Although the costumes, sets and visual effects were practical and cheesy. There was no CGI back in the 1970s and you've got to give the special effects artists, the custom designers and production designers credit for their creativeness and imagination.
I suppose I always wondered what baby Zygons looked like. I always felt Nation took on too much in series 1, often falls short in dialogue, but the tension is always there.
@@frankshailes3205 I agree. But it isn't just Boucher's contribution, IMO, it's Nation getting breathing room. I thought the scripts for The Way Back and Spacefall were genuinely excellent. But you can really feel the crunch on Nation by halfway through series 1. Then with others also writing starting in series 2, Nation is really back in form again with gems like Powerplay. I think the guy was just severely overburdened. The same thing happened with Nigel kneale a few years earlier. His feature scripts are great. Then he writes all of his Quatermass series and the damn thing is just horrendously bad. Another sometimes brilliant writer unable to rally his best under a crushing workload. Or to quote the title of screenwriter Jimmy Sangster's autobiography, "Do You Want It Good Or Tuesday?"
Nation himself knew this. He was pitching at the BBC and they didn't like his other ideas and asked if he had anything else. He mentioned his idea of a sort of rebel Magnificent Seven in space and the BBC were interested. He told them he wanted to write it all himself though, and they agreed. When he got home he told his wife and said he had made a mistake in asking to be able to write it all himself.
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I will say B7 was awesome in millions and billions of ways and this episode was not too bad
Although the costumes, sets and visual effects were practical and cheesy. There was no CGI back in the 1970s and you've got to give the special effects artists, the custom designers and production designers credit for their creativeness and imagination.
To be honest lots of CGI from 10 or 20 years ago looks awful now by comparison.
@1.15. Wow, nice a... (if I can say this here). 👏
I suppose I always wondered what baby Zygons looked like. I always felt Nation took on too much in series 1, often falls short in dialogue, but the tension is always there.
Yes, it really starts to gel when Chris Boucher gets to mould the series and the actors are very familiar with their characters.
@@frankshailes3205 I agree. But it isn't just Boucher's contribution, IMO, it's Nation getting breathing room. I thought the scripts for The Way Back and Spacefall were genuinely excellent. But you can really feel the crunch on Nation by halfway through series 1. Then with others also writing starting in series 2, Nation is really back in form again with gems like Powerplay. I think the guy was just severely overburdened. The same thing happened with Nigel kneale a few years earlier. His feature scripts are great. Then he writes all of his Quatermass series and the damn thing is just horrendously bad. Another sometimes brilliant writer unable to rally his best under a crushing workload. Or to quote the title of screenwriter Jimmy Sangster's autobiography, "Do You Want It Good Or Tuesday?"
Nation himself knew this. He was pitching at the BBC and they didn't like his other ideas and asked if he had anything else. He mentioned his idea of a sort of rebel Magnificent Seven in space and the BBC were interested. He told them he wanted to write it all himself though, and they agreed.
When he got home he told his wife and said he had made a mistake in asking to be able to write it all himself.
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