Comet TV thread

[Vandervecken]

Anyone else sometimes watching Comet? They've been showing the old and 90s Outer Limits, and also all the Stargate stuff. I don't care about Stargate but glad to see the 90s Outer Limits around. Just saw the Camp (season 3, 1997). I'd forgotten this guy (David Hemblen) as a humanoid robot. He really defined creepy-cold, the way he kept his face slack was the best I've seen, but also his speech wasn't all robotic stuff, and that was interesting. So he'd say things in that dead inflection like "humans rarely look me in the eye" as she is asking him about eye color. The scene where the main character (a woman prisoner) has his fake skin opened up showing half his robotic face as she repairs his eye, is really really well done. It's also a little hard to watch.

http://www.comettv.com/

Corey Burton as the voice of Brainiac in the animated Justice League was usually my idea of the chilliest machine voice I've ever heard an actor do, but I have to admit Hemblen is even chillier.

 

[Greg Cox]

I recently discovered Comet and have been enjoying their selection of old, often obscure sci-fi and horror movies. My one complaint is that, boy, they really go out of their way to blur any trace of nudity; in instance, they even blurred out the nude paintings in an art gallery scene!

 

[Vandervecken]

I recently discovered Comet and have been enjoying their selection of old, often obscure sci-fi and horror movies. My one complaint is that, boy, they really go out of their way to blur any trace of nudity; in instance, they even blurred out the nude paintings in an art gallery scene!

Oh From Beyond is on in half an hour--Haven't seen that in years. Combs, Combs, Combs!

 

[publiusr]

One thing that I would like to see (they'd have to have the rights to everything--is to have a host play different programs with related themes. The host might introduce Mr. Ring: http://akolchakaday.blogspot.com/2012/01/episode-12-mr-ring.html
Then have the episode shown in the thread above with David Hemblen. Finally you play The Terminator.

All to show progression of robotics over time in an ethereal way.

 

[Greg Cox]

"Vampire on Bikini Beach" was pretty unwatchable, but I liked "Pale Blood," which was a noirish vampire-detective movie they've been airing.

 

[Vandervecken]

"Vampire on Bikini Beach" was pretty unwatchable, but I liked "Pale Blood," which was a noirish vampire-detective movie they've been airing.

Ah they do show some strange stuff. I meant to watch what they are calling "Blast Off" (which is actually Those Fantastic Flying Fools or Rocket to the Moon, Blast Off is an earlier movie by 10 years) but missed it, but the great thing about Comet is you get many more chances.

I think I have heard of Pale Blood...I may have seen it a while ago I am not sure. I like noir.

The Last Man on Earth has been showing. Ok, that scene at the big pit with the burning bodies (in the flashback part of the movie), and all the trucks around and the men throwing the bodies in, with the slopes of the pit visible and burning bodies on every level, and Price running all over the place, has got to be one of the most masterful visions of a hell on earth that I have ever seen. In the darkness it is far more terrifying and horrifying than, say, the zombies in the quarry in The Walking Dead. The movie in its entirety is only ok, but often atmospheric; but this scene?...whoa.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I don't think I have it. Looks like it's a sub-channel of WMFP, which used to be Cozi, but recently switched to religious programming, but I don't see any corresponding cable channel. Too bad. Sounds like they show some pretty cool B-movies (except for the blurring ).

 

[Vandervecken]

I don't think I have it. Looks like it's a sub-channel of WMFP, which used to be Cozi, but recently switched to religious programming, but I don't see any corresponding cable channel. Too bad. Sounds like they show some pretty cool B-movies (except for the blurring ).

I was able to get Comet over the air at one time (it didn't go away, I just stopped using an antenna), so maybe you can too, although I am getting it on Comcast now (it's on the MOST basic subscription level, local, which is all I get, just $16 more on top of my Internet, which I use for everything else. Naturally I have Netflix too, gotta have my Trek when I want, but that's cheap as dirt). Cozi is also there but that wouldn't prevent Comet from being a subchannel would it? They do have different owners though, Cozi NBC, Comet Sinclair.

