Back again Graboid fans and I know many of you are asking;
is this damn week over yet??!!! Well as
luck would have it we are at the cusp of the end with the last project
involving Graboids, Shriekers and Ass Blasters. Yes I still frown at that last name
myself. Sci-fi channel found them in a
bit of a pickle with the 4th season of Farscape put on hold to the
point of not having it. What to do for
that time slot? Well the folks at
Stampede Entertainment provided 13 episodes of Graboid, Shrieker and Ass
Blaster entertainment. So grab your
space blankets to block your body heat, grab your SMGs and stockpile your
ammo. This is Tremors: The Series.
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| Next thing I shoot is my agent. |
Burt Gummer: The possibility
for spoilers boggles the mind.
Recapping after the third movie, Desert Jack moved to Vegas
and left the business to a poor dope name of Tyler Reed (Victor Browne of One Life to
Live, Rescue 77, Desolation Canyon, The Confessional and The Invited),
former Nascar racer and adrenaline junkie.
As his gorgeous Charger is drug under the dirt by the sterile Graboid
known as El Blanco, Burt Gummer (Michael Gross of Family Ties, Cool as Ice,
Tremors, In the Line of Duty, Tremors II: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to
Perfection and E.R.) saves Reed’s bacon by lobbing a concussion grenade
in the area of El Blanco.
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| Miss me??!!! |
With the loud
sound scaring him off, Gummer and Reed head into town. Meeting up at Chang’s Market; Jodi (Lela
Lee of Flow, Yellow, Charmed, The Girls’ Room, Scrubs and Exposed) and
Nancy (Maricia Strassman of Welcome Back, Kotter, Good Time Harry, Booker,
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Noah Knows Best and Third Watch) try to get
the full story while Gummer rants and raves about the current conditions of Perfection
Valley which dictates that El Blanco is an endangered species and their land is
protected by law but they still have to tread carefully with the Department of
the Interior which was assigned Agent Twitchell (Dean Norris of Total Recall, T2: Judgment
Day, Windfall, Medium and Breaking Bad) to deal with these insane
Graboid incursions as well as another McGuffin device known as a compound
called Mix Master.
Founded in a secret
lab back in the early 50’s, this agent could blend animal, mineral and plant
life to new and exciting hybrids. Due to
the lab not being on the up and up, the Pentagon had the lab sealed but Mix
Master got loose and proceeds to combine creates and plants to a vast level of
sheer insanity making the valley even more dangerous than before.
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| Hate being El Blanco's catering service. |
The cast also adds a former Vegas showgirl and the late
Miguel’s only living relative Rosalita (Gladys Jimenez of Secrets of a Chambermaid,
The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful and East Side Story),
a sassy, brassy gal with a past she doesn't like speaking of.
Here are just a few highlights and critiques about the show. The potential of this TV series was there but
it was introduced on Sci-Fi after they announced they were not sure if they
wanted to do more Farscape episodes so I can imagine quite a few pissed off
fans and they didn’t want to give this “filler” show the time of day. Its poor ratings really screwed fans of the
movie series and denied the possibilities for more Tremors fun to be had. As a fan of the movie however I have to
acknowledge there was a bit of tripe writing as they were having adventures
every other day or Gummer and Reed went out of town to tend to a Graboid issue
so it was getting a bit silly.
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| Snipe Hunt: In Color! |
The
crane, slow pan and zoom handheld was top notch and our boys from KNB EFX and
4-Ward Productions did a fine job with prosthetics and CGI renderings but
guessing the fickle audience just could not settle down to this for the next 3
to 4 seasons. Ah well that is life.
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