Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-09 (Saturday)

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:13:25 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 3/10/24 11:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
 

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
 

What did you watch?

 
Hey, thanks for asking!
 
TRACKER
 
No, not this silly uncredited remake that Adam is watching starring Green
Aquaman.
 
The one and only original series from 2001, starring the Highlander versus
the vampire from Forever Knight!
 
An incredibly goofy one season wonder from Canadia’s space channel.
 
Adrian Paul is Daggon, a.k.a. Cole a prison guard from Cirron who comes to
earth chasing 218 prisoners that the Evil Zin released and came exactly 100
light years (sometimes it’s 100,000,000 light years) from their planet SAR
TOP in the Migar solar system.
Some of the aliens are Cirronians, some Desserians, some Enixians, some
Nodulians, some Orsusians, and some are, of course Vardians, with the
occasional prisoner, being of one species and pertaining to be another so
he didn’t get beat up in the prison yard. Apparently, none of these beings
are corporeal.  So when they landed here, they all inhabited nearby, living
beings usually but not always human.  Cole tracks them down and puts their
life force in a little version of the containment vessel from Ghostbusters,
murdering the host in the process. Which is sort of amusing as he goes to
these missing peoples families, and promises to help them, find them, not
bothering to mention to the grieving mothers, that he’s going to murder
their missing sons.
 
All these characters have different inconsistent abilities. When Cole tells
us that Joanne Kelly from Warehouse the 13th the series does not hesitate
to use her Desserian abilities against him, she demonstrates by hitting him
over the head with a 2 x 4.
 
They finally start explaining all this in the show opening about halfway
through the series.
 
[snip]
On Freevee and other services. Freevee seems to have the running order
right; Ian‘s IMDb episode listing is completely wrong, based on people
leaving the series and their storylines being wrapped up.
 
Fred-Bob sez “check it out!”

 
I asked Anim, but it sounds like this series is in SDTV, not HDTV, which
is a turnoff to me...  [shrug]

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I found two sources on the gray. One is 512x384.
The other, which says it comes from Tubi, is 640x480.
Then I found a complete German rip at 480 x 272
Then I found 12 seconds of naked Alexa Doig taking a bubble bath from the
tracker 2000
Finally (always the last place you look) I found the compilation movie
alien tracker from 2003. It’s 576 x 320.  Which is at least 16:9 aspect
ratio.

You forgot the 1080P version that had been upscaled from a lower
version (and looks just as bad as you might expect.)
I had completely forgotten about this show until I downloaded the
first episode and took a look at it. Then I remembered watching it
back when it first aired. No reason anyone should really want to watch
this now.

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P.S. I never saw this on Sci-Fi when it originally aired. In fact, I
don't even remember that it existed!!

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Ditto