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Why are we so sad?
sad.
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| Borg Duck 21 Jan 2003 03:39:34 |
 Why are all cult tv fans: Male, single, virgins that argue over cheap, childrens fantasy shows?  |
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| Validus 21 Jan 2003 05:56:17 |
Coming from a guy with a screen name like "Borg Duck" I have to say that sounds pretty ironic from where I'm sitting. I'm guessing that you're idea of entertainment is tractor-pulls and WWF. | ||
| RBAdams 21 Jan 2003 16:13:32 |
You know a board is taking off when the trolls come out to play.  |
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| Otis 10 Aug 2003 14:24:52 |
Adams...... ooohhh.... yes, I love the sentence, if on top of that it means something, you're the poet of the base. Sad ? Well, surely I felt like a lonely teenager. Nowaday, I'm going towards my forties, happy husband and father of two. I had years of Space silence. It's coming back now probably because I'm over a good deal of that sadness. I surely cannot be captivated by Space the way I was. But I remember. And I'm happy to share that with you, folks of the forum. Allow me to translate (humbely) the last words of a book writen on Space by a french writer : "Morality : left for you to see again those tales, hoping for getting the symbolical juice out of it. Look at your favorite episode, and see how it ressembles you, how much it has been helping you all troughout your years. May you have long, long years of hapiness and do have many children !" (Pierre Flageolle : Cosmos : 1999, DLM ditions 96, p114) Otis |
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| Senmut 11 Aug 2003 03:25:25 |
Well said, Otis. | ||
| Space1999! 12 Aug 2003 14:23:54 |
When I think about Space: 1999, Year One, I am never truly sad only a bit melancholy about how few people have had the chance to realize what a great show it is and my only regret is that we didn't get two or more seasons in the Year One style with the chance to learn and grow with the same Alphans we came to know so well. Now that the show has been released on dvd (THANK GOD!) it seems that every week I learn or see something new. Only yesterday I saw a picture on Martin's Catacombs shot that revealed a moonbuggy was in the rear section of the eagle in Testament of Arkadia. As well, I've also recently noticed that the chessboard in Dragon's Domain was first shown on a table during the conversation of the two Helena's during Another Time, Another Place or how one of the Commpost monitors blanks out as John and Victor walk into the Nuclear Generating area after Dominx's death in Force of Life or how Zoref's name actually is "Froze" if you unscramble the letters. Others include how Simmonds stun gun in Earthbound seems to have a black stripe on it in some but not all scenes or to see clearly that the thing that falls of the back of the Commander's eagle as it crashes in The Last Sunset is definitely an engine thruster bell. (Great work Brian Johnson!!, how in the world did you do that?) For me, the show continues to entertain as much today, 28 years later, as it did when I was a ten year old watching on the old black and white tv. For all its minor faults and shortcomings it remains my sci-fi show of choice and was arguably the most influential sci-fi show of all time. You see obvious hints of its style, mood, special effects, sets and costumes in everything from Star Wars, Alien, Star Trek-The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Files. So here's to my favourite show, may it come back to tv again someday, perhaps on A&E the organization who supported the distribution of the show in North America and who cared enough to release the bonus disc with better prints of two of the best episodes Dragon's Domain and Testament of Arkadia. |
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| righttonyletsgo 12 Aug 2003 20:55:10 |
maybe i am not the norm Female, married and i do have a life! |
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| moonbasealpha_s1 12 Aug 2003 21:09:58 |
Well, there's two of us..  |
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| RBAdams 13 Aug 2003 00:53:54 |
Hm. I don't feel particularly sad. 37, married with a beautiful 26 year old wife who is addicted to BUFFY reruns . . . and I still manage to get my genre fix in when I feel like it. Operative phrase: "When I feel like it." Being a fan of something doesn't mean you have to LIVE it. I can geek out just fine over my faves but I also know when to put 'em back in the toy chest, so to speak.
Sure, Otis . . . that phrase has meaning. A "troll" is someone who makes a message board post that is designed purely to get people angry or upset. It's called "trolling" for responses. However, Borg Duck isn't really a troll in the strictest sense of the term, because he made some pretty decent posts after that one. Also, you gotta look at the posting date. It was almost seven months between my last post in this thread and your post bringing it "back to life." After so long the original context for the thread kinda vanishes. . . . |
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| Senmut 03 Apr 2006 09:04:42 |
Sad? How are we sad, except that we wish we'd had more Space? If anything, I am pleased we have the show we do. Something comfortable to slip into. | ||
| Huntsman 03 Apr 2006 12:18:29 |
I'm a male, married and have three children , who can't wait for me to get the new Lab Eagle, moonbuggy and tank! And my wife loves the new Doctor Who. Unfortunately, I do have have a stereotype that some male sci-fi fans can relate to: due to Katrina, my entire immediate family has had to move in with my parents. |
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| DDL 06 Apr 2006 18:11:01 |
...life? There is life beyond Space:1999? Incredible!!  |
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| Huntsman 06 Apr 2006 19:29:06 |
Oh, dear... What episode are you watching right now...?  |
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| mk9hawk 07 Apr 2006 03:02:06 |
A life? I guess that is why I am still under 100 posts....work, wife, and kids keep me busy. Space 1999 offers escapism and contact with a (future) past. |
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| Otis 07 Apr 2006 16:43:07 |
Escapism is a good word. Truly, a part of myself always shrug off when I log on here. I'm still waiting for the coming of the SuperThread, the Interesting One, that would redeem my life !!!!  |
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