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   From: ws21@cornell.edu   
      
   On 1/12/12 11:43 PM, RT wrote:   
   > Jette Goldie wrote:   
   >> On 03/09/2011 00:58, 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.   
   >>   
   >> some of us are old enough to remember the old black and white serial   
   >> Flash Gordon, with its rocketships.  (ok, not quite old enough to see   
   >> the serial in cinemas, but during the summer holidays BBC used to show   
   >> them daily to keep us kids amused)   
   >   
   > And you can buy them.   
      
   The TV show invented the alternate dimension idea to avoid spending   
   money on CGI spaceships. They wouldn't even pay for hawk wings! I think   
   if they'd reverted to the serial mode -- models hung on wires -- we   
   would all have enjoyed it more.   
      
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