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A Few Hints On What To Expect With SciFi’s FLASH GORDON!!
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I confess a lot of the enthusiasm for SciFi’s new “Flash Gordon” series kind of drained out of me when I learned writer-producer Pete Hume – whose credits include “Charmed,” “Relic Hunter” and “South Beach” – had been hired to run it. Other writers on the show include James Thorpe (“Beastmaster,” “Relic Hunter”) and Steve and Derick Martini (“South Beach”).
This report comes from someone actually employed by the production; see if his take enhances anticipation for the project:
Hi,
I'm busily working on the new Sci-Fi series "Flash
Gordon" up here in Vancouver. Happy to give you some
info though I'd prefer to remain anon.
The show has just completed shooting of episode 4. The
two hour pilot was directed by Rick Rosenthal
(Smallville), the second two episodes were helmed by
Paul Shapiro (Heroes). A rough cut of the pilot was
just sent to the network and the producers are
awaiting their reaction. Post is ongoing. What I can
tell you is that Eric Johnson (Flash) and the
producers are making an appearance at Comicon in
August. They will do a panel on the Sunday where they
are likely to show at least a 15 minute teaser of the
series.
I know there's been some debate regarding the tone of
the show. What I can tell you is that the series is
neither as far one way as "Charmed" or as far the
other as "Battlestar Galactica". The show has definite
light comedy moments (particularly romantic comedy
between Flash, Dale and the other women they
encounter) but it also has a fair bit of dark,
brooding drama. Ming is not the arch, Asian looking
incarnation that Max Von Sidow played in the 1980
movie. He's actually played by blonde haired Canadian
actor John Ralston as a sort of benevolent (in his
mind anyway) dictator. He's a Vladimir Lenin...very
much in control, motivated by his own personal agenda
and ideology...but capable of viciousness towards
those that cross him. Mongo is a fascinating and
terrifying place with a lot of intrigue between the
various factions (Cantons), Ming and their dependence
upon him for the scarce resource of water (which he
controls absolutely). Although the show is being done
on a tight budget the sets, wardrobe, props are all
amazing looking. The art direction for Mongo is
somewhere between the Imperial look of "Star Wars" and
the more post modern/medieval look of Carl's dream
world in "The Cell". A lot will hinge on the visFX
which I have yet to see.
All in all the show is quite promising...kind of a
"Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" meets "Dune" if you
can imagine that!
More later...
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I'm busily working on the new Sci-Fi series "Flash
Gordon" up here in Vancouver. Happy to give you some
info though I'd prefer to remain anon.
The show has just completed shooting of episode 4. The
two hour pilot was directed by Rick Rosenthal
(Smallville), the second two episodes were helmed by
Paul Shapiro (Heroes). A rough cut of the pilot was
just sent to the network and the producers are
awaiting their reaction. Post is ongoing. What I can
tell you is that Eric Johnson (Flash) and the
producers are making an appearance at Comicon in
August. They will do a panel on the Sunday where they
are likely to show at least a 15 minute teaser of the
series.
I know there's been some debate regarding the tone of
the show. What I can tell you is that the series is
neither as far one way as "Charmed" or as far the
other as "Battlestar Galactica". The show has definite
light comedy moments (particularly romantic comedy
between Flash, Dale and the other women they
encounter) but it also has a fair bit of dark,
brooding drama. Ming is not the arch, Asian looking
incarnation that Max Von Sidow played in the 1980
movie. He's actually played by blonde haired Canadian
actor John Ralston as a sort of benevolent (in his
mind anyway) dictator. He's a Vladimir Lenin...very
much in control, motivated by his own personal agenda
and ideology...but capable of viciousness towards
those that cross him. Mongo is a fascinating and
terrifying place with a lot of intrigue between the
various factions (Cantons), Ming and their dependence
upon him for the scarce resource of water (which he
controls absolutely). Although the show is being done
on a tight budget the sets, wardrobe, props are all
amazing looking. The art direction for Mongo is
somewhere between the Imperial look of "Star Wars" and
the more post modern/medieval look of Carl's dream
world in "The Cell". A lot will hinge on the visFX
which I have yet to see.
