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I love your series, recently discovered. Very enjoyable. Have you ever looked at Camp Wilder? It starred Mary Page Keller, Jerry o'Connell, Jay Mohr, Hilary Swank, all before becoming very famous. I believe it only had one season. Please keep this up.
You know which show I would lovr to see covered? Raines on NBC. It was a detective show where Jeff Goldblum sees and speaks with murder victims and they help him solve cases. It's all in his head tho so they can't give him info he doesnt already know. It only lasted like 6 episodes but I liked it
@@blackamerican40 - or his season and change on LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT? On a show that was already a weird outlier in the L&O Universe (its core premise was "What if Nero Wolfe was a cop, and Archie Goodwin was his female partner?"), Goldblum Goldblumming around every week with first Kathryn Erbe (who had to learn to deal with Another Nutty Partner) and Saffron Burrows as his new partner who was, thankfully, a bit eccentric herself (the daughter of an Embassy Marine in Islamabad, she learned to read and speak Arabic and Urdu), just upped the "Mystery Novel, not Cop Show" air of the series.
The source material is one of my favorite docudramas. I had no idea they wanted to make this into a fully-realized show. Now that I think about it, I’m glad I didn’t.
Something that reminds me of this show is the new "Lost in Space." Hard sci-fi with character arcs through it and a slow, measured pace. "Defying Gravity" was a decade ahead of its time. If it had come out for Netflix of Prime today, it might have lasted a little longer. At least the full season.
Ugh. It’s been forever, but I still cringed when you mentioned them scrapping the sets. The set and production design of the show was really good. The story was…ehm….yeah. Still, this was a better than average entry into the “this will be the new LOST” sweepstakes
You know, I only watched this show back when I was only 9, and I only watched it cause there was space suits. Not because it was in space, just the space suits. I'd say I was a weird kid, but tbh, that part of me hasn't gone away, in fact it's pretty much something that isn't going away soon. Also, man, Office Space is one of my favorite movies, I can't see Ron Livingston's charicter without going "HEY THE DUDE FROM OFFICE SPACE"
Do: Struck By Lightning (CBS Starring Jack Elam) ; Wizards & Warriors (CBS), Mr Merlin (CBS) Bring 'Em Back Alive (CBS), Apple's Way (CBS), Tales of The Gold Monkey (ABC), A Year At The Top (CBS), The Other World (CBS), The Powers of Matthew Star (NBC), America 3000 (ABC), And The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (NBC).
When this show came on in America, I actually gave this show a hard time, ranking it as one of the worst programs of the 2000s, on par with animated disasters like "Sit Down, Shut Up" and sitcoms such as "That 80's Show". Mayhaps I gave the show too little credit back then considering how ABC's advertising crew erroneously promoted it, but then again, tragedy is often the fate of the internationally syndicated show. If a show is domestically produced, the network will often promote it to hell and back (unless the project is on par with, say, the Hindenburg catastrophe, which was the case with Fox's "Allen Gregory" earlier this decade, at which case the network intentionally avoids having critics look at the project and hopes poor ratings will allow it to mercy kill it) since the network has put a good source of funding and time into developing the project, but if it's a "syndication" of sorts, then the project is often doomed to a quick death given that executives will most likely never understand the project as it was never theirs to begin with, and given the bait and switch nature of advertisement groups who have to sell something at all costs, people who do turn in are likely annoyed at what they find since it's not what was promised. "Hard science" programming isn't an impossibility in American television, but the issue was that had the project been on a smaller budget and been a weekend syndication program like "Xena: Warrior Princess" or, and this is very obscure, "Mutant X" back in the late 1990s or early 2000s, it likely would have stood a chance for longer survival, but on a network, especially with that Sunday night graveyard slot... it wasn't meant to be. … And then I read what would have happened, and it would have been a fever dream, so, you know what? Good idea the show died.
I love your series, recently discovered. Very enjoyable. Have you ever looked at Camp Wilder? It starred Mary Page Keller, Jerry o'Connell, Jay Mohr, Hilary Swank, all before becoming very famous. I believe it only had one season. Please keep this up.
Even in 2009 trailers were all quick cuts and constant banging sounds!
Ground Control to Major Ron,
Ground Control to Major Ron,
Take your hormone-inhibition pills and put your helmet on...
