking through a cave with just a handgun, chasing who knows
how many of those grendlers.  I'm surprised he lived long enough to
get gray hair....

(just remember, it's not evolution in action if they've already
reproduced! ;-))

-Patrick

>(just remember, it's not evolution in action if they've already
>reproduced! ;-))
    
    Depends on the species. For those that reproduce but once (albeit
    potentially producing a large number of offspring) the comment is
    correct. Otherwise, being killed during your reproductive life reduces
    the number of your offspring relative to an individual who just keeps
    on (ahem) going. (-:

    Re .17:
    
    > Otherwise, being killed during your reproductive life reduces the
    > number of your offspring relative to an individual who just keeps on
    > (ahem) going. (-:
    
    Even that's not always true -- the sacrifice of an individual may
    contribute to the survival of the young.  E.g., the mother bird who
    flutters along the ground, making motions as if injured and easy prey
    and moves away from the nest, may have more young that survive than the
    bird who survives by flying away from the nest.
    
    
    				-- edp
    
                                                   
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>    Re .17:
>    
>    > Otherwise, being killed during your reproductive life reduces the
>    > number of your offspring relative to an individual who just keeps on
>    > (ahem) going. (-:
>    
>    Even that's not always true -- the sacrifice of an individual may
>    contribute to the survival of the young.  E.g., the mother bird who
>    flutters along the ground, making motions as if injured and easy prey
>    and moves away from the nest, may have more young that survive than the
>    bird who survives by flying away from the nest.

And conversely, just bearing the young doesn't contribute their or your
genes to the subsequent pool if you are needed to rear them to breeding age.

But I tend to agree, this alleged commander doesn't (didn't) seem well-suited
for command.  But he was a space farer, not a groundling.  I guess he just
doesn't know what you're likely to find holed up in a cave.
And he's mad as hell at having his mission all mucked up too.

- tom]

    I'm not sure the commander isn't being made stupid by plot conventions. 
    All he had to do is say, "Ya know, this guy doesn't really check out. 
    I'm gonna follow him the next time he sneaks off."  But then we'd lose
    all that wonderful "dramatic tension" -- when _are_ they going to
    figure out that he's not a good guy?  I wouldn't mind seeing some
    really smart, sensible people in popular entertainment.

    I saw the premier and the first episode, then missed a few due to a
    business trip to the UK...
    
    What happenned with the 'bad guy' introduced in episope 1?
    
    Dave

    Re .21:
    
    He had found out that Terrians have some sort of biological impulse
    against attack their own kind and wore a necklace of Terrian bones,
    which allowed him to attack and manhandle them without resistance.  He
    had used this to put shock collars on members of a local tribe,
    enslaving them.  One of the tribe avoided this fate and led the other
    people from Earth to him.  After some traps and twists in the plot, the
    little girl realized he was bad and pulled his necklace off, after
    which the Terrians pulled him under the ground, apparently to his
    death.
    
    
    				-- edp
    
    
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    So noone in the group knows he was part of a 'prison colony'?
    (ie that there have been humans on the planet for a while?)
    
    Dave

    re -.1
    
    	Yale, the teaching android, has a clue about that...
    
    					- Jim

    Interesting; they found out the doctor was a spy...
    
    so they depart and leave her on her own.
    
    definitely a surprise ending (at least to me!).
    
    Dave

    
    I was hoping she would be found out and sure enough.
    

    re. .25
    
    I loved one of the parting shots near the end of the show when 
    the camera moves away from the tent site.  Gives new meaning to
    the words "experiencing the solitude of camping".
    
    So far I've enjoyed the show immensely.  It's a drag that they
    keep pre-empting it with the game.  Right from the start I could
    see the producers were going to be hanging that carot at the end
    of each show to bring you back next week.  I don't know what the
    term is for this but it works.  Leaves you wanting it to continue.
    
    I'm really surprised this note hasn't gotten much longer.
    
    Dick 
        

    re: " She'll be back, but as a .........."
    
    yeah, I saw that as one possibility, but it seems a bit obvious.
    
    From a nit viewpoint, _where_ is Rielly (her VR contact)? Are those
    VR comm-thingies supposed to provide FTL communication, or is he some
    place else on the same planet?? 
    
    For that matter, do those VR comm-thingies make any "sense"? We've seen
    that when users are "near" each other, they share the same VR space (as
    in the dance scene in that one episode, as well as the little girl who
    eavesdropped on the doctor), but conversely the doctor was in VR with
    someone who isn't anywhere's "near"?
    