All in all the show is quite promising...kind of a
"Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" meets "Dune" if you
can imagine that!
More later...
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Flash Gordon In Name Only.
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I hope this show works, but I have a sneaking suspicion they are going to try to water it down to get the largest possible audience rather than stay true to the source material.
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Sounds like that Buck Rogers show from the early eighties (late seventies?)
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Someone had to do it. As for Buck, I'll watch him and his odd feathered friend any day over this. Pour more cheese, please.
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They put pressure on Ron Moore to end Battlestar Galactica early to make way for THIS?
Have they actually watched their programming choices lately? They should have locked up BSG for three more seasons instead of greenlighting a Flash Gordon series no one wanted to see. Or maybe develop a series that takes place in the DUNE universe. Or finance another Star Trek series. Do something that SCi Fi fans actually WANT to watch.
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Anyone else not seein any kind of "wow" factor here? I mean - the guy who plays Flash is best known as playing Lana's clueless boyfriend on Smallville. Not exactly a man's man a la Flash. Ming is Blonde? Give me a break. Ming should be bald at the very least. The guy is the precursor to almost all sci-fi "villains" If ever there was a "muah hahahah" type of sinister evil twisted fuck - this guy should be it. He shouldnt be thinking "well im not such a bad guy after all". He should be thinking "The next motherfucker who speaks up gets disintergrated - and theres nothing wrong with that." Sigh. So far, color me underwhelmed.
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I have zero hope for this show.
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will give it a go, cant be a bad a dresden files or as utter shite as Doctor Who
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I have this sneaking suspicion that it will be an absolute shitfest. I'm certainly not as excited about it as I was about Battlestar Galactica even though I thought Ron Moore had screwed us before I gave it a shot.
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the comic strip is one of the all time best newspaper comics, right up there with Little Nemo. If they can capture the feel of that then this could be great.
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It's not like the cast members are busy or anything.
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whos the bb in the show?
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More often than not skiffy has produced series like pain killer jane, tremors the series, black scorpion, etc. Its rare they hit with a Farscape or a BSG. And skiffy only got involved with season 1 of BSG b/c of fears the brits were going to back it and make it without skiffy.
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I just hope it won't be another post 9/11 drama that is disguised as a remake of a SciFi classic.
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= this years Mutant X. ugh. Colour me underwhelmed.
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...hits the screen, but this is indeed doomed. If it makes it's way out of the first season I'll be extremely surprised. Ming's a blond Canadian, eh? Bad, bad idea. Fine to move away from the overt racist overtones of previous incarnations, although frankly Sydow's version was definative, but to the point he's a generic Canamerican is too much of a stretch for me with this source material. Loved the original serials, have loved some of the books, dearly love the flawed but genius 80's incarnation. I was horrifed while this was linked to Sommers, terrified when it was linked to Conran. Now I'm just resigned that the latest retelling of Flash is going to be Smallville: The Space Years. Utter bollocks to that.
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...is still this show's greatest obstacle to overcome. I mean the guy is so wooden that he makes Josh Hartnett seem like Laurence Olivier by comparison. And they haven't even cast anyone else cool to counter-balance his likely sucktitude, it's all unknowns and no-name canadian workaday actors. Maybe it'll surprise me, but right now expectations are pretty damn low.
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To get lower than my expectations for this, you'd have to go potholing.
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This is gonna suck harder than a family friendly Steve Martin Film... Oh God that hurts to say.. in soooo many ways... sorry I'm going to lie down and cry.
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note for whoever is responsible generating buzz about the new Flash Gordon series: comparing your show to the "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" is not the marketing charm you apparently think it is.
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...was the only thing SciFi has produced that was any good, at least that show was an all-time classic. Could this be worse than Stargate, Invisible Man, Lex, Dresden Files, Tremors, etc., etc., etc...? Oh, yes it can.
