There were tons of better explanation than "a big boom moved the moon". Wormholes, folded spacetime, quantum teleportation, hyperspace etc. But they choosed the worst one.
Revisiting Space: 1999...
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Bain could project and emote, but you just don't see it in S1999.
Maybe she was bored or something and trying to get herself thrown off the show?
Candidly, though, I wasn't impressed with acting in general in the show which was a surprise given performers like Landau and Morse. Maybe it was the direction given throughout much of the series. The general calibre of performances was nowhere as good as Star Trek or UFO.
Maybe she was bored or something and trying to get herself thrown off the show?
Candidly, though, I wasn't impressed with acting in general in the show which was a surprise given performers like Landau and Morse. Maybe it was the direction given throughout much of the series. The general calibre of performances was nowhere as good as Star Trek or UFO.
I think the implication in the series was that a higher, intelligent power was responsible. What it used to move the Moon, other than a plot requirement drive, is anyone's guess.
Quantum teleportation wasn't envisaged until 1993, although quantum entanglement has been known about since 1935, when Schrödinger coined the term in response to the paper by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen.
There was a lot of ham acting on display from Brian Blessed and others. I think it's best watched when slightly inebriated. Sylvia Anderson seems to have found Bain and Landau a bit of pain to deal with:
(go to 6 minute mark)
But that's Brian Blessed for you but then he's also able to dial the ham right down and give the performance exactly what it needs (such as portraying Augustus in I, Claudius).
Not sure whether Bain's acting wouldn't have drawn so much attention if she and Landau hadn't be bought in to help sell the the show in the U.S (and thus help get American funding).
Oh and these's a Big Finish Doctor Who audio where the main story line riffs Space:1999 but there's an even bigger riff on Dr Helena Woods.
Well, sometimes people confuse wooden and subtle.
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The only valid response to the Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen and Bohm thought experiment is Bell's theorem.
Some Japanese acting seems completely the opposite. It's a matter of taste and cultural expectation..
The Universe seems to permit nonlocality as long as you can't use it as a communication channel. Entanglement might actually underpin space-time.
http://www.nature.com/news/the-quantum-source-of-space-time-1.18797
Sure, you can't send a message that way.
The reason that I mentioned quantum teleportation in response to @Skipper's post is because Gerry Anderson would have needed a time machine to be able to use that term in 1975 unless he just got lucky.
Quantum entanglement, Bell's inequality etc were not widely known about outside academic circles and their usage as plot devices would seem unrelated to the dramatic situation and would be just more technobabble to the audience. However, if a quantum entanglement is equivalent to a wormhole, even only theoretically, the potential for using it in fiction become apparent -- although it would still likely sound like technobabble to most people.
Quantum entanglement, Bell's inequality etc were not widely known about outside academic circles and their usage as plot devices would seem unrelated to the dramatic situation and would be just more technobabble to the audience. However, if a quantum entanglement is equivalent to a wormhole, even only theoretically, the potential for using it in fiction become apparent -- although it would still likely sound like technobabble to most people.
I guess genuine science sounds like technobabble to most people and that's why they don't bother. Voyager is notorious for that, more often than not it's completely stupid.
I used an anachronistic term, but the concept was that even at the time there were other sci-fi alternative to move the moon. The obvious fact is that there wasn't a scientific consultant on the show. (See Black Sun. The term "Black Hole" was first used in the 1964).
ETA: According to Wikipedia, by the 1976 the term "Black Hole" was already widely used in the Sci-Fi literature. So the 1999's writers never bothered to read a Sci-Fi novel or story.
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Well, one thing that is never said in the series is that moving the moon that fast would have created tidal waves on Earth of cataclysmic proportions and likely destroyed the fauna and flora dependent on the alternance of high and low tide.
Didn't they mention this in the pilot?
They did? I am sorry but I don't remember.
Gerry Anderson's shows weren't renown for being scientifically very accurate. However, they were entertaining, usually. He did make one drama documentary (The Day After Tomorrow) -- it also was pretty fanciful scientifically and not very entertaining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow_(TV_special)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow_(TV_special)
It's funny, but back then they said "series", they really meant "season", didn't they?
Yeah, that's a UK thing.
Ah ok.Thank you.
See also his Hamlet Sr.'s Ghost in Derek Jacoby's BBC production of Hamlet. Blessed whispered his lines.
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