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From: SHANE CROZIER <scrozier@iinet.net.au>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 21:38:14 +0800
Subject: Re: Space1999: Animated Series
I never saw, or heard of this series - As an aussie... I guess I must have
been asleep that year.....
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> From: by way of Orbiter <rcox@intergate.bc.ca>
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> Subject: Re: Space1999: Animated Series
> Date: Wednesday, February 26, 1997 1:44
>
> On 26 February 1997, Mike Meridith
> (JO2_Mike_Meridith@ccmail.nsfdg.navy.mil) wrote:
>
> >Does anyone have access to the Animated Series that aired
> >in Australia in the early 80s? I had all of them at one
> >point, but my videotapes were damaged during a move.
> >The only two I have left now are "Showdown" and "The Last
> >Alphan" (I think this is the title, it's the one where
> >the child comes from the future where everyone on Moonbase
> >Alpha has died of plague)
>
> I'd never even heard of an animated Space: 1999 TV series! Could you give
> us some more details about this? What were the episodes about? How long
> were they? How many did you see? Did they feature the voices of the
> original actors? Do you know if it was produced in Australia?
>
> Did ANY of the American citizens on the list EVER see this series in the
> States?
>
>
>
>
> Hello Alphan co-horts!
>
> I have never heard of this series! "Unknown series comes to light?!?!"
> It has never aired here, that's for sure! Please give more details.
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From: ff665@cleveland.freenet.edu (Michael A. Perry)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:42:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Space1999: Re: Monetary List Contributions
Reply to message from espresso@dnai.com of Mon, 24 Feb
>
>Thank you Bill! This is going to be easy at this rate. So with Bill's
>contribution, David Welle's, and mine, we already have $30. Only
>$90 to go. People who want to contribute let me know, so I can
>confirm you and keep a tally/add your names to the list.
Ummmm, you can add my $10 that went out today, Robert!
That's $40 and counting......
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From: ff665@cleveland.freenet.edu (Michael A. Perry)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:54:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Space1999: ANIMATED SERIES REQUEST!!!!!
As you all probably know I am the "crazy Eddie" of the Space1999
list with the great deal on the complete set of 1999.
(BTW, I *AM* working on the orders, folks, so hold on. Nine orders is
(9 x 48) 432 hours or 18 days straight......)
I am issuing a STANDING ORDER. ANYBODY who can get a set of these
animated cartoons, please get in touch with me....
Michael Perry
(Dying to fill a hole I didn't know I had....)
Video Mission Archivist,
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From: mpoindexter@classtrain.com (Marshall Poindexter)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:38:09 -0600
Subject: Re: Space1999: Some people can't learn, and a suggestion
On Thurs, 27 February 1997 07:39 UT Jonathan Stadter
<atomicpossum@juno.com> wrote:
> Y'know, it's gotten even more galling that every e-mail has the
>unsubscribe instructions on it and we still get about the same number of
>incorrect and useless unsubscribe requests. I guess some people just
>can't be bothered....
I think that this is largely due to some shakeout leftover from moving the
list to its new location. Once that settles down, I'm sure we'll see fewer
unsubscribe requests posted to the new list.
> A SUGGESTION: Since many people are having trouble seeing the
>original poster of a message with the new setup, I would like to suggest
>to people that they make a point to include their e-mail address in their
>sig file. This will make it easier than trying to sort through a jumbled
>header or other arcane means, should someone wish to reply only to the
>individual.
This is an excellent idea, Jon!
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From: "Robert Ashley Ruiz" <espresso@dnai.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 07:03:48 -0700
Subject: Space1999: Boneheads/Recipient Problem
Jonathon Stadter writes:
> Y'know, it's gotten even more galling that every e-mail has the
> unsubscribe instructions on it and we still get about the same
> number of incorrect and useless unsubscribe requests. I guess some
> people just can't be bothered....
I agree. It's right there in EACH and EVERY message, and I am
thoroughly disgusted with these people at this point. How much more
should someone ELSE do for them when they won't bother to help
themselves? (And why? These people almost invariably never say
thanks even if you do send them unsub instructions, and after a year
of this I am quite sick of it and have no more tolerance with them.)