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I'm going to keep an open mind with this property. At least Ming didn't morph into a planet-eating cloud or become a woman. Wait a sec. The memory of that evil empress of Draconia with the Buck Rogers fixation just came to mind. Hmmm. Funny, she was certainly more attactive than the Draconians from the Whoniverse.
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A beer and a joint always makes SciFi programming better.
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Dresden is a fun show. Bob is a cool character, and Nic Cage himself produces the series. Sure, it ain't Hellblazer, but neither was Neo.
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... and I've not even seen this shit yet...
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concept.
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Wildstar fire the wave motion gun!
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OK, I've only seen one really, really, really BAAAAAAD episode of this, so whudoiknow?!
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Dresden is bloody awful....and Terrence Mann should be ashamed he's involved. Check the angular vector of the moon...it's obviously having an adverse effect on your taste centers. But this is Flash Gordon for fucks sake - they should have gone the extra mile with it, could have been fantastic. Haven't even seen it yet but for some strange reason I don't think I'll be recanting these words after it's aired.
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Make a live version of the filmation series and I'll be happier. Ron Perlman as Thun, heh heh.
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Zen Question for the Evening
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Hey, it rapidly got better in the first few episodes, reaching an enjoyable level around episode 5.
Nothing like the dead-on-arrival Painkiller Jane.
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Executive producer Peter Hume told SFX magazine that this show will be "relevant and not stupid." He also said that Sci-Fi wanted the show to be "Earth-based" Yes, they want Flash Gordon to be Earth-based (i.e. cheap). Hume also thinks that the show will be realistic because it involves rifts that connect dimensions rather than space travel. Apparently, some boffins in Switzerland are doing work right now that could open up such a rift in real life. Obviously, a property like Flash Gordon needs to be done as a big-budget movie, and I would trust Stephen Sommers to turn in something watchable more than the hacks involved in this show.
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I Love Dresden, Farscape, Battlescar Galactica.
Eureka, and Stargate: Atlantis, are mildly watchable, as were First Wave and the Invisible Man.
Painkiller Jane is so booring I have nicknamed it Pain"filler" Jane, because it's only filling the time slot until something better, or maybe worse comes along Flash Gorden.... well shux, boss, why don't we rape buck gordon while we're at it?
The series I would love to see modernized by Sci-Fi, would be a new "Planet of the Apes" tv series, and starring Nathan Fillion as one of the astronauts, have Joss Whedon work together with Ron Moore, and Tim Minear.
IT COULD BE ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT -
Ming the (fucking clue is in the name) Merciless is described as being like Tony Blair. At least in the draft I read. No thanks. Why not just go off and write your own Sci Fi show if you have no interest in actually giving us some Flash. Flash was a bloody triathalon star (such a thing?) as well, but I think they changed him back to a quarterback. It may not be kitsch, be it didn't seem much fun. Flash is given some weak angst because his dad disappeared in a wormhole when he was a baby (no rocket ships guys, just some feeble parallel dimension bidness re. Mongo). Whatever, it could be fun. But I'd rather have the tone of the movie, but with decent vis effects.
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or is it FUCKING SLIDERS?
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when ECW gets canceled, BTW what genius green lit that one? Also painkiller jane sucks balls, it ranks with black scorpion, beast master and all the other low budget saturday afternoon crap the WB tried years back
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fuck is wrestling on the sci-fi channel. I mean jesus, I know universal-vivendi own the channel, but christ, maybe they should aire "Series 7: the contendors" on the game show channel...
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the sci-fi channel fires all its executives and comes up with a couple of new shows
a new "Planet of the Apes" TV series, with Nathan Fillion starring
A Buckaroo Banzai tv series
Starring
Bruce Campbell
Neal McDonough = Perfect Tommy
Peter Weller
Ellen Barkin (she's still smokin)
Jeff Goldblum (that raines show got canceled right?) MAKE IT SO!!!!! -
is it true that there aren't even spaceships in this show but they travel through wormholes or some stupid crap like that?