    The only other thing I've picked up is that they seem to operate as VR
    devices (pretty heavy duty at that - the doctor couldn't tell that she
    was actually strapped down to a cot in one scene) when you unfold both 
    eyepieces, but simple range-limited communicators otherwise.
    
    Dave

    Re: .28
    
    >is he some place else on the same planet?? 
    
    I think he's somewhere on the planet.  He used the word "here" a couple
    of times, and her voiceover said he was on the planet, I believe.

    
    
    I just finished watching to-nights episode and now we know that his is
    not on the planet but up in orbit and the Doctor has become one of the
    group now that she has thrown away the device she uses to comunicate
    with 
    
    I still have some reservations about this show and Sea Quest (which
    follows it on our station) for that matter and i think it may be because 
    in a way they are very much "Earthbound", the equipment is very ordinery 
    in most cases and looks like something we could be using today.
    maybe i am so used to the really futuristic things they use in Star
    Trek and Star Wars that i am getting a bit jaded.
    
    I liked the pilot so I am giving it a chance to grow on me.
    
    There is one thing that I can't shake the image of, when my kids were
    young they liked a movie called Jason And The Argonauts, in it was a
    scene where skeletons came out of the ground to fight Jason and his men,
    every time i see a Terrian come up out of the ground i think of that
    scene in the movie.
    
    By the way i am new in this note, maybe i should introduce myself, my
    name is Joan and i work out of TRO, i do not read read sci fi but do
    enjoy most of the movies and TV shows on the sucject. The closest i ever
    came to reading sci fi is Mary Stewarts books about Merlin and King
    Arthur, which i know goes under catargory of Myth but i find the two
    subjects very close, they both make you use your imagination which in
    my mind can't be all bad.
      

re .30  
    
>    By the way i am new in this note, maybe i should introduce myself, my
>    name is Joan and i work out of TRO
    
    Welcome, Joan. You could even "introduce" yourself more formally in
    topic 122.
    
    P.S. I haven't seen "Earth 2". I don't think it has made it down under
    yet.

    Personally, I think it was rather short-sighted of them to reveal
    themselves to Reilly, and to destroy the communicator. It could have 
    proven handy to continue to mis-lead him (like the doc did about the 
    boy being shot in order to find out the Zed's vulnerability, etc).
    
    Definitely a decent SF series worth watching; it's kind of nice having
    a variety of episodic SF on TV nowadays. I used to follow ST:TNG, have
    been following X-Files and B5 (never could get hooked on ST:DS9), and
    have added Earth-2 to my list. (ST:VOY looks promising, too).
    
    Wonder how this show's ratings are holding up...
    
    	Dave

    Because of the Super Bowl Earth2 was only on one station last night and
    that was one we could not get, so I will have to wait for next weekend.
    After thinking about it for a while I still have my doubts about the 
    doctor,I think she may still be holding back, did she really throw away 
    that communicator? She has appeared to be so sure that what she was doing 
    was right that I can't see her severing all contact with Reilly, she may 
    need his help sometime. 
    
    
    joan

    Has anyone seen last weekend's show?  From the looks of the previews I
    saw last night for this weekend's show either a lot has happened in the
    missed show or their shifting gears a bit.
    
    Looking forward to Sunday night.
    
    

    Did not see last weeks show (if there was one) but as they were still
    in the same place I assume they are showing them in order in our area.
    
    As for to-nights show, It was not a surprise for Morgan to get greedy
    at the sight of something he thinks he can get money out of, and if
    they think I beleive he was reformed by what he had done I would stop
    watching the show.
    
    I like Yale and hope he is really innocent and that the visions he sees
    were implanted by the authorities because he knows something they don't
    want revealed.
    
    joan
    
    

    Will be interesting to see the conclusion of the episode...
    
    what the natives will do about the petrification (and their buddy)
    
    resolution of the Yale story line
    
    BTW, did anyone else catch the nature of Yale's criminality? 
    I suspect suspect he was mind-washed as a cover-up...
    
    	Dave

    Re: .36
    
    >BTW, did anyone else catch the nature of Yale's criminality? 
    
    You mean (not to spoil anything) the matching berets?

    Yeah, you caught it... 
    
    BTW, for a change I watched Seaquest afterwards; I remember now why I 
    stopped doing so; the episode was truly AWFUL! Earth 2 has turned out
    to be pretty good but I don't understand how Seaquest survives. Yuck!
    