Clearly they just can't be bothered, so why should anyone else bother
for them?
I elected not to be an active list administrator, but if I were I
would put together a terse boilerplate response, send that, and STILL
make them do it themselves. (Take it for what it's worth, Marcy,
David, and Marshall.) As a list member, I would encourage each and
every one of you to let these people know that you don't appreciate
them filling your mailboxes with this stuff when someone already took
the time to provide the info they needed had they only bothered to
use it. You don't have to be rude, and it's too late for our list,
but maybe getting 250 or so e-mails responding to their stupidity
will make them think twice about doing it to the next list they end up
on.
As for the list problem with return addresses, as of this morning, I
have discovered that the problem is compounded because sometimes my
TO line shows the list address and sometimes it shows the original
sender even if it was sent to the list (and no, it's not that a copy
was sent to the list and a cc of it to me). The point is, I don't
know what's triggering this change, but it's inconsistent so I now
have to double-check it each and every time (which is making me
paranoid).
All in all though, if this (and the boneheads) are the worst of our
problems, I'd say the new list is functioning pretty smoothly at this
point.
Robert
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From: Marcy K <mk@wizard.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:06:29 -0500
Subject: Space1999: Re: Year 2 Changes
Robert wrote:
>I've also said before that the characterization of Maya was completely
>mishandled after "The Metamorph," and that most people who like Maya
>are really reacting to Catherine's superb performance and underlying
>charisma...Wouldn't this naturally be the
>progression for Maya as well, considering the tragic circumstances that
>led to her joining the Alphans? Instead, she's bubbly, and more human
>and well adjusted than the humans themselves, making the fact that
>she's an alien nothing more than a gimmick, when in fact she had the
>depth of character, a built-in history, to have been really fascinating and
>multi-faceted, and she could have unfolded one layer at a time.
I always thought along the same lines. No matter how well adjusted a person
you are, seeing your entire race/planet destroyed has got to be the most
horrible thing. People go totally over the edge after personal tragedies
like the death of a child, spouse, etc. Losing your entire race/planet has
got to be much worse. I could never imagine Maya as aloof, being an
outgoing person naturally, but I always thought of her 'happy act' as quite
a facade. She had to be in terrible pain when she was alone, especially
before becoming close to Tony.
I always wondered about her early days in Alpha. It couldn't have been that
easy, even though the show totally glossed over it. She was an unknown
alien with what were incredible powers to the humans. Her father had killed
two of their number and tried to kill them all. There had to be hostility
towards her.
Marcy
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From: Marcy K <mk@wizard.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:06:31 -0500
Subject: Space1999: New Montages
Hi Alphans-
There are 2 new montages by Catherine Bujold at the Cyber Museum, one of
Alan and the other a year 2 general one. They are wonderful like all the
rest of her work.
Marcy
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From: jeff.findley@sdrc.com (jeff findley)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:54:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Space1999: OT: Stereolithography: Some clearification
> How's this for an explaination...
>
> Stereolithography or Rapid Prototyping:
[John's excellent description of Stereolithography deleted]
From my experience (I work for a company that makes "high end"
CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM/PIM software), the quality of the STL file has a
dramatic effect on the quality of the finished part from the Rapid
Prototyping machine. For all you computer science/computer graphics
types, an STL file is really just a huge list of triangles in 3D.
The triangles make up a mesh which represents the outer surface of
the part you wish the machine to make.
Because of this, if you have a bad triangle mesh, you're going to have
a bad part. It really helps if you have some sort of 3D preview
capability for the STL file in the software you use to generate the STL
file. It's pretty easy to convert an STL file to other formats (like
formats used by 3D renderer's), so it's pretty easy to generate good
looking pictures of what the part will look like.
Just my $0.02.
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From: RJ in Okinawa <lahozr@mwr.kic.or.jp>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:58:13 +0900
Subject: Space1999: HEY
Is anyone out there..I have not heard from this list in such a long time...
