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@bonniegrrl: I'd want triptych with Gamera. #starwars
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The last Vader pic prompted me to do this. #starwars
11/06/09
Also, that TARDIS one is pretty sweet... #starwars
11/06/09
Kane from Alien just before the facehugger gets him. #starwars
11/06/09
I never saw Alien, but I've been meaning to. I liked Aliens, but I was always told that they were very different movies. #starwars
11/06/09
Vader in black velvet, never reaching the end,
Tuskens they've painted, never meaning to send.
Boba in ways I'd missed with these eyes before.
Just what the point is, I don't know anymore.
'Cos I love you, yes I love you, oh how I love you.
Gazing at Godzilla,flames from the mouth,
Just what they're thinking through I can't understand.
Some try to tell me, the art they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be, Mothra will be in the end.
And I love you, yes I love you,
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you.
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10/31/09
Tom Zarek's attempt to remake the show he was only a cast member of decades before. This guy CREATED V, it's his story. It would have remained his story and his vision if the power people hadn't made "The Final Battle" so different than his vision (I seem to recall that he wanted his name pulled from the second miniseries).
This guy created something and had it taken away from him, and now he'd like to further his own creation and that means whatever comes will be a BAD product compared to Tom Zarek trying to remake BSG? I don't see how these two things have anything in common.
Watch the first miniseries again... there's no lack of vision or storytelling in there. Then watch the second miniseries. I would think Johnson's vision should be taken more seriously, and not the vision of whichever tv executives worked at ABC in the 1980s. #v
10/31/09
There were 3 significant differences between Kenneth Johnson's version and NBC's: characters Ham Tyler, Elizabeth and the ending. Tyler was in a wheelchair but still a badass. Elizabeth didn't have superpowers; she was just really smart.
The biggest complant Johnson had about the second miniseries (V: The Final Battle) was tone. The moral ambiguity was removed. It was just good guys fighting bad guys.
The novelization of the 2 minis by A.C. Crispin is out-of-print but worth seeking out. It hews pretty closely to the minis that aired but had Johnson's original ending. #v
10/31/09
and yes he should make more scifis that are different from his V #v
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