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IT'S FUCKING SLIDERS
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I'm stunned that SciFi thinks this is a better idea than spending the money on more BSG. This has Andromeda written all over it.
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I'll pass.
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that make all the crappy made for tv movies on the Sci-Fi channel, or behind this show... I don't think I've seen a decent made for tv movie on sci-fi, it's all crap.
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It deserves a shot. Can be good,
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in the fucking head..... it reads like F.lash G.ordin I.n N.ame O.nly, it sounds more like SLIDERS....
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in TJ after some slimey looking guy says, "Psssssst, gringo. Wanna see a donkey show?"
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What the fuck! Pointy beards and eye brows make someone Asian? Fucking BULLSHIT! I can't believe they'd screw up with Ming. Crap those are lame credits on this show. I think it will be forgettable Meh. Of course Stargate Atlantis is forgettable Meh, so who knows how long this could last. I think in two years, there won't be anything worth seeing on Sci-Fi Channel.
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and made him an HOT ASIAN ROBOT CHICK
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As he says Flash Gordon is his favorite comic hero of all time
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Stupid performance artists and their drug problems.
The lead singer Justin now has his own "band" called BRITISH WHALE -
Already been done. It was called "Crusade".
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chakotay, Xander, the First Lady's assistant from Season 5 ... it had serious geek cred. AND FIRE SERPENTS!
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but babylon 5 and everything associated with JMS sucks ass and is boring and it sucks ass.. did i mention it sucks ass, cause all his work sucks ass... except for Midnight Nation, that was actually good. JMS SUCKS just as much as Tim Story
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That PWNED the Quest for Iscandar *and* The Bolar Wars.
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SW-Imperial-style...WTF? Oh, and make the villain a blond...that won't offend anybody. I'd rather have a John Carter show/mini-series anyway. If Hollywood won't get around to doing a movie, why not? FG was just a knock-off of Burroughs Mars anyway. Screw FG...been there, done that. Besides, the 1980 movie is classic.
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let's remake Buck Rodgers, but instead of being in the future, let's have him stuck traveling across dimension after dimension through, now get this, he'll travel through wormholes...
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I guess they (the creators) missed 'the Merciless' part when they were developing the character of Ming.
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if Flash Gorden isn't travelling through space, but instead he's travelling through worm holes, then it's not Flash Gorden, it's fucking SLIDERS
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Yeah, that's the ticket.
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Jun 13, 2007 10:29:53 PM CDT
They lost me at "blonde haired Canadian" for Ming
by allpowerfulwizardofoz
Oh well. Bring me my special edition of the DVD movie we have all been waiting for. I got the original release on DVD but a deluxe version is long overdue. Would be nice in HD-DVD too.
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Flesh Gordon 2
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TDF started off a little rocky, but started finding its groove about halfway in when they began emphasizing Dresden's magical abilities more. Bob is one of the best supporting characters on TV right now, even if he's basically "Ghost Alfred" to Dresden's Bruce Wayne. The banter between Murphy and Dresden picked up in later episodes as well, so hopefully we won't be seeing them hook up romantically anytime soon. (I'm looking at you, MOONLIGHTING and LOIS & CLARK!)
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Ming is an ASIAN NAME for fucks sake. If Ming the Merciless is gonna be played by a BLOND CANOOK why not just call him something else like... DIRK
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This shit is DOA.
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STARSHIP TROOPERS and SF Chan's DUNE Mini I'll be happy. But I'm sure the prop guy couldn't help himself lol. UNI is giving the short shaft to the new SE DVD for the 1980 FLASH GORDON movie. The SRP is $26 and even though they have audio commentaries from 3 stars and the director those ARE NOT on the new DVD. No QUEEN music video, No features from the SE Import. No love for FLASH : (
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Bunch of fucking bitches. Why don't you wait and see the damn show before you condemn it? Sheesh. It's not like Flash Gordon is an untouchable, sacred property for chrissakes. Reimagine away.
