Tremors Show On TODAY

Very warm spot in my heart for the three Tremors movies. Hoping the prequel and tv series continue the tradition and have a few more people get eaten.

I love the series....and from the commercials it looks like the shows going to be just as much stupid campy fun. Can't wait for this.

Plus, I saw Christopher Lloyd in one of the ads. Christopher Lloyd!

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I will be watching tonight. Please let there be a decent script...

It starts out with a guy being eating by a graboid and another guy being chased by one and what do you know, Burt comes to the rescue. I like it.

Well that sucked.

Stupid dialog, terrible characters, and what was with that crappy camerawork whenever there was a graboid? Trying to hide the fact they look fake or something?

Not even gonna bother watching the second...sorry christopher lloyd..

I like the begining but now I agree with Con somewhat. I'm watching the second one anyway to see if it's worse which it looks as if it will be. They have some wierd green crap that floats in the air and kills people. What exactly does that have to do with graboids?

I'm also watching it for the sake for of Christopher Lloyd, you never know, he might make the episode good.

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Yeah, just spent two hours watching a TV show that negated everything the first film established which was: fantastic, witty characters, great FX, and monsters that were supposedly throwbacks to the prehistoric era.

Now we've got: awful, annoying characters, bad FX (anyone see the arm working the graboid tongue puppet?), and now your usual rip-off of the 'X-Files' and 'Evolution.' Graboids are goverment experiments? What? Mix Master? What?!

I'll watch the next few episodes, if I have some free time on my hands.

Here's hoping that "Tremors 4" is worth a damn...

The Asian girl has got to go. God, she is annoying. She recites every line of dialogue like she's in one of those old Calgon commericials.

Calgon, Please Take Her Away!!!

I suspect there are a whole lot of pissed off people at home tonight saying, THEY CANCELLED FARSCAPE FOR THIS?!?!

Actually Lela Lee is a lot less annoying as Jodi than Susan Chuang was in the third movie.

Reason I won't be watching?

No Ariana Richards.

Tremors without Bacon, Ward, or "Mindy" just ain't Tremors to me...

I liked the debut episodes. It's gonna be great to be able to see Burt going on new adventures every Friday. (Not too thrilled about the fact that it's on Fridays, though. Any night but Friday...) I liked the new characters and the re-casts, too. The actress playing Jodi Chang is better than the one in Tremors 3, and Mrs. Kotter's Nancy is more fun that the Nancy of the movies was. Tyler Reed was a better character than I expected him to be, based on the character description and his NASCAR past I was expecting him to be straight out of the Dukes of Hazzard.

The only problem I have with the series so far is that the episodes are being shown out of order. It's already caused some confusion. The first episode, Feeding Frenzy, was supposed to be the first episode, but the second episode, Ghost Dance, is really the sixth. It was supposed to be Christopher Lloyd's second appearance in the series, and there are references to MixMaster and Project 4-12, things from the episode called Project 4-12 that we won't even see until some time after April 11th.

Another annoyance was Bradford May's direction of Feeding Frenzy. I didn't like his sped-up shakey cam with crazy zooms style.

It was never said that the graboids are government experiments. The underground lab and the other things going on in Perfection have nothing to do with the origin of the graboids.

Next week's episode, Night of the Shriekers, looks to be pretty good. From the preview it looks like it will guest star the great Melinda "Mindy" Clarke.

Hopefully the next episode will be good since it will actually have to do with graboids. I know I will be watching just because Scare Tactics is on right after and I don't want to forget.

I've only had a chance to watch the first episode so far and it was okay but damn are some of the new characters annoying. Ditch the shrill Asian girl and the woman with the body of a showgirl and the face of a Latin Bea Arthur because both of them are terrible.

I still think this is going to be an impossible premise to stretch out for any extended period of time especially with that set of characters.

Well, now that I know that the episodes are out of order I'll stop assuming then, huh? I thought Lloyd was referring to the graboids as projects 4-12 or whatever.

I'll bite my tongue next time (and probably pay more attention).

Like I said, there's a lot of room for improvement on this show but I'll stick it out to see the monsters.

I gave it about 25 minutes of my time. Roughly, the span between the first two commercial breaks.

Now I know how my parents must've felt when I insisted on watching Dukes of Hazard every Friday night when I was a kid.

