I'm assuming diankra was referring to Barin, who was sorely needed, but vanishes, possibly due to the actor being on another show, and is thematically replaced by the secret son....
Flash Gordon (The series): I felt less traction being born.
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Musical progeny.
The fabulous Steve Bacic (is that pronounced "Basic"?)
Favourite son.
Fortunate son.
Musical progeny.
The fabulous Steve Bacic (is that pronounced "Basic"?)
Favourite son.
Fortunate son.
I am completely running through my teeth my comparison to what Archer should have been, a Joiner not a divider. 
The princesses and Queens of Mongo want to do slick things to this grease monkey, It's so amusing.
"These things just happen to me."
I'm on the home stretch.
2 more to go, a double episode even called Rebellion, and Ming is completely on the ropes.
I wonder if the new Kids from V will also want our water?
The princesses and Queens of Mongo want to do slick things to this grease monkey, It's so amusing.
"These things just happen to me."
I'm on the home stretch.
2 more to go, a double episode even called Rebellion, and Ming is completely on the ropes.
I wonder if the new Kids from V will also want our water?
How can you disassociate the two? It's FLASH GORDON.
It got better as it went along, and Ming was pretty great toward the end - the actor did a good job with an original and necessarily modern take on the character.
Zarkov was great fun.
I was sorry that it wasn't renewed, but not too much so - it was a fun show to have on while I was doing something else, very similar to some of the Stargates.
This is me watching the final.
How can it help but be stargatish? Same era plus money.
i wish the smallville people knew how to put together a season like this.
How can it help but be stargatish? Same era plus money.
i wish the smallville people knew how to put together a season like this.
finished!
I have no idea what all the venom is about? That was a pretty sweet ride.
I have no idea what all the venom is about? That was a pretty sweet ride.
^^Are you watching this on dvd? Didn't realize it had been released. Watching a show in marathon sessions is quite different than watching it one episode, one week at a time, with commercials and other distractions. A bad episode leaves a bad taste in your mouth for a few days, and you debate whether to go back the following week as you critique what you liked-and hated about it. So that early stretch of not so great episodes really had a negative impact over the first half of the season. As things turned around, you then cautiously approached it hoping they'd continue to improve. Those of us who stuck in there felt relief that despite the rocky start, it turned into something worth the time spent watching.
And those who bailed early were extremely skeptical of our sanity.
And those who bailed early were extremely skeptical of our sanity.
Oh, stuff just accidentally jumps into my computer due to no criminal impulses of my own all the time. It's really quite spooky.
I only watched one of them, I think. Did they use Queen? I can't remember. That'd be a major plus!!
The TV show didn't, for some reason I think they used the theme to Men in Black or something similar, I'm shit with music, but SyFy used Queen for the adds... however I did laugh my ass off the few times they added Queen lyrics to the script surreptitiously in casual conversation.
How very odd!
Because it's not Flash Gordon. They just used the same character and place names from his comic strip.
Is this because he wasn't a professional pollo player like in the original material?
he started out star struck, but then made aliances and got the cantons of Mongo to put aside their difference and "team up" against just another Yoko Ono wannabe.
Sounds like Flash Gordon to me.
Dogfights in star ships would have been nice, even playing chicken on those speeder bikes would have been awesome, but they had a budget to consider.
Why did they pick marathon running as his sport? That's about an individual percivering because of his fortitude and conviction and strenth, which is how Ming built his empire not how Flash and the good guys are supposed to do it through co-operation and joint interest (I'm not talking about weed. But the stuff with the Tea was hilarious.).
In the movie, using Football us an underlying metaphor (I loath sports, but I love sports movies.) worked a lot better to explain how the Heroes heart worked.
he started out star struck, but then made aliances and got the cantons of Mongo to put aside their difference and "team up" against just another Yoko Ono wannabe.
Sounds like Flash Gordon to me.
Dogfights in star ships would have been nice, even playing chicken on those speeder bikes would have been awesome, but they had a budget to consider.
Why did they pick marathon running as his sport? That's about an individual percivering because of his fortitude and conviction and strenth, which is how Ming built his empire not how Flash and the good guys are supposed to do it through co-operation and joint interest (I'm not talking about weed. But the stuff with the Tea was hilarious.).
In the movie, using Football us an underlying metaphor (I loath sports, but I love sports movies.) worked a lot better to explain how the Heroes heart worked.
This is what I was alluding to in my vague earlier post (I didn't want to give anything away while you were watching). In the end, when you look back, the core of the Flash Gordon story was there.
Indeed. The series would have definitely benefited from a few more of those kind of trappings.