And Dresden Files wasn't brilliant but it was pretty entertaining and actually got magickal theory more right than most shows, even if it was still fantasy. They actually did their research. -
Jun 14, 2007 12:34:28 AM CDT
FLASH GORDON IS ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES EVER
by supercowbell 4 cant stop the cowbell
and i fuckin love it
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is come up with something fuckin new, don't say let's re-imagine something people already love, and take everything that was good about it and change it. for fucks say, MING is an ASIAN NAME, if you're gonna change his nationality, then change his name. and Flash Gorden without rockets? WTF, with WORMHOLES? how many shows with wormholes does SCI-FI need, we got two stargates, and they had SLIDERS as well, why don't they just at wormholes to dresden files while they are at it, and shit Painfiller jane is so bad, throwing in wormholes might make the show slightly tolerable...
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Sci-fi make it happen, now!!
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let's re-imagine the star wars prequels. let's re-imagine "My Science Project" as a tv series, or Tron, why doesn't the sci-fi channel rape TRON, I take that back, if anyone ever rapes Tron into a bad movie sequel or a tv series, well then... you know...stuff will happen...STUFF
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lol, I was just thinking that exact same thing about Ice Pirates
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The Merciless is re-imagined as a blond Caucasian, eh? I guess the scheming, inscrutable Asian stereotype is veddy un-PC these days. Just make this Aryan "Ming" into a character called, uh . . . Reinhard Heydrich!
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... before you start moronically tearing it to shreds. I mean, really, you're all so phuqing cynical I'm amazed your dicks don't fall off in disgust.
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Wee Todd Ed
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period
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The hints in the article are "steaming pile of shit", "hack writers" and "a total misunderstanding of the franchise"
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...and called it 'Farscape.' Guy gets sucked through a wormhole into another universe full of weird aliens and is hunted by a maniacal dictator. Yup, that's Farscape.
If you're gonna make a Flash Gordon series, you might as well actually make it a FLASH FUCKING GORDON series, instead of some remake with modern changes. Battlestar Galactica was still essentially the same show, only darker and more political (the way the original show was meant to be, until it got fucked in the ear by network hacks). Let's face it, networks never know what the hell they're doing when it comes to science fiction. Rest in peace, Firefly. Fare thee well, Farscape. We'll miss you, I-Man. The list goes on. -
Is this political correctness gone too far? Should Ming be a blonde Canadian? How do you guys feel about it?
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I've never thought about Ming being in any way Oriental. I loved the 1980 film as a kid and I just thought he was a bald evil guy. He doesn't look like any of the Oriental guys I know. On another note, anyone seen the Ming the Merciless segments from Big Train? Hilarious stuff, showing him living in a small suburban house, doing the vacuuming and so on in full costume.
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Is a solid, entertaining show. Rodney, the resident megalomanic, is one of the most love to hate characters to come along in ages. Their recent episode with the hollowed out moon and crash landing of a space shuttle was one of the best written and executed SCIFI stories I have seen in years with incredible CGI. It has its problems (e.g. the Ancient's technology seem too readily understandable and accessible) but overall its a solid SCIFI experience.
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This sounds like it is going to be horrible. low budget is not necessarily a bad thing, but low budget and low talent is not a good sign.
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Jun 14, 2007 8:51:46 AM CDT
Instead of Ming the Merciless we get Jeff the Communist
by neo con snake plissken
A Blond Ming that's kind of like Lenin?!?
Oh. Ok. White people are evil. Wow. Haven't heard that one before. Why not make Flash Gordon A Half Black Half Hispanic Cripple? He can ride to Mongo in a rocket powered wheelchair. Mongo paun in game of political correctness. Liberal faggots. -
Jun 14, 2007 8:53:57 AM CDT
Instead of Ming the Merciless we get Jeff the Communist
by neo con snake plissken
A Blond Ming that's kind of like Lenin?!?
