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   "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
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   >>> catpandaddy wrote:   
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   >>>> "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
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   >>>>>  wrote in message   
   >>>>> news:biqrj8-0g1.ln1@librarian.sky.com...   
   >>>>>> And verily, didst David Johnston  hastily babble   
   >>>>>> thusly:   
   >>>>>>> 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.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Errrr... How do you think he got to mongo in the first place?   
   >>>>>> In dr zarkov's rocket ship. There was a lot of corny flying around   
   >>>>>> shooting   
   >>>>>> sparklers at each other in flash gordon. (the original buster crabbe   
   >>>>>> version)   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Was Flash Gordon the first tv series to be given the "Reboot"   
   >>>>> treatment by unimaginative tv execs with no original ideas?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Sorry should have said "one of the first" series.   
   >>>   
   >>> Buck Rogers in the 25th Century with Gil Gerard and Erin Gray would   
   >>> probably fall into that category. The theatrical release of the movie   
   >>> was good but the series went downhill after season 1.   
   >>   
   >> That was probably related to pain on the part of most of the actors as   
   >> every time they brushed against Ms. Gray they got splinters.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I am more of the opinion that the splinters came from those plywood-like   
   > special effects models.   
      
   They used those so she'd feel right at home.   
      
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