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2018/12/22 10:00:39
Subject: Original flash Gordon.
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Aspirant Tech-Adept
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I was watching, just for the hell of it, some of the flash Gordon series made back in the 30's with buster crabbe. It was interesting to see just how much of star wars was inspired by it, and even some elements of star trek could be seen once in a while.
Also, despite having no real sfx tech to work with and pitiful budgets, the guys doing the series we're clearly trying to make the best they could. Thy had some great ideas and concepts, and they tried to make them work as best they could with what they had to deal with.
If you're a hard core SF fhan, you might want to try watching some of those hokey old episodes. They were the first SF adventure series', and a it of later SF was built on them.
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"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." Jesse "the mind" Ventura. |
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2018/12/22 20:38:53
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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What I find interesting is how TV SciFi went from arcing stories to episodic, back to arcing stories.
I know Flash Gordon wasn’t a TV serial, but it still stands 
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2018/12/22 20:50:17
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Aspirant Tech-Adept
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:What I find interesting is how TV SciFi went from arcing stories to episodic, back to arcing stories.
I know Flash Gordon wasn’t a TV serial, but it still stands
it was a serial, only the medium changed.
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2018/12/23 17:03:40
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Yeah. But a cinema serial. Something long since passed before I was born.
But to see story arcs played out over multiple episodes? We didn’t really get that again until X-Files, and more properly DS9. (Because with X-Files, it was more a general undercurrent. YMMV!)
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2018/12/23 17:25:06
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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Semi-serial storytelling was always around on one show or another. Before X-Files, there was Werewolf, with the protagonist hunting for the one who bit him (and finding him, and even killing him). DS9 and B5 were the two successful series that showed a heavier emphasis on serial storytelling had a place in (less niche) genre television.
To me, it feels like the MCU might be the closest thing we have to modern movie serials.
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2019/01/05 05:39:53
Subject: Original flash Gordon.
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Aspirant Tech-Adept
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It might be cool for a film school to try redoing the original flash Gordon serials in color, but keeping the original tone and spirit.
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"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." Jesse "the mind" Ventura. |
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2019/01/05 10:20:59
Subject: Re:Original flash Gordon.
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2019/01/05 15:55:04
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Norn Queen
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HAHAHA. Erotic fiction is the best.
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These are my opinions. This is how I feel. Others may feel differently. This needs to be stated for some reason.
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2019/01/05 16:28:19
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Multispectral Nisse
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That can't be real, surely?
Having said that, as a kid I once got bought a set Flash Gordon books, one of them 'The Witch Queen of Mongo' had bare breasts on the cover. Needless to say that one was confiscated by my mum, although I did read it before she saw it - it had something to do with a magic potion that made Flash a coward that would do literally anything she asked...
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“Good people are quick to help others in need, without hesitation or requiring proof the need is genuine. The wicked will believe they are fighting for good, but when others are in need they’ll be reluctant to help, withholding compassion until they see proof of that need. And yet Evil is quick to condemn, vilify and attack. For Evil, proof isn’t needed to bring harm, only hatred and a belief in the cause.” |
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2019/01/05 17:04:58
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Track down the 1930s Captain Marvel (now Shazam) if you can. He drops baddies off the roof of a multistory building during a fight. But, from an FX standpoint, they did a really decent job of making it look like he could fly and even the thunderbolt transformations are respectable. They film a dummy flying down a wire from a building to the ground then reverse the film when it's played. It looks surprisingly good.
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2019/01/05 17:53:23
Subject: Original flash Gordon.
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2019/01/05 18:05:32
Subject: Re:Original flash Gordon.
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Mighty Vampire Count
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Well its pretty much the same in the movie, IIRC Aura's torturer has a chat with her dad about her sexual responsiveness and says no one has scored higher......
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I AM A MARINE PLAYER
"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos 
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