zombie84 said:
SilverWook said:
I don't know what serials you've been watching, zombie84, but the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials were well made

Uh, when you can see the strings holding up the models I don't count that as well made. The serials were twenty minute Ed Wood films. Terrible acting and writing, most of the sets were cheap, bad special effect cutaway and formulaic plotting. The Flash Gordon series had a few cool sets because they re-used the stages from The Mummy and Phantom of the Opera, so that series has some acceptable production design there, but theres really little well-made about them. They were crude and cheap, especially the typical ones.

Even as a kid, I can remember thinking how fake the Buck Rogers sets looked...with all the plaster rocks and fake "high tech" ....I was pubescent pre-teen and only wanted to watch Buck Rogers because of Erin Grey...