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Old 3rd April 2008, 05:01 PM   #36 (permalink)
andrew.v.spencer
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Re: Space 1999.

I loved the series (esp seris 1). The models were fantastic and the lifespans of the Alphans aphid short.

One episode in particular that gave me the collywobbles (when I was a kid) was a ships graveyard, with some sort of monster in it that skeletonised its victims.

I loved the one where they went to war with the Hawk ships.

Also the encounter with a generation ship was pretty good.

Unfortunately the problem with a remake would be the problem I had as a kid, the physics, I could never square that. The size of a nuclear explosion large enough to wrench the moon out of orbit always seemed implausible, and they would have to be traveling at light speed, and if they were how come they passed planets slowly enough to visit them?

Gee I was a nerdy kid.
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