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Maurice · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:33 pm Post subject:

As of this post SHOUT! is streaming all episodes of Space:1999 on YouTube in a continuous loop. Here:
Space: 1999 - Live Action Streaming now❗️
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mach7 · Quantum Engineer Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 345

I just went to the link posted and it says its unavailable.
Sad.

Maurice · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:01 pm Post subject:

mach7 · Quantum Engineer Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 345

Oh dear, I tuned in just as season 2's Tabor the trader starts!

Thanks for the link!

Maurice · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:25 am Post subject:

I rewatched S1's "War Games", which is one of my fave episodes, but even it illustrates some of the problems I've always had with the show and what I previously called out as the incurious nature of the Alphans. For instance, the show opens with them spotting three Mark IX Hawks heading towards them, and immediately identifying them as warships. Well, fine, but they're clearly EARTH warships and cousins to the Eagles, yet no one asks "What are Earth ships doing out here?" The aliens use the Alphans' own fears against them, and since the "bomber" is the battleship model seen in "Alpha Child" the image of it must have been lifted from memories of that incident, and yet no one asks "why are Hawks escorting an alien ship?"
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:52 pm Post subject:

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Maurice, I agree completely with your dislike for that kind of bad writing. One of the worst things a science fiction story can do is to make allegedly intelligent characters act illogically.

The moment a viewer (or reader) of a sci-fi tale suddenly thinks, "Wait a minute . . . why the hell did he do that?" it means the writer has lost their credibility.
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