### It has become abudantly clear that our technology has advanced farther
### than our humanity.
Regina
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how hard do I rock :)
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From: ggreg perry <ggreg@nwu.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:05:32 -0600
Subject: Space1999: Ratings, ITC, Year 2 Changes, and Freiberger-Reply
They
>were adjusting to the fact that the show had it's own personality and
>wasn't the carbon copy of Star Trek that they had either been expecting
>or hoping for.
the ironic thing is, of course, if 1999 did attempt to emulate star trek,
these very same people would have still condemned it, for being a ripoff, as
opposed to not being star trek. go figure. these type of fans' minds were
made up before they laid eye one on the series, and that was that.
>I don't know why Fred Feiberger is villified so. It's not a crime to lack
>original vision or real talent, and he didn't purposefully set out to destroy
>the show. I'm sure it's quite the opposite.
i think it is acrime to lack talent or vision, especially when the lack
thereof is applied so devastatingly to said concept, so that what you
enjoy(ed) about the original work is now completely destroyed. as well as
there being so many other TALENTED and VISIONARY people out there who could
have done the job better and with more integrity, and gotten paid for it as
well. as opposed to some clown whose best examples of a creative moment
were "yea, talking plants, that's it! and of course we need a resident
alien as well. how can it be a sci-fi show without a resident alien!? i
mean, star trek had one!"
and even if the second season was a hit and was followed by 3 more seasons
of freddie-produced kiddie space stuff it still would not be
acreative/artistic success, outside the obvious factor of say, the americans
love it! in fact, the series would be evenly less fondly remembered since
there would be 4 seasons of year2 and one of season one. so, on a mass
(american) commercial level in this scenarion, one could draw the conclusion
that freddie saved S1999. but what attracted me to the series in the first
place, what set it apart and reserved it a place in my heart for ever, were
the ingredients that made up year one. as a 15 year old, i would have still
probably enjoyed 4 seasons of year two for what it was at the time, but
eventually it would be religated (sp?) to the forgotten trash heap of other
such shows i grew out of immediately like lost in space/buck rogers,
battlestar. or imagine if there wasn't ayear one at all, and both seasons
were like year 2. the entire reason for 1999's uniqueness would not exist.
the series would be just another blip in the above mentioned trash pile of
kiddie-level, saturday morning tv mentality scifi shows.
phew! hope some of that made sense without going around in circles too much!
>To me, ITC and even (dare I say this) Gerry Anderson bear the brunt of
>the blame. Gerry seems too soft spoken and seems to have let people
>walk all over him.
i don't know the whole story of course, but i think anderson really didn't
have much of achoice, and really had no say in the creative end of things
after season one. he was basically there in name only. besides, what would
his voice have been to the combined hot air of ITC new york and their baby
freddly?
according to martin landau and byrne on the making of documentary, there
weren't many people pleased with the second series changes, but at the same
time they were powerless to change them, beyond complaining, which
apparently landau did at one time, but to no effect of course.
>Moreoften they were the result of
>something outside inflicting itself on the inhabitants of Alpha. Whatever
>the reasons, Gerry failed to provide a consistent vision for the show and
>to keep (or nudge) people in line (back in line) with it.
can't agree with this. i liked the idea of the stories on the show being
about something as opposed to SOMEONE, like those shitty next generation
shows about data and his cat or whatever. to me, most of these so-called
character driven stories or series are really excuses for lack of a good
story in the first place. i'd much rather have an story focused on some
mysterious spacial phenomena or unknown event they encounter. in this
department, i feel the series was most consistent.
>
>Did anyone watch Doppelganger last weekend? I lasted for only 20
>minutes before I bailed, and I was so BORED waiting for something
>(anything) interesting to happen for that whole time. Gerry seems to
>have a fascination for gimmicky machinery and little else.
it's true gerry is a hardware and flying machine fiend, but he does it so well.
it's so fun just to watch all the imaginative and inventive gadgetry his
shows use. i quite enjoyed DOPPELGANGER. it was a fun, lightweight action
story, but given a twist by andersons cool battery of vehicles and hardware,
as well as the dark pessimism typical of his later productions.
