Distraction

[vanillafluffy]

Sat through a couple eps of The Burning Zone this evening as a palliative for the teeth (my lower left jaw is all kinds of unhappy). Figured squeeing might contribute a few useful endorphins to the cause.

In the first one I watched, a group called the Gethsemane Project was dispatching death row inmates with pseudo-lethal injections so they could bring back messages from "The Other Side". The Other Side was actually a Hellmouth and the resurrected inmates were possessed. (The deja vu was beyond ironic!) Marcase ended up temporarily dead, thereby giving JDM a perfect score, as far as I can tell.

The second ep was the one with Nicholas Lea as the leader of a healing cult who communed with serpents---eeevil, naturally.

When I originally watched TBZ at the time it first aired, I thought of it as an X-Files/Outbreak hybrid---disease of the week meets monster of the week. Having seen a half-dozen eps within the last couple of weeks, I'm noticing religious undertones that I was oblivious to the first time. Not surprising, given that executive producer Coleman Luck was also a coproducer on Six: the Mark Unleashed---quite possibly the ONLY entry in the genre "Christian Action movies". (Trust me, the ONLY reason to watch it is large doses of JDM, including a few tasty torture sequences. Yes, I am a twisted sister!) However, aside from the dated cheesiness of some of the f/x, Burning Zone works as entertainment.

Now if only they'd release it on DVD.

Comments

[jdsgirlbev.livejournal.com]

Sorry about your teeth. :( Mine are giving me hell too....

I believe (though I may be wrong) TBZ is out on DVD, but is expensive...65 or 70 bucks. I'd dearly LOVE to have it

And Six? With the exception, as you say, of Jeff, SUCKED!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

JDM can now put "dead every time" on his resume' as an acting skill. I recorded those and will have to catch them after work today.

[starhawk2005.livejournal.com]

Marcase ended up temporarily dead, thereby giving JDM a perfect score, as far as I can tell.

*snort* Well, they always say, stick with what you know...and JDM has said he knows how to die. ;)

Man, they need to release this on DVD so I can see it...

Having seen a half-dozen eps within the last couple of weeks, I'm noticing religious undertones that I was oblivious to the first time.

Yeah, I seem to recall that's why JDM apparently left the show (and temporarily crippled his career) was a disagreement between him and the producers about the spiritual component. I think they wanted to take it out, and he disagreed.

Coleman Luck was also a coproducer on Six: the Mark Unleashed---quite possibly the ONLY entry in the genre "Christian Action movies". (Trust me, the ONLY reason to watch it is large doses of JDM, including a few tasty torture sequences. Yes, I am a twisted sister!)

*nods* JDM sure is tasty in Six (he's one of the few guys I fangirl whom I can stand in a beard), but yeah, I have to fast-forward through the 'sermonizing'. :)