If the human race ever does need someone to charm a pack of space invaders, we could do a lot worse than Carla Gugino. (http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2005-09-15-threshold_x.htm)

Looking forward to the first episode tonight. CBS has been running TONS of promos for this show, which kinda makes me wonder. Sometimes they overhype a show they know is mediocre!

I thought it was very good so far.

I talked the girlfriend into watching it last night. She generally dislikes sci-fi, unless it's "scary" (a la ALIEN), so I told her it was scary. She ended up liking it more than I did! I thought it was merely okay. We'll see where it goes from here.

Looking forward to the first episode tonight. CBS has been running TONS of promos for this show, which kinda makes me wonder. Sometimes they overhype a show they know is mediocre!

Damn, I missed it. Wonder if it will reair. Agree shows that are overhyped tend to be mediocre but how advertised was the gem of last year.... LOST! I thought this was advertised quite a bit.

I thought it was pretty cheesy myself. The acting seemed like they were trying to hard or didnt know how to act and the dialogue was just silly. I know generally it takes a few episodes before the characters become comfortable with who they are and then the acting gets better and i guess only time will tell.... next up ABC`s Invasion

"Threshold" is a show similar to "The X-Files" in that it's a high-concept show. The main thrust of the show is the strength of its ideas. In these types of shows, the acting and the dialogue almost always seems a little cheesy because it's not your typical drama. The situations are so alien (pardon the pun) and the stakes are so frighteningly high that it's near impossible to relate to how these characters are reacting. Fortunately, this show also gives us characters that are kinda fun to watch. The linguist guy who was holding on to Carla Gugino's panties, for example. I'm relishing every moment he's on screen. Same with Brent Spiner's character, but only for sentimental reasons. (I'm a big Star Trek fan. I loved the reference to Klingons, not made by Brent unfortunately, but he was looking on at the time.) Oh, and I like the actor who played the First Mate. He's just as scary as he was on "Lost"!

I really enjoyed the pilot. It cranked up the tension something fierce. And I loved the fresh take on colonization. The idea about downloading yourself into someone else is fascinating and creepy. I can't wait for the next ep!

cheers,
supervij

I'll keep watching this show for Carla Gugino!!!!

Well, I now have at least one new show I'm going to watch this season, I liked this a lot better than Supernatural.

I can't properly review this pilot because I didn't make it all the way through. I lasted just over an hour. The problem wasn't the show itself, but the presentation by Global. (remember the proper title of the show is Threshold on Global!). There were just too many commercial breaks. They would run the show for about six minutes - then break for ads. That's too short. It's like reading one page of a novel then breaking for a couple minutes. A show like this, especially its pilot, needs momentum. It was just too chopped up to get any sense. They should have run the first half-hour commercial free to allow the audience to get into it. I couldn't tape it because I was taping something else. On tape, FFing through ads, it might be okay; or it might be one to wait for the DVD. However, I think this is one show I will forget about.

Remember when shows used to have act breaks at 15, 30, and 45 minutes? That way, you'd get a solid 12ish minute run and then a major crisis. Perhaps they figure that people are taping everything so it doesn't matter. But this current choppiness is the one reason I can't watch shows live anymore.

I'll keep watching this show for Carla Gugino!!!!
Me too!! And let me say that I'm still not over Karen Sisco getting cancelled.

There were just too many commercial breaks. They would run the show for about six minutes - then break for ads.

Yeah, I agree; way too many ads. I even said while watching it that I feel sorry for those poor saps without a DVR that have to slog their way through all these commercial breaks. Fortunately, the only inconvenience for me was the extreme effort to pick up the remote and hit the 30 second skip about 8 times every few minutes.

It's actually funny. You really do notice the length of commercial breaks more after you get a DVR (I've had Tivo for over 4 years and HD DVR for a year). I often say to my partner 'there was another 5 minutes of commercials' that we bypassed in about 4 seconds!

ps: I really enjoyed this show and will set up a Series Recording for it

The wife and I watched it on Friday night and were impressed. We'll see how Invasion stacks up against it . .. and we'll probably watch one or the other for the rest of the season.

I thought it was interesting. I will give it a few more episodes and decide if I will continue or not.

I liked the concept of the show just not necessarily the implementation.

I know you are supposed to suspend your disbelief in shows of this nature but there were issues that just kept bothering me.

I must have been in a certain mood because the actual sci-fi stuff I was fine with (my belief suspended) but it was the ordinary things that bothered me. Also, too much sci-fi cliches.

For example, why on earth would they let the people return to their homes that night? Not only are they potentially infected but they know too much but can't be trusted by the gov't.

Another example is the cliche that the gov't knows where you are all the time, i.e. they show up in the middle of nowhere to grab these scientists because they just happened to know where they were.

My last example was Data. He was terrified of looking at the image on the screen but was cheerful to hear the sound which had known effects on the psyche.

There were others but these are just a few.

I will continue watching and hopefully I won't be so cynical next time I watch because I am interested in the plot.

Don't have the link, but the whole series is being released to DVD soon this year, as per tvshowsondvd.com!@