Astro-Naughts Defying Gravity Sundays at 10 PM, ABC “Threshold” Written by Sheri Elwood Directed by Peter Howitt Defying Gravity wants to be a hipper, updated version of Star Trek, but it’s more like Lost in space right now. There’s the same sense of isolation countered with innumerable, vivid flashbacks, the same menace lurking just out of sight, the sense that the characters have less freedom of choice than they appear to. I get it that this is a scripted show modeled, like Lost, on the idea of a reality show–people are dumped into a hostile, confined environment and told to survive. But the romance…
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Dark Skies: “Pilot”
Dark Skies by Sarah Stegall © copyright 1996 by Sarah Stegall The premiere episode of “Dark Skies” is scary, thrilling, derivative, and predictable all at once. It is “The X-Files: The Early Years”, with more money than the original series from which it derives its raison d’etre. There are several significant differences, primarily of tone and approach, between “Dark Skies” and “The X-Files”, but essentially they take place in the same universe and, one would swear, with the same cast of characters. The premise is pretty simple: aliens really did land at Roswell in 1947, met with Harry…