And I agree with TS’s view. It took until the 3rd last episode of the 1st season (where Jackson goes to an alternate reality which Earth is being ransacked which affects the season finale in the current reality)

But I agree with Jammer too, there is too much TV and too little time. Ive never watched The Shield, Homicide, CSI, and countless others. I simply dont have the time.

Eduardo: You should give SG-1 a shot, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. The thing is, the first half of the first season is mostly… bad. But the show found it’s footing pretty quickly, especially compared to other shows like TNG or even DS9. It’s worth a look.

There are plenty of holes I’m able to overlook. The only thing that bothers me are some of the arbitrary character deaths, and the fact that you can predict every inch of the plot to the point where act 2 ends and act 3 begins. It’s that hammy.

Woody Harrelson keeps most of the first act funny and watchable though.

Emmerich made the disaster film to end all disaster films. And he already said he doesn’t plan on getting back to this genre again, despite rumors of an ID4 sequel.

I actually enjoyed the Stargate film. Russell and Spader fit the story well. Can’t comment on the show, since I only saw the original pilot, and nothing else. And I loved Independence Day. I still do to this day, because it had a great music score, terrific design of alien craft, and it put comedic characters who made the story feel less serious.

Universe seems like a darker show. Like it’s a parallel with Battlestar Galactica. The original series was a light action show. This new one seems more like a dark drama.

I liked The Day After Tomorrow too. It’s silly, to be sure, but I’d say that it’s one of the best overwrought disaster movies made since the 1970s. The real bottom of the barrel for Emmerich, though, is surely 10,000 BC, a sort of mismash of previous Emmerich movies with paper thin characters and a thinner story.

No thanks, I’ll pass. Disaster movies usually bore me because I can see all the plot twists coming from miles away.

Funnily enough, my husband and I quite enjoyed Emmerich’s Godzilla. For one thing because it starred Jean Reno being awesome! And because I’m no Japanese B-Movie Rubbersuit Godzilla purist, so I didn’t give a damn if this big lizard was “faithful” to those old lame movies or not. Hey, it was a giant T-Rex stomping through New York! So what? At least it didn’t spit lightning and wrestle with a giant alien moth. And I liked the characters (ok, except for the two annoyingly stupid reporters).

But I have the suspicion that I know exactly why the movie flopped in the USA: Because it wasn’t about a bunch of American Marines let by a quirky scientist saving the world from Godzilla, but about a group of French Secret Service agents advised by a Greek biologist (Dr. Niko Tatopoulus) saving New York from Godzilla. And making snide remarks about undrinkable American coffee. That must’ve bruised some “patriotic” egos.

In fact, I once saw comments on an internet forum where some poster was in a huge snit about the way the American soldiers in the movie were shown to be “useless”, as he called it. Because they didn’t manage to blow the shit out of Godzilla with their weapons. Nevermind that military weapons never stopped the Japanese Godzilla either…