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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 3 "Alien Jane"

    Aired Sep 28, 1998 on Syfy In an asylum sick, tormented Jane suffers the constant abuse of her cell mate. Only when Jane is taken away to be experimented on does the cell mate and a sympathetic doctor realize Jane's true worth. CAST Mayim Bialik ... Rita Gabrielle Miller ... Jane Lochlyn...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 2 "Our Lady of the Machine"

    Well, fiction about technology usually is all about technology that goes wrong, not that works perfectly as predicted. In this episode specifically, it's true the technology in question was perverted to extort and kill, but it also provided a bridge for the protagonist to have a glimpse of a...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 2 "Our Lady of the Machine"

    Just making sure the latest episode stays at the top. I asked the admin to unstick ep #1 to avoid that pesky misplace ep in the top position.
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    Yes, Surrogates. Didn't I mention that or did I forget? Anyway, I liked the movie very much, though the concept starts falling apart if you look too closely. The original comic book is interesting too, though I didn't like the art. Well, Delphi is over ten years younger and very pretty. As for...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 2 "Our Lady of the Machine"

    Yep, and I'm one of them. I admit I never got that part and how it fit in the story. Your review helped make sense of that. Now I'm thinking of the final solution thought about by the detective. If the Blessed Virgin duplicated herself, her own self would become "ambivalent," meaning she wasn't...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 2 "Our Lady of the Machine"

    So, now we can finally and openly say that the whole show takes place in Betaville, and that was not just the first episode. But that doesn't limit the show at all. Betaville is like the Simpson's Springlfield: everything happens there. Betaville means "the future" with lots of technology, and...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    OK, what the heck is this doing here? Well, since this is a Welcome to Paradox board, I'll edit out the Catweazle parts, since apparently nobody wants them.
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 2 "Our Lady of the Machine"

    Aired Aug 17, 1998 on Syfy A telepathic detective investigates a hologram with a holy image. CAST Steven Bauer ... Det. Angel Cardenas Ben Cardinal Oscar Gonçalves Nicole Oliver ... Captain Brandy Ledford ... Sergeant Darcy Suzy Joachim ... Holograph of Virgin Mary Mina E. Mina ... (as Mina...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    Gone are the days when the Sages of the Single Season would sit idly by and wait for the conversation to come to them in their own dedicated episode thread. Now the Sages go wherever the conversations are! (Sorry, but this meme was just too good to pass!) This week - WEEK 4 - we have...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    Nice catch. Now I remember a few years ago an overzealous Mayor of São Paulo issues a "clean city act" in which all billboards were forbidden or something. It was madness and many people lost their businesses in the process. I remember the case of one particularly distraught businessman whose...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    I'm following the DVD order. But that doesn't make any difference since, even though some episodes do have elements in common, there's no grand story arc (like, say, Black Mirror). So it doesn't matter the order in which we watch. I think this is the first episode produced. We can notice that...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    Here's my review, point by point. The episode takes place in Betaville: This may feel a little unusual now, as stories usually tend to be more grounded, taking place in real cities, but back in the day it was common to set stories in a fictional country or city. This avoids some problems such...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    Wow, what a mixed bag! Not quite as I remembered it. I have to admit I only have vague recollections of this show, and that I was impressed back in 1998. Not so much because the stories were great, but because it was a bold show whose writers dared to innovate and take risks with unusual story...
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    Good, because I tried to watch on my tablet and, ironically, got an error message. Perhaps you could send ME the link? (Joking!)
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    Fun The Birth of IMDF!

    OK, thanks.
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    Fun The Birth of IMDF!

    Oh, I sure do. Thank you. I just thought you had the power to actually create the threads. And I thought that posting on the "What Boards Would You Like to See on Here?" thread would be enough to attract the attention of the Powers-that-Be and that they would take care of it. Considering that's...
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    Fun The Birth of IMDF!

    I just found your entry on "General Discussion - F&SF" and in fact that's the one I was planning to use., but I got mixed up and ended on the Science Fiction and Fantasy board itself. You say "In light of the advent of a SAGES viewing of this show, here is a thread for general chat about the...
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    Fun The Birth of IMDF!

    Some friends and I are going to start posting reviews for the show "Welcome to Paradox" (1998), but there's no specific board for this show; Would you please create one? For the time being we're posting on the "Science fiction and Fantasy" board until we get a permanent home.
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    Review Welcome to Paradox (1998) - episode 1 "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

    Aired Sep 14, 1998 on Syfy P. Burke, A suicidal young woman who has been living homeless, gets a second chance at life when her mind is chosen to control an artificially grown body. CAST Nicholle Tom ... Delphi B. Megan Leitch ... P. Burke Peter Stebbings ... Paul Brennan Elliott Hrothgar...
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