RE: Digest Number 1361

Uh, Tasha, you are certainly welcome by the fan-fiction writers lurking around here to 'keep on truckin'', bringing light and solutions to the inadequate reasoning powers of the original writers.
BTW, I am also a fan of the great Flying Brick and made Straker a pilot of same. Come visit the Library sometime. http://www.shadolibrary.org

Deborah R. SHADO Librarian

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Subject: [SHADO] Digest Number 1361
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:13:02 -0000
From: "Mark Davies" <[hidden email]>
Subject: Clumsy Interceptors,ultra slow computers and ineffective defences

I think Tasha that you should take the gritty realism you seem to embrace and foister it on something less worthy.

UFO like other series of it's time merely used the real world as a backdrop.
Although I think UFO would have been better in some respects had the producers put more thought into certain things,I always thought of UFO as a fantasy with Science Fiction elements .In much the same way Hammer Films were always portrayed as Horror ,but in fact were also fantasies.

In this way UFO is excused from having to have the realities and physics of the real world superimposed upon it.
Perhaps this is part of its character ,its charm and its
continuing appeal.

Mark UK

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--- In [hidden email], "Librarian" <librarian@s...> wrote:
> Uh, Tasha, you are certainly welcome by the fan-fiction writers
lurking around here to 'keep on truckin'', bringing light and
solutions to the inadequate reasoning powers of the original writers.
> BTW, I am also a fan of the great Flying Brick and made Straker a
pilot of same. Come visit the Library sometime.
http://www.shadolibrary.org
>
> Deborah R. SHADO Librarian
>

Hi Deborah,

Thank you for the kind words and I will read some of the fan-
fiction. I'm not sure if I agree with the "inadequate reasoning
powers of the original writers", as there are many things that were
not possible with the photographic and model technology of 1969;
they had to work in the context of what could have been
realistically brought to the screen. I love the Moonbase!! It's
totally fab!!

The outfits on UFO were fab as well. I actually have something very
like Ayshea's in the opening when she is walking across the parking
lot. My BF loves it, especially when I wear pink hose to go with
it :-). Speaking of UFO fashions, a good friend is getting married
and the reception is going to have a sci-fi theme to it. The
bridesmaids, all three of us, are going to wear Moonbase outfits.
We've found purple wigs at a local costume shop, but as far as the
skirt and top we are still stumpped. Do you have any ideas or know
where we can get patterns from?

Hugs,
Tasha :-)