What is it? Maybe you posted it already but I must've missed it
I remember when I was looking at dumps of Lexx.......all the first season rips I found everywhere were really shitty (bad scene release that nobody ever got around to doing a proper I guess.....or maybe it's out there now, I dunno)..........anyway, I ended up just buying the DVD boxset at JB Hi-Fi.
I just stumbled across it one day when they were selling tv boxsets 3 for the price of 2, and they were mostly priced at $20au.
So I got Lexx (complete), Star Trek TOS S1 (remastered & enhanced), and Star Trek TNG S1 for $40au total.
Canadian tv?
6 years later and there's nothing else........not a good signOn April 18, 2006, CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) released The Complete First Season of The Sentinel on DVD in Region 1. It is unknown if the remaining 3 seasons will be released at some point.
We never got that here afaik (it looks like we're not on the wiki list either)......but it always possible it was on tv here (even if it was just on pay tv later on).
It took me a while to find rips of all the TekWar stuff (never got to watch it before I grabbed it myself), but what I ended up with is reasonable enough (it's not a great show anyway).
I remember some of those shows.
Dude, I just found a review of this show on somethingawful.com
Dated Saturday, November 27, 2010
The late 90's were a magical time for vaguely science-fictiony television shows with generic bad guys shooting submachine guns in a near-future utopia. Well, the last part probably wasn't intentional, but since these shows were set in the U.S. and filmed in Canada, everything seemed futuristic and idyllic by virtue of being clean.
For my money, the shining standard of this sort of show was The Sentinel, which ran from 1996 to 1999, and can currently be caught on cable tv at the precise time in the mid-morning that should make any adult feel like an asshole for watching television.Jim can basically use all five of his senses with way more effectiveness than a normal person. Distant objects can be seen with startling clarity (this was before HD shades came out so it was a big deal), heartbeats can be heard through walls, and pizza tastes incredible.Blair is such a 90's dude. He's smart and fairly clean shaven and can't fight, but he's got a grungy side because he has long (pretty) hair, wears leather jackets and shell necklaces, and occasionally ties sweaters around his waist.Imagine what a captain would be like on a show like this. There, you're absolutely right. Banks gets mad at Blair and Jim. He yells when things go wrong, he demands results in impossible timeframes, he threatens to pull people off of cases.
He's also a nice guy, though, as is evident when he puffs on a cigar and laughs, or when he does his best half-hearted "why I oughta" expression at the end of an episode when one of the guys teases him as they walk away from a crime scene, dozens of bad guy corpses in their wake.As if things weren't convoluted enough, the limits of Jim's powers were continually expanded upon as the series went on. At one point they decided that he needed the ability to talk to ghosts (suck it, Jennifer Love Hewitt), chill out with a spirit animal in the form of a jaguar, and bring people back to life.
I suppose it's a good thing that the series only lasted three and a half seasons. It was oddly fun while it lasted, but if the series had stuck around for a few more years I'm sure Jim and Blair would have been battling the Taliban (guys in shades shooting uzis) by traveling through time and shrinking to microscopic sizes.
Actually, nevermind. It's a shame the show ended when it did.![]()
I have Shangri-La ready to dump.