    Dave

>                    <<< Note 1248.35 by TROOA::TEMPLETON >>>
>                                 -< to-night >-
>
>    I like Yale and hope he is really innocent and that the visions he sees
>    were implanted by the authorities because he knows something they don't
>    want revealed.

I thought this was a cheap dramatic trick.
Now we have to love him because he was a "hero" instead of a criminal?
I'd rather have respected him and his current role as a mind-wiped criminal
than to have him turned into a teddy-bear like this.
This is supposed to explain why he hasn't failed like all the other Yales?

I'm disappointed......

- tom]

    On the one hand, it would have been interesting to deal with the issues
    of rehabilitation, and how much one's experiences shape one's
    character.  On the other hand, as I understand it, the cyborgs were
    derived from fairly unregenerate criminals, so short of a miraculous
    transformation he would still pose something of a threat to the group.

    I guess I missed an episode, though I can't figure out when...
    
    Who were the kid and "Elder" in the caves in the 4/2 episode?
    
    Dave

>    Who were the kid and "Elder" in the caves in the 4/2 episode?
>    
>    Dave

There's yet another community of humans on the planet.
We had a whole episode about them a few weeks ago.
Danziger got sick and lost on a scouting/foraging expedition and 
they (these other humans) found him.  They were led by an old guy who
had had dream contact with Devon before she left Earth, so there was 
some spooky deja vu involved.

More would probably be a spoiler.....

- tom]

    Lest you get the impression that all sorts of people have been dropping
    in for years -- the community is a remnant of the penal "colony"
    (actually dumping ground).

    
    Hate to mention this, since I enjoy this show. But tv guide mentioned,
    according to the tv notesfile, that this show may be cancelled.
    
    There is some sort of viewer response poll going on, to try and keep
    this show and some others.
    
    note 357 TV notesfile for where to send replies.
    
    Dave
    
    
    

    Thanks for the pointer; I emailed my vote ([email protected])
    
    FYI - deadline for the "TV Guide" poll is April 7th.
    
    Anyone know an email address for NBC? I've seen them announce email
    addresses for some of their other shows, like Dateline...
    
    	Dave

>    Lest you get the impression that all sorts of people have been dropping
>    in for years .....

I think that this is one of the crypto-facets of the whole plot structure
for the show.  The Earth hierarchy HAS been using the planet for dumping
and lots of other stuff in ways generally not known.
There's the penal colony, there's the people who set up the biodome,
there was the holographic woman with her insane son....

Who else has there been?

- tom]

    The Tim Curry character....or is he part of the penal colony?  I missed
    some of his episodes.
    
    RS

    He was one of the dumped criminals.

    I was starting to wonder if it had been canceled,
    but I just saw an ad for next week's show...
    
    a 2 hour movie episode
    
    Dave

    
    funny, i was just going to enter a note to see if it was killed. Since
    it hasn't been on for two weeks. Sort of like Voyager and DS9 repeats.
    
    I wonder if the 2 hour show is a repeat of the opener.
    
    Dave
    

    No, it follows their recent episodes. The blurb showed it as winter,
    and them in desperate straits for food; if I remember correctly, the
    humans and the xxxx (the big ugly dumb aliens) were eying each other.
    
    Title was something like "The Hunger"
    
    Dave

    I saw a little more in the commercial.  It looks like Danziger is
    going to break down and kill the alien for food.  He is held back
    by everyone.  In the next scene the alien has True and Danziger is
    saying, no not her.
    
    RS

    Curious.  I have the TV Guide for next week, and it shows two one-hour
    episodes back-to-back, rather than a two-hour episode.

    Hi,  I enjoyed both episodes of Earth2 last night.  I do hope that it
    stays on the air.  Heck, they are still making new episodes of
    Seaquest and if that show can stay on the air, then Earth2 should be
    safe.    The show that ran from 8 till 9 really affected me, the
    senseless killing of the Grenline (sp?) was more than I could take. I
    was crying my eyes out during the last scene.  
    
    June  

    
    The show has been cancelled according to newsgroup info.
    
    Dave
    

    Weird - they keep Seaquest around but kill this one.
    
    I wonder how much of a surprise it was; I saw the actor that plays
    Danziger on an FX cable channel show recently plugging Earth 2.
    
    Dave

    
    -1
    
    odd thing about Seaquest is that Roy Schieder (sp?) will only be
    appearing in a few of the new episodes.That should really make 
    it a bore.
    