Aside: I hate getting soaked for Internet by Comcast, but it's pretty much them or nothing. There's Exede around here (the Pine Barrens in NJ), but they are over the air of course, and so, much less reliable, and they are too slow anyway. So Comcast has me over a barrel on that. I can get whatever they have on premium channels by other means, which I am not going to describe here, but for Internet I have zero choice but ugh Comcast. Bleh.

I wish Comet would ditch all the damn Stargate and get some other stuff though...hey Comet maybe Syfy will sell you G v E, Lexx, First Wave, etc! Just please, please, PLEASE no Farscape!

Or some bright boy there could read THIS thread and get some really cool ideas:

http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/overlooked-underrated-sci-fi-fantasy-tv-series.282513/#post-11681582

 

[Greg Cox]

To be honest, I'm growing disenchanted with Comet. They're showing lots of esoteric stuff, but they also seem to cut the hell out of them. It's not just the blur-crazy campaign against any trace of nudity (saw another movie the other night where they blurred a painting in the background), but they also seem to cut out entire scenes and sequences.

I was watching a movie the other night that struck me as disjointed and borderline incoherent. Curious, I looked it up on-line and discovered that Comet had apparently deleted whole scenes, some of them containing major plot points. ("Wait. There was a fight with a robot? There was a prophecy from an oracle?")

And this wasn't the first time where on-line reviews and synopses mentioned scenes that Comet didn't air. ("Wait, there's an LSD trip sequence? So that's why the heroine looked so disoriented in that next scene?")

 

[marillion]

We don't have it yet either, but I'm told it's coming soon. The way it's being advertised gives off the impression that it's an old UHF channel that, instead of showing bad transfers of old sit-coms, shows old sci-fi shows. I'll be interested to tune in, but it's disconcerting if they are really splicing and dicing some of these old classic shows.

 

[Greg Cox]

We don't have it yet either, but I'm told it's coming soon. The way it's being advertised gives off the impression that it's an old UHF channel that, instead of showing bad transfers of old sit-coms, shows old sci-fi shows. I'll be interested to tune in, but it's disconcerting if they are really splicing and dicing some of these old classic shows.

I don't know about the shows, like THE OUTER LIMITS or one of the STARGATES. They also show a lot of old sci-f and horror movies, which are what I've been watching.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The blurring and the cutting makes my enthusiasm dwindle, but I suppose it's a good way to preview movies-- if I saw something that looked good, I could always get the DVD.

I was able to get Comet over the air at one time (it didn't go away, I just stopped using an antenna), so maybe you can too, although I am getting it on Comcast now (it's on the MOST basic subscription level, local, which is all I get, just $16 more on top of my Internet, which I use for everything else.

I'll look around, maybe I do have it. They just moved MeTV up the dial closer to Decades, leaving MeTV's old channel unoccupied. Maybe Comet will go there at some point.

Aside: I hate getting soaked for Internet by Comcast, but it's pretty much them or nothing.

Same here. I'm not a big fan of Comcast.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Not necessarily convenient for everyone but wanted to note that you can watch Comet TV through their website even if you don't get the channel on your cable or OTA.

http://www.comettv.com/watch-live/

 

[Greg Cox]

And I forget to mention that they mute out any "bad" language as well.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

And I forget to mention that they mute out any "bad" language as well.

Sounds like most OTA channels.

 

[Greg Cox]

Sounds like most OTA channels.

OTA?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

over the air

 

[Greg Cox]

over the air

Ah, thanks.

 

[Vandervecken]

I was watching Sundance and they changed "fucking" to something else, I forgot what. Sundance! When did that happen?

Not necessarily convenient for everyone but wanted to note that you can watch Comet TV through their website even if you don't get the channel on your cable or OTA.

http://www.comettv.com/watch-live/

No I think you have to be a cable subscriber for that.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

No I think you have to be a cable subscriber for that.

Works from my locked down work PC so I don't think so. I don't get Comet TV so I don't think even some hidden back door login would make a difference.