>Television is a collaborative medium and full of compromise. No one
>person can be blamed for Space: 1999 so radically veering off course in
>it's second season.
okay robert, how about two: abe mandel/ITC new york and fredsome?
>entire first series was shot in succession before it was released, so that
>by the time they started getting feedback it was too late to do anything
>about it;
thank god for that! that's what made the first year so unique. it would
have never got off the ground if proposed as a metaphysical, existential,
adult science-fiction series in the tradition of 2001.
if THEY had been able to "do something about it" things certainly wouldn't
have been the same.
and to tell the truth, to this day i am still amazed that such a big budget
series like it ever got made in the first place. but like you said,
everything was done practically freehand without any intital meddling by the
business suit graduates who think they know something about filmmaking but
do not.
year one was and still is a unique, mutant strain of a televison show.
as much as it was theoretically aimed at a big mainstream american tv
market, i perceive it much more like a gift to all those who enjoy
intelligent, challenging, literary-style hard science-fiction. a very,
very, very, very (one more) very rare commodity on tv, especially american
television. and in this context, it makes perfect sense that once the suits
saw it, they freaked and said "comedy, romance, cheesiness, action, freddie,
talking foilage, dancing gorillas, skirts, stickers, smaller, brighter,
disco and warps.
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From: Dave Walsh <voidspyder@pipeline.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:36:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Space1999: Animated Series List
At 12:56 AM 2/28/97 GMT, you wrote:
>There is also a Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook with
>information on the animated series. My brother has it
>and is sending it to me. Hopefully it might have
>information on where you can order the episodes.
What kind of crapola is this?
>It was written by David Hirsch and was published by StarLog
>magazine in 1978.
Yes it was, but there is absolutely nothing about an animated series in
it.
>Thanks in advance to anyone with info, I have been pulling
>my hair out trying to track this crap down.
>
>One more thing - my friend says he saw 1999 comics in
>Perth. Does anyone know anything about them as well?
The comics series was published by Charlton comics, but was canceled in
1979-1980 after approximately ten issues.
"Ninety percent of Science-Fiction is crud. That's because
ninety percent of everything is crud."
Theodore Sturgeon
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From: djlerda@juno.com (David J Lerda)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:45:24 EST
Subject: Re: Space1999: Animated Series List
>On 27 Feb 97 24:56:06 GMT JO2_Mike_Meridith@ccmail.nsfdg.navy.mil (JO2
Mike Meridith) writes:
>I've talked to a friend of mine (the one who got the
>episodes for me in the first place) who says that the
>series came out in 1978 and had twelve episodes. I had two
>tapes with a total of five episodes.
>
I'm sorry but this just sounds like a hoax. I'm a big 1999 fan and I
always keep my eye out for the latest SF news so I know I would have
heard about a cartoon series. As someone mentioned earlier, why would
one be made in Australia only and not be syndicated to any other markets?
Where there that many 1999 fans down under to make a cartoon feasible
commercially (sadly, making a buck is the name of the game folks!)? I
think not. HOWEVER, I could be wrong (it happened once before in 1967)
so if I am I apologize in advance.
>There is also a Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook with
>information on the animated series. My brother has it
>and is sending it to me. Hopefully it might have
>information on where you can order the episodes.
>
>It was written by David Hirsch and was published by StarLog
>magazine in 1978.
The Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook did NOT mention anything about an
animated series. I know. I have one (a first printing from October
1977). The plan was to issue supplements but (to my knowledge) none were
ever issued.
>One more thing - my friend says he saw 1999 comics in
>Perth. Does anyone know anything about them as well?
>
Charleton comics put out a Space: 1999 series. All of the ones that I
saw were Year 1 characters. The artist was John Byrne (he's been doing
Superman or had been - I don't keep up w / comics like I used to). My
understanding is that the comics have become quite collectible because of
Mr. Byrne's later work. (I don't think he's the same John Byrne who
wrote for the show). Some large magazine style comics were also made.
