[TML] Strange societys

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 4 Mar 2008 at 8:30, Lord Ronin from Q-Link wrote:

> Hoi Leon:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Leon Wu wrote:
> 
> > Apparently it sucked to high heaven. Ellison quit in disgust as did Ben
> > Bova. I vaguely remember the intro but don't remember much of the show.
> > Now there's a series that could be re-imagined!
> 
>  Accepting that it is the same show in my mind. Over bright vid tape, sets
> and computer special effects <well it was supposed to be computers doing
> the stuff> that makes late 70s Dr. Who look good. Perhaps I can see why.
> Really ultra low budget.

Actually, it wasn't that low budget. It's just that the fols 
producing it didn't care.

>  All I really remember about the show was the escape of the "heretic" guy
> and the girl from the <can't think of proper word> in some witch hunting
> tech level. Followed by the girls intended as the hunter with a sort of
> crossbow. Finding that they are on a great ark that has lost its crew.
> Several different computers are running the ship. Not all are in
> agreement. Ship contains different domes/pods of differetn time periods
> and cultures of earth. Ship is heading to a black hole.

Just a star, actually.

> Adventure was with
> the computers on the ship, some aliens that would arrive from time to
> time. Of course the different areas of the ship. Ithink there was a plot
> line of some sort of scavenger hunt to sasve the ship. But it has been
> since the originall airing that I saw the show.

Harlan's original concept was that the two guys and the gal would be 
wandering thru the ship trying to find the control room/bridge so 
they could change course.

The producer instead decided to have them find the bridge in the 
*first episode*, discover it was broken and they go looking for the 
backup bridge.

The number of problems with this are many. Including "and there's 
nothing telling you where the backup is?"

Dumbest plot concept until V and the "We're here to steal your water" 
bit.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com