The acting felt like Thunderbirds without the strings, the special effects felt like Thunderbirds WITH the strings, and the "series-stretching" setups were so predictable and hackneyed I felt like the worlds greatest psychic: I could already tell where "sweeps week" episodes and season (series) finales were going to go.

Believe it or not, I only watched because someone (playing devil's advocate) reminded me, when I suggested that there was no way a series based on Tremors could sustain itself, that a lot of people thought a show called Buffy the Vampire Slayer couldn't sustain itself either. Seven years later...you get the drill. So, to be even-minded, I gave it a shot.

I missed a nightly Simpsons rerun for this? Somebody let me know when Fred Ward shows up as a ratings-boosting guest star so I can watch again and remind myself why I don't.

Jamiepoole is right. This, unfortunately, happens all the time. Especially with shows the network might not have a lot of faith in.

Look at Firefly (another Friday night fizzle), they showed the first episode of that one LAST as a "flashback" episode. If the suits feel that the show is weak, they might select any given episode that they feel has something going for it (like Jamie said, one with some action in it) to play earlier in the schedule than it was supposed to as a sort of "life saving" tactic.

It happens a lot more often than you think and there were even rumors that a recent episode of Alias was somehow restructured to be shown at a later time so that the kick-ass "superbowl" episode could run that week instead of the one that was originally scheduled to run in continuity. (I don't know how that worked or if it's even true, they would've had to have re-shot the bulk of the episode to accommodate the massive restructuring that had happened in the episode shown after the superbowl. But if it's true it's just another example of how often and seemingly "acceptable" this practice is.)

Here's the list of episode titles, in the correct order, for the whole season (got this from a post on Stampede Entertainment's message board):

1 Feeding Frenzy
2 Shriek and Destroy
3 Blast From the Past
4 Hit and Run
5 Project 4-12
6 Ghost Dance
7 Night of the Shriekers
8 A Little Paranoia Among Friends
9 Flora or Fauna
10 Graboid Rights
11 Water Hazard
12 The Sounds of Silence
13 The Key

and from Fangoria, here are details of the "first 7 episodes to be aired" (or so they thought at the time)-

• “Feeding Frenzy,” written by S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock and Nancy Roberts, directed by Bradford May, airing March 28: The residents of Perfection, Nevada try to determine why resident (and government-protected) graboid “El Blanco” has become especially hungry and vicious.

• “Ghost Dance,” written by Wilson and Maddock, directed by Whitney Ransick, airing March 28: Cletus (Christopher Lloyd), an old friend of Burt Gummer (Michael Gross), helps Burt stop a menace that is sucking the life out of Perfection’s visitors.

• “Night of the Shriekers,” written by John Schulian, Maddock and Wilson, directed by P.J. Pesce, airing April 4: When the government tries to domesticate the two-legged creatures as rescue animals, things inevitably go very wrong.

• “Blast from the Past,” written by Babs Greyhosky from a story by Maddock and Wilson, directed by Michael Shapiro, airing April 11: The death of a hang glider heralds the return of the flying ass-blasters.

-Not in the Fangoria list, but according to SciFi's schedule "Flora or Fauna" will air between "Blast from the Past" and "Hit and Run".-

• “Hit and Run,” written by Christopher Silver, directed by Pesce, airdate TBA: A pair of Vegas mobsters (Nicholas Turturro and Michael Rooker) hide out in Perfection, and when one is devoured by El Blanco, the other swears revenge.

• “Project 4-12,” written by Schulian, directed by Chuck Bowman, airdate TBA: Lloyd returns in a story centering on the government creation of a new and deadly creature.

• “Shriek and Destroy,” written by Maddock and Wilson, directed by Jack Sholder, airdate TBA: Burt and Tyler (Victor Browne) are called in to an Arizona town to deal with a shrieker infestation.

Airing order- 1, 6, 7, 3, 9, 4. (With 5 and 2's air dates still TBA.)

Tee-hee...

I tried to give the show some time, really I did. It just wasn't hitting me right, I guess. I found my self very bored, and when I came back to it, finding an X-Files scenario going on... Bleh. I may give it another shot, but man, this was a tad weak.

See? The plot synopsis for these shows sound mildy interesting. I hope the execution is a little bit better.

OH!

And for those who are interested...the goverment official who got completely sucked dry by the green "ghost" thing in the second episode starred in my thesis film "Whispering Evil"!

Go, McShane! You rock, dude!

An episode directed by JACK SHOLDER!!! I'm SO there!

Yeah, right.