thornton@kcl-cs.UUCP (ZNAC468) (06/26/85)
A better fix for 1999 would to have stationed the base as being on the Space Dock (one of the things blown up in BREAKAWAY). This could have had a plot generating device fitted . Unfortunately the basic storyline , being totally uncontrolable drifting through space would have needed to be different. I liked it as it was. Anything smaller than a planetary body would have been easily controlled. Star Treks basic attraction was the opposite, being totally in control and zooming about the galaxy, which the fixes thus proposed on 1999 would have achieved. Chocolatebar Galaxitive needed more alien aliens, as did every tv sci-fi show to date. Seriously can all aliens be expected to speak English ,(with an American or English accent?). The last series where they found Earth was much worse than 1999. A previous article proposed that 1999 was only being defended over in Britain simply because it was British, possibly, but I only defend things that I personaly like and I haven't liked anything from America since Star Trek. A lot of people I know like Badactica but none of them like the series of V. Buck Rogers was another series that deteriorated quickly, but not to the extent of Badactica which seemed to use a library plot routine as most of the cop series do. Barbara Bains acting ability has been questioned. Yes she can act when given a reasonable script and she regularly had facial expressions in 1999 (e.g. when screaming in DEATHS OTHER DOMINION). More answers to any points raised will follow... Andy T. ( I don't know what these levers do, but its pointing in your direction..) ADRIC from WARRIORS GATE . This is the corrected Esoterica.