    Dave
    

    Regarding Seaquest...at a Star Trek convention I went to (I can't
    believe I'm admitting that in a public place!!!:):) ) there was a
    break out session on Seaquest.  The people hosting the breakout
    were people who work at Universal and know the actors.  They told
    us that the actors were not happy with the way the show was going..
    to corny.  The actors are not kept informed on what it is that they
    should be looking at (ie.  a lot of the effects are computer generated
    after the actors to their piece, therefore, sometimes they aren't
    acting properly scared or whatever, because they don't really know
    what they are reacting to.)  They are troubled by all the
    inconsistencies in the show and they feel that NBC is setting
    themselves up to fail.  Roy Schiender in particular is upset with
    everything.  The show was renewed and in the new season, Roy schiender
    will take on more of a producer's role.  He agreed to another
    season only if he had more control.  I think his input will make
    a real difference in the show.  I think the concept of the show is
    pretty good, but they have gone to far off on a tangent.
    
    Overall, the people had only nice things to say about all the actors.
    They (the actors) want to put out a good, entertaining, family type
    of show and they are hoping for support from the viewers.
    
    BAck to Earth 2, I'm really surprised they cancelled it.  I thought
    the people writing in managed to save it.
    
    RS

    re .57,.58
    
    I suppose the guy's name is spelled "Schneider". (I don't watch DSV
    myself.)
    
    re .-?
    
    Earth 2 is just about to start here i.e. first episode after the pilot
    movie. And you guys are cancelling it. Sheesh. Are we behind, or what?

    >I suppose the guy's name is spelled "Schneider". (I don't watch DSV
    >myself.)
    
    Actually, it's Scheider (although this spelling may also be suspect)-- 
    no "n".

    re: .59
    
    That's cute - do they really think a known truncated/unresolved story arc
    is going to be popular abroad??
    
    Is the word on the newsgroups that it has definitely been canceled?
    
    Annoyed,
    	Dave

    In celebration of the upcoming cancellation of the show, they aired
    quite an excellent episode last night!  Go figure.

    What happened?  I missed it.
    
    Thanks,
    RS

    Yeah, I thought it was kind of odd, too; "felt" like a season finale,
    but as I missed the first minutes don't know if it was billed as such.
    
    Nice cliffhanger, but annoying if it is really the last episode.
    
    Dave

    Ahem.......are you gonna let me in on it or do I have to cry in
    my cubie????? :):)   WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! :):)
    
    Thanks,
    RS

    
         OK, ok, ok. It's been two days, I'll be kind enough to give you
            a quick recap...
    
                                                           Mike.
    
         ...Warning: Spoilers follow for Earth 2...
    
    
    
         The show opens with the group burying one of the party members,
            seems they have all been sick since entering a canyon, and
            she was the first casualty.
    
         Later the group is deciding what needs to be done, Julia,
            the doctor can't figure out what could be causing the illness.
            Morgan, reacts in fear as usual, yells at Julia and leaves
            in a huff to a small field where he puts on his vr-gear and
            begins playing the drums. Flash, another person appears in the
            holo program and convinces Morgan to program the humvee to stop
            where an earth ship has crashed.
    
         They enter the ship to find several cryogenic chambers still
            running with people asleep inside. Morgan recognizes one of
            them, Bennet, as the man who came to him over the vr-gear.
    
         Later, the group is deciding what to do about the sleepers. Morgan
            sneaks into the caspule and activates the chambers to awaken
            the crew. Danzinger and Julia find Morgan as the chambers begin
            to cycle, out of the six only two awake, Bennet and his wife.
    
         It turns out that Bennet's wife is also a doctor and after doing
            a post mortem on the exumed body of the dead woman, the group
            learns that all of them had been implanted with some type of
            bio-chip that becomes part of the brain's sysnapses and can
            transmit the person's health status. We also learn that there
            is a sophisticated computer orbiting the planet that Bennet
            had created when they first arrived about 50 years ago.
    
         For reasons unknown Bennet infected the computer, Eve, with a
            virus that would cause it to self destruct in fifty years,
            of course Bennet had planned on being back on Earth when that
            happened, but Eve never sent them home. Now, the virus was
            causing feedback wich was effecting anyone with a bio-chip
            in them and only Bennet could upload the cure from the
            ship on the planet, which he wouldn't because of this incident
            that happened. It also, seems that Bennet programmed as part
            of the virus another personality into Eve, that of the council
            member that Julia had been taking to at the begining of the
            series.
    
