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   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4E63ABDA.E3DBA62@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > Your Name wrote:   
   >>   
   >> In article , Lloyd E Parsons   
   >>  wrote:   
   >> > On 9/2/11 6:02 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:   
   >> > > On 9/2/2011 8:51 AM, David Johnston wrote:   
   >> > >> On 9/2/2011 2:07 AM, TMC wrote:   
   >> > >>   
   >> > >>> 2. Making Flash Gordon non-space-bound.   
   >> > >>> This one still makes us scratch our heads. You get to do the rights   
   >> > >>> of   
   >> > >>> one of space opera's most recognizable characters, who's famous for   
   >> > >>> flying around on rockets and battling against aliens in space - and   
   >> > >>> you never put him on a spaceship.   
   >> > >>   
   >> > >> Flash Gordon battled aliens in spaceships? News to me. Buck Rogers   
   >> > >> did a   
   >> > >> lot of spaceship stuff, but Flash was restricted to Mongo.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > Didn't he get to Mongo in a spaceship? My knowledge of the character   
   >> > > is   
   >> > > a bit limited but I always considered spaceships and space battles to   
   >> > > be   
   >> > > part of Flash Gordon. The TV version changed it from battling aliens   
   >> > > on   
   >> > > another planet to battling featherless hawk people in another   
   >> > > dimension.   
   >> >   
   >> > Yep, both Flash Gordon the movie, and Flesh Gordon the bit racier   
   >> > version, showed Flash traveling by spaceship.   
   >>   
   >> No idea about the silly Flesh Gordon, but in most versions of Flash   
   >> Gordon, once he got to Mongo he coudln't get back for one reason or   
   >> another and was basically stuck on the planet battling against Ming and   
   >> others (in some versions there are "spaceship" battles above the planet,   
   >> either in space or in the air). In the original version the rocketship is   
   >> moved along highly visible wires. :)   
   >>   
   >> There have been hawkmen in different versions of Flash Gordon (as well as   
   >> two turning up in TV's second season of Buck Rogers). They start off as   
   >> Flash Gordon's enemies, but later join him to fight Ming.   
   >   
   > The source material is the comic strip and they did get back to Earth. But   
   > returned to Mongo.   
      
   So many re-imaginings of Flash Gordon over the years... almost makes BSG's   
   one reboot seem like not such a big deal.   
      
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