Good
Thing, Bad Thing > In Dino Veritas!
Date: 09/22/2000
From: Blinker
Ladies and gentlemen of the 'Time Again and World' crowd, step forward if you please...• DoctorQuinn wins the Best of Ice-T!
• EustiSlider and ThomasMalthus win models of Constitution-class starships!
• TemporalFlux wins a Jacob Epstein punching bag, and a competently produced Sliders video cover!
• Vigeant wins a government office!
• Slider_Quinn21 wins a vacuum cleaner!
• FogBoy wins a tape of a Sci-Fi Channel 'Earth 2' marathon!
• JorgeCis wins a Wallace & Gromit DVD, featuring 'A Close Shave'!
• dellyone wins a free Quickening. Remember... there can be only *one* per customer!The GOLD STAR for Thursday is herewith awarded to Tf. Thanks for the scoop!
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"In Dino Veritas." What was good in this ep, and what was bad? Let's see what our panel of experts have to say.
BLINKER: The good -- those wacky truth collars. One of the best running gags our favourite series has invented. The bad -- having to WEAR those wacky truth collars for today's segment.
[ZZZAP]
BLINKER: OWW!! Hey, it's TRUE!!!
SYNTHIA: Ennh... the collar disagrees with you. Now, my bad thing is the utter lack of LIGHTING. This show felt like it was shot in someone's basement, at midnight, with the lens cap on. My good thing? Uhhh... hmm. Er... how about the dino F/X! Yeah, they were TOTALLY better than the old stop-motion tricks... and... um... the allosaurus in motion looked NOTHING like it was having an epileptic seizure!
BLINKER: Kinda like you're doing now.
SYNTHIA: Damn... these... truth collars!!!
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What're YOUR good things and bad things?
- Blinker 7:-P
http://welcome.to/gate_haven"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start to the top." -- O.J. "I didn't do it" Simpson.
Good
vs. Bad
Date: 09/22/2000
From: TemporalFlux
Good Thing - Building up a decent reason and story for Jerry's abscence while he filmed Joe's Apartment (unlike "Asylum" where the excuse story for Jerry was weak while he was filming Can't Hardly Wait).Bad Thing - The severed dinosaur arm in the vortex at the end. It was so bad that the film editors refused to put it in there...and so it ended up on the gag reel only.
Tf
temporalflux@hotmail.com
http://www.dimensionofcontinuity.com
*Sniff*
Date: 09/22/2000
From: DoctorQuinn
I wanted the truth collars! And I missed the episode too!!!
Forgive any errors.
Good thing- Wade falling into that egg. Her face looked like mine when somebody bit my arm yesterday.Bad thing- The ranger girl. <shudders>
GvB
Date: 09/22/2000
From: mindflux
Good- Truth collars, interesting story device though unnecessary.Bad- Beginning of the movie episodes!
Good
thing Bad Thing..
Date: 09/22/2000
From: Vigeant
That's the question isn't it?*Dr. Blinkster injects late-S3 lover virus*
Good Thing: Well, I like Dinosaurs.
Bad Thing: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Why aren't they mutants sent by a gigantic robot vampire that is trying rule the universe??????
Vigeant
http://insane.50megs.com"My NaMe Is ToRgO I tAkE cArE oF tHe PlAcE wHiLe ThE mAsTeR iS aWay."
MSTIE
much Vigeant?? <end>
Date: 09/22/2000
From: mindflux
lol
Good
thing bad thing!!!!!
Date: 09/22/2000
From: Slider_Quinn21
Good Thing-Great idea with the necklaces...Bad Thing-No Geraldo(I would've wanted to see that)
The
Wrong Dinosaur
Date: 09/22/2000
From: FogBoy
The Good: Dinosaurs am cool.The Bad: The knowledge that Torme's supposed 'wrong Arturo' plot is pretty much rendered moot by the fact that this was supposed to immediately follow PTSS, and this Arturo makes a number of speeches about the past of his relationship with Quinn that just wouldn't gel with the bad guy.
In other words, it's a god damn load.
Sic
semper tyrannosaurus rex!!!
Date: 09/22/2000
From: ThomasMalthus
Here's my take on "In Dino Veritas"Good Thing: Cleavant, Sabrina and JRD get to strut their stuff in a virtually Jerry-less ep.
Bad Thing: That ranger lady looks EXACTLY like Mariska Hargitay! I swear after I watched the episode again I had to go look on the Internet Movie Database, and I absolutely knew it was her, but it's not listed in the TV episodes she guested in. (If you don't know, Mariska Hargitay is the daughter of Jayne Mansfield and the star of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit".) And then I realized what Clinton/Gore have been trying to cover up with all the sex scandals: a secret Mariska Hargitay cloning project. Be afraid, be very afraid.
And I don't like Mariska Hargitay.
ThomasMalthus
Okay
then .
Date: 09/22/2000
From: Stax_
Good thing - It's hard to pick between all the great aspects involved it this episode . 1. Wade . When she says " I'm sick of you worrying about poor little Wade " or words to that effect I just wanted to jump into the television and hug her . They same way I wanted to smack Roert Floyd in Strangers and Comrades . 2. The shot of Remmy standing still as the camera swoops around to reveal the dinosaur feet away . 3 . The poacher justifying the killing of dinosaurs as the ranger argues against him . It fleshed out the world well as most of the action took place in a cave . 4. The dinosaur was NOT a Tyrannosaurus Rex which unfortunately leads to the bad .Bad things - Human beings would never have evolved in a world where dinosaur remained prominent . Also over the 65 million years or more since dinosaurs went extinct on our Earth they would have evolved into what they evolved into here , birds . Of course I don't know this subject very well and if there is anything I learned from physics , chemistry and biology classes is that never make assumptions with science . So my nit-pick may not atually be a nit-pick .stax
G
vs. B
Date: 09/22/2000
From: sliderules
here we go!Good Thing: The incredible dinosaur effects in this episode which in my mind rivaled the effects found in such TV effect magnets like Hercules and Xena.
Bad Thing: The ending of this episode should have corresponded with the beginning of PTSS since the beginning of PTSS had dinos in it too.
Til next time peeps.
sliderules
"Dinosaurs are cool, but cleaning up after their "mess" isn't."
There's
good and there's bad.
Date: 09/22/2000
From: EustiSlider
The Good: Hologram technology. You can project an image of yourself, make it talk, and even see what it sees. Man, that would have come in handy in college.The Bad: How can you lose the timer? Knowing how important that thing is, I'd have it sewn into my skin to avoid losing it.
--Eusti
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