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70's Sci-Fi!

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Just stumbled across this blog: http://space1970.blogspot.com/

This guy has some very, very awesome stuff posted! Brings back a lot of memories of my formative years as a sci-fi fan. And, anyone who posts picutres of Maren Jensen (of BSG) can't be all bad, right?
 
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Oh that's awesome. I had no idea they had remastered "Battle Beyond the Stars" and put it out on Blu-Ray. I must have!
 
I didn't enjoy the writing or a lot of the performances in most of the 70s stuff referenced - I was already an adult at the time - but it all had a visual flair and a kind of inventiveness, working around limited budgets, that was and is exciting and inspiring in ways that much of the more sophisticated and "perfect" imagery of the present day doesn't really touch.
 
Yep, sci-fi was a lot of fun back then even if at times it seemed limited even for the time.

Beside Star Trek I enjoyed U.F.O., The Six-Milllion Dollar Man, The Night Stalker and quite a few films of the era.
 
The 70's produced some of the coolest ships ever created for sci-fi. The refit Enterprise and the Millenium Falcon are two examples that stand out in particular. I love the aethetics of 70's scifi even when it looks badly dated.
 
Oh, that takes me back. Thanks for the link!

I was a kid during this period, so I took a lot of this stuff very seriously when it first came out. Now I still love it for nostalgia reasons.

Sean
 
Great site!! I just got done watching the '74 Planet of the Apes tv series. Even with some bad scripts and limited fx, the camaraderie of the main characters, Mark Lenard chewing up the scenery as Urko, and the on-location shoots helped elevate it a little higher than the expectations I had going in.

I may have to look into re-watching BSG-TOS. I remember the first 5 episodes along with 2-parters "Living Legend" and "War of the Gods" being pretty good, too.:)
 
I tried watching the Logan's Run TV show the other day.

Awful.

However, the writers had a competent grasp of time travel which surprised the shit out of me. A scientist from before the atomic war arrives in the present knowing that if he finds out how to stop the future from happening that everyone he meets he will have killed as the timeline rights itself so by the crux of the episode he's apologising for murdering Logan and all his friends.

Though, after leering at that pin up of some heroine from Jason of Star command for a few sweaty moments, I might just have to go see if I can find a few episodes of that disaster.
 
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I tried watching the Logan's Run TV show the other day.

Awful.

However, the writers had a competent grasp of time travel which surprised the shit out of me. A scientist from before the atomic war arrives in the present knowing that if he finds out how to stop the future from happening that everyone he meets he will have killed as the timeline rights itself so by the crux of the episode he's apologising for murdering Logan and all his friends.
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Man Out of Time was written by David Gerrold, who also wrote one of the great time travel nolves ever: The Man Who Folded Himself. So, not suprised he did well with the time-travel aspects of the story.

Though, after leering at that pin up of some heroine from Jason of Star command for a few sweaty moments, I might just have to go see if I can find a few episodes of that disaster.
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For a low-budget Saturday-morning show that aired in 15-minute blocks, and was aimed at a young audience, it really isn't that bad. Although Ark II and Space Academy were better, IMO.
 
I just watched the first 15 minute block.

Jason is so cheesy.

Susan Pratt was cute, but she couldn't have been much older than 17 (edit, she was 22.), and this is the amazing this about her wardrobe... Her pants were not skin tight! Kind of military issue fatigues bordering on pantaloons.

Love that 70s Julie the Cruise Director hair cut.

Jason rammed his way through an airlock, which was obliviously made of plywood and... I don't know if I have enough suspension of disbelief available to watch this show.
 
Jason was a kid's show. It's fun, it's space oipera. Relax, have another bowl of Cap'n Crunch, and enjoy it for what it is.
 
Oh, but I remember watching it as a kid.

You know, when I was wide eyed an bushy tailed.

There's a rough schism between what I remember and what I just saw even though I am under no disillusion about the intended audience.

I'm more disappointed in me than Jason of Star Command.

....

I tried watching Quark a few months back.

Painfully unfunny.
 
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