You know which show I would lovr to see covered? Raines on NBC. It was a detective show where Jeff Goldblum sees and speaks with murder victims and they help him solve cases. It's all in his head tho so they can't give him info he doesnt already know. It only lasted like 6 episodes but I liked it
Why stop there. What about his other show back in the late 70s. Tenspeed and Brownshoe.
@@blackamerican40 - or his season and change on LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT? On a show that was already a weird outlier in the L&O Universe (its core premise was "What if Nero Wolfe was a cop, and Archie Goodwin was his female partner?"), Goldblum Goldblumming around every week with first Kathryn Erbe (who had to learn to deal with Another Nutty Partner) and Saffron Burrows as his new partner who was, thankfully, a bit eccentric herself (the daughter of an Embassy Marine in Islamabad, she learned to read and speak Arabic and Urdu), just upped the "Mystery Novel, not Cop Show" air of the series.
@@blackamerican40only fair to do Tenspeed and Brownshoe. He already did Galactica 1980, which was its lead-in
Do Emily's Reasons Why Not.... They took that to the shed right quick...
The source material is one of my favorite docudramas. I had no idea they wanted to make this into a fully-realized show. Now that I think about it, I’m glad I didn’t.
I remember seeing commercials for that during I Survived a Japanese Game Show...
Voyagers! What a show.
I really loved this show .I watched online the unaired episodes. The show ended way better than it started. To bad it was cancel
Something that reminds me of this show is the new "Lost in Space." Hard sci-fi with character arcs through it and a slow, measured pace. "Defying Gravity" was a decade ahead of its time. If it had come out for Netflix of Prime today, it might have lasted a little longer. At least the full season.
Ugh. It’s been forever, but I still cringed when you mentioned them scrapping the sets. The set and production design of the show was really good. The story was…ehm….yeah. Still, this was a better than average entry into the “this will be the new LOST” sweepstakes
If you run out of ideas, would you consider assessing the TV version of A League of Their Own?
You know, I only watched this show back when I was only 9, and I only watched it cause there was space suits. Not because it was in space, just the space suits. I'd say I was a weird kid, but tbh, that part of me hasn't gone away, in fact it's pretty much something that isn't going away soon.
Also, man, Office Space is one of my favorite movies, I can't see Ron Livingston's charicter without going "HEY THE DUDE FROM OFFICE SPACE"
Great video
Do: Struck By Lightning (CBS Starring Jack Elam) ; Wizards & Warriors (CBS), Mr Merlin (CBS) Bring 'Em Back Alive (CBS), Apple's Way (CBS), Tales of The Gold Monkey (ABC), A Year At The Top (CBS), The Other World (CBS), The Powers of Matthew Star (NBC), America 3000 (ABC), And The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo (NBC).
5:27 LOL, then why Shanghai them??
There was a MacGuffin, and they had to find the MacGuffin.
This show was better off on Syfy.
The main issue with the show is that it was visually bland and came across like Lost with its flashbacks. Of course it failed. 😆
When this show came on in America, I actually gave this show a hard time, ranking it as one of the worst programs of the 2000s, on par with animated disasters like "Sit Down, Shut Up" and sitcoms such as "That 80's Show". Mayhaps I gave the show too little credit back then considering how ABC's advertising crew erroneously promoted it, but then again, tragedy is often the fate of the internationally syndicated show. If a show is domestically produced, the network will often promote it to hell and back (unless the project is on par with, say, the Hindenburg catastrophe, which was the case with Fox's "Allen Gregory" earlier this decade, at which case the network intentionally avoids having critics look at the project and hopes poor ratings will allow it to mercy kill it) since the network has put a good source of funding and time into developing the project, but if it's a "syndication" of sorts, then the project is often doomed to a quick death given that executives will most likely never understand the project as it was never theirs to begin with, and given the bait and switch nature of advertisement groups who have to sell something at all costs, people who do turn in are likely annoyed at what they find since it's not what was promised.
"Hard science" programming isn't an impossibility in American television, but the issue was that had the project been on a smaller budget and been a weekend syndication program like "Xena: Warrior Princess" or, and this is very obscure, "Mutant X" back in the late 1990s or early 2000s, it likely would have stood a chance for longer survival, but on a network, especially with that Sunday night graveyard slot... it wasn't meant to be.
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And then I read what would have happened, and it would have been a fever dream, so, you know what? Good idea the show died.
So a knockoff of 2001