Speaking of Space: 1999

[dewline]

Since the subject came up by association with the late Barry Morse last posting.

Looking back, I can state my current opinion of the show pretty quickly: great spacecraft design, cool VFX for the time period, bad scripts, good actors trying to hold it all together as best they could in spite of the scripts.

Fair assessment or not?

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[mommimus-prime.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd say that's fair. I really remember watching the first episode and being blown away and then dying a little inside as the show played out. And I was just thinking of the show yesterday when the public radio classics show played Holst's Mars because of one episode that used that piece while sending founts of bubbles through the set. It has been seared into my brain.

[(Anonymous)]

"Space Brain", I'm guessing? Sounds like how the episode wrapped up in terms of visuals to me.

You can tell that I really bought into it: I have the Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook, tattered relic that it is nowadays.`

[mommimus-prime.livejournal.com]

That would be the one.