At long last... Dark Skies on DVD

[Orac Zen]

Excellent news. I enjoyed this show a lot and would really like to see it again.


(Now that hell has frozen over far enough for Dark Skies to be released on DVD, I'd love to see it freeze all the way over - which is probably the only way Now and Again will ever see a DVD release.)

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Nice this is one series I've wanted to watch the rest of at some point. One question tho was its ending on a clffhanger or more open ended type?

I would say open-ended although a cliffhanger might have made for a better episode.

ETA -- the title sequence as a reminder of the premise of the show:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWHbwgOsEls&feature=player_embedded[/yt]

 

[Ethros]

I remember reading somewhere it had been planned to last 5 seasons/years, ending before the millenium and the (as said in the show) arrival of the 10th planet and the Hive. And towards the end old John (who narrates the show) would create a TV show based on his exploits called 'Dark Skies'...

 

[TedShatner10]

I've certainly enjoyed it more than the fourth season of Lost and it's a bit better than Taken (which had Eric Close in a supporting role as a Grey).

 

[Australis]

This show, along with Odyssey 5, is one of the great missed opportunities in SF TV, and a damn shame it wasn't completed.

 

[Hugo Rune]

This show, along with Odyssey 5, is one of the great missed opportunities in SF TV, and a damn shame it wasn't completed.

Add in Now & Again and I'll hi-five you.

All I remember really about this show is a feeling. I don't remember plot points. I don't even really remember the characters. But I remember the feeling I had when I was younger looking forward to it.

And it's that feeling that'll drive me to renting the show when it comes out, to see if that feeling is still there.

Eric Close needs another lead in a show, outside of another dumb police procedural. He was epic in Now & Again (one of the biggest missed opportunities of all time IMO) and he needs to flex his chiselled jaw once more as a lead!


Hugo - Mmmm '60's Megan Ward...

 

[bigdaddy]

This show, along with Odyssey 5, is one of the great missed opportunities in SF TV, and a damn shame it wasn't completed.

I like you.

Both seemed to have basic 5 year plans and both were fucked over. In O5 case though it was because of the asshole president of Shit...Showtime that canceled all the sci-fi shows, Out Limits, Stargate SG-1, Dead Like Me, and O5.

 

[Saga]

i haven't seen this show since it first came on NBC. i remember liking it at the time, gonna have to pick this up to see how well it holds up. now if only they would release season 3 of seaQuest

 

[TedShatner10]

The early to mid 1990s style CGI has dated, but that kinda adds to the charm (like with Babylon 5 and [iThe Next Generation).

It seems pretty awful that the imbeciles who run NBC a decade later decided to keep Heroes on the air when its writers - unlike the writers behind Dark Skies - clearly didn't plan ahead for four or five seasons.

I wonder how the story arc would've progressed through the 70s and 80s? The latest batch of Hive parasites in "Bloodlines" were revealed as being more cybernetic (to counteract chemical removal) and with the Hive seemingly having no further use for Jim Steele and Sawyer (both becoming the Manson gang) we would've had Phil Albano (O'Farrell) and possibly Juliet Stewart (Jeri) as Hive possessed antagonists in the later seasons.

 

[Australis]

This show, along with Odyssey 5, is one of the great missed opportunities in SF TV, and a damn shame it wasn't completed.

Add in Now & Again and I'll hi-five you.

In that case... hi-five!

And props to bigdaddy too.

 

[TedShatner10]

Also I like how when Eric Close's character snatched away his abducted son he held the Hive Greys at bay with a baseball bat: it seems like the writers of Dark Skies insinuated that the Hive are being subtle about the conquest of Earth and show an interest in humans because their current Grey hosts' bodies and their civilization - as advanced as it is - is very fragile and built around benign, passive exploration, and not aggressive military conquest. And a Grey space vessel was brought down with comparative ease by late WWII/early Cold War firepower.

And the history between the humans and Greys, insinuating that they're related, is an reasonable explanation why the "alien" Hive can posses people with no risk of rejection.