Posted by Shado-cabinet on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Franco-Derosa-original-UFO-Moonbase-Commander-tp4023927p4024152.html

Hi Clare

I do not know about your past experience with forum members posting under multiple avatars (and I can understand that it must be both scary & annoying), but I can assure you that both Paramount99 and myself are two different people (you only have to look at my threads written in both praise & criticism of the show to see how much of an 'opinionated' person I am, unlike Paramount who is a more open-minded & creative individual)

No I cannot imagine kids watching a show like UFO nowadays and liking it enough to join a discussion forum (because if they did this forum would never dormant like it has been for months, as the kids would never stop 'posting, linking & liking' on this forum etc)

As for what both Gerry & Sylvia would think of the UFO strip (if they were alive)? Who knows!  But since Sylvia developed the costuming of the show to have the male Skydiver crew to wear see-through tops (and insisted on the casting of Michael Billington as he was easy on the eyes, who is put to good use in the ORDEAL episode where he spends a lot of time in a sauna topless) in order to titillate the female audience then we can conjecture that she would be ok with a UFO fanstrip that has a few scantily dressed MBGs in some panels (in most panels they are wearing the normal moonbase uniform that appeared in the show etc).

As for Gerry himself you only have to look at his direction on the first episode IDENTIFIED which features a lot of close-up shots of female SHADO members in tight-fitting jumpsuits (as well as MBGs undressing in the Moonbase 'Sleep Sphere' to see that he appreciated the female form and wanted to showcase it in the UFO series to appeal to adults).

So I take it we can agree to disagree, and that Paramount can proceed to temporarily upload panels from his strip for those UFO fans who want to enjoy the show in a unique format (a CGI rendered animated strip)?