Hey Denis...

[Friday]

Since you appear to have impeccable taste (i.e. that which matches mine  ), I'm curious to know if you can name this pop culture reference:

"Bip bip bip!"

[Amos Keag]

the letter S in morse code?  no, that's dit, dit, dit...

[Friday]

Need a hint??  It was the favorite expression of a raging capitalist on a very cool and tragically short-lived sci fi TV show (but not as cool or short-lived as Firefly).

[tracysaboe]

Dark Skies

Tracy

[d_goddard]

I am flattered that someone with your great taste would say that I have great taste

Looks like Tracy beat me to the punch, here!

Truth is, my television viewing took a nosedive in 1990 -- college got hard the second year -- and never really recovered. I only know about Firefly because my brother-in-law insisted on my watching it (and Gard had plugged it on the LibertyConspiracy! site.

I think the only capitalist television character I can name is Alex P. Keaton.

[Friday]

Dark Skies was a cool show, but that's not the one I'm thinking of.  Was there also a character on that show who said Bip Bip Bip?

Second hint: the star of this show was female.

[d_goddard]

Dark ANGEL
Character: Normal

[Friday]

See, I KNEW you'd know it.   

I have the whole series on DVD.

[tracysaboe]

That was the owner of the JamPony Express. (Or whatever).

He was a capitalist. But he was also sort of a "I believe everything the government tells me." I have both seasons. And their were a few times when he tried to get favors from the government for turning somebody in or something.

Tracy

[tracysaboe]

Fact is. I hated firefly when it was on, because it was the show that took the place of Dark Angel.

THey were all ready for the show-down and then "Poof" no third season to find out what happens.

I keep secretly hoping their will be a dark angel Movie to finish everything up.

Tracy

[Friday]

I stopped watching TV when they took Dark Angel off the air, which I guess is how I managed to completely miss the Firefly phenomenon until I moved to New Hampshire and was turned on to it by Free Staters. Heck, even my MOM was watching it, and I never even heard of it.

You're right, they left major dangling threads in D.A. (I *still* wonder about Max' mysterious tattoos).  And you'd think with Jim Cameron involved, and Jessica Alba becoming such a big star, a movie would have been a no-brainer.  Perhaps the fact that Alba and Weatherley were engaged in real life and then split up plays a factor. Maybe they hate each other's guts now and can't work together.  But it still should be possible to work around that; they could kill Logan off and show it in flashback or something.

[tracysaboe]

Yeah. Even though it was made by Joss Weadon of Buffy and Angel fame. (Which were also both quite anarchistic in a Vampire/Demon hunting sort of way. Amy and I both liked those shows.) I couldn't bring myself to watch firefly -- because D.A. was off air, and it was the show DA replaced.

I remember thinking "They're replacing Drk Angl with that crappy show."  And special effects wise it was.

It wasn't untill the DVD came out that, at the recomendation of libertarians on FSP forums and Lew Rockwell, I was willing to bring myself to watch them -- for free, because at the time I was working at a video store.

Tracy

[toowm]

Dark Angel is running on the SciFi channel, and we set it up to Tivo. Only problem is they don't seem to be running them in order, which is pretty important for the later seasons.

[FTL_Ian]

Denis, have you seen Weeds?  Not sci fi, but likely something you'd enjoy.

[d_goddard]

Denis, have you seen Weeds?  Not sci fi, but likely something you'd enjoy.

It's on my "to-watch" list, mainly because you guys keep raving about it on the show.
I'll get to it eventually... but keep in mind I didn't see Pulp Fiction until like 5 years after it came out!