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Catawampus wrote:

Opus the Poet wrote:Reminds me of a Blake's Seven quote. Not that anybody still remembers Blake's Seven.

I haven't a clue as to what you are talking about.

Blake's 7

One of the premier British Sci-Fi series after Doctor Who. Never got to see it myself, but highly rated it seems. Check YouTube.

And do NOT start on Space 1999. Martin Landau and Barbra Bain are Mission Impossible and nothing else! Nyah!

the biggest problem about doing remakes, is that things are now MUCH more expensive.. (producer thinking "what can we get away with, without paying huge commission to the originals??" )

sorry guys, the target audience is teens today, not those who *were* teens when the series came out....

being a ST:TOS fan, the prequel/remake of that was so different, you could just change the name, and a few set pieces, and you would think it was some OTHER film, and ST fans would not know, and even like it!!!

Atomic wrote:

Catawampus wrote:

Opus the Poet wrote:Reminds me of a Blake's Seven quote. Not that anybody still remembers Blake's Seven.

I haven't a clue as to what you are talking about.

Blake's 7

One of the premier British Sci-Fi series after Doctor Who. Never got to see it myself, but highly rated it seems. Check YouTube.

Once again my subtlety is too subtle in its subtle subtleness, it seems.

Blake's 7 - the Anti Star Trek.

I hear that it's J.J. Abrams next project...

read my link about doing remakes... :/

for those who dont know or bother to find it...
It does bother me that some will not even click a link.: ( : (
Blakes 7 is set in a 'dictatorship' where 'convicts' manage to escape, and find a very advanced ship (can repair itself, has 'teleport' that no-one else has, and an intelligent computer) that somehow accepts them.. I guess it was on the way to a 'shop' so open to a 'new customer' ???
This is the main feature, and the dynamic of the criminals characters - always good to have one try to steal something, while the other gets their revenge!!

serenity comes close, but the problem is the distributors seem to be frightened of any thing to gritty... even star trek was about to miss, until someone said it was like 'wagon train'...

That "somebody" was Gene Roddenberry himself. The pitch had always been "Wagon Train to the Stars."

illiad wrote:Blakes 7 is set in a 'dictatorship' where 'convicts' manage to escape, and find a very advanced ship (can repair itself, has 'teleport' that no-one else has, and an intelligent computer) that somehow accepts them.. I guess it was on the way to a 'shop' so open to a 'new customer' ???

Sounds similar to the concept behind Farscape.

My brother's Path of the Fury uses a similar idea - and tosses in a genuine Classical Greek Fury as well.

(Do not read the expanded version, in Fury Born, until after you have read "Path" {if then}, which, in my opinion - and that of a fair number of others - is far superior to the expansion, which has many of the usual problems of heavily retconned fiction..)

Farscape is a bit different... 'convict crew' yes, but the ship is one of many, and he is a space engineer, who develops 'warp drive' and cannot find his way back!! further complicated by crashing into an alien fighter, so he is being chased, then 'rescued' by that ship...