Roddenberry’s Genesis II and Planet Earth Coming to DVD
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Frankly, I'm being a lot more forgiving towards Enterprise lately. "These Are The Voyages..." is pretty unredeemable, but it can also be pretty easily discarded as a badly written holofantasy. The rest can probably be tweaked to fit back into continuity, or, in the case of the first three seasons, what doesn't fit can be declared discarded after the timeline was set right following the resolution of the Temporal Cold Sore.
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Genesis II and Planet Earth suffered from a syndrom seemingly common in 70s TV SF. They were Earth bound after-disaster shows. The TV versions of Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes had similar formats, with the added trope of being chase shows. Cant say I ever warmed to that format. Give me stars and spaceships!!!!
With both Apes and Logan they could have set them in the societies presented in the movies (Ape City and Whatever Logan's was called) instead doing a chase shows that showed us the natural wonders of Southern California. Both had interesting societies that could have been expanded on and used to comment on "current" events. Logan might have even been ahead of its time with its "youth culture" and laser surgery
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JJ's movie is still crap that doesn't even make sense within its own continuity, never mind the original timeline.
Welcome back to the Grey Side, where Trekkie rationalization rules.
JJ's movie is still crap that doesn't even make sense within its own continuity, never mind the original timeline.
Another grand Trek tradition it follows then!
Herberts abound, clearly.
Just watched both DVDs. Genesis II was good all the way around, video and audio. My copy of Planet Earth has major 'digital' hiss in the auido track. I'm not sure if the copy I have is bad or what. I'll put it into another DVD player to see if the problem follows the disc tomorrow. Still, would anyone who has Planet Earth, please check your copy and see if you hear any problems with the audio. The problem seems worse when there is no music/sound fx/voice. If the music rises up, the noise seems to be less loud.
thanks,
wayland
thanks,
wayland
Consider: Planet Earth was made BEFORE Road Warrior...
Junky paste-together vehicles driven by savage creeps in a post-apocalyptic world- ?
Junky paste-together vehicles driven by savage creeps in a post-apocalyptic world- ?
I am so stealing this line and putting it on a t-shirt!
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It's funny. I still remember CBS adverstising "Genesis II" in 1973 as:
"From the creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II."
I don't recall if ABC advertised "Planet Earth" as the sequel to "Genesis II" or not. Can anybody remember if "The Questor Tapes" originally aired on NBC or not, I think it did but I am not sure.
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"From the creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II."
I don't recall if ABC advertised "Planet Earth" as the sequel to "Genesis II" or not. Can anybody remember if "The Questor Tapes" originally aired on NBC or not, I think it did but I am not sure.
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I'm pretty sure "Genesis II" wasn't mentioned in the "Planet Earth" ads (although Roddenberry was prominently mentioned), and I'm about 90% certain that "The Questor Tapes" ran on NBC.
