Posted by
Murray Smith on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Hello-tp1508065p1508075.html
Sallie and Andrew,
First, hello to you both!
>Oh yeah, years of bad Italian Sci-Fi LOL. But then,
>even with bad effects and "night club" costuming, they
>were at least trying ....... <g> and were never at
>loss for plots and snappy lines --- which probably
>suffered badly in translation <laughter>.
I can't make any judgement about bad Italian sci-fi, I'm afraid. :) But I
do agree that 'U.F.O.' was 'never at a loss for plots and snappy lines'. I
also can't offer any comment about the quality of the translation into
Italian. :)
>Personally, I always had a problem with the
>Responsibility Seat ... (weakness for happy endings
>and why weren't Mary's current husband and the doctor
>moving heaven and earth to help the kid???? I mean,
>movie moguls have more medical pull than doctors????
>OK, the writers missed several good ways of making the
>aliens more evil here <laughter>) Even at 18 I knew
>there was something intrinsically wrong with leaving
>it all in Straker's capable but sometimes constrained
>hands. Logic loopholes!
I think you mean the episode 'A Question of Priorities'. Like you, I
wondered when I saw it why Mary's second husband and the doctor weren't
pulling more strings. Also, why weren't the U.K.'s tabloid newspapers
having a field day: MOVIE MOGUL LETS SON DIE!
>Still, it was a refreshingly dark little show with
>highlights of light (unlike one of my other favorite
>shows where the humans could not win the first season
>... LOL ... War of the Worlds)
The series ended in the middle of a war, with the humans fighting back. But
there still was a lack of intelligence in terms of who the aliens were and
what they wanted. Without proper intelligence, I don't see how the humans
can really defeat them.
>back to lurkerdom (semester is finished, brain
>recuperating)
Good luck with the recuperation!
Andrew, like you 'Sub-Smash' was the first 'U.F.O.' episode I saw. :)
Murray