A quick search online tells me that the DVDs have had the music replaced by sound alike tracks, or cut out entirely, resulting in some trimmed scenes; whereas the Blu-ray has the licensed music restored.
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A quick search online tells me that the DVDs have had the music replaced by sound alike tracks, or cut out entirely, resulting in some trimmed scenes; whereas the Blu-ray has the licensed music restored.
Right. Season 3 of Picard gives dates that would place it before season 2.
It was about as much of a season finale as anything would be back then, in that it was a self-contained episode that had unusually high stakes and introduced a new story element that would have been developed further in season 2 if the original writing team hadn't been sacked.
The season 1 aliens attempted any number of schemes that would've caused mass death and destruction if they'd succeeded, like causing nuclear or biological disasters. And many of their plans did succeed at killing a lot of people, since it was a horror show, so the bad guys often won.
There were plenty of color sci-fi movies in the 1950s, e.g. Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide, Invaders from Mars, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, This Island Earth, Conquest of Space, and Forbidden Planet, so The War of the Worlds' vivid Technicolor spectacle is very much "of the time." The TV episode using black-and-white to represent a 1950s feel was always misguided.
It's Indiana Jones all over again!
Still a lot of American productions being made in Canada for tax credit reasons. Continues to this day. Some of the biggest most recent ones are both Discovery and Strange New Worlds. It's better to work together for a more meaningful economy.
Oh and Due South was set in Chicago, not NY. But yes, I've heard that story too. But I would think it's a common tactic in filmmaking when you want to dress up an area.
And then there are the fully Canadian productions that have been popular around the world, such as Letterkenny and spinoffs (shot locally, and even had a friend who was asked by the production to borrow his classic truck for a 2nd season episode), Schitt's Creek, North of North, etc.
Invasion and Flash Forward were the two shows that made me stop watching programs based on a single story arc. That and the show where the world ends up without electricity. I liked those shows and was invested in the story and was pissed off when they were cancelled without decent endings. At least Fascape and Firefly got a chance to finish their stories.
I quite disliked Almost Human, though I don't remember why. A search of that title and my name could probably turn up past TrekBBS posts where I discuss it, but I'm not curious enough to look myself.
Vagrant Queen is way too recent for this nostalgia thread (which seems to be in need of renaming at this point), but it was a great deal of fun, though more violent than I was comfortable with. I wasn't crazy about the worldbuilding where it was an alien galaxy where Earth was all but known, yet English slang and Earth music and pop culture were ubiquitous. But it was impressive that a low-budget cable show managed to put every character but one in prosthetic alien makeup to at least a small extent. (Although the season finale cliffhanger had the characters sent to Earth, which was probably a budget-saving move.)
Vagrant Queen is way too recent for this nostalgia thread (which seems to be in need of renaming at this point), but it was a great deal of fun, though more violent than I was comfortable with. I wasn't crazy about the worldbuilding where it was an alien galaxy where Earth was all but known, yet English slang and Earth music and pop culture were ubiquitous. But it was impressive that a low-budget cable show managed to put every character but one in prosthetic alien makeup to at least a small extent. (Although the season finale cliffhanger had the characters sent to Earth, which was probably a budget-saving move.)
I do remember enjoying Flash Forward. I've never seen Vagrant Queen or Almost Human.
I tried watching Captain Power, but it didn't click for me. I know that JMS did it, and I typically like his stuff. But this show wasn't working for me. I'll try it again next year.
I tried watching Captain Power, but it didn't click for me. I know that JMS did it, and I typically like his stuff. But this show wasn't working for me. I'll try it again next year.
FlashForward was based on a novel by Robert J Sawyer, a Canadian novelist. Sometimes when it comes down to adapting a novel, they get heavily retooled down to being unrecognizable from the source material. I loved the premise as depicted in the book, but was quite disappointed in how they applied the premise to the TV show.
Well, it was primarily a vehicle to sell toys, so that's not terribly surprising. It was made so that kids would zap the screen with their toys.
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This was my take with Under the Dome.
Except Sawyer was a consultant on the show and wrote one episode of it. Looking at his blog posts about it, it seems that Sawyer was generally pleased with the show and expected it to strike its own path rather than directly adapting the novel, though his memo to the producers about a possible season 2 includes some strong post-mortem criticisms about mistakes made in season 1.
It was a kids' which tried to tackle adult themes. Perhaps it wasn't successful at it.
Straczynski got his start in kids' animation like He-Man, and he was good at bringing greater intelligence and sophistication to its writing than was typical for the time, particularly in The Real Ghostbusters. Captain Power was something of a transition between that and his work on prime-time TV.
I didn't know that. May check out the book.
Sure, that may be, and more power to him for being pleased with it, but the book was vastly superior for how it played with the concept. In the end, some concepts are just difficult to adapt to a different medium. At least it looks like they had fun with it.
I just thought of another one season sci-fi show, "Otherworld".
The premise was a family getting transported to a "near Earth" planet in another dimension and how the planet was both more advanced and backwards at the same time.
I think I may have caught one episode before the series was canceled.
The premise was a family getting transported to a "near Earth" planet in another dimension and how the planet was both more advanced and backwards at the same time.
I think I may have caught one episode before the series was canceled.
I've added the book to my TBR. I'm curious now.
I haven't seen that show in a long time. Any idea where to stream it?
^Oh, I don't know know. I'd be surprised if it streamed anywhere, especially in this day and age where everything is cast off if they aren't successful. Maybe Tubi?
What's fun about the novel is that it looked much further into the future; 21 and a half years in fact. The TV series was more like baby steps in comparison, supposedly to keep the actors looking young , which is one of the major differences.
What's fun about the novel is that it looked much further into the future; 21 and a half years in fact. The TV series was more like baby steps in comparison, supposedly to keep the actors looking young , which is one of the major differences.
That depends on how you define adaptation. The word literally means to change something to fit a new context. It's not about copying the original, it's about using its concepts as a launching point for something new and distinct, something that complements it rather than competing with it. If the original approach to that idea isn't a good fit to a different medium, then finding a whole new and different approach that works for that medium is the right way to go. It doesn't matter how different it is from the book, because the book is still there. It isn't going anywhere, and it isn't harmed in any way by the existence of a new work only loosely based on it.
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