Threshold

this time the alien signal mysteriously infects people at a miami night club. the threshold team goes to florida to check out how the signal ended up infecting hundreds of club going crowd. while they investigate, they discover that a club dj has a brother from the navy ship who called through a cellphone while the alien ship was sending out a signal. the signal was recorded, and the dj used it as a recording as part of a disco mix track. the threshold team finds out the signal is doing more than what they are realizing. they have to contain the signal in miami before it wrecks havoc across the US.moreless

Love this show and I believe it did jump the shark
It would had been much better due to better storylines
Not the same stuff over and over again
Again the leads are much more weakers
Even though I have been a fan of Carla Guiano's work
But also it is the supporting cast that really
Should have been given more airtime
Kind of like Charles Dutton
Though he was getting on my nerves a bit at first!

Problems:
1. In the pilot episodes that whole naval ship was ful of electronics. Let alone, they watched the signal on the TV. Shouldn't that have transferred to her cell phone that she had on herself.
2. The other thing that's bothering me is that the show has become very one dimensional in that it is always about the signal propogating. While I like the idea, the last 2-3 episodes have discussed that. It's like...well...let's see... how else can we spread the signal. The DNA part is interesting to me perhaps a breakthrough would help the team.
3. Also if they're the Red team, would it not be prudent to have more than one team, or if the show get popular are we going to see Threshold:Blue Team?
4. Also, so far the good guys win every week, to be more realistic, they shouldn't win every week. i.e. win the battles but lose the war.
5. Death of the infected. It seems very inconsistent. How dead do they have to be to be dead?
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I thought the concept was interesting, that was what caught my interest. Of course it is a setting that has been used before, what hasn\'t.

Unfortunately, this particular episode really made me turn my back on the show. The lack of connectors to real life was overwhelming. The way that the alien virus spread via technical equipment was a big downer. That totally broke with the \"rules of the universe\" they themselves have built. If the alien virus could spread like described it should have done so earlier. If not then you really need to supply some kind of explanation why. The characters are just not believable any longer. One just don\'t buy it any more.

The funny thing is that I am now returning back to see the two next episodes (7 and 8) just to give it a second chance. Why? Well. Fever has started to kick in due to lack of science fiction stimulus... Had this been in the middle of the SG or BSG season I guess that Threshold would have been booted out the door already...

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Without a doubt, this was the worst episode of an already less-than-stellar series.

A signal being spread over the phone was bad enough (apparently the writers don't realize that no phone message in the world needs a low band filter, as they don't transmit lower frequencies in the first place!), but then we'll add to that bit of nonsense that it then spread to an ATM card, and from there to ATMs? My god, how unbelievable can they make this?!?

Having established an unbelievable story-line, they then top it off with a Deus Ex Machina ending, pulling some super-duper EM device out of nowhere; expecting us to believe that they could get away with detonating it over a major city, and then expecting that the residents of that city would find their cover story even remotely believable! I mean, honestly, a major solar flare at night that fries computers in a specific radius?!? Come on!

As I said in the summary, I didn't find this series all that believable or good in the first place, but this was the episode that made me stop watching the show. Whose brilliant idea was it to let Bragga be involved in anything ever again? Didn't he do a good enough job of ruining Enterprise?moreless