Each contained several stories. They had a variety of artists/writers
and the quality ranged from very good to abysmal. I remeber one of these
stories ("End Game" - about the only one I can remember) was quite good.
The artwork was great. I wished I had all of my Space: 1999 stuff but
when mom went on one of her spring cleaning binges, out everything went.
(Sniffle). It put me in therapy. :(
David
David Lerda
Salisbury, Maryland, USA
djlerda@juno.com
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From: djlerda@juno.com (David J Lerda)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:45:24 EST
Subject: Re: Space1999: Ratings, ITC, Year 2 Changes, and Freiberger-Reply
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:05:32 -0600 ggreg perry <ggreg@nwu.edu> writes:
<edited message>
eventually it would be religated (sp?) to the forgotten trash heap of
>other such shows i grew out of immediately like lost in space/buck
rogers,
>battlestar. or imagine if there wasn't ayear one at all, and both
>seasons were like year 2. the entire reason for 1999's uniqueness would
not
>exist. the series would be just another blip in the above mentioned
trash
>pile of kiddie-level, saturday morning tv mentality scifi shows.
Hear, hear! I think that "cosmic" sense-of-wonder- of -the universe
FEELING in year 1 is why I remember Space so fondly. IMHO, getting away
from that was what killed the show. I know this sounds trivial, but I
think that one of the biggest mistakes they made was changing the
soundtrack. Barry Gray's music set the tone for the whole first season.
> i liked the idea of the stories on the show
>being about something as opposed to SOMEONE, like those shitty next
>generation shows about data and his cat or whatever.
At last! Someone else who doesn't think Star Trek:TNG is the greatest SF
show to ever grace the tube! I think it's possible for shows to be about
something AND someone and still hold up. I think some of the best 1999
shows were in this tradition: ("Infernal Machine", "Dragon's Domain",
"Breakaway", "The Last Sunset", "The Metamorph"). Please note there is
only one Year 2 episode listed.
I agree with you Gregg. Year 2 just reeks of a bunch of guys getting
together in a smoky back room and saying "Okay - put the broads in
skirts. Bring in an alien. We can't afford pointed ears so give him
funny eyebrows and green ears. Hey, let's make him a girl - Spock was a
guy, our alien will be a girl! 'Ain't we original! Now, forget this
'black sun' crap. We need action, action, action. That big set you got
for the control room has got to go. Too expensive. What's the budget
for rubber monsters? We need a monster in every show. The kid's love
monsters. Cut the wardrobe budget for the guest stars. I want the
broads falling out all over the place. This thing'll run forever - It's
got Spock (I mean whats-her-name), monsters, and tits." Never mind a
story that actually challenges the neurons. "I mean, baby, we're talking
TELEVISION here"
David
David Lerda
Salisbury, Maryland, USA
djlerda@juno.com
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From: JTRD1@aol.com
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:27:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Space1999: Year 2
OK, I will preface this with saying that series one of 1999 was by far, the
true meaning of 1999, but as a kid I remember feeling the opposite. Now I
view year 2, as a spinoff of Space:1999. I like it for what it is, but not
to be compared to year one.
Based on year 2 itself without comparison to series one, I would like to hear
what everyone's top five favorite episodes were and why. Mine are the
following:
In order of preference (notice that they are all "full-cast" episodes which
is a big plus in my book"
1. The Metamorph
2. The Lambda Factor
3. The Immunity Syndrome
4. The Dorcons
5. Seance Spectre
James David
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From: Marcy K <mk@wizard.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:36:56 -0500
Subject: Space1999: Microsoft Exchange, Disabling Rich Text Formatting
Sorry for the long, boring post. But for users of Microsoft Exchange here
is how to disable Rich Text Formatting. Please disable this for posts to
the list, or else you send attachments
DISABLING Microsoft Exchange's Rich Text Formatting:
When sending mail to <Mailing List> from Microsoft's Exchange's
mail client please disable the "Rich Text" feature in this software.
"Rich Text" creates and attaches a file to the message so that other
users of MS Exchange can view the message in special fonts, styles
and colors. This attached file is invisible to users of Exchange.
