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what do you prefere in Space 1999
to survive in space
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| Cindy 26 Jan 2003 19:23:54 |
I think Space 1999 is a great serie for a lot of reasons. I prefere the fact to survive in space in a little community. |
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| gba_cmdr 27 Jan 2003 03:29:27 |
Lots of things that work for me -- 1) Stories 2) Situtation (adrift in space, as you mention) 3) Special Effects 4) Actors |
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| Validus 27 Jan 2003 06:32:41 |
I enjoy Space:1999 for a wide variety of reasons. I find that most science fictions fails to really challege the audience and sinks to merely trying to "amuse" the viewer with special effects and bad make-up jobs. Most of the time Space:1999 was able to rise above such cliches. I myself find Commander Koenig far more credible then Kirk or Picard. . .and while I consider myself a Star Trek fan, in my heart Space:1999 is superior because of the realism of the characters and it's ability to show people in near-impossible situations managing to work together for survival. . .something rarely seen in most science fiction. | ||
| pp303 12 Feb 2003 14:12:18 |
Martin Landau was excellent in the role of Koenig. As a senior he is landing so many parts. I thought Space 1999 was ahead of it's time for special effects. The eagle shots made the show as well as the dark themes of season 1. Barry Morse also added a unique quality as Professor Bergman. He was in The Fugitive as Gerard and I hated him. | ||
| Flamegrape 12 Feb 2003 14:22:22 |
Tony's beer. |
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| Cindy 12 Feb 2003 18:31:06 |
Tony's beer: I think it's funny. It shows us that alphans have their life on moonbase. | ||
| Eagle One 15 Feb 2003 00:06:06 |
I like the fact the Alpha's act more like real people (most of the time) and therefore are beliveable. Some of the stories are outstanding. The whole concept is novel and for the most part well thought out. Good actors too. | ||
| Eagle One 28 Feb 2003 00:10:37 |
I also like the quite desperation of the first season. | ||
| F-9000 28 Feb 2003 10:53:37 |
 In Year One, deseperation is at the top (excepted for Simmonds who goes away with the Kaldorians). I feel bizarre that the Alphans resignate as soon as the moon breakaways. In real life, some members should rebel against the Commander. But in the series, they perfectly trust him!"Yes, maybe there" Koenig says. As you know, the American Probe Pionneer 10 has just stopped waving signals and the NASA estimates it's only 12 billion kilometers from Earth. Pionner X is flying to the Aldebaran Star that it'll reach in 3 million year's time! Our pilot Tony Cellini was right when he said we are prisonners from our solar sytem! In Year Two, the moonbase becomes a sort of Pleasure Spaceship. remeber the Taybor : the people love trading! The people seem to be happy to live there. then nobody cries when the Galactic eclipse ends in "A Journey to Nowhere"!  F-9000 |
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| Eagle One 10 Mar 2003 21:28:53 |
I think your right. There would have/should have been dispute about just accepting the breakaway. |
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| Borg Duck 15 Mar 2003 11:23:08 |
I havent really bothered to watch an episode in ages.  |
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| tombrock 15 Mar 2003 15:54:38 |
As an art director , I have always looked at the series from a visual point of view, and appreciated it very much on that level. What made Space: 1999 so unique was the fact that it told its story in visual form...so much more than any series before or since. What I mean by that is--Space: 1999's unique look and feel were actually PART of the story. They helped to tell it. I guess a good word for it would be deeply "atmospheric". Every television series--scifi or otherwise--has its own "look"...but more often than not, that look is almost incidental. It's just a backdrop to the storytelling. Not so on 1999. It made use of everything--dialog, silence, music, sound effects, special effects, lighting, editing--to tell the story. That's why so many of them are so effective. Not to dash his script--because I think it's wonderful--but if you look at the script for The Troubled Spirit--it is a very basic ghost story with a slightly odd premise. On paper, it really isn't that remarkable. Just a good solid story. But on screen...there hasn't been anything like The Troubled Spirit since...the only thing that comes close are certain episodes of the X-Files. The Troubled Spirit is the perfect example of how Space: 1999 made it all come together, to work together, to meld into a final form that is much more than the sum of its parts. If they hadn't done it repeatedly, I would think it was a fluke.Simply because it takes the talents and efforts of so many different factions all working together and coming together seamlessly--it seems like it would be unbelievably difficult to achieve. But in the first season, they did it time and time again. And that's why I like Space: 1999. |
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| tombrock 15 Mar 2003 15:56:25 |
I also had a very deep appreciation of Yasko. She MADE the second series and would have been a remarkable addition to the first season. | ||
| tombrock 15 Mar 2003 15:57:16 |
I was really just kidding about the Yasko thing! | ||
| AntonGorski 18 Mar 2003 05:04:00 |
I'd have to say the impact the situation (moon wandering aimlessly amid the unkowns of space) has on the people living in "barracks" (as Dr. Russell once refered to it). There isn't much choice but to try to survive and find a new home. The loved ones back on Earth are now memories, time to make new ones with fellow Alphans. | ||
| Senmut 11 Aug 2003 03:39:56 |
I think that one reason that people accepted breakaway so quickly was because they were flexible folks to begin with. People committed to exploring space. Eventually, though, it would begin to tell, and we see this in TSS. As expected, someone goes a little goofy! just another touch of Space's realism, so sadly unseen by the so-called critics! | ||
| moonbasealpha_s1 14 Aug 2003 00:15:56 |
TSS was a realistic scenario though I think it probably would have happened much earlier than it did. I think I would have preferred Sanderson to be less stereotypical bad guy but that's just me. I always considered the "Maya metamorphing into monsters and saving the day" Y2 canon nonsense but the bit where she transforms into herself as a little kid to get herself unstuck in the Eagle was different. |
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