Posted by dragonhavn on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Re-Digest-Number-1099-tp1500798.html

hola!

returning list newbie here rofl on the "art director" tech thingy. love the
concepts there.

my $.02?

SHADO current day. most people are aware that things are "on the drawing
board" long before they show up on the showroom floor. the current, trying
to hang on by their fingernails, crop of shuttles in the US were designed
and tested over 20 years or so before the first one rolled out onto the
tarmac atop another plane to get tested. given funding and r&d, SHADO could
easily be "MIB" in some ways. Nice touch if one could get away with it to
have "MIB" investigate sightings, etc, leaving the more "normally" (ryuu
falls over laughing) uniformed crowd to deal with the day to day work of
battling the aliens. (off note, i think we've located a prospect for the
current day Straker if they kept all the names. take a look at 'Tom Sawyer'
in the LEG promos! and he's naturally blond, tho' not white blond <g>)

back to topic: (i had a topic?) otherwise, you have to shift far enough into
the future to look futuristic and most of us will be around when the time
period gets here (20 years will only put me at 70)and we get to giggle over
the re-runs.

In some ways, extrapolating SHADO forward from beginnings in the 1960's and
through the formative phase in the 1980's might even be better. (get some
usage of the old series in wonderful flash backs!) i suspect i would be
disappointed in rehashing what has already been done with updated tech and
fx. (i was certainly disappointed when they updated Dark Shadows and simply
retold the original story with more visible sex. grrrr) Even if what they
did was a movie retelling of the original UFO plotline -- anticlimax.

hmmmmmm-- seems to have been more than 2 cents.

intriguing comment over the skydiver commander/pilot strangeness. never
thought of it before, but it does seem strange now that it's been pointed
out. altho' as small as the skydiver was (unlike the other underwater launch
vehicles in the Irwin Allen universe) I think i always figured the problem
was space. And SHADO did have a thing about cross training people. Foster
was a skydiver captain/pilot and a moon crew and somewhere in the overall
chain of command. (ok, do not get ryuu off on the fact that Carlin was in
earlier and somehow Foster gets to outrank the man ---- *snerk*)

ok, that's it.

ryuu, back to work. (sound of whip getting tangled in fan blades in the
background)

laters

ryuu