Fw: [SHADO] Re: Gerry Anderson to make new TV series of Thunderbirds

Yep, I agree with you 100%. I don't wish to stray too far off the subject of
"UFO", but I think the question of  "quality" is an important one to discuss on
the forum. If you were to ask me exactly what I mean by quality, then I can give
you an excellent example:  if you watch the original Star Trek episode "The
Menagerie" (or "The Cage") when Spock & co are  firing the laser cannon at the
side of the mountain, the colour effects/sound effects are simply breathtaking.
There is nothing of that quality in ST:TNG.

Alex



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I don't think anyone at the time of ST:TNG thought that what/how they were
producing was inferior in any way, just the opposite. But, they couldn't know
what formats would be existing twenty more years down the road, and how they
would have to rebuild entire episodes. Nor did they care. I find it maddening
that a whole generation of kids are listening to music I know and love with
'inferior' technology, which on every level compromise the quality of what they
are hearing. Mp3s destroy the process for me, but am I just old fashioned. I
don't think so... once they hear it full fidelity they know the difference.

Another point with the remake of Thunderbirds, which no technology can ever
replace, is the human element. Gerry Anderson's involvement is something, but
his former wife Sylvia, Bob Bell, David Lane, all of the amazing puppeteers, and
most importantly Derek Meddings and his crew were the heart and soul of those
productions. To remake them is just to capitalize on the sentiment/popularity,
the people are what made it great.

Ken

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Thunderbirds

I take your point completely Marc, but there is still NO EXCUSE for a TV
series to be technically inferior to one made 20 years previously.

Alex

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Thunderbirds

> And how is it that the original series of Star Trek looks technically
> superior to ST:TNG, which always looked as if it was done on video
> with a purple filter on the camera!!!

That's because the original Star Trek was shot on 35mm film, while
ST:TNG was shot on film and then transferred to video for editing &
special effects. So it's easy to make HDTV versions of the original
series, but not so easy to make HDTV versions of ST:TNG, as they'd have
to redo everything from the original film elements (including redoing
all of the editing and special effects).

Seinfeld was done the same way as ST:TNG, but they've made HDTV versions
of this by going back to the original 35mm elements and reconstructing
the episodes from scratch. At least Seinfeld had no special effects
to redo... :-)

Since UFO was shot on 35mm film, it's also an easy upgrade to HDTV.
(and has already been done once, although the one they've done so
far was cropped to widescreen).

Marc

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