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just found this site and joined immediatly! Loved the show and for
the longest time i thought i was the only one who had ever seen it.
I am glad to have found other fans here and I look forward to posting
more and chatting with you in the future.

Welcome! How long have you been a fan of this series? I only
learned about it this year in the summer after I read the
announcement about the passing away of Ed Bishop and Mike Billington.

I was intrigued by the article and the accompanying photographs, so I
rented the UFO DVDs and have been hooked on the series ever since.

Who's your favorite character in the series?

~Jeanster

--- In [hidden email], "jeanster911" <jeanster911@y...> wrote:

jean, of course i was intrigued by straker, but foster had alot going
for hoim. i discovered the series in 1970 while still a young boy and
only now discovered a web site devoted to it.
i must say that the moonbase girls gave me many an orgasm when i was
young! course, I am older now.....

I would have thgt UFO fans were spread far and wide, so I was surprised to hear a chap in my local chippy whistling the theme tune the other day. Still excellent music which i think really got me interested 35 yrs ago.

Straker ... no ... Ford ... uhm ... Alec? And
occasionally the pilots .... should I mention that I
spend a lot of time writing odd fan fic? straker,
ford and alec were my favorites back in 1970 when I
first discovered this show. then i decided mary was
interesting, if stupid ... and the next thing you know
i like everybody on the show except most of the guest
stars .... *chuckle* and General Henderson.

i obsess whole heartedly on entire character lists
....*glowers at James K. who is trying to have quiet
hysterics*

laters

dragon

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someday i will learn to read the messages in order
.... disregard the character babble. *laughter*

must be the beginning of the semester insanities ....

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--- In [hidden email], Sallie Loftin <calebschosen@y...> wrote:
>
> then i decided mary was
> interesting, if stupid ...> dragon

Maybe I'm the only one who wondered why Mary never acknowledged her
part of the blame for poor little John's tragic fatal accident.
After all,if she had allowed Ed to stay to see what little John
wanted to show him (the boat) instead of sending him away, then the
little tyke wouldn't have run out into the road like that.

Guess it was easier for her to blame Ed.

~Jeanster

Jean I am not trying to anger you but let me vent just a little. Some marriages end in divorce and the parents are still amicable towards each other. The love they shared is gone for whatever reason but they don't take it out on the children. Once a spouse marries a new spouse , the old spouse may not be welcome by the new spouse. So there is extreme turmoil whenever the ex shows up. Look at what Mary married after Ed. An older man who loves Mary but is not as handsome as Ed. Ed brings back bad memories to Mary. Remember she thought he was having an affair and he never told her differently. When I saw " A matter of Priorities" for the first time after 30 yrs i was so angry it was ridiculous. The message boards helped me dissapate my anger towards Straker. Mary should have allowed Ed in to see the boat but I bet if there had been time to put it in the script , Mary's new husband despises Ed because of his supposed affair. Be careful who you blame. Everyone had a hand
in it. What mother or father has not said a million times "LOOK both ways before you cross the street". The episode also showed what lenghts Straker would go to protect earth.

Been the child of divorce

Bryan

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--- In [hidden email], Sallie Loftin wrote:
>
> then i decided mary was
> interesting, if stupid ...> dragon

Maybe I'm the only one who wondered why Mary never acknowledged her
part of the blame for poor little John's tragic fatal accident.
After all,if she had allowed Ed to stay to see what little John
wanted to show him (the boat) instead of sending him away, then the
little tyke wouldn't have run out into the road like that.

Guess it was easier for her to blame Ed.

~Jeanster







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--- In [hidden email], Sallie Loftin <calebschosen@y...> wrote:
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>should I mention that I
> spend a lot of time writing odd fan fic? > dragon

Sallie, do your fan fics include those in the UFO fandom? If you'd
like to share some, email me privately. I'd love to read some. And
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.


~Jeanster

It wouldn't surprise me if there were ufo ringtones available for
one's wireless phone.

~Jeanster

--- In [hidden email], aitchbomb@a... wrote:
> I would have thgt UFO fans were spread far and wide, so I was
surprised to hear a chap in my local chippy whistling the theme tune
the other day. Still excellent music which i think really got me
interested 35 yrs ago.

jeanster911 wrote:
> It wouldn't surprise me if there were ufo ringtones available for
> one's wireless phone.

There are several. People have contributed UFO ringtones to me
in the past for addition to my UFO website, but I have not uploaded
them because I have way more for stuff my website than time to get
to it, and also I try to stick to contributions that can be
appreciated with on a standard computer.

But these UFO ringtones may appear on one of the ringtone sites on
the web...I don't know...

Marc

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I think it was easier for the writers to have her do
that than to make her three-dimensional. It's easier
to dislike a paper character than one who is real.
Mary comes across as the helpless, neurotic, trophy
wife. It's a durn good thing Ed didn't stay "military"
officially or she'd have buckled sooner. *chuckle* As
it was, the writers certainly left open the question
of why didn't she stop the boy from running after his
dad? One feeble attempt and that was it. Any normal
mom would've been yelling at him to stop and get his
person back to the house, now and don't run into the
road? (famous query in our house: do you want to be
squished like a bug?) And why isn't second husband
moving heaven and earth to get the drug for Johnny?
Why is only Ed mandatory to be super human? Then, of
course, there's the why does the States have this new
drug when it's so frequently the rest of the world
that's in the lead on releasing these things?

Ok, sorry. Can of worms time and they're all
connected. *snerk*

anyway, no you're not the only one who questioned her
lack of taking responsibility.

laters

dragon

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--- In [hidden email], "jeanster911" <jeanster911@y...> wrote:

> Maybe I'm the only one who wondered why Mary never acknowledged her
> part of the blame for poor little John's tragic fatal accident.
> After all,if she had allowed Ed to stay to see what little John
> wanted to show him (the boat) instead of sending him away, then the
> little tyke wouldn't have run out into the road like that.
>
> Guess it was easier for her to blame Ed.


I'd always thought she allowed Johnny to run after him in the hopes
that Straker would stop and be able to see the boat, but fate
intervened. What were the chances of a speeding motorist in a quiet
country lane like that, although they went to the trouble of having a
car slow and 'bib'their horn at Straker just previously, to
illustrate the danger.

Getting into Mary's psyche here, by not stopping Johnny, she saw an
opportunity to absolve herself of any bad feeling from both Straker
and Johnny in sending him away, only done to minimise any grief for
herself from Rutland. It seems to me that she holds Rutland
responsible for the accident, judging by her dismissive attitude of
him at the hospital, because it was her fear of upsetting him that
caused her to make a poor decision in the first place. Certainly
both men are too gentlemanly to point out her error in mothering
skills, perhaps because they silently admit they put her in that
position in the first place. Furthermore, all of them are in severe
shock and quite frankly hardly in a position to make sound judgements
about anything, hence Straker's appaulingly bad decision-making
throughout the episode.

Ultimately though, Mary holds Straker responsible for Johnny's death
because he failed to get the drug there in time, by this point it's
irrelevant why or how the accident happened. Imagine the opposite
scenario - drug arrives and Johnny lives? Straker was on a hiding to
nothing on this in trusting his own judgement. I dearly wish he'd
told Alec!!

I love that whole scene outside the house; it conveys so much
information about the family dynamics in so short a time! Extremely
well-acted by all.

Sarah (UK)