Land of the Giants

[Guy Gardener]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062578/

Irwin Allen.

He's like a serial offender against good taste.

I laughed when I saw how distantly this shit heap was set into the future...

1983.

Gods.

The Pilot just started, but form the introductions during the opening credits, looking at the stewardesses, I can see why Pan Am failed as a series in the modern day...

Boobs weren't bigger back then, in fact because of the common-placedness of surgery, they were smaller, but the fashion police in the 60s just knew how to make less look like so, so, so much more.

Still watching...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Apparently Allen never heard of the square-cube law.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Apparently Allen never heard of the square-cube law.

Just finished episode two.

Why didn't the Smurfs get Yohan and PeeWee to burn down Gargamels Hovel, then draw and quarter the old Wizard... The prince of the realm slept in the same room as Clock Work smurf blurring the line between pet and friend...

Their ship has been stolen, they find a Miniature town, think they're back on earth, but they're terrorized by a 10 year old girl for no governable reason...

They keep meting crazy people.

They have an industrialist engineer with them, who to the civil authorities is more valuable than ten Einsteins, so fart that tiny earthlings would be a super valuable commodity if not allies, that if shipwrecked idiots would stop picking fights with children and almost being eaten by cats or vivisected by mad scientists...

How do you make napalm?

http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-to-make-and-safer-to-breathe-Napalm/

Sugar plus fuel.

easy.

What about poisons?

No.

Fire you can't put out is still their best bet.

A decent supply of phosphorus would be awesome.

You see, they're being pushed around by idiots and children, when really their ability to fight back is stupid because then they'll just be hunted and executed, their only really hope is citizenship and naturalization, but so far everyone they've met on the Planet of the Giants is crazy, an asshole or both.

The cube square rule would sure rule out air flight for the giants?

Maybe colossal dirigibles?

I guess I'm ready for episode 3.

 

[scotpens]

Oh, lighten up, folks. Expecting believable science in an Irwin Allen production is like expecting to find cheeseburgers on the menu at a kosher deli.

Land of the Giants was easily the weakest of IA’s four 1960s television series, but I always found it mildly entertaining. Of course, it may have helped that I was just 15 then.

And how about the spaceship Spindrift? It's supposed to be a sub-orbital shuttle, but it has no wings, nothing like an airfoil or lifting-body shape, no point where it could piggyback onto a booster or launch vehicle, and no apparent landing gear. However, it does have a superfluous bubble dome, a silly-looking antenna, inexplicable flashing lights in what are presumed to be engine air intakes, and a cavernous interior with just six passenger seats.

And it’s orange. Irwin Allen loved orange.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I would have settled for at least a cursory examination as to what life is like on this alternate world. From what little I could gather, it seemed like a totalitarian police state of some kind. And the writing, AFAIK, wasn't even in a recognizable alphabet.

 

[Christopher]

LotG was a fun show. They did cool stuff with the special effects, all the giant props and splitscreen work. The cast was mostly good, and they did an admirable job writing Don Marshall's character as every bit the equal of the white cast members.

And it had Deanna Lund. 'Nuff said.

 

[Greg Cox]

Apparently Allen never heard of the square-cube law.

Neither did THEM!, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, pretty much every Japanese monster movie . . . and GULLIVER'S TRAVELS!

I think we can cut him some slack here.

 

[RandyS]

LotG was a fun show. They did cool stuff with the special effects, all the giant props and splitscreen work. The cast was mostly good, and they did an admirable job writing Don Marshall's character as every bit the equal of the white cast members.

And it had Deanna Lund. 'Nuff said.

Exactly.

 

[scotpens]

Apparently Allen never heard of the square-cube law.

Neither did THEM!, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, pretty much every Japanese monster movie . . . and GULLIVER'S TRAVELS!

Not to mention every movie Bert I. Gordon ever made.

 

[Kelso]

Hey, I really liked this show when I was a kid!

 

[Greg Cox]

Apparently Allen never heard of the square-cube law.

Neither did THEM!, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, pretty much every Japanese monster movie . . . and GULLIVER'S TRAVELS!

Not to mention every movie Bert I. Gordon ever made.

Such as The Amazing Colossal Man . . .

 

[RandyS]

Hey, I really liked this show when I was a kid!

I really like this show NOW.

Although, it HAS been a while since I've seen it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Apparently Allen never heard of the square-cube law.

Neither did THEM!, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, pretty much every Japanese monster movie . . . and GULLIVER'S TRAVELS!

I think we can cut him some slack here.

You shouldn't joke about making nooses.

These were hard working people who where just trying to feed their families.

 

[stj]

I'm afraid Guy is especially incomprehensible today, so I'll shamelessly go off topic to mention another terrible series that I still liked, even it it was done in 1959.

World of Giants starring Marshall Thompson (TV's Daktari and the human prop oppositie Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion)

Our friend was a six inch spy. Which incidentally shows TV was doing genre shows with SF elements way back.

 

[MANT!]

It's all in the flight safety cards..

 

[Disruptor]

I would have settled for at least a cursory examination as to what life is like on this alternate world. From what little I could gather, it seemed like a totalitarian police state of some kind. And the writing, AFAIK, wasn't even in a recognizable alphabet.

But they spoke English, right? GIANT ENGLISH, though, with all captial letters.

 

[Greg Cox]

I'm kind of surprised nobody has tried to remake this yet, although we'd probably end up with a wacky comedy version starring Will Ferrell . . . .

 

[RandyS]

I'm kind of surprised nobody has tried to remake this yet

Give it time. Somebody will eventually.

 

[Saga]

I'm kind of surprised nobody has tried to remake this yet, although we'd probably end up with a wacky comedy version starring Will Ferrell . . . .

shhhhh....someone will hear you!

 

[Santeria]

But they spoke English, right? GIANT ENGLISH, though, with all captial letters.

That's pretty unique to Land of the Giants. You hardly ever see that problem in any other sci-fi shows.