EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE
The starship heads off into space.
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ROLL CREDITS.
The starship heads off into space.
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ROLL CREDITS.
Was the cancellation a blessing in disguise?
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Interesting question. I do think that the sense that TOS was snuffed out before its time may have contributed to the persistent fannish lobbying for a revival.
Look at Firefly/Serenity these days. Pretty much the same phenomenon.
By contrast, I'm not seeing huge pushes to revive Buffy or Angel or Smallville or X-Files or Xena, because, I suspect, there's a general sense that, for better or for worse, those shows had run their course and enjoyed good, healthy runs. Fans are satisfied that they got their fair share.
Questions of declining quality aside, if TOS had completed its five-year mission, it's possible fans would have not have felt "cheated" out of What Might Have Been and just accepted, okay, that was a great show but it's over now. What next?
Interesting question. I do think that the sense that TOS was snuffed out before its time may have contributed to the persistent fannish lobbying for a revival.
Look at Firefly/Serenity these days. Pretty much the same phenomenon.
By contrast, I'm not seeing huge pushes to revive Buffy or Angel or Smallville or X-Files or Xena, because, I suspect, there's a general sense that, for better or for worse, those shows had run their course and enjoyed good, healthy runs. Fans are satisfied that they got their fair share.
Questions of declining quality aside, if TOS had completed its five-year mission, it's possible fans would have not have felt "cheated" out of What Might Have Been and just accepted, okay, that was a great show but it's over now. What next?
It was a blessing, as the quality of the scripts had clearly taken a nosedive. As the above poster mentionms, had the series lasted five years we as fans or the fans alive in those days might not have felt cheated and thereby wanting more. Imagine that for a second. No TAS, No TOS Movies, and maybe even no futher series spinoffs.
Well...after TNG I could have done without the rest.
No problem friend. I think they went to the proverbial well too many times as it is.
Check out the episode Forbidden World, the 4th of the 2nd season, just before the opening credits. They use a shot of the Jupiter 2 crashing, darkened for night, and you can see the sunlight reflect off the guide wires. One of the ways they kept you from seeing them was by having the wires vertically positioned, with one end higher than the other. The model was pushed and gravity did the rest. The J2 was not hung from wires for the crash scene, it was sliding down them. With the fog and a little over exposure, the wires were effectively invisible. The overexposure helped with the Flying Sub shots in Voyage, many of which are just as convincing today as ever.
Yes. It's called the Lydecker method, used by FX artists Howard and Theodore Lydecker in productions going back to the 1941 Captain Marvel serial, and including the '50s Commando Cody/Rocketman serials that were the inspiration for The Rocketeer. The use of nearly horizontal wires made them harder to spot.
Right, that was the basis of the "Leidecker Bros." method; models slid down a pair of wires, one end set higher than the other and the model slid smoothly downwards without awkward wobbling. The technique was also used to "fly" a puppet of "Commando Cody", a rocket man type character from the heyday of the Republic serials. ("Zombies of the Stratosphere" was one of those serials and depicted a rather youthful Leonard Nimoy playing an invading "Martian". His was the last survivor and told Cody where he could locate a bomb capable of destroying the Earth, allowing him to defuse it.)
Sincerely,
Bill
I have a book about the Lydeckers, but while it's full of great photos, it's rather slim on much meat about their techniques.
Tribble Herder
Lieutenant Commander
Trying to protect trade secrets, perhaps?
My God, I thought I was the only kid who did that!
Of course, it's very frustrating to go back later to listen to my recording and hear my mother's voice yelling to shut off the TV and do my homework.
Recordings like that from the seventies were how I realized they had cut stuff out in the eighties syndication runs.
The amazing thing is that Doctor Who fans used that very method to preserve the audio from all the erased episodes from the sixties.
Tribble Herder
Lieutenant Commander
I might still have a tape or two from those days floating around...
Yes, horizontal. For some reason I wrote vertical, thanks for correcting me so subtly.
It's surprisingly easy to get opposites mixed up with one another, since the concepts are so "close" to each other in our minds. I often see people write "ancestor" when they mean "descendant."
JK Rowling even did the Descendant/Ancestor thing in early printings, I believe. Caused much controversial debate
I will add my voice to the 'Yes' to the OP question.
It also spared us seeing what Trek in most of the 70's would have looked like... prob a cross between SPACE: 1999, STARLOST, and Galaxy Quest
I shudder to think about the bad video chroma key that would have been employed to cut costs.
It also spared us seeing what Trek in most of the 70's would have looked like... prob a cross between SPACE: 1999, STARLOST, and Galaxy Quest
I shudder to think about the bad video chroma key that would have been employed to cut costs.
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