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chrystallineThe other week, while staring at the tiny little listings at the bottom of the TVguide channel (which used to be readable, until they decided to make it a channel first and listings second) I saw a familiar name. Chris Potter, whom I used to watch in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. (Does anyone know if that's still airing anywhere? If there are any plans to release it on DVD? Or does anyone have it on DL? My tapes are gone and I can't find it anywhere) Yes, I know, KFTLC is not scifi, though an argument could be made for fantasy, what with all the mysticism in it.
At any rate, he was starring in Arachnid on the SciFi channel, so, despite the fact that I passionately hate spiders and have had nightmares about them in the past, I decided to watch that.
Technically, there were some problems. The audio mix made it next to impossible to make out some of the dialogue, especially when the hispanic characters were speaking. The island in question was not visible in the introductory long shot, which made it rather puzzling when the pilot ejected from his damaged plane and landed in the trees on an island that hadn't been there a moment before. Plotwise, they failed to answer some of the questions they raised, like where the monster spiders came from or what caused the planes to lose power and crash. It looked kind of like an alien spaceship/alternate dimension thing, but really, they left it ambiguous. Hoping to make a sequel, maybe? Also not sure why the pilot didn't see the huge waterspout before he ran into it.
Despite that, it was better than your average B movie (I know, I know, faint praise and all that). The characters were more believable, and there was not quite as much unreasoning histrionics as the average scare-you-to-death critter movie. I admit, I was surprised that one of the redshirt Random Villagers ended up surviving the whole thing. There were shades of Alien, and it was eminently MSTable, but like I said, better than average. It's no Star Trek, but when there's nothing on, it's entertaining, especially if you like to see Chris Potter characters get Whumped.
At any rate, he was starring in Arachnid on the SciFi channel, so, despite the fact that I passionately hate spiders and have had nightmares about them in the past, I decided to watch that.
Technically, there were some problems. The audio mix made it next to impossible to make out some of the dialogue, especially when the hispanic characters were speaking. The island in question was not visible in the introductory long shot, which made it rather puzzling when the pilot ejected from his damaged plane and landed in the trees on an island that hadn't been there a moment before. Plotwise, they failed to answer some of the questions they raised, like where the monster spiders came from or what caused the planes to lose power and crash. It looked kind of like an alien spaceship/alternate dimension thing, but really, they left it ambiguous. Hoping to make a sequel, maybe? Also not sure why the pilot didn't see the huge waterspout before he ran into it.
Despite that, it was better than your average B movie (I know, I know, faint praise and all that). The characters were more believable, and there was not quite as much unreasoning histrionics as the average scare-you-to-death critter movie. I admit, I was surprised that one of the redshirt Random Villagers ended up surviving the whole thing. There were shades of Alien, and it was eminently MSTable, but like I said, better than average. It's no Star Trek, but when there's nothing on, it's entertaining, especially if you like to see Chris Potter characters get Whumped.