Interesting observation, personally I had never read anything more into it (polo, football or track) than saying Flash was athletic. I suppose on a lark to defend marathon running one could say it shows that it shows he's committed to the long term and knows to see something to the end through rough patches here and there. Or that he understands that one man truly can make a difference. Mind you, I'm reaching here for the sake of fun.
This is what I can't figure out. SiFi the Network independently paid for "enough" of the Queen Sound track from the Movie made in '80 to make some awesome advertisements, mark me: before I started drinking, the highlight of my Friday Nights was singing along to the theme track of the Highlander TV Show... but Ads with Queen Music when the show itself is so penny pinching that it can't keep pace with the.... This bugger didn't'ave a chance?
I've just started episode 6, I'm not planning on rising till I've seen them all, but it's not as awful as i had been lead to believe which is why i was interested because I wanted to see some thing truly horrible when this is only as about bad as the middle seasons of Smallville after they lost all sense of direction or maybe the first season of Stargate, which means it was about at home on the SiFi and could have survived with a couple extra hundred bucks an episode, or it was made a decade earlier when such things were tolerable.
Like a tick, everytime they said Hawkman, I said Plough Guy.
Problem with using the Queen soundtrack from the FG film to promote the dull series was that is served to remind the viewer on what they were missing. It is like running the Star Wars score on one of really bad scifi movies. The FG film was very over-the-top and colorful - the very antithesis of what this bland series was. And no, city managers don't make a real threatening villain. Suppose Darth Vader had been an accountant? Would he work just as well? And reducing an 'evil' galactic empire to one city does help either.
And I am getting a little tired of scifi productions that refuse to put even a small amount of a budget into it. I'm sorry, shows like B5 did not have huge budgets either but they managed to effectively depict a show in space. Changing one of THE classic SPACE operas into an Earth-bound Slider kind of show was absurd.
I must say that when his twins, one of them lost in the boondocks, rose up against him, I did have myself thinking of one paricular dark lord of the Sith.
Then the real villain of Star Wars was Grand Moff Tarkin, who was altogether just a middle manager trying to complete "theapprenticelike" his Death Star project put forward to him by that unseen Emperor. Which makes Vader really seem like a foot soldier, and so he should be since it's his job to kill his master and his masters job to improve himself (Pink Panther anyone?) by avoiding the constant attempts on his life.
Vader was a Lemon.
There was a woman once trying to make a point to me and friend almost as far gone as I am, during a brain fart, trying to make ridiculous point about relationships and power, and she said to us "Yes, he's the Emperor, but the Emperor of what?"
We looked at her, then each other, and I swear to god we answered in unison like it was a sitcom gag: "The Empire."
Then the real villain of Star Wars was Grand Moff Tarkin, who was altogether just a middle manager trying to complete "theapprenticelike" his Death Star project put forward to him by that unseen Emperor. Which makes Vader really seem like a foot soldier, and so he should be since it's his job to kill his master and his masters job to improve himself (Pink Panther anyone?) by avoiding the constant attempts on his life.
Vader was a Lemon.
There was a woman once trying to make a point to me and friend almost as far gone as I am, during a brain fart, trying to make ridiculous point about relationships and power, and she said to us "Yes, he's the Emperor, but the Emperor of what?"
We looked at her, then each other, and I swear to god we answered in unison like it was a sitcom gag: "The Empire."
No, because the characters and their relationships, as well as the premise, have been so drastically altered.
Not at all. They changed the details, but everyone and everything was pretty recognizably Flash Gordon and nothing else.
The end, what with being stuck on Mongo, well that just seemed a hell of a lot like (reverse it) the final episode of Sarah Connor, but then any unresolved cliff hanger probably is.
I always thought that he should have ended up with Aura, but watching him phase out of love potion duel to the death with Barin over her hand in marriage was hilarious... "Love her? I don't even like her."
They couldn't have made Hans Zarkov as THEHANSZARKOV because obviously he would have taken point casting an actor barely into his thirties when Flash was all of 26... But I like to think that most of the elements that would have been applied to a propperly powerful THEHANSZARKOV were shifted over to Rykol's character... Of course if Hans had been all that, the story would have ended up as Doctor Who vs the Master as THEHANSZARKOV and Rykol use science to destroy each other.
I always thought that he should have ended up with Aura, but watching him phase out of love potion duel to the death with Barin over her hand in marriage was hilarious... "Love her? I don't even like her."
They couldn't have made Hans Zarkov as THEHANSZARKOV because obviously he would have taken point casting an actor barely into his thirties when Flash was all of 26... But I like to think that most of the elements that would have been applied to a propperly powerful THEHANSZARKOV were shifted over to Rykol's character... Of course if Hans had been all that, the story would have ended up as Doctor Who vs the Master as THEHANSZARKOV and Rykol use science to destroy each other.