But most other mail programs can not decipher this information and
receive it as a useless file attached to the message. It wastes
space on mail servers and is translated into dozens of lines of
random text when transferred to the digest form of this list.
To disable this Windows95 feature please do the following:
1) Open MS Exchange by double-clicking on the "Inbox" or by
selecting MS Exchange from the "Start/Program" menu.
2) In the menu select "Tools" and "Address Book"
3) In the "Address Book" window that opens, select "File"
and "New Entry".
4) A "New Entry" window opens, highlight "Internet Mail
Address" and select "Ok".
5) A "New Internet Mail Address Properties" window opens,
click on the tab labeled "SMTP-Internet"
6) Enter Display Name: <Name of List>
7) Enter Email Address: <mailing-list@domain.com>
8) Make sure the box labeled "Always send messages in
Microsoft Exchange rich text format" IS NOT checked.
9) Select "Apply" and then "OK".
This creates an entry titled <Name of List> in your address
book. Use it to send mail to the list.
If you have previously created an entry for this address you can
disable "Rich Text" by selecting "File" and "Properties" and make
sure that the box labeled "Always send messages in Microsoft
Exchange rich text format" IS NOT checked.
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From: Jonathan Ward <JWard@lonet.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 15:06:04 -0500
Subject: Space1999: Virtual MBA's fan art display
The Space: 1999 Virtual Moonbase Alpha is opening a fan art display.
If you have any thing scanned such as montages, drawings, paintings or
pictures of models that you'd like to see posted in VMBA, send them to:
JWard@Lonet.ca
Thanks
Jonathan Ward (JWard@Lonet.ca)
"Victor_" on IRC channel #space1999
http://www.lonet.ca/res/jward/ward/irc.htm for details
Space: 1999 Virtual Moonbase Alpha
http://www.lonet.ca/res/jward/ward/s1999.htm
The Realm of Somnium Orbis http://www.angelfire.com/mi/somnus
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From: atomicpossum@juno.com (Jonathon P Stadter)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 15:09:00 EST
Subject: Re: Space1999: Ratings, ITC, Year 2 Changes, and Freiberger-Reply
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:45:24 EST djlerda@juno.com (David J Lerda) writes:
>On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:05:32 -0600 ggreg perry <ggreg@nwu.edu> writes:
><edited message>
>
>Hear, hear! I think that "cosmic" sense-of-wonder- of -the universe
>FEELING in year 1 is why I remember Space so fondly. IMHO, getting
>away from that was what killed the show. I know this sounds trivial,
>but I think that one of the biggest mistakes they made was changing
>the soundtrack. Barry Gray's music set the tone for the whole first
>season.
I've said in the past that Freddie's one big sin was eliminating
that 'cosmic' element and turning the show into a 'Starsky & Hutch' style
format. The conflicts turned from 'man vs. nature (cosmos)' or 'man vs.
himself' (w/ shows like "Force of Life?") to '"man" vs. man,' or stories
where the 'bad guy' comes and does malevolent things to the Alphans (The
Taybor, Magus, etc).
>> i liked the idea of the stories on the show
>>being about something as opposed to SOMEONE, like those shitty next
>>generation shows about data and his cat or whatever.
>
>At last! Someone else who doesn't think Star Trek:TNG is the greatest
>SF show to ever grace the tube! I think it's possible for shows to be
>about something AND someone and still hold up. I think some of the
>best 1999 shows were in this tradition: ("Infernal Machine", "Dragon's
>Domain", "Breakaway", "The Last Sunset", "The Metamorph"). Please
>note there is only one Year 2 episode listed.
Oh, hey, I rant about how bad ST:TNG is til I'm blue in the face and
people tell me how much they LOVE the characters!
Actually, I don't even care for "The Metamorph" that much. The
story seems strong on introducing Maya but kind of shaky on Mentor
(IMHO). Maybe it's just the jarring change in style from Y1.
- ---Jon "Mr. Wonderful" Stadter---
- ----atomicpossum@juno.com----
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