Recoil
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This being a Sci-Fi board, I'm surprised that no one has even commented on this yet, good or bad. Did you all know that Sci-Fi Channel is premiering a new series on Friday, "Flash Gordon"?
At first when I saw something on it, I was at least mildly interested. Re-tellings seem to be the thing these days, and they did good by BSG. However after all of 5 minutes researching the show, I think my mild interested faded to "well, I guess I can TiVo it and watch check it out if I have NOTHING better to do."
It seems they aren't trying to do the original much justice at all. NO spaceship first of all. Man, as a kid watching that short cartoon series, I loved his ship. I realize this is a different day and age, but still, how can you have Flash Gordon without a spaceship?
Then I started reading some plot and series commentaries. You know, since I know they aren't going to have a ship, was this because of low budget? Are they doing something different? I wanted to get a general idea of what I might be in for.
Well the common joke seems to be that this is Stargate III: Flash Gordon. I'm not sure how true some of these rumors are, but we will find out soon enough. Here is a general synopsis of what will be going down, according to these rumors:
Flash Gordon doesn't travel around in a spaceship, he uses wormholes (Stargate) to explore from Earth from a central base (Stargate Command) and fight the evil Mingh the Merciless (G'ould Apophis) while at the same time he is looking for his lost father (Dan Jackson looking for his missing wife).
Wow.
Wow.
Talk about taking a 10 year old concept for a TV series, smacking a different name on it, and shipping it out. If it turns out to be like this, I will laugh.
Anyone heard anything different? Anyone even going to check this out?
At first when I saw something on it, I was at least mildly interested. Re-tellings seem to be the thing these days, and they did good by BSG. However after all of 5 minutes researching the show, I think my mild interested faded to "well, I guess I can TiVo it and watch check it out if I have NOTHING better to do."
It seems they aren't trying to do the original much justice at all. NO spaceship first of all. Man, as a kid watching that short cartoon series, I loved his ship. I realize this is a different day and age, but still, how can you have Flash Gordon without a spaceship?
Then I started reading some plot and series commentaries. You know, since I know they aren't going to have a ship, was this because of low budget? Are they doing something different? I wanted to get a general idea of what I might be in for.
Well the common joke seems to be that this is Stargate III: Flash Gordon. I'm not sure how true some of these rumors are, but we will find out soon enough. Here is a general synopsis of what will be going down, according to these rumors:
Flash Gordon doesn't travel around in a spaceship, he uses wormholes (Stargate) to explore from Earth from a central base (Stargate Command) and fight the evil Mingh the Merciless (G'ould Apophis) while at the same time he is looking for his lost father (Dan Jackson looking for his missing wife).
Wow.
Wow.
Talk about taking a 10 year old concept for a TV series, smacking a different name on it, and shipping it out. If it turns out to be like this, I will laugh.
Anyone heard anything different? Anyone even going to check this out?
