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Space 1999, Set 2Rating:
Release Date: 30 January, 2001 Retail Price: $39.95 OUR Price: $35.96 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Space 1999, Set 2 Reviews
Two really good episodes, four not-so-good episodes
Missing Link - I didn't care for this one at all. Koenig is captured by some aliens that think humans are the "missing link" in their evolutionary chain. There's a whole lot of standing around talking in cheap acid-trip looking sets. The premise isn't interesting or believable. The ending is really dumb.
The Guardian of Piri - The moonbase crew goes to the planet Piri and lays around acting really stoned. Only Koenig seems immune to the powerful LSD trip that affects everyone else. Kind of like Woodstock if you dressed everyone up in Moonbase uniforms and didn't have any bands playing. Pretty stupid overall. The worst part was watching the Moonbase crew having a party before they left Alpha, like a bunch of 9 year olds at a birthday party looking forward to watching the clown show.
Force of Life - A truly excellent episode. A man who works in one of the reactor rooms is taken over by an alien spirit and starts killing people and consuming Alpha's power. Some great nightmarish sequences and marvelous sets. One of my favorites of the whole series.
Alpha Child - Not very good. Alpha's first child is born and grows up rapidly. A lot of scenes of the Alphans giddily playing with the kid, rather neauseating. The ending was somewhat good, but ultimately unsatisfying.
The Last Sunset - Another great episode. Alpha gets an atmosphere, and Barbara Bain is stranded when her Eagle crashes. Another of my favorites of the series.
Voyager's Return - I didn't like this one at all. The Voyager space probe was launched from earth, but something went wrong with it's drive system and it ended up killing a bunch of people. Now it returns with angry aliens in hot persuit. The doctor who built it just happens to be on Alpha, but everyone hates him because of the previous accident. There are a lot of Nazi overtones in this for some reason (the doctor has a heavy German accent and is treated as some sort of horrible criminal). Doesn't really make sense - do the family memebers of the victims of the space shuttle disasters hate and want to beat up the people who work at NASA? It was an accident for pete's sake. Everyone acts very out of character and I found the whole thing rather painful to sit through.
Overall, a real mixed bag. I give it 4 stars on the strength of the two good episodes, which is being very charitable.
1999 Forever
The costumes, the special effects, the models, the music, and the actors all brought together to form a unique series that touched many a fan. The episodes of Space:1999 were thought provoking, and yes not every little thing was explained, but the series made you THINK!...instead of having every episode resolved, ala Trek, some of the episodes like "Black Sun" left you wondering "how did they survive that?" But that was the beauty of 1999, it was a show all it's own, and it stood up for itself. I was thrilled beyond belief when I heard they were releasing the entire series on DVD, unlike the last chance I had to watch the show on SciFi whom butchered the episodes to squeeze in more commercial time, releasing 1999 on DVD is a dream come true for all fans of the show. Watching the episodes on DVD brought back so many memories of getting a good seat in the living room just before the next episode was shown on TV. 1999 touched me like no other show has or probably ever will. I am surprised though that with today's computer technology in sfx used in movies....that no one has ever made a REAL Space:1999 movie. Wouldn't it be great to have a two hour movie based on the very first episode of "Breakaway"?
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