I remember the pilot episode had words that went along with the theme song during the closing credits. I'll have to check it out and see if they have it.
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Oh, that song is awful. All disco-y & with the girls writhing about on the giant lighted letters & around a corpsified Gil Gerard. Honestly, I must've been on crack when I bought those DVDs, Still, watching them makes me think what a great reimagining I could do on it now.
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Mmmmm... Erin Grey.
Remember the episode with the midgets that had mental powers and had not seen a woman before? It was like the gang from "Time Bandits" using their TK to undress her.
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I bought the DVDs at Wal-Mart about six months ago. They were selling the entire series for $20, so I couldn't pass that up. Watching them now, I've come to several realizations that I wasn't aware of when I was a kid.
1. Although I have the utmost respect for Mel Blanc's work, Twiki's comments are just ridiculously fucking annoying and should have been edited out for the DVDs (or at least have an "alternate track" where he's not talking, as in the MASH DVDs where you can watch the episodes with or without the laugh track). At one point, he even says "La Chaim!" Where the hell would he have learned that from? Buck? He doesn't appear to be Jewish.
2. The use of stock footage rivals even that of Star Trek, and in some cases the stock footage is of the wrong ships or locations.
3. The episode titles are obviously catered toward pre-adolescent boys (as much of the entire series was). The eponymous planet in "Planet of the Slave Girls" had ONE slave girl, and she was more of an indentured servant than a slave. But that sauna/jail they kept her in really got her nice & sweaty for my 11-year-old self to fantasize about!
4. Pity the poor Earth Defense Directorate. They thaw out a 500 year old man, and he turns out to be a football-playing frat boy. (although in Gil Gerard's defense, he did always object to how his character was portrayed).
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Agreed with all points (except that "L'chaim" is fairly well known, but..). Although. I DID like the idea of Earth being such the new kid on the block that it's still wobbling on its legs like a fawn. The element of the Computer Council taking over the daily minutiae & thus causing a loss of nature (that is, essence) on the part of humanity was a neat touch. Dumping all of it for the Searcher mission was kind of dumb, & I wouldn't mind seeing a better integration of the two elements. Also, I love how Buck isn't officially attached to the Defense Directorate, but he's allowed access & knowledge of all the most top secret shit, & right away at that. based on that logic, we should be able to take a field trip to the Pentagon, Langley, or Foggy Bottom.
Still, there's potential seeds to work with.
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Not sure what to think of this. I'd love to see Buck on the screen again (either big or little), but I'm not sure about the choices they're making so far. Forced campiness usually ends badly, and Frank Miller hasn't done anything I've been interested in.
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Jesus H. Christ on a pogo-stick....can Miller leave nothing alone!?! Wilma will probably be a crack whore or something equally unlikely and Twikki's phallic head might be more than I'd want Miller to "re-imagine", thank you.
Buck Rogers was awful in a way almost sacred in it's 80's awfulness...kinda a Matt Houston in space with a leather-boy hawk-man, a jive-talking metal penis and a talking metal coatrack.
The Searcher was just re-used footage of some lame ship from season one, BTW.
While at Best Buy yesterday, I saw that The Black Hole was released on Blu-Ray and I had to stare at the box proclaiming it "One of the best sci-fi movies of all time!". In the entire history of lies, no statement surpasses that.
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No, the model was reused, not the footage.
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That's right. It was the "Lyrian Queen" luxury liner (or something like that) in season one. In season two they needed a model to represent the Searcher, so they chose that one and gave it a new paint job.
I liked the series as a kid. I still do, only now at 35 I can watch the DVDs and make fun of how campy and cheap it was. But you can do that with TOS too.
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