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From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless)
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Subject: Re: Space 1999, UFO, et al
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 15:48:46 EDT
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> *PLEASE* can those who are guilty stop slagging Space 1999, UFO et al.
> There was nothing wrong with them when you were young.
> (weren't you guys *ever* kids?)

I was twelve when 1999 first premiered.  I thought it was bug eyed
monsters then. The premiere had radiation turning people's eyes into
fried eggs.  (Remember that?)  The show was bug eyed monsters and
more bug eyed monsters.

> Who gives a toss about the force required to blast the moon out of the
> Earths orbit? Most sci-fi is far fetched - it's meant to be. 

But why does it have to be?  Couldn't the writers have spent a little
more time with the typewriter and taken it out of the realm of bug
eyed monsters?  The show had potential.  The show's budget was adequate.
Catherine Schell, Barry Morse, and the Landaus were all adequate.  
The scripts that made the actors say the dumbest lines were the problem.
Those same script writers shot the moon out of orbit.  I say shoot
the writers!

> Constructive criticism and personal opinions yes, but cut out the slagging.

What's the difference?  This is the net, land of flames :-)