Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:09:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Alternative reality v SF
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
> At 10:22 AM 4/27/05 -0700, Drew Bittner wrote:
> >--- "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
>
> >My point here was that Voyage et al might be
> thought
> >of as alternate history/reality because time has
> >caught up with "now" in the shows I mentioned...
> not
> >that they stem from a point in the past that turned
> >out differently.
>
> I don't think that we should recategorize stories
> just because the future
> that they were about is now in our past, from a
> calendar standpoint anyway.
>  They should be evaluated within the context of the
> time they were written in.

Okay, I can go along with that.

> >> blank faced stare of that female lead on 1999 who
> apparently was
> >> the lab test subject for botox or something and
>
> >Barbara Bain-- ex-wife of Martin Landau (they were
> <snip>
> >I don't agree with your assessment.
>
> That's fine.  I didn't watch a whole lot of
> Space:1999, and the fact that
> her expressionless face staring into the camera is
> my most prominent memory
> of the series may explain why that is.  That and the
> entire premise being
> absurd enough to almost cause physical pain...

Well, she's not the most expressive actress, I'd
concede that. But she's pretty good in things like
Mission: Impossible and Space:1999 and other shows
with colons in the title.

> >>  With him it extended
> >> to the voice too.  Maybe if you did a gene splice
> >> between him and Shatner
> >> you'd get an actor with normal levels of emotion?
> >
> >Ah, cloning is such a tricky beast...
>
> Not cloning, genetic engineering.  I can easily
> think of more worthy uses
> for such technology though.  We already have decent
> actors...those two just
> aren't among them.
>
> -- Mike B.
> --
> It takes a long time to understand nothing.

David Duchovny's never been a fave of mine but Shatner
grew on me over the years. I think he's better than
his critics give him credit for being-- though he's
done his fair share of dreck as well.

Drew

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