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Blast from teh Past: SCI FI OF 1982!
May. 12th, 2010 06:51 pmI am packing up some books for storage and found myself leafing through one of those blank-page journals that were so popular back then (this predates the whole "scrapbooking" craze.) Basically, it's my 1982 sort-of diary, though it's really more visually-oriented, as I used to draw quite a bit. It was full of odd little illustrations and glued-in ephemera, cartoons, poems, and a few snarky rants of the sort that I'd have written in my LJ or DW if journals-on-the-internets had been around back then.
Here is 1982's Celeste's honest opinion of the science fiction shows that premiered that year, which makes today's SF look really, really good in comparison (even SGU):
Voyagers: take a sort of a sixth incarnation of the Doctor, who looks a bit like a California beach hunk (who lifts weights) and who likes to jump on everything in skirts (actually, I should just say "women", as there have been a lot of men who have worn skirts throughout history), and you have "Voyagers." He shares a predilection for mucking about with history and with dragging an innocent bystander around on his travels with his previous incarnations, but he's lost his wit and has devolved into something of a lummox. Also, while I don't mind the Kaleds speaking with a British accent on "Dr. Who", I *do* mind Queen Victoria's granddaughter speaking in a Southern accent, "...but Ah don't love him, grandmothah!" and -- *blech!* -- Queen Victoria answering, "Close your eyes and think of England." (!)
Knight Rider: "My Mother The Car '80s Style!" ('Nuff said.)
Powers of Matthew Starr: Another cute California hunk in the mode of "Voyagers" and "My Mother, The Knight" -- this time he's a dispossessed prince hiding out on earth, exercising and limbering up his powers to return to and save his own world (think Luke Skywalker hiding out on Tatooine, except he's practicing.) This is a soft show: soft-core violence (a few explosions and someone saying, "Gee, it's a good thing nobody got hurt... *this* time!"), soft plots that don't hold up on re-viewing when the reruns roll around, and a soft hero with a round face, very white teeth, and a soft brain. The only good, sharp thing is Lou Gosset -- would that they'd give him a few good lines to say.
It's enough to make you think well of Battlestar Galactica... not enough to cause fond recollection of Space 1999, though close.
That's the late-70s BSG I'm referring to, of course! Tell it like it was, my snarky little precursor!
I have to say, my fav bit is that curt, one-line dismissal of Knight Rider!
Here is 1982's Celeste's honest opinion of the science fiction shows that premiered that year, which makes today's SF look really, really good in comparison (even SGU):
Voyagers: take a sort of a sixth incarnation of the Doctor, who looks a bit like a California beach hunk (who lifts weights) and who likes to jump on everything in skirts (actually, I should just say "women", as there have been a lot of men who have worn skirts throughout history), and you have "Voyagers." He shares a predilection for mucking about with history and with dragging an innocent bystander around on his travels with his previous incarnations, but he's lost his wit and has devolved into something of a lummox. Also, while I don't mind the Kaleds speaking with a British accent on "Dr. Who", I *do* mind Queen Victoria's granddaughter speaking in a Southern accent, "...but Ah don't love him, grandmothah!" and -- *blech!* -- Queen Victoria answering, "Close your eyes and think of England." (!)
Knight Rider: "My Mother The Car '80s Style!" ('Nuff said.)
Powers of Matthew Starr: Another cute California hunk in the mode of "Voyagers" and "My Mother, The Knight" -- this time he's a dispossessed prince hiding out on earth, exercising and limbering up his powers to return to and save his own world (think Luke Skywalker hiding out on Tatooine, except he's practicing.) This is a soft show: soft-core violence (a few explosions and someone saying, "Gee, it's a good thing nobody got hurt... *this* time!"), soft plots that don't hold up on re-viewing when the reruns roll around, and a soft hero with a round face, very white teeth, and a soft brain. The only good, sharp thing is Lou Gosset -- would that they'd give him a few good lines to say.
It's enough to make you think well of Battlestar Galactica... not enough to cause fond recollection of Space 1999, though close.
That's the late-70s BSG I'm referring to, of course! Tell it like it was, my snarky little precursor!
I have to say, my fav bit is that curt, one-line dismissal of Knight Rider!
