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He's not wrong.
On 4/29/26 21:34, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
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t-the-horrors-of-the-past
He's not wrong.
I never liked Space 1999. I watched it though when I had a cable to the Science Fiction channel and it also had some good stuff but I watched Dr.Who and Red Dwarf on PBS. Watching Dr.Who was why I got into anime then later into manga as I tuned to Channel 54 out of the Southern SF Bay Area 2 hours early to be sure of having it on when the Tardis and passengers arrived.
bliss
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He's not wrong.
On Apr 30, 2026, Bobbie Sellers wrote
(in article <10suncb$e24h$1@dont-email.me>):
On 4/29/26 21:34, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2026/3/9/how-to-confron
t-the-horrors-of-the-past
He's not wrong.
I never liked Space 1999. I watched it though when I had a cable to the
Science Fiction channel and it also had some good stuff but I watched Dr.Who >> and Red Dwarf on PBS. Watching Dr.Who was why I got into anime then later
into manga as I tuned to Channel 54 out of the Southern SF Bay Area 2 hours >> early to be sure of having it on when the Tardis and passengers arrived.
bliss
Space:1999 was... terrible. Someone, I forget who, wrote a review for it in >Galaxy. I saw the review before I saw any of the episodes. I thought that the >review crushed it. Then I saw the first episode and realized that the >reviewer had been far too kind. Gerry Anderson should have stuck to puppet >shows, he was good at those; Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds still are >watchable.
https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2026/3/9/how-to-confront-the-horrors-of-the-past
He's not wrong.
Space:1999 was... terrible.
https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2026/3/9/how-to-confront-the-horrors-of-the-past
He's not wrong.
Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
<https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2026/3/9/how-to-confront-the-horrors-of-the-past>
He's not wrong.
Besides which it was a total waste of Barry Morse who actually could
act. He was once known as "The most hated man in America". When
accosted in the street he would revert to his native British accent,
thus proving that he was not "that guy".
William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
<https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2026/3/9/how-to-confront-the-horrors-of-the-past>
He's not wrong.
Besides which it was a total waste of Barry Morse who actually could
act. He was once known as "The most hated man in America". When
accosted in the street he would revert to his native British accent,
thus proving that he was not "that guy".
Why is it that American cinematographers tend to choose
British actors as their favourite villains?
Why is it that American cinematographers tend to choose
British actors as their favourite villains?
On 2026-05-02, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
Why is it that American cinematographers tend to choose
British actors as their favourite villains?
I'm skeptical that this is even true. Still, a possible pathway
would go like this: British=foreigner, so gets cast in roles of foreigners--French, German, Russian, heck, even British--who are
frequently villains. So, having shown that they can play a convincing villain, they are cast again as such.
On 2026-04-30, WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
Space:1999 was... terrible.
I think I watched the first episode when it showed up on German
cable TV sometime in the 1980s or 1990s and gave up immediately.
_Blake's 7_ (1978-1981) however remains surprisingly watchable.
I saw the first season after it was released on blu-ray last year,
and now the second season is out and the third has been announced.
The restoration is really impressive, given that the show was
originally shot on video.
https://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2026/3/9/how-to-confront-the-horrors-of-the-past
He's not wrong.
_Blake's 7_ (1978-1981) however remains surprisingly watchable.
There's a reboot in the works.
https://cultbox.co.uk/news/blakes-7-reboot-is-actually-happening-heres-what-we-know
On 2026-05-03, Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
_Blake's 7_ (1978-1981) however remains surprisingly watchable.
There's a reboot in the works.
The vast majority of such projects never come to fruition.
https://cultbox.co.uk/news/blakes-7-reboot-is-actually-happening-heres-what-we-know
And despite the headline, there is not indication that this is actually happening. Rule of thumb: Unless shooting has started--which means
somebody is spending real money on actors, crew, sets, etc--it won't
happen. Heck, the US networks used to have a pilot season where
people spent actual money shooting pilot episodes, only for most
of those series projects to be canned. The attrition from "in the
works" to "on the screen" is close to 100%.
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