Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)

[dogscoff]

I'd still love to see a Dan Dare series and/or film, but sticking to the style and spirit of the 50's original, ie rockets full of valves and pipes and things rather than circuitry and computers, and control panels with big levers in primary colours, and blocky robots that look like they've been made out of boxes...

That reminds me. Check out www.robotbastard.com - 40 meg download but well worth it. It's by the same guy as the excellent "Scud: Disposible Assasin".

[Growltigga]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
I'd still love to see a Dan Dare series and/or film, but sticking to the style and spirit of the 50's original, ie rockets full of valves and pipes and things rather than circuitry and computers, and control panels with big levers in primary colours, and blocky robots that look like they've been made out of boxes...

You mean like the Flash Gordon movie?

I love that, I am always trying to slip lines from it into polite business conversation... things like 'Gordon's alive??' or 'Squadron 40! DIIIVVVVVEEEEEEEEE'

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'Squadron 40! DIIIVVVVVEEEEEEEEE'

Brian Blessed has to be one of the coolest people on the face of the planet, and one of my role models.
How many other people in the Last 100 years can claim to have made a career out of wearing chain mail and shouting?

The coolest thing of all is that he used to be member of parliament, too...

[Growltigga]

I would like to make a career out of wearing chain mail and shouting

"THE PEOPLE OF STOKE ARE REVOLTING, I SHALL BARE MY BROAD BUTTOCKS TO THE BATTLEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF STOKE AND ASK THEM TO BULLSEYE THAT'

brilliant, he is absolutely brilliant. I would like to go and get smashed with Brian Blessed, Rory McGrath, Jonathan Woss and Rolf Harris - that would be fun

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brilliant, he is absolutely brilliant. I would like to go and get smashed with Brian Blessed, Rory McGrath, Jonathan Woss and Rolf Harris - that would be fun

Not sure about Woss but the others wwould be good to go drinking with. Also (sir) Patrick Moore, and any one of about a dozen stand up comics.

There's a bit of an urban myth about Rolf Harris, that one day he left a TV studio to be greeted by the R.H. appreciation society- 20 odd students doing bad impersonations whilst wearing dodgy fake facial hair and sporting home made digeridoos & wobble Boards. The story goes that he found it really funny and went out on the piss with them.

[Growltigga]

I think Woss would be quite a laugh, Patrick Moore could be a scream but also Bob Holness should be there.

Thinking about it, if you had the cast of They Think It Is All Over plus Rolfy and Brian, what a cracking 10 pints, curry and nightclub outing that would be!!!

I saw Rolf when they opened the Rolf Harris bar at Keele University - brilliant, he was very funny and amusing

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by ckotchey:

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Originally posted by Growltigga:
A quick aside, was Farscape anything to do with Australia as a lot of the actors seemed to have antipodean accents?

I do believe it is filmed in Australia somewhere, which is probably why they have so many Aussie accents & such on the show.

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Ummm, Hadrian posted a day or so ago that Farscape was filmed at Fox Studios Australia...

[Wardad]

Actually I found that following the series schedule on SCI-FI network was pretty difficult. I do not watch much television, and certainly do not review the schedules on a daily basis.
SCI-FI was moving the times around, sometimes no show one week, sometimes several repeats another. You almost need a computer just to search SCI-FI network schedules.
There were so many damn commercials, I could not be bothered to watch the show live.
I almost wish my computer could down load all of my Cable networks schedules, sort out my Favorites, program my VCR, and edit the commercials.
...Maybe I'll just by the BOXED DVD set when it comes out...

[Captain Kwok]

I hope we're not still crying about this.

[Captain Kwok]

Ooh...I just saw something on CNN Headline News, there is some sort of letter campaign/web petition thing going on to save Farscape. What are these people thinking?