What are you watching?

[Dakkar]

But what I can't figure out is this: how come John Robinson or Major West didn't toss Dr. Smith out the airlock by the third episode of the first season??

But that would be murder! And every mistake he's made, well, nothing's been outright malicious!

Plus, you know, the cut scene where Dr. Smith informs them that the Robot is irrevocably programmed with a failsafe - if Dr. Smith dies, the Robot detonates the reactor of the Jupiter 2.  ;-)

Oh the pain... the pain...

[Landlubber]

"Spare me your insolent chitter-chatter, you blithering baboon "--or something like that. I haven't seen that cutscene.

The last episode I watched, Smith kept reprogramming the "astrogator" to point the Jupiter 2 towards Earth instead of Alpha Centaur (he even duped one of the kids into doing it after Robinson and West banned him from the control room)...I thought West was going to kill him.

[Dakkar]

I haven't seen that cutscene.

I made it up, but I'm also certain it exists ;-)

The last episode I watched, Smith kept reprogramming the "astrogator" to point the Jupiter 2 towards Earth instead of Alpha Centaur (he even duped one of the kids into doing it after Robinson and West banned him from the control room)...I thought West was going to kill him.

I recall one episode where they find a portal back to Earth in the back room of the Intergalactic Department Store or something; but of course Dr. Smith screws it up.
What's odd is, the longer the show goes on, the more Dr. Smith seems the only one who *actually* wants to go home. And the others get way too laid back about it. Maybe they get focused more on the colonizing Alpha Centauri aspect. Except that West and Smith are always going at each other. Being the only two non-family males in the colony with three breeding age women, they shouldn't have anything to be jealous or angry at each other about. Except Dr. Smith never seems interested in the women.... hmmm, I wonder why that is? 

[Landlubber]

I can totally hear Dr. Smith saying something like that.

It makes sense to me that Dr. Smith was the only one who wanted to go back to Earth...he wasn't supposed to be on the ship in the first place.

The series is easy fodder for jokes now, obviously, but with a little more seriousness it could have had a bigger impact, I think. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was running around the same time, and it had a much more serious tone.

[Dakkar]

with a little more seriousness it could have had a bigger impact, I think.

We get to find out what that's like next year:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232792/

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was running around the same time, and it had a much more serious tone.

Best submarine show EVAH!

Sadly, nobody reruns my favorite Irwin Allen show, THE TIME TUNNEL.
(An excellent show with good ratings, cancelled after one season because of network politics...)

[Charbe86]

So I'm totally basing my Gnome boss character on Delaney.

That is so awesome, what class is he?

[Ruckdog]

Best submarine show EVAH!

Sadly, nobody reruns my favorite Irwin Allen show, THE TIME TUNNEL.
(An excellent show with good ratings, cancelled after one season because of network politics...)

I dunno...did you ever see the Operation: Petticoat series (yes, they made a TV series about the movie about a pink submarine)? They had John Austin, the original Gomez from The Addams Family, as the CO, and one of the nurses was played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

[Landlubber]

Oh cool, I had no idea they were remaking Lost in Space. Looks like it's going to be a Netflix show...could be a good thing. I guess if you wait around long enough, they'll reboot every show.

The Time Tunnel actually airs on MeTV on Saturday night at midnight (or I guess that's Sunday morning) as part of their Super Sci-Fi Saturday Night/Redeye Sci Fi programming.

Best submarine show ever? What about SeaQuest???

[Dakkar]

So I'm totally basing my Gnome boss character on Delaney.

That is so awesome, what class is he?

Wizard (Theurgist)/ Warlock who's made a deal with a being he thinks is the Goddess Brigit. His mother was a Svirfneblin, and left him some ill-advised Summoning Books. He's returned to avenge his father against the Gnomerium Consortium by teaming with the "figurehead" CEO (think CinderSpires) against the Board of Directors.

[Dakkar]

I dunno...did you ever see the Operation: Petticoat series

Its been way too long, but yes, a comedy classic

[Dakkar]

The Time Tunnel actually airs on MeTV on Saturday night at midnight

Must get antenna working!

Best submarine show ever? What about SeaQuest???

Many things are better in nostalgia than actuality. Seaquest was probably a decade earlier than it should have been.

BTW, since we're getting obscure - best Airship show is SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE  -something *still* not on DVD dammit!

[Ruckdog]

Many things are better in nostalgia than actuality. Seaquest was probably a decade earlier than it should have been.

I think I a similar argument can be made for B5 as well...I really hope we get a re-boot or sequel to that show someday.

[Dakkar]

I think I a similar argument can be made for B5 as well...I really hope we get a re-boot or sequel to that show someday.

JMS still talks about it, but his reboot's been in turn-around since 2014. No surprise since WB can't find its butt with both hands. Perceived success of THE EXPANSE or the new TREK might jump start things however.

On the writing side though, JMS has been hit and miss lately, especially in his comics work. But no shortage of good writers he knows.

For cast, we've lost way too many. But Mira Furlan looks almost the same as decades ago, Bill Mumy's around, and Bruce B is always game.
I demand any reboot (if not redoing the whole thing) start during the reign of [spoiler]Emperor Vir[/spoiler].

And that no one mention [spoiler]The Drakh[/spoiler] ever, except as a bad joke.

[Ruckdog]

I think I a similar argument can be made for B5 as well...I really hope we get a re-boot or sequel to that show someday.

JMS still talks about it, but his reboot's been in turn-around since 2014. No surprise since WB can't find its butt with both hands. Perceived success of THE EXPANSE or the new TREK might jump start things however.

On the writing side though, JMS has been hit and miss lately, especially in his comics work. But no shortage of good writers he knows.

For cast, we've lost way too many. But Mira Furlan looks almost the same as decades ago, Bill Mumy's around, and Bruce B is always game.
I demand any reboot (if not redoing the whole thing) start during the reign of [spoiler]Emperor Vir[/spoiler].

And that no one mention [spoiler]The Drakh[/spoiler] ever, except as a bad joke.

Yeah, I think that if they do a new series, it will have to be an all-new cast, like Star Trek TNG and the Original Series. I think there is still plenty of story-telling potential in the current B5 universe for another series, but I'm not sure that Hollywood can muster enough creativity to actually do it right, making a reboot more likely, I bet.

[Dakkar]

I'm not sure that Hollywood can muster enough creativity to actually do it right, making a reboot more likely, I bet.

Given the (somewhat loveable) flaws of the original series, and how much the [spoiler]Vorlon Shadow War[/spoiler] is embedded in the story themes, I wouldn't mind a reimagning/straight reboot. But with a Ronald D. Moore BSG style. Keep JJ Abrams the HELL away from it!