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Weekly DVD Picks - Tuesday, July 19, 2005
posted July 16 2005, 11:15 am by fiziko

Category: DVD This was a bit of an odd week. See for yourself.

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First, the genre releases:

Surprisingly enough, this is actually a small week in general. I didn't see anything non-genre on the release schedule that caught my eye.

Finally, the pick of the week. Earth 2 - The Complete Series: This was an enjoyable show. The first half of the season was great, but when Spielberg left, things took a very sharp turn into the bizarre. Be warned: it ended with a cliffhanger.



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Earth 2
posted by y42 on July 16 2005, 11:24 am
Finally, the pick of the week. Earth 2 - The Complete Series: This was an enjoyable show.
Really? I only liked the first half of the pilot. Then it turned into Dr Quinn... in SPACE! And it was a sharp downhill tumble for the rest of the series.

Noble savages helping the downtrodden pioneers... *yawn*.


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Cleopatra 2525
posted by pythor on July 16 2005, 1:50 pm
Pretty campy. Think of Xena, only in a Cyberpunk futuristic setting. I din't see that many episodes myself, though, so there may have been some redeeming qualities that I didn't notice.

What I saw was good enough that I'll pick it up when I've got the chance, but more on the strength of Gina's involvement than what I saw on the screen. I've made an effort to support anything I can find with the Firefly's cast in it.


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pluggedy plug plugging
posted by y42 on July 16 2005, 2:55 pm
I've made an effort to support anything I can find with the Firefly's cast in it.
The Inside, on (*cringe*) Fox (may their scheduling VPs burn in hell), starring Adam "Jayne" Baldwin, and with some heavy Firefly writing and producing background.

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Re: Cleopatra 2525
posted by Vesh on July 19 2005, 1:03 pm
Pretty campy. Think of Xena, only in a Cyberpunk futuristic setting. I din't see that many episodes myself, though, so there may have been some redeeming qualities that I didn't notice.

It was a silly show that a lot of people couldn't seem to adapt to. Xena's actually a fairly good comparison if you just consider the exceptionally quirky episodes. I liked it, but I took it for what it was: a campy little guilty-pleasure low-budget post-apocalyptic serial like something we would have written when we were 8 years old or so. That's actually not a bad thing if you're not prudish.

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