Oh. Ok. White people are evil. Wow. Haven't heard that one before. Why not make Flash Gordon A Half Black Half Hispanic Cripple? He can ride to Mongo in a rocket powered wheelchair. Mongo paun in game of political correctness. Liberal faggots. -
...Figures. It started slowly, but strengthened with each episode as they added in more of the mythology from the books (not fantastic writing, but good, solid reads, and entertaining as hell). I guess if the budget isn't basement-level and there's no cheesy giant cardboard spiders or bad-CGI snakes, Sci-Fi's not interested. Remember when they were doing Taken and other cutting edge stuff? Too bad they were bought out by people who have the opinion that, "It's only science fiction, doesn't matter how lousy it it, the nerds will eat it up!" A pox on this shitty excuse for a network... they manage to be even worse than CW... didn't think that was physically possible, but they did it.
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So Ming will be more compelling than Flash just like Luthor was in Smallville?
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deliciously evil, why do they have to do the Post-Modern treatment on everything?
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the chicks are hot enough maybe even twice.
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Geez, you can smell the stink from here.
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Or, Ming is really Flash's dad or something lame like that? Flash is the Universal Savior like the Paul Muwadeeb or something. With Sci-Fi, this will either go to pot out of the gate, or got to pot in season 2.
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He was Mongonian. It's like saying that Vulcans look too Asian, so we're going to reimagine them to look like Swedes.
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Mingelsonn a German Nazi last seen in Argentina so actually a blond sort of fits.
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I expect something akin to that insipid Lone Ranger TV series they tried a couple years ago. An OC version of pretty boy Flash Gordon is stupid.
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Don't bash it, Herc. It was my regular Saturday night "date" during an especially depressing period in my life. Marry me, Tia! I just moved out of my mom's basement and into a lovely efficiency.
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Never done this before, but in the hope that someone involved in the show will read this, here are six ways to succeed with Flash Gordon. 1/ Aim it at kids (6-12 year olds). If it contains some good FX and a few hot girls in Mongo couture then us older geeks will lap it up too. 2/ Make Ming an absolute 'Merciless' villain and Flash a true-hearted hero. 3/Run the season as an ongoing story in the manner of Lost. 4/ Have every episode finish with a cliffhanger. 5/ Get copies of the old Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serialisation to every writer and don't be afraid to poach. 6/ Keep everything as close to 'classic childrens sci-fi' as possible, that means laser guns, spaceships, swords, and monsters. Hope this little lot helps...
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His name is Ming for gawd's sake!
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Von Balk, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights in Sergei Eisenstein's "ALEXANDER NEVSKY", maybe that would be an acceptably Nordic re-imagining of the Mongolian-appearing Ming, eh?
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All of my favorite villains are being destroyed before my very eyes. And no rocket ship? I hope not. Say what you will about the 80's movie - but at least they nailed the production design. The Flash Gordon rockets are ICONIC. By the way folks, ORIENTAL refers to rugs and furniture, ASIAN refers to people.
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Just checked out Dictionary.com. Actually it's not incorrect to use Oriental in reference to a person from the East, it's just considered offensive by some.
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The Man of Bronze would be a good SciFi Series...potentially.
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The American premiere of Series/Season 3 *Doctor Who* begins July 6th on the SciFi Channel.
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All Hail Emperor Todd, The somewhat Mercilous!!!! Hail Todd!!! Hail Todd!!!!!!
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Makes the Sam Jones 1980 Campfest seem positively epic in comparison.
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Every man, every woman, every child....
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"GAWWRDON'S ALIIIIVE?!!FLYING BLIIIND ON A RRRROCKET SLEDDDD?!!" And needs more Timothy Dalton too! "Freeze! Ya' Bloody bahstaaads!!". Classic stuff.
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on this **cough** abortion of a series. It looks grim.
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Fuck Yeah!!
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If you're gonna quote the classics, try to get it right."sled", sheesh..
