{"id":58,"date":"2008-05-14T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/05\/14\/sabertooth-theyre-here-to-take-the-water\/"},"modified":"2008-05-11T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T05:48:11","slug":"sabertooth-theyre-here-to-take-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/14\/sabertooth-theyre-here-to-take-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabertooth: They&#8217;re here to take the water&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Looking for some background noise while I sorted through paperwork Saturday night, I turned on a Sci-Fi channel.\u00a0 Being Saturday night, they were of course running their monster\/creature movie of the week.\u00a0 This time it was Sabertooth.\u00a0 A TV movie made back in 2002.\u00a0 It was pretty predictable for Sci-Fi: wild creature on the loose,\u00a0young people in an isolated area, a rising body count, and the requisite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0314349\/\" title=\"Jenna Gering\">hot blond<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The reason I thought this was blog-worthy was just a split second\u00a0of footage in the beginning.\u00a0 The very first shot of the movie was an establishing shot of the laboratory where the sabertooth is being held.\u00a0 The shot of the laboratory was actually stock footage from the old &#8220;V&#8221; TV series.\u00a0 It was specifically an exterior shot of the &#8220;Science Frontiers&#8221; building, even with the sign and logo in the foreground.\u00a0 &#8220;Science Frontiers&#8221; in &#8220;V&#8221; was Nathan Bates company;\u00a0also the place where Julie Parrish worked.\u00a0 If I hadn&#8217;t been watching the &#8220;V&#8221; TV series recently, I don&#8217;t think I would have noticed.\u00a0 I checked the web and apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/thevisitors.info\/forums\/viewtopic.php?p=5226#5226\" title=\"Other sightings\">I&#8217;m not the only person to spot this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I guess I&#8217;m just surprised by this.\u00a0 I suppose the Sabertooth filmmaker needed an exterior shot of the laboratory and using stock footage was the easiest way to do it.\u00a0 However, seeing something from &#8220;V&#8221; just took me right out of the story.\u00a0 After that\u00a0I just couldn&#8217;t completely engross myself in the movie.\u00a0 Yeah, that&#8217;s it.\u00a0 That <strong><em>MUST<\/em><\/strong> be the reason I couldn&#8217;t enjoy the film tremendously.\u00a0 It couldn&#8217;t have anything to do with the horrible special effects, weak acting, or threadbare plot.\u00a0 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-58\" 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