I finished Dark Skies TV series, now starting Space Above And Beyond
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I do but when a show concept is especially stupid even to a non-expert it tends to cloud my enjoyment a little.
I still rate it as one of the best Sci Fi shows ever though despite that flaw.
They did the same thing with Inferno Squad in Star Wars: Battlefront II, they were a special forces squad who also flew starfighters. I think that was just for gameplay reasons, because they wanted you to be able to go back and forth between ground based first person shooter gameplay and starfighter combat.
If it's baked into the story/game i'm ok with it.
With Space 2063 they didn't even make the effort and it would have been easy to do. They spend half the pilot training them as aviators, they could have expanded them and be shown to also train in ground combat and make specific mention as this being a special project by the Marine Corps to have a hybrid warfare unit.
But enough of that, it is what it is. Space 2063 still stands out as one hell of a show and probably the first show that could do simple action episodes as well as good and thoughtful character drama.
I really choked up in the finale when the team was ripped apart, that's always a good sign when a show makes you care about the characters.
She came across a little bit like Seven despite it being a different show. I think she was still doing Voyager when she joined Dark Skies.
Really, I thought it was pre Voyager?
I love SAAB, the last episode still hurts
You don't have to get very analytical to realize that top guns and grunts -- or top guns and special forces -- are separate groups with separate skill sets. You don't see cop shows where the main characters spend half their time working as beat cops and the other half as ER doctors.
I watched the show during its original run but haven't seen it since. At the time, the whole pilots or grunts thing annoyed me, but I also thought a couple of characters were woefully miscast and the show was trying to do too much too fast. I bought the first novelization at the time but still haven't gotten around to reading it.
As for comparing it to new Galactica, I don't think S:AAB ever got near the heights Galactica briefly reached, but it never sank to Galactica's depths, either.
I watched the show during its original run but haven't seen it since. At the time, the whole pilots or grunts thing annoyed me, but I also thought a couple of characters were woefully miscast and the show was trying to do too much too fast. I bought the first novelization at the time but still haven't gotten around to reading it.
As for comparing it to new Galactica, I don't think S:AAB ever got near the heights Galactica briefly reached, but it never sank to Galactica's depths, either.
She was cast as Seven right after DARK SKIES was canceled. (It ended in May of 1997... season 4 of VOY began in September of 1997.)
Oh ok well maybe the mannerisms came from Dark Skies because there were a lot of times I thought she was doing 7 playing Juliet
It's quite possible she was cast because of how she portrayed Juliet.
I know Jeri Taylor herself asked her a couple times before Jeri Ryan agreed to play Seven... maybe she caught an episode of DARK SKIES with Juliet and the light bulb in her head turned on.