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I know it really doesn't count as SF as much as Fantasy, but I'd like to nominate "Beauty and the Beast" with Ron Perlman & Linda Hamilton.
A television show so laced with literary references and human drama I've never seen.
Plus my girlfriend loves it, is planning on writing her Master's thesis on it, and I can score points for having posted in its favor.
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Well, someone's getting lucky tonight. 8)
Shame about the last series after Linda Hamilton left, though. Up until then, I must admit I really liked this show. I'm a softie at heart, really. . .
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Does anyone remember a Saturday morning cartoon from the mid or late 1980s called "The Mighty Orbots"? It was about a group of five robots who combined into a big robot at the end of each episode to fight the villain of the week. It was a sort of Americanized anime, but had some good SF stories. I used to watch it every week (I was a college student at the time).
Re: Lynch's Dune. I think that most fans of the book were expecting something like Lawrence of Arabia. At least that's the picture I had when reading the book. Instead, Lynch gave us his vision colored by his obsessions with physical deformity, bodily secretions, and decayed industrial technology. I like his movies, but in retrospect, he was the wrong guy for such an epic story. I suppose he was chosen on the strength of "The Elephant Man," which is a completely different type of movie. I thought the technical design was also pretty bad: none of the ships or other tech made any impression. We can all lament the failed attempt by Jodoworsky to film Dune with designs by Moebius and HR Giger! Maybe someone will try to film this story again in a few years (but hopefully not Devlin and Emmerrich!)
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But have you seen those Giger concept drawings?! Goodness...that would have been an even more bizarre movie than what Lynch made. Sandcrawlers as huge cyborg-esque fat men?
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Another show that I liked was called Space Rangers or something like that. It was a group of rangers who went around the galaxy and stopped the bad guys. It was supriseingly good.
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May I also elevate to divine status the groovy "Ulysses 31" cartoon. I must also confess to finding it impossible to talk about Buffy the Vampire Slayer without causing a mental short-circuit.....
"Buffy! Captain Buffy O'Hare! Mutants and aliens and toads beware!"
eeep, a bit of a private UK ref there....
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It was. And Bucky O'Hare did air over here (briefly).
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I used to watch Bucky O'Hare. I still remember what the ships look like.
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*Tom's ears perk up. Someone said Dune?* =)
Well, I won't rehash all the Dune and Cube posts, but I couldn't let this thread slip by without mentioning my favorite series of all time: Quantum Leap. Cancelling that show was the second-dumbest thing NBC's ever done.
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