Mr. Green
LOL.
I like the last line, stating that several other buggies fled the scene.
2:11 PM Mr. Silver
I can see them slowly peeling out like “The Fast And The Furious” set on slow-mo.
2:12 PM Mr. Silver
"Officers jogged alongside the vehicles for a minute or so before the buggies slowly pulled away and eventually disappeared."
Mr. Silver
So, yesterday I set out on my recurring quest for one short piece of music from the "Lost In Space" TV show and finally found it.
In the process I found out that the episodes are on Hulu and made a go at watching ep1 and ep 2.
"Made a go" translating to "I struggled through one and a quarter episodes, broken up by 20 interruptions as my wife constantly interfered with pointless conversation and unnecessary tasks".
Something about explosions on the Jupiter 2 and a pair of headphones and an impatient glare didn't register with here as 'Go the F- away for 45 minutes'.
9:20 AM Mr. Brown
Danger Danger!
9:20 AM Mr. Silver
The show had good music...I didn't realize it was composed by John Williams.
I’m still angry about the movie.
9:22 AM Mr. Gray
John Williams did the Lost in Space TV Show music?
9:22 AM Mr. Brown
Didn’t they get unlost in the movie?
It’s been awhile since I watched it.
9:24 AM Mr. Blue
I saw it in theaters, and remember not liking it.
9:25 AM Mr. Gray
I liked parts of it...enough that if it’s on I'll watch it over most crap they show on TV.
"Eh...there is space stuff....time junk....a space ship and man eating aliens....it works."
9:27 AM Mr. Silver
I liked the movie, sans jiggle-monkey, up until partway through the crash landing.
The time-mess in the second half was so "Star Trek: Next Generation Episode".
9:29 AM Mr. Gray
Yeah, agreed.
The space monkey bugged me simply because the girl in the movie played the voice of the girl in the Wild Thornberrys...and I seem to remember her having some hyper, irritating, non-speaking beastie in that too.
9:29 AM Mr. Silver
Dr. Smith was nasty enough as a human too, so the bug version was just goofy.
He's a real piece of work in the first couple TV episodes so far too.
9:30 AM Mr. Gray
Yeah...I SOOO would have spaced Dr. Smith from the TV show. LOL
9:30 AM Mr. Silver
Don wanted to.
9:30 AM Mr. Gray
"Doctor Smith? Oh, he was checking the air lock system. He isn’t on the ship? Oh My...."
9:36 AM Mr. Silver
Lost In Space got better ratings every season than the original Star Trek ever did...hehe.
9:37 AM Mr. Gray
LOL
9:38 AM Mr. Silver
I'm sort of torn on whether the premise could be remade, or whether anyone would after the movie.
9:40 AM Mr. Blue
I’m not sure I could buy the idea of a family being lost in space.
Perhaps a family and a crew.
9:41 AM Mr. Silver
It was introduced well enough. It was a one way proof of concept flight.
The US had sunk billions into it because Earth was (implied) screwed.
Don and the Robinson parents were debating whether to turn back or go on when circumstances screwed them over.
"We can make it even now." / "We're too damaged and the kids are going to die...go back." / "Let's repair and the computer will decide."
That last choice was what finished them off.
Smith saw he had 3 minutes to turn off the robot, which he’d programmed to destroy everything, and Dr. Robinson had Don turn off the gravity to fix something. Smith got stuck floating with nothing to kick off from and couldn't reach the robot.
Oops…
It was quite good, really…family laughing and having a good time upstairs, Smith flailing and watching the clock tick away downstairs.
9:46 AM Mr. Brown
If they did it again, there would have to be more of a crew. People would have trouble believing now that just a family could run the whole ship.
9:47 AM Mr. Silver
It was government propaganda: America’s best family as brave trailblazers. They were supposed to be asleep until they landed and the robot was to make all the judgments about the habitability of Alpha Centauri and report anyway. It could have been sent with no people and still accomplished the mission objectives.
9:47 AM Mr. Blue
Perhaps a more realistic remake.
Instead of laser blaster guns and trek-like ships, make it more like “Moon” or “2001”.
9:48 AM Mr. Silver
It needs a hyperdrive to clinch it…they were only 8 hours into the flight.
I worked out a “Lost In Space” scheme for roleplaying gaming.
The idea was that they were on a colony ship instead...1000+ people in suspension for a cargo.
And the heroes (or family in a LIS reboot) are woken up when everything goes wrong.
They'd be in something more like the Nostromo from “Alien”. A landable Jupiter 2 “truck” for planetary adventures, and up in space is the Jupiter 1 with the hyperdrive and human "cargo" that they are trying to find a place for.
"We can only land that thing once...it better be a good place."
Insert weird planets, strange aliens, space encounters.
9:56 AM Mr. Gray
...and if someone dies in the game...you roll up your new character and play as another person taken out of storage to replace the dead guy.
9:56 AM Mr. Silver
Exactly. That was the idea.
9:57 AM Mr. Gray
That would work for a movie/TV series too. As actors leave the show you can replace them.
9:57 AM Mr. Silver
Yup...casualties would be possible on Lost In Space.
And if you need a skilled character for a story they don't have, they could "swap", or have one out as a "temp" for as long as the support system can handle the stress of a spare breather/eater.
10:00 AM Mr. Brown
So basically you’re going with the “red shirt” theme.
lol
10:01 AM Mr. Silver
Nah
It's just if the story warrants it or someone has to go, you can get new people this way.
Remember, I was developing it for a roleplaying game. Major characters get killed by bad chance in those in a different and much less predictable fashion than in a TV show.
If you drop a team of humans 100 trillion miles away (in the wrong direction with no position information, I might add) from Earth, it's hard to explain where a new character came from.
Mr. Brown
10:12 AM Mr. Blue
So, did he win?
10:37 AM Mr. Silver
Eh...he's thousands of years behind other record attempts in progress.
Mr. Silver
She's a hottie!
11:52 AM Mr. Brown
Very shiny face.
lol
11:54 AM Mr. Silver
She needs some rouge and eye shadow to bring out her bone structure, yes.
Speaking of shiny, NASA has unveiled their world record attempt at the largest pan of Jiffy Pop.
12:06 PM Mr. Silver
I think Coppedge was mostly shortlisted for demotion and then termination for being an a-hole.
12:11 PM Mr. Silver
Coppedge's version - “I was discriminated against because I engaged my co-workers in conversations about intelligent design and handed out DVDs on the idea while at work.”
NASA's version - "Multiple counts of employees reporting harassment, and conspicuously promoting a second business during work hours."
