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LightSpeed is a faster than light starship exploring the galaxy, and some mention of the crew being able to play variable-gravity tennis on board. Huh!?
My only concern is that we've already had 17 years of Trek, and next year there will be the comedies Hyperdrive and StarHyke also set on starships, even Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis have a couple of starships now and again. Exploring the galaxy overload?
Any thoughts/ideas anyone?
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yorkie
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yorkie wrote:Gerry's next CGI series may be LightSpeed, though if Scarlet gets a big sale to the US there may be more Scarlet on the way first.
It's been a long time since I watched after-school or Saturday-morning children's programs (mainly because my son is grown, but also because they've become insipid dreck better suited as half-hour-long toy commercials), but I'm pretty sure they will have to edit out the damns and hells for the American audience. I know these are the mildest of expletives but I imagine they're still a no-no on children's "cartoons" over here. I could be wrong though...
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Mary
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yorkie wrote:LightSpeed is a faster than light starship exploring the galaxy, and some mention of the crew being able to play variable-gravity tennis on board. Huh!?
My only concern is that we've already had 17 years of Trek, and next year there will be the comedies Hyperdrive and StarHyke also set on starships, even Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis have a couple of starships now and again. Exploring the galaxy overload?
Any thoughts/ideas anyone?
Well yes, i think the Trek universe was pretty much over-milked. There were still some good stories to be had but i sometimes wish they could have had, say, 13 excellent episodes a year, because 22-26 year in, year out for - what? - 17 or 18 years, was becoming mediocre - especially under the same producers. The crying shame was that 'Enterprise' really hits its stride, and virtually got back to the roots and excitement of the original series, just as it was cancelled - Manny Coto (who created the superlative but short-lived 'Odyssey 5' - anyone here see it?) deserved better, and should have been there earlier. So there is still scope for an 'out there' series - it really does depend who you have writing, directing, producing, starrring etc - and whether it strikes a chord with the greater public at the time, it would seem.
To whit, six years ago I teamed up with two other people to try and devise (and possibly pitch) some SF TV series ideas. Two of mine dealt with ships in space, and there was really nothing like them at the time - but 'Farscape' suddenly turned up out of the blue, and was so similar to 'Outcasts' that kinda killed it dead. 'Ad Astra' was an SF satire/comedy, and my pitch was 'MASH in space' - not a hospital but an ensemble cast of characters who you never doubted were professional. The humour came out of the banality of their situation, three years out from Earth and going space-happy under a commander still trying to keep an even keel, and the characters (I'd got sick of the 'idiots in space' approach to SF comedy). And then they meet their first alien race...
Funnily enough, 'Hyperdrive' sounds in a similar vein, though Earth orbit bound I understand.
But I'm still up for a rip-roaring SF space adventure series - who knows, 'Lightspeed' could be the new 'XL5'...
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Thunderbirds provided a Utopian vision of what things might be like 100 years from now, concentrating on the good things rather than the bad. For example, the fantastic red Gray-Houseman machine which blasted away the rocks and then laid a new tarmac road, complete with cats eyes and white lines.
Captain Scarlet was also exciting because of the futuristic vehicles set on a terrestrial background. Yes, there were trips into space but only in moderation as dictated by the Mysteron menace.
Joe 90 had a line delivered in the first episode - "That's the way we like it, Sam - a combination of the old and the new." For me, spaceships, space uniforms (tracksuits) and black backgrounds dotted with stars take away from the viewing experience. Give me good old Earth every time!.
In NCS, my favourite episodes so far have been Trap For A Rhino and Enigma. In the former, I loved the combination of missile blasting Rhinos charging around an olde worlde Scottish background. In the latter, the Christmas scene with Mrs and Mrs Black was brilliant.
My point is that neither of these scenes was in space and I think a huge amount of pleasure from Gerry's Supermarionation and Hypermarionation series is derived from how well he is able to create these familiar backdrops. How many of us know what it is like in space and do we really care? That is the reason why I fear for Lightspeed.
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Shaqui wrote:who knows, 'Lightspeed' could be the new 'XL5'
Now that would be cool. Still not sure about the tennis though.
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yorkie
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Of course, I could be completely wrong - and I wouldn't be in the least bit either surprised or offended if somebody tells me that I'm talking nonsense. Didn't one of the major American TV networks say something like "It sounds really interesting, Gene, but actually we already have a science fiction show (Lost in Space) which we like better. But thanks for coming in anyway."?
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NCS could have been dreadful but look what happened!!
If Anderson can hold onto some of his NCS crew he'll be off to a good start!
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Crank wrote:I'll reserve judgement until I see it.
NCS could have been dreadful but look what happened!!
If Anderson can hold onto some of his NCS crew he'll be off to a good start!
Same crew, different channel!!!!
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DanDud88 wrote:Which Channel?
Anything but ITV!!!
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Has anybody heard any more about LightSpeed? Has anyone got wind of its basic premise? Is it definitely going to be cgi?
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Crank
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[We'll take the path to Jupiter, and maybe very soon, we'll cruise along the Milky Way and land upon the Moon. Yeee-es.... we didn't really know where everything up there actually WAS in 1962, did we...]
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