On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:11:14 -0800 (PST), StarDust <
csoka01@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 7:35:36 AM UTC-8, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 06:50:03 -0800 (PST),
On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 7:33:15 AM UTC-7, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 19:51:59 -0800 (PST),
wrote:
7 episodes, 1 hr long were produced then production was stopped.
Not sure why?
Maybe because space melodrama and bad effects were losing favor? This
was only a couple of years before 2001 was released.
Actually, it's quite a mystery why this show did not run longer, as it was >> >very popular in Germany.
Was it because it would have been more expensive to make episodes
next year, when color TV would be introduced in Germany?
Was it because the militaristic nature of the space fleet conflicted with >> >sensitivities concerning Germany's past?
There has been considerable speculation. There are also parallels
between the series and Star Trek. The budget was tight, so ordinary
objects were used as props. The Captain was in hot water for not
always following orders. It was set in a future where individual nations
on Earth no longer existed.
On the other hand, sexual tension was handled with subtlety in
the show, and it was a minor character - who tended to get shot
down - who was portrayed as a womanizer.
More significantly, there was only one alien race referred to in
the show, and that race was a deadly menace at war with humans.
John Savard
I still lean towards the issue of bad acting and bad sets. It was a
decade or two out of date when it aired, and the market was changing.
Actually, the acting was professional, but maybe was not enough demand for this type of films.
Back then youngsters were more into western, cowboys movies, as the US flooded the world market with them!
I'm not impressed by the acting, although to be fair, bad acting by
today's standards was kind of the norm back then.
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