         Bennet's health quickly fails from the suspended animation and
            dies. Julia manages to convince his wife to save them, she
            gives them the means to upload the patch to Eve only at great
            risk to Yale, who must navigate cyberspace to the correct
            files. Eve manages to open the files with Yale's help and
            the feedback disappears... Bennet's wife dies... Everyone is
            saved...
    
         Except for Devon who collapses in the final minutes of the show
            with her voice-over of how she had been ill for a long time
            and that she never had a bio-chip implanted... The final scenes
            are of spinning, groggy, dark, light shots as if we were
            looking through the eyes of Devon... Through the echos of the
            group we can her Julia saying she doesn't know what's wrong.
            You can tell that they are taking Devon somewhere and then a
            opaque cover surrounds her, the camera angle shifts to show
            that they have placed her in one of the cryo capsules and
            sent her into sleep...

    Mike,
    
    Thank you kind soul!!!! :)  
    
    Wow, it sounds like I missed a good one.  That sure doesn't
    sound like a finale of a show that isn't coming back.  Was that
    for sure their season finale?  
    
    RS

    
    I found this on the net about Earth 2 letter writing campaign to get it
    on UPN.

Article: 25594
From: [email protected] (July Siebecker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc
Subject: Attention Antonio Sabato fans
Date: 22 May 1995 01:21:05 -0400
Organization: Rutgers University
 
Hi - I know this is a little off topic, but I'm sure there are a bunch of
Antonio Sabato fans who are lurking around here, still missing the good ole
Jagger days (nice, BTW, that the GH writers had Robin think to call call him
when she was looking for Stone - gotta love GH's continuity, it's been so good
lately!). Anyway, I'm posting this (only once, I promise!) for all of you
who have been turning to Earth 2 to get your Antonio fix. You may or may not 
know that NBc has axed the show, but that UPN is considering picking it up. If
you'd like to see Antonio back on the tube on a regular basis this fall 
(because no, he's not going to be coming back to GH, it seems), you may get 
your wish from UPN - *if* they get enough letters in favor of the show! There's
a letter-writing campaign underway for this purpose; so if you'd like to 
take part, and get us all another season of Mr. Ohsofine on the air, here's the
info:
send a letter/postcard to
Michael Sullivan, President of Entertainment
UPN Broadcasting
Paramount Pictures
5555 Melrose Avenue
MOB 12000
Hollywood, CA 90038-3197
 
and write "Attention: Earth2" on the envelope/postcard front!
 
If you want more info about all this stuff, please feel free to email me!
 
July
Earth2 Foundations
 
PS: If you're really avid, multiple letters are fine, as are letters from 
friends, family, roommates, pets, strangers on the street, very small rocks...
:-)

    Yeah, there has been quite a bit of activity in alt.tv.earth2
    regarding getting someone else to pick it up or going into syndication.
    
    Apparently some folk have had conversations with UPN execs, and there
    is a chance that sufficient paper-mail input could influence them...
    
    Dave

....but with letters like the ones .-2 is asking for, maybe UPN will 
decide to pick up General Hospital....

    Saw another episode of Earth 2 last night; this appeared to be the
    episode the _should_ have played immediately before the season finale.
    
    It even went so far as to have trailers for the finale (two weeks ago).
    
    NBC must really hate this series, the way they've played episodes out
    of order, all the pre-emptions, etc etc... It never had a chance.
    
    For the first time ever, I'm going to send letters (to NBC, and UPN).
    
    Dave

    I saw parts of the show yesterday too.  It surprised me because it
    was on at 900pm instead of 6pm.  I found it by accident.  Since
    they showed previews, I wonder if they will go through with it and
    have it on next week.
    
    RS

    Earth 2's time slot was pre-empted Sunday by the 7th game of the NBA
    Eastern Conference finals.  It was broadcast on the east coast
    following the game, at 10 PM (instead of 7 PM).
    
    					andrew

    
    
    
    Earth 2 premiered here in the U.K last night on Sky and I loved it!!
    Just can't wait for more!!!
    
    Anyone anywhere else in the world still getting it?
    
    Chris
    :)

    re .74
    
    It started here in Oz around about the time of my note .59. I think
    that it is still showing here but I gave up after a few episodes.

    
    
    
    why did you give up??? It seems great to me so far...up to 4 episodes
    now I think.
    
    Chris
    :)

    re .76
    
    Too corny. Not enough S in the SF. It might as well have been called
    Earth 1. Sure there were some alien life forms but they were not much
    distinguishable from boogey monsters. It verged on being just another
    soapie, but with an unusual setting.