Boners...In...SPAAAAACE!!!
Welcome to the Sci-Fi Science Blunders Hall of Infamy, where the lame plot devices and half-baked physics of speculative fiction are savagely dissected under the harsh, glaring light of...TRUE SCIENCE!
I'm glad to see that Gerry Anderson's excremental Space: 1999 is singled out for some special attention. Lord, that show used to cheese me off. A giant nukeylar explosion knocks the moon out of orbit and sends it careening through interstellar space at near-light speed; a convenient deux ex machina that allowed them to visit a new star system every single, friggin' week!
Anderson's shows had a bad habit of getting the near-future totally wrong, which is part of their hinky charm, I suppose (along with the unisex jumpers). However, I have to admit this show fares better in that respect than UFO, which is set in the far-flung future of 1980.
If Space: 1999 had one redeeming feature, it would have to be the totally bitchin' theme song. Best.Wah.Wah.Pedal.Ever!
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Comments
Klasse! Diesen Zack-Sonderband hab ich doch noch irgendwo...?
Posted by: The Cartoonist | August 24, 2005 10:03 AM
Toll! Hast du auch ein "unisex jumper" irgendwo?...;-)
Posted by: MrBaliHai | August 24, 2005 10:15 AM
Wow. I'd forgotten how cool that theme song was. Thanks for the reminder, Mr. B.
Posted by: czeltic girl | August 24, 2005 6:14 PM
No unisex jumper, I'm afraid. But I still hope the skydiver uniforms of the UFO series will become fashionable one day.
Posted by: The Cartoonist | August 24, 2005 6:37 PM
czelt: pretty much any theme song by Barry Gray was guaranteed to kick major unisex-jumpered, bellbottomed 70's ass.
Ralf: yes, those fishnet-disco see-thru uniforms were fabber than F.A.B.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | August 24, 2005 7:01 PM
Don't forget Space:1999 had at least one other redeeming feature: the cool Eagle Transporters. OK, fine, it was the ONLY other redeeming feature.
Posted by: Chris Wren | August 25, 2005 6:02 PM
Weren't the Eagles basically a ripoff of the 2001 Space Odyssey moonbus?
Posted by: MrBaliHai | August 25, 2005 7:39 PM