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Taking Sides: Apollo vs. Starbuck

We've just finished disc 2 of 6!

― *ROGERING GEAR!'S ROOMIE* (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jcminventures.com/Experiments/simple_cylon_eye.htm

― *ROGERING GEAR!'S ROOMIE* (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope you enjoy the subtitles. I didn't, much.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

uh, why would I need subtitles? I speak english

― *ROGERING GEAR!'S ROOMIE* (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

omg "Fire in Space" is such a good episode. effects improving a lot. many more wide shots of vipers in space!!!! wooo!!1

― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

We have to get you hooked on Quark next.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

BY YOUR COMMAND!

I really miss the Cylons.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah but why the swords?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, tell me about Quark! I just ran across the ... opportunity to watch it ... the other day, but didn't know anything about it.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

SO NOIZE

― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It was one weird program, Tep -- it was an attempt to do a 'sci-fi parody' program in the wake of the smash success of Star Wars et al, starred Richard Benjamin plus a loud of late seventies generotypes. Hitchhiker's Guide it wasn't. The ship was some sort of garbage scow, they did a "Mirror, Mirror" style episode once...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

how great is this .gif???

http://www.kobol.com/resource/vipermov.gif

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it Red Dwarf like, or not so much? I should watch it anyway.

Richard Benjamin, though, I'm gonna think it's Portnoy in Space!

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

See, you'd think that! It could be better than I remembered, but I believe there was a laugh track, never a good sign for that era. And he didn't strike me as being Portnoy, more sorta what Tim Allen was aiming for in Galaxy Quest except consciously trying to be funny.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Red Dwarf-like, no, in that there was less sense of being lost wherever. They were, you know, the garbage scows of the galaxy. With a ship that had a big idiot gaping mouth that opened up to swallow the garbage bundles.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, this definitely sounds worth checking out, I'll put it in the queue.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, if it turns out to be something that actually was funnier than I remembered, let me know! I just have my doubts. There were only something like six episodes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

let me try this again:

http://www.rotovibe.com/images/vipermov.gif

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, mind you I mean "worth checking out" not so much in that "because I'll bet it's intentionally great" way. But like a time capsule of sorts -- I'm really curious about the kinds of jokes, for one thing.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah, I'd be curious about the hairstyles and fashions! MIGHTY curious. But yeah, they would probably feel very exhausted jokewise, even then. I vaguely remember a Force parody in the first episode.

LAUNCH ALL VIPERS

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, in that shot the Star Wars influence on BG ship design is much clearer to me than when I was a kid. I guess at that age I just thought, "Sure, that's what spaceships look like!" without realizing people made them look the way they looked on purpose.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"I still have Battlestar Galactica -- that'll never get cancelled."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost)Hahah, very OTM ("It's in space, of course!"). There's some site that runs down the minutiae in design in comparison, surely.

"I'll miss my neo-Renaissance lifestyle!....and my windbreaker."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Mormon space opera.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved learning about all that way later in life. Far more fun brainwashing than The Late Great Planet Earth, say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait just a goddamn centon, Spencer, that gif is entirely badass.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 20 November 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember Quark. There were few odd failed attempts at selling a scifi show of some kind that came and went during that time like Salvage 1 starring Andy Griffith, Supertrain and Manimal. I seemed to be drawn to these short run series when I was a kid. Maybe Supertrain wasn't exactly scifi, but they did have a 'super' train.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

MANIMAL! That's one of the ones I group in with the Weekly Adventure genre with Automan (my favorite of the bunch at the time) and Knight Rider. With Misfits of Science as some sort of descendent.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"MOVE, BITCH!"
http://www.legionxxiv.org/cylon124/cylonglitter.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://epguides.com/Manimal/cast.jpg

Simon MacCorkindale IS Manimal

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

We were joking about a Manimal movie at work the other day. Jude Law as Manimal, of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They weren't all sci-fi, exactly, but I remember being drawn to "Wizards and Warriors", "Voyagers!" and "Cliffhangers" around the same late 70's / early 80's period.

Jude Law would make a great Manimal.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, Cliffhangers -- I was wondering who would remember that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that would be me.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Saturday, 20 November 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Back to Battlestar for a minute (although I remember loving Wizards and Warriors but don't remember anything about it), is anyone watching the new show? I caught the pilot movie and have seen one episode since, I think the third.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

is Quark available on DVD or torrent, then?

― stevie (stevie), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The latter definitely (although it seems very slow), the former I'm not sure. If it is, they better hurry up with Max Headroom and American Gothic.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

although I remember loving Wizards and Warriors but don't remember anything about it

Don't you remember? Duncan Regehr had that absurd sword that he wielded by holding a handle fastened to the main handle. That was all you needed to know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If it is, they better hurry up with Max Headroom and American Gothic.

"CALEB!"

Sean Cassidy is secretly Nick Cave if you think about it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I kind of remember the sword ... I'm pretty sure I remember fireballs, but the problem is that any visuals I conjure up could just as easily be pinball games from the time, too!

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Some Quark info.

The cast was a galactically diverse one. Richard Benjamin starred as Adam Quark, commander of the garbage scow for the United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol space station 'Perma One'. His assistants are: Ficus (Richard Kelton), the plant organism science officer, Betty I and Betty II (Trisha and Cyb Barnstable), identical gorgeous cloned twin sisters, and Andy (Bobby Porter), a malfunctioning, cowardly robot that was more trouble than he was worth.

The first mate Gene/Jean (Timothy Thomerson), a half-man half woman person that was constantly fighting with him/herself - making this sitcom a sort of 'He and He/She' in outer space.

http://www.tvparty.com/vgifs4/quark.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The piece *does* go on to say that it was in fact a pretty good show early on. Perhaps it was! Perhaps it all depends on your tolerance for Richard Benjamin.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that Mindy's Dad? I think I remember this now!

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Conrad Janis apparently played the ship's architect. (The ship's architect?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

He's very happy with his friend the trash bag. Or his line is "she'll stop her screaming now, by God!"

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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