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jasonandrew) wrote2009-05-25 10:04 pm
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The Land of the Lost
The Land of the Lost is a lot better than I remember. I've been watching the marathon today on the Sci-Fi channel.
The acting is horrible. The special effects abysmal.
And yet, the writing was consistent. The characters slowly learn about the Land of the Lost and all of the details are consistent, even if the science isn't perfect.
I actually am curious about the new movie coming out.
The acting is horrible. The special effects abysmal.
And yet, the writing was consistent. The characters slowly learn about the Land of the Lost and all of the details are consistent, even if the science isn't perfect.
I actually am curious about the new movie coming out.
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I've only seen a couple of episodes of the original series, but there seemed to be some actual storytelling going on.
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But Gerrold left after that first season. I'm not sure how many of the writers he used continued, but the show lost its direction. We watched the first season on DVD, and they actually had commentary tracks with some of the writers.
We started Year Two, then I misplaced the set! We have Season 3 and haven't started it, but that's when things really get wonky: the kids have grown up but are still wearing their same costumes (which must have been fabricated by Reed Richard's "unstable molecules"), dad was replaced by Uncle Jack (Ron Harper from the PLANET OF THE APES TV series, who was a decent actor), killed off some of the dinosaurs and pakuni... a blood bath!
I actually think the FX were pretty good: this was the first stop motion animation done on video, and on a weekly basis yet, and the miniature of the lost city was great. Only the compositing sucked.
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