War In The Stars

Can't vote ... too much stuff I can not make up my mind on. That said, here are some observations:

ST -- I was doing a lot of theater at the time ... and if there is one thing I really dislike in "film" and "theater" is the idea that a blue or pink scrim in the background is a "set" ... but if it worked for "A Star is Born" then it worked for "Star Trek" ... and I disliked it ... but just when it seemed they had a good idea, they turn it into a schmuck little nothing! I do think that ST trying in its reincarnation to being in better actors was nice, but they only brought 2 of them ... one English and one French ... but after them, the show suffered acting wise as it looked like the directing didn't bother with them.

SW -- I enjoyed the original, but then, I saw it in a theater that had the floors wired, and sound going every each way in that hall ... and the experience was insane specially in the ending sequence with explosions going off below some seats in the audience and all that ... well defined sound design for its showing ... but after that .. the whole thing became way too cartoonish for me, and I dropped out ... I think I have only seen the first 3 of these films ... and not bothered with the others.

Babylon 5 -- A nice premise and an interesting thing, that also was able to get Christopher Franke involved. However, the whole series is just a bunch of horribly directed and defined things within an hour, and the music was so badly used to the point that if my name was CF, I would have it removed, and have them go get a conventional idiot for the jingles!

Stargate SG1 and SG Atlantis -- the first person to play the part of Daniel was very good ... his replacement later was pathetic and the show did not survive it I do not think. The follow up was OK in its original line up but when they brought in that pair from England, it died a quick death ... it didn't fit them at all! The show also suffered when RDA left, and I enjoyed some of the guest stars in the original show ... some nice stuff. The pair from England, on their original show (Red something?) was much better and a lot more fun!

Doctor Who -- Maybe the day before I pass on, I will find out what the big thing about these really was ... I still don't get it, and find the whole thing really boring, specially the stuck up, upright acting!

Flash Gordon -- The original movie was more fun ... the redo was crap!

Of all these, I liked best FIREFLY and its movie SERENITY ... which had a great cast and was really well defined character wise, which is one of the things that hurt a lot of these sci-fi things.

There was a series of a show that was about the astronauts doing a time travel to 5 years earlier to stop the earth from blowing itself up or something like that ... it was an excellent show and its story line was very well done. I do not know the name of that show ... and would like to find it and see it again.