SilverWook

I always thought of Smith more like a Long John Silver type. Even when he was still the sinister saboteur who wouldn't mind seeing the Robinson's perish, he played Will like a fiddle.

The 1990's LIS comic book, plotted out by Will Robinson himself, Billy Mumy, took the Robinsons back to the edge the early first season episodes had. It even explained away the sillier episodes as being from young Penny's point of view.

I rewatched the 1998 movie recently, and it was better than I remember. I think my disappointment at the time that a long planned reunion film with the original cast didn't get off the ground, made me initially hostile to a reboot. Gary Oldman made for a pretty darn good Dr. Smith.

The whole series is coming out on Blu Ray this year!

IIRC, there was a new CB series a couple years ago. Guess it didn't catch fire the way MLP has.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I watched the first five episodes of Lost in Space.

While I found the first two episodes pretty engaging, by the third I started getting tired with the proceedings; most of the characters are boring and there seems to be more padding than story going around. Also, what I've read about Dr. Smith's character evolution doesn't sound at all appealing to me.

Suffice it to say, I like the premise of the show, but the execution doesn't inspire me to carry through with the rest of it.

 Oh, the pain, the pain! The first season is still superior to what came later when they went to color. The third season rebounded ever so slightly though.

You do know they spread out the pilot into the first several episodes? Dr. Smith and the robot weren't even in it.

The Christopher Reeve films were chock full of real world products. Supergirl as well.

And toy based films are hardly anything new...

Easier said than done when the parent topic has slipped down past the front page. ;)

I think Puggo did scan the whole pan and scan 16mm, but who did what with it after that I am unsure.

I need to get the 30 second tv spot properly scanned one of these days. And removed from the reel of unrelated tv spots, so I can hopefully sell those off.

Misleading cover art you say? ;)

Even Threepio couldn't translate whatever the heck that is. ;)

An album only one person will be able to listen to. Everyone else will have to wait 88 years! And no, it's not a plotline from This Is Spinal Tap II...

http://theboombox.com/wu-tang-clans-single-copy-album-seized-at-jfk-airport-rza-explains-88-year-clause/

What have I said about starting trouble with other websites?

This is getting needlessly provocative.

Fascinating!

Unless somebody inside Bad Robot or Lucasfilm pulls a Deep Throat, we'll probably never hear what really went on.

It's possible they had the bare bones of a time travel story, and just lacked a good reason for them to go back to 1986. Or at least a reason not done before on the series.

There also might have been budgetary reasons to do a movie mostly set in the present.

I wonder if a Gary Seven cameo was ever thought about?

It's been so long, that I don't know if talk of Kirk and company becoming an intergalactic version of The A Team, was a real thing, or just a joke that was going around. Ditto the Eddie Murphy rumor.

Possessed said:

Alot of Voyager's CGI is terribly dated by now.  All the models of species 8472 are incredibly CGI looking for one.  If it were a completely animated show they would look great, but blending with real life shots it looks horrid. In the first couple of seasons even the exterior shots looked like they were from a video game, but they started improving those at least later on.

 They did build a physical model of Voyager. I didn't think it was augmented by the CG version until later in the series?

He's always going to be Hammerhead to me. It was cool seeing the Kenner version as a background character in Rebels. :)

As the cantina came off as a bit of a sleazy dive, one makes presumptions about the patrons. (Obi Wan did say the place was a little rough.) You don't see too many moisture farmers hanging out.

I'm surprised there weren't any scantly clad cocktail waitresses.

I wonder if he knows what happened to the TMP files?

I used to chat on IRC with a Foundation employee many years ago. (I can't recall their "real" name now.) They did share personal photos of when the TMP Enterprise miniature was uncrated for the animators to study. The poor gal was not only dirty and dusty, there were bug droppings!

I blame the Klingons. ;)

I guess it's no wonder they redid those shots in the TMP Director's Cut.

A series of tv movies might be a way to test the waters for a return to a weekly series.

I'd be up for an animated TNG. The whole cast would probably be up for it, as most of them have done cartoon work for years. Patrick Stewart does Picard on Robot Chicken all the time. And  Dorn and Spiner won't have to get up early to sit in the makeup chair.

Now that they are as old as they were supposed to be in the future sequences of All Good Things, it's high time Q pops up with another surprise test. Nemesis was kind of a downer film to go out on anyway.

Saw this in the supermarket this evening...

http://www.cbswatchmagazine.com/2015/03/star-trek-leonard-nimoy-collectible/

That they got this out so quickly makes me think they were planning ahead?

Unless somebody saved those files when Foundation Imaging closed up shop, they would have to start from scratch. Blame Paramount for not ponying up for HD at the time.

There's no need to shout...

My crappy cable company took BBC America away, (second tier my eye!) so I haven't been able to watch anything as of late.

LOL! You should totally borrow that. ;)

It would really be disturbing to find the mummified body of someone who got lost in the Tardis. Not like they always remember to lock the door. ;)

I'd like to think that somewhere past the control room, a lot of the old corridors and such are still there from the old days though.