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It was Ford who was black in the film, not Arthur.
> I agree. I was surprised when they made Arthur Dent a black man in
> the film version of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy." I
> always thought of Arthur as white. There's political correctness for
> you again. It was an understandable mistake setting UFO in 1980.
> Maybe it should have been set in the year 2500 instead. Now there's
> a question for all you UFO fans:
>
> Which year would you have ideally set "UFO" in?
>
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> I think I have said it before but it still hold true and that is if
> its not broke don't fix it. If as they say the love the original UFO
> there is no need to put a new spin on a character by making them a
> different Ethnic group or different hair color or age or what ever.
> Since they are going to set this about ten years in the future which
> is the same amount of time that the original UFO was set ahead they
> can play around with the Tech and vehicle and craft designs and set
> designs and even costuming to a certain degree. But when they start
> making any changes to the characters it stops being UFO.
> Oh, Denise, love the sight and stories.
> James K.
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> From: Bruce Sherman <brucesherman@ sprintmail. com>
> To: SHADO@yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 8:55:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [SHADO] Re: my thoughts about the UFO movie...
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> I don't know if Gene would have liked it all. Spock scoring with
> Uhura?? He liked her for himself :) They dated if you didn't know,
> Gene and Nichele.
>
> Bruce
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Neesierie
> To: SHADO@yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:36 PM
> Subject: [SHADO] Re: my thoughts about the UFO movie....
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> Anthony,
> I quite agree. I have always hated remakes. They never seem to get
> what made the original a hit needed to STAY a part of the show! That
> said, I so totally enjoyed the remake of Star Trek that I'm hopeful
> that UFO will have a similar miracle. I know some ST fans hated the
> remake, but I'm a diehard fan myself and I laughed and laughed! Gene
> would have loved it. So it could happen again -- for UFO this time.
> We'll all find out one way or the other anyway, won't we? In just
> about a year's time.
> Yours,
> Denise
>
> --- In SHADO@yahoogroups. com, Anthony Smith <belmarbadboy@ ...>
> wrote:
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> > See thats what I'm talking about--when you start changing the
> color and genders of the characters of the show,it tends to ruin the
> memory of the show(my personal opinion). By the way--I'm black and
> not biased against color or gender for the record-just not for re-
> makes of original shows or movies.Some things you just cant do like
> that.
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