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    Image of Adam Whitehead Adam Whitehead
    11/30/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Space: 1999 has not aged well at all. The science is insurmountably bad, the acting wooden and the premise hilarious. It had great sets, some good special effects and a half-decent spaceship design in the Eagle, but without the filter of childhood nostalgia it's simply not that great a show.

    Anderson's previous show, UFO, had a much stronger premise (later 'borrowed' for the X-COM computer games), much more interesting characters and was better-written, as well as being extremely morally ambivalent a long time before the likes of BLAKE'S 7 (which is also far more deserving of a reboot/remake) showed up. Interestingly it is now being remade as a movie, apparently starring Joshua Jackson. Interesting to see how that goes.
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    Image of Wyldemusick Wyldemusick
    11/28/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Paging Rom Moore -- after all, he always mentioned that Space: 1999 was the inspiration for the standard opening credits for the rebooted BSG.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    11/28/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    The theme to SPACE1999 is still one of my favorite pieces of music, and the Eagle spacecraft they used still hold the title of most realistic looking spacecraft I've ever seen in a show. Love it, love it, love it!
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    11/28/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Io1999? Hmmmm. Sounds like fun!
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    joetato was starred joetato was unstarred
    Image of brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
    11/28/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Would't it make more sense and be more exciting if it was Space 2099 or Space 2199 instead of Space 1999 The Reboot? Plus who wants to hear about Monicagate again or rehash Seinfeld jokes? I could care less who Dr. Russell finds spongeworthy.
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    AmishJohn promoted this comment brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( was starred brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( was unstarred
    Image of robinrising robinrising
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    I think I'd rather see Space: 1889 made into a TV series. That has the potential to be the greatest TV series ever canceled after four episodes....
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    didn't Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds, etc.) create this little gem?
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    Image of DragonsDream DragonsDream
    11/28/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: yup, he did
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    Bootknife-Jackson promoted this comment DragonsDream was starred DragonsDream was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/28/09

    @DragonsDream: What we need is a series of articles dealing with Gerry Anderson, and how awesome he is (Annalee: this is a prime opportunity to smoke weed in the name of journalism! you know, take one for the team! ...you'd kinda be like a superhero....)
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Make no mistake - 80s nostalgia is almost over, and 90s nostalgia is on its way. We're already running out of 80s culture to obsess over, so we're going to have to relive the nineties one way or another.

    Evidenced by the fact that you can buy Tail Spin and Captain Planet T shirts at Hot Topic....
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    Image of frederic frederic
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Also cool: Space 1969
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    cletar promoted this comment frederic was starred frederic was unstarred
    Image of cletar cletar
    11/28/09

    @frederic: Man, that was awesome.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    11/28/09

    @frederic: FABulous! ;-D
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    Image of Farrell McGovern Farrell McGovern
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Remember, George Lucas told his SFX people that he wanted space explosions that were as good as SPACE:1999's! If you suspend your disbelief in the construct that puts the story in motion, it was good for the first season, but died badly in the second! Second Season 1999 was as bad, or worse than 3rd Season Star Trek (TOS)! I do love the design of the Eagle, what a great circumlunar space craft!
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    Bootknife-Jackson promoted this comment Farrell McGovern was starred Farrell McGovern was unstarred
    Image of Starlionblue Starlionblue
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    OMG! Flares and firecrackers 1999. The special effects were classic, straight out of Anderson's other stuff like Thunderbirds and UFO. FlashBANG!!!!

    And oh yes. How many Eagles did they have exactly? Many more than was at all reasonable in any case. They kept losing them but apparently they had many on the shelf.

    I loved this show when I was a kid. The Italian dub did nothing to decrease the weirdness.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/27/09

    @Starlionblue: Alpha had limited Eagle construction capabilty.
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    Image of Starlionblue Starlionblue
    11/28/09

    @KhaiJB: Ah I see. I'm surprised they even explained it. ;)
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    If someone asked me to pitch them on how to use this property, I'd say: Make a comedy about someone trying to use this property.

    It could be very funny.
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    Image of jamesryan jamesryan
    11/27/09

    @twophrasebark: Um, didn't they try that with the BEWITCHED movie? Just saying, so sar the idea's 0-for-1 here...
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    twophrasebark promoted this comment jamesryan was starred jamesryan was unstarred
    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/27/09

    Not really. Bewitched isn't a property that would be difficult to adapt, per se. Nora Ephron tried to make three movies with her screenplay. A movie about a real-life witch. A movie about an old TV show being adapted. And a movie about a washed up actor.

    But none of them were about a property that would be almost pointless to adapt and based on a premise that seems almost inert. Really, it would be more like The Producers than Bewitched.

    The sum of all the parts of Ephron's movie didn't add up to much. Bewitched isn't a property that lends itself to being funny in a self-referential way.

    IMHO, Space 1999 is so unsaleable and so unsalvageable that it seems like fodder for a movie or documentary about the process of trying to reboot it.
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    Edited by twophrasebark at 11/27/09 8:42 PM twophrasebark was starred twophrasebark was unstarred
    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Juliet Landau sure got her mother's eyes. I remember watching her as Drusilla on Buffy and wondering why she seemed so familiar. Duh.
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    Image of Al Swearengen Al Swearengen
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    "Space: 1999 was never too sure itself of what it was precisely about – people on the Moon get blown out of orbit, weird stuff happens for no discernible reason, weird stuff continues to happen for reasons that are somehow even less discernible than the first set of reasons."

    Take out the Moon out of orbit part and it sounds exactly like Stargate Universe.
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    it must be bunnies promoted this comment Al Swearengen was starred Al Swearengen was unstarred
    Image of SpammerOvTheGods SpammerOvTheGods
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    didn't we go through this in another thread a couple of days ago? Oh, well - here's a quick synopsis: Lunar Hadron Collider creates a warp drive that causes the moon top flit about the galaxy. Done!

    #@!
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    cletar promoted this comment SpammerOvTheGods was starred SpammerOvTheGods was unstarred
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