More observations...
Dec. 2nd, 2003 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournI decided to go home to eat lunch today, and while there I ended up watching part of an episode of the 80s version of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. As a kid, I adored shows like this... Yet watching them now I see what cheesy crap they were. Ah the early 80s when futuristic meant LED-segment displays and metallic synthetic fibers. The acting of the random guest stars is so bad it makes the main actors look good. Erin Grey is sexy as hell in that skin-tight blue jumpsuit with high-heels, but what the hell is up with the glitter lipstick? And they have a total of maybe 45 seconds of special effects shots all created for the pilot and used over and over and over again...
I will say my favorite thing about that edition of the show--besides Erin Grey's pin-up girl pulp-fiction outfits, and I must admit a certain weakness for the intro theme--are the AI rulers of the Earth, or more accurately their form-factor. What a brilliant idea to work around the problems inherent in giving over control of your society to machines: don't give them any way to move or manipulate the world directly and instead force them to talk people into things. What's more, they are so small that if one of them gets too uppity, you can always drop-kick them into a thousand pieces.
I wonder if the company doing the Battlestar Galatica remake for the Sci-Fi channel might consider updating Buck as well?
I will say my favorite thing about that edition of the show--besides Erin Grey's pin-up girl pulp-fiction outfits, and I must admit a certain weakness for the intro theme--are the AI rulers of the Earth, or more accurately their form-factor. What a brilliant idea to work around the problems inherent in giving over control of your society to machines: don't give them any way to move or manipulate the world directly and instead force them to talk people into things. What's more, they are so small that if one of them gets too uppity, you can always drop-kick them into a thousand pieces.
I wonder if the company doing the Battlestar Galatica remake for the Sci-Fi channel might consider updating Buck as well?
