Distraction
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vanillafluffySat 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-08-09 05:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-09 05:16 pm (UTC)I discovered that some kind soul has put lots of JDM's turn as Denny Duquette on "Gray's Anatomy" on YouTube and I watched bits of it the other day. In the pivotal scene in which Denny lets his doctor know exactly what his illness had cost him, he refers to himself as a "big, virile, horse of a man." Made me weak in the knees, it did.
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Date: 2007-08-09 05:26 pm (UTC)