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...on DVD at the very least. I still haven't seen some season 1 eps. Bring back G vs. E while you're at it. I freakin' loved those shows. Sci-Fi has a long history of canceling shows too early (Stargate aside which was a Showtime show really). So I tend not to watch their new ones anymore. I might check out Flash, but it isn't sounding too encouraging right now. Also, aren't all of these Vancouver shows going to start getting in each other's frame as they shoot? They all look the same to me.
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nimrods
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"Battlestar Galactica was still essentially the same show, only darker and more political" - are you freakin' kidding me? I can't imagine the shows being any more different, stylistically, tonally, design-wise (sure there are a few callbacks with the vipers and such, but still), theme-wise. The only other similarities are a few character names and the fact that the Cylons are the enemy. Everything else about it is different.
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Once again these so called creative types just don't get it. FLASH GORDON was easy. Fantasy, sexy gals, bad ass villian, wild creatures, rocket ships, laser guns, ROCKETSHIPS. Now we get SLIDERS GORDON with his Flash mobile. Believe me there are images and info already on the Entertainment weekly site about this so-called show. Yes no one should pre-judge a show, but hey I am going to from what I am seeing and reading. Hey I thought while fun, the early 80's film was still not all the way getting all the elements correct. Set it in the 30's keep the retro/deco whacky designs! Gee as uneven as SKY CAPTAIN was that may be as close to a FLASH GORDON feel creation that we will get. Heck even the Flimation cartoon had it right. If this bombs hard it will be quite a while till there is a FLASH GORDON done right. Heck after BSG leaves there is not much going on at SCIFI. I just don't get it why they take all these properties and then proceed to tear out their guts. They just never get it oh well it is just a show in the end.
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Farscape was as good a reimagining of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers as there will ever be. Nothing on that cheap-o channel will ever be as good. That show looked great, had incredible action and heart, freely mixed hilarious camp with real pathos, and managed to pay homage to countless classics of the genre while still being completely original. I doubt there will ever be a hero-villain dynamic in a SciFi TV show as nuanced as the one between Chriton, Scorpius, and Harvey (Scorpius' neural clone), and nearly all of the relationships on that show were as rich. Character-, action-, and humor-wise, I think Firely was just as good, but couldn't compare to the fantastic design of Farscape. No, the SciFi Channel has indeed shot it's wad, and few shall mourn its ultimate demise.
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If they're such pussies about the ethnicity (and excuse me but his daughter Aura turned out good so it's not like there ould be no good "Asian-looking" people on Mongo), why didn't they get HIM?!! A fucking blonde Ming? FUCK! This is the make it or break it part of the whole thing. Flash Gordon is nothing without Ming. Getting him wrong is like getting Darth Vader wrong in Star Wars. But then as some people have pointed out, current creative powers are idiots with villains, hence ruining Dr. Doom and Galactus. This is a terrible age for Sci-Fi villainry.
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but it sucked on a level that just made it awesome and enjoyable! go figure!! cannot wait to see this new series and see what direction they go in!
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and heard from the set, the show is really bad. So way off from what FLASH GORDON is that the crew is already looking for their next gig. The scripts are being ripped apart by the very people who are filming the stuff. I just think that's terrible. One would think the powers that be would know better than to say "hey, we're making Flash Gordon" and then royally fuck it up the ass. Apparently it's not even in the realm of "bad enough to watch for a few laughs". Shame on them.
I also heard Flash isn't even a football player. At least the 80's movie got that right.
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So shouldn't he play Flash Gordon, not Ming?
Did one of the many producer idiots get his calls to agents out of order?
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What kind of fucked up Ming is this?
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Having Darth Vader as a Che Guevara type! That's right people in 2017 Star Wars will be 40 years old and in 1977 the original Flash Gordon serial was 41 years old! How fucked up is that?????
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The David Lynch one, not the crappy mini series of a few years ago.
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The Lost Room miniseries was the best thing besides BG that Sci Fi has put on the air all year. It should have been expanded into a weekly series.
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