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| 1066.1 | It's back. On Showtime (cable network). | NASAU::GUILLERMO | But the world still goes round and round | Mon Mar 27 1995 14:20 | 24 |
| and it blew. (IMHO of course). The premiere was 8:00 p.m. EST, Sunday 3/26.
Three generations of "Bridges" (Lloyd, Beau and Jason(?) -- a boy -- probably
Beau's son) paid homage to the 'mad scientist' theme, where earth organisms were
incubated in Martian soil and developed into scorpion-like scuttlers, with great
IQ potential.
At first I thought "maybe I'm jaded with the insect swarm out of control theme"
as that has been done quite often over the years. But then, the original series
managed to pull it off when there had been a fair number of them preceding even
then.
It wound up seeming quite melodramatic and clich�d -- even with the political/
domestic sub-texts.
One aspect I did find somewhat amusing: in the early part of the show Beau,
having been recently fired from his top secret gov't job, walks into his barn
and finds a paned-glass window which he installs. Later in the program, after
he's recreated his experimental Martian insect colony and starts to exert
control over them, he rails that they will be denied food and will therefore
war among themselves until he sees fit to alleviate their suffering. Mark
Twains' 'Letters from the Earth' suggested. (?)
All in all not an auspicious beginning but I'll probably sample a few more just
to see if it's more hype than hip.
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| 1066.2 | | REGENT::POWERS | | Tue Mar 28 1995 11:25 | 4 |
| Was this from George R. R. Martin's story?
Was that story called "The Sand Kings?"
- tom]
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| 1066.3 | | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Tue Mar 28 1995 12:15 | 4 |
| According to the ad in "TV Guide", it was "Sandkings", but the synopsis
didn't sound like they followed the story, ah, closely.
Ann B.
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| 1066.4 | Support Intelligent Sci Fi scripts! | NASAU::GUILLERMO | But the world still goes round and round | Tue Mar 28 1995 12:26 | 4 |
| re:-1
Don't you hate it when that happens? (BTW George R.R. Martin is a consultant for
this show).
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| 1066.5 | | RT128::KENAH | Do we have any peanut butter? | Tue Mar 28 1995 12:38 | 3 |
| Sand Kings was a wonderful story -- sorry to hear they screwed it up.
andrew
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| 1066.6 | | CSOA1::LENNIG | Dave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYO | Fri Mar 31 1995 14:18 | 2 |
| Anyone know if Showtime has a fixed time-slot for the series,
and if so, what it is?
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| 1066.7 | check your local listings | NASAU::GUILLERMO | But the world still goes round and round | Mon Apr 03 1995 17:03 | 1 |
| Fridays, 10:00 p.m. N.E. EST/DST
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| 1066.8 | | NASAU::GUILLERMO | But the world still goes round and round | Fri May 26 1995 13:09 | 1 |
| mostly a disappointment IMO.
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