Revisiting Space: 1999...

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Warped, I've enjoyed your troll through the seasons and the discussion it's started. It's also reminded me to go back and watch some episodes, so it's all good.

It wasn't intended as a troll, or did you mean stroll?

Gosh! In my neighbourhood we use "troll" as slang for "trawl" - going through something systematically. I didn't mean "troll" in the internet sense. So, sorry, for any confusion, there, Warped. No offense intended, I just wrote it as I thought it!

In Polari, "troll" means to walk about in search of casual sex.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'd gladly take a warning for that.

 

[johnnybear]

As a big fan of 1999 I thought I'd have to enter my two bits! The moon leaving earth orbit, is this plausible or should it have been destroyed? Who knows? How does the moon reach all this different planets each week after leaving earth's solar system? Well if the channel showing the episodes puts Black Sun on early in the run (an episode about the moon being pulled into a black hole and finding itself on the other side of the universe) Or Another Time, Another Place (an episode where the moon collides with a ion storm, later to be called a space warp, and travels back to a future earth where humanity is extinct and only the ashes of past civilizations remain also they meet their future and alternate selves who have found earth before they did and then the moon finds itself somewhere else in the universe at the end) plus according to many scientists planets and stars are closer to each other than in this part of the universe! So that's your answer! The mysterious force which is directing the moon on it's journey also disappears in series two as well...
JB

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Yeah, I think they intended it to be relativity as the means by which they were able to visit so many solar systems. For one thing, they talked about how time was passing slower to them relative to time on Earth.

 

[locutus101]

Personally, I love Space 1999, I don't care how wacky it is, it's very enjoyable and the actors are terrific.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

At the time it was originally shown in the UK in the mid 70s, there was a dearth of sci-fi on TV other than Star Trek repeats and Dr Who. As I was a student at the time, many episodes were watched through an alcoholic haze. The first season was definitely more enjoyable to me than the second, even with the help of C2H5OH, largely due to Fred Freiberger's influence on the production of the latter season. Out went the metaphysical elements and Barry Morse, and in came sillier plots and aliens. Passed the time though before I passed out.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What's the status on the remake (Space: 2099)?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Seems to be stuck in development the last couple of years -- that is, there's probably no money forthcoming.

 

[locutus101]

What's the status on the remake (Space: 2099)?

There's to be a remake? I had no idea.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

There were actually two different Space: 2099s.

One was a re-edit of the existing episodes, to remove references to 1999 and push the show forward a century or so. The second (unrelated to the first, just happened to have the same name) was an actual reboot/remake of the whole thing.

Don't know what became of either of them, really.

 

[locutus101]

There were actually two different Space: 2099s.

One was a re-edit of the existing episodes, to remove references to 1999 and push the show forward a century or so. The second (unrelated to the first, just happened to have the same name) was an actual reboot/remake of the whole thing.

Don't know what became of either of them, really.

Chances are they're tied up in a legal battle about copyrights.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

One was a re-edit of the existing episodes, to remove references to 1999 and push the show forward a century or so.

That's brilliant as there's nothing else that dates the series. The kids will be watching in no time.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Good one.

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

Well, I doubt the re-edit project would affect the planned reboot, it was just a fan thing, totally unofficial.

 

[locutus101]

Personally I like the series just as it is, plus the series that inspired it, UFO. Remember about this one?

 

[Galileo7]

Well, I doubt the re-edit project would affect the planned reboot, it was just a fan thing, totally unofficial.

The Space:2099 re-edit was revising and improving including changing the year. Such as what was done for TOS revising special effects.

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[locutus101]

The Space:2099 re-edit was revising and improving including changing the year. Such as what was done for TOS revising special effects.

Sounds like too much work for little to no effect. Personally, I don't care if they say 1999 or 2099. I enjoy it all the same.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The Space:2099 re-edit was revising and improving including changing the year. Such as what was done for TOS revising special effects.

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I had forgotten all about that, too bad nothing seems to have come from it (that I know). I don't know that it's essential, the bit about re-editing it to be punchier seems a bit misguided, but it seems like it would've been fun to watch.

 

[locutus101]

I had forgotten all about that, too bad nothing seems to have come from it (that I know). I don't know that it's essential, the bit about re-editing it to be punchier seems a bit misguided, but it seems like it would've been fun to watch.

More fun than the original?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

More fun than the original?

Having already seen the original it would be fun to see an reimagined update to it. I've watched a number of unofficial "fan edits" over the years and it is fun to see movies you know reinterpreted in a new way.