Episodes recut for different markets
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Originally posted by FX:
[b] shame about lost in space but i guess a lot of the appeal of that show was the batman factor, so bad it was funny, and campy, and fashionable to be a part of…except batman had staying power and lost in space’s appeal rests largely in nostalgia for those of us that watched it as children…[/b]
…Which is why, I think, that the [i]Lost in Space[/i] movie didn’t work. The show itself was campy fun, and the movie seemed to be an attempt to reverse that and make it more “serious.” In doing so, unfortunately, they forgot to work on the script, and ended up with a particularly hackneyed storyline (IMHO) that could have come out of *any* crappy sci-fi actioner. Batman, on the other hand, is a character that lends itself to a multitude of interpretations. In doing a movie, you could go the camp route (a la the TV show), the gritty route (as in Frank Miller’s [i]The Dark Knight Returns[/i] or [i]Year One[/i]), the surreal route (Grant Morrison’s [i]Arkham Asylum[/i]), etc. Burton’s films work because of the inherent malleability of the story.
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[b]speaking of nostalgia, i was really upset when heavy metal went to a quarterly issue, i used to love ranxerox ,moebius et al and wait eagerly for the next month’s installment, the artwork was glorious and the storylines intriguing, if inconsistent, now i am going to have to dig out my old issues!who was your favorite artist? i really liked geiger, so cold and dark, but that look has almost become cliched because of the alien franchise, who did you like aleck?
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Oh, I’m a Giger man, myself. I’ve got several books of his work, his Tarot deck, etc. Love the guy, and don’t care if his stuff has become too over-exposed. Aside from him, I’ve always liked Moebius’ work (another [i]Alien[/i] connection, as well as [i]The Fifth Element[/i]…have you ever seen the comix he did with Alejandro Jodorowsky? Mind-blowing stuff, that.), and on the more fantasy side of things, Richard Corben. Ranxerox does rule, as well (I can’t think of who the artist was on that series).
–Aleck