thornton@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC468) (07/16/85)
A while back someone said 1999 should win an award for the
highest density of illogic...Not so! This award must go to the DR WHO
episode TERMINUS. The plot involved the whole universe being created by one
spaceship dumping its fuel.(????) And whats more it may do so again.(Heavy).
TOMMORROW IS YESTERDAY would be in the running with lines like
"The whiplash propelled us into a time warp.." etc. Pseudo-Science that
would make even a 1999 fan wince.
ALL the problems associated with 1999 itself were due to the scripts.
This covers the over emphasised scientific errors which could have been
avoided by just explaining the actions with more pseudo-science in the good
old TREK/WHO tradition. The show had no scientific adviser to explain the
rule bending and correct that which was wrong. Couple this with a producer
who insists on removing all the good lines and you get left with such
mediocure results.
Nonetheless some episodes were very good and well done. Have the
people who are so scornfull either forgotten or not seen such episodes as:
DRAGON'S DOMAIN,END OF ETERNITY,ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE......
Another problem it faced was no fault of its own. I refer to the
obvious closed mindedness shown by viewers and particularly some TREKKERS
who love TREK to the exclusion of all else. I can't understand this attitude
and find it quite possible to love both series equally without destructively
comparing one against the other. Both shows had good and bad points.
Andy T.
("Weve tryed lasers, rocket guns, chlorine...") How about a fire
extinguisher? (Dave Prowse was inside the creature from the BETA CLOUD
and in one scene the indestrutible robot is hit in the groin with a fire
extinguisher. In the background you can here moans of pain. Is this
another 'leave it in they won't notice' cut?)