Author Topic: How bad is the new Flash Gordon? (Read 5701 times)

Captain Gamma · « **on:** March 03, 2008, 12:21:50 PM »

Hi guys,
The new Flash Gordon starts tonight and I've heard nothing good about it.

Is it really that awful? I saw a photo of the Hawkmen and was a little alarmed to see they didn't actually have wings is this true? :cry:

Operator5 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 03, 2008, 12:53:40 PM »

On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being good, this gets into negative numbers.

Other than the names, there is nothing at all like Flash Gordon here. Think of it as Stargate without the government and military being involved and the people going through the "gate" being about as dumb as possible.

His desire to do good seems forced and not at all accurate to his character.

Weird WWII · « **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2008, 01:59:49 PM »

It's crap. Forced myself to do my mandatory 3 episode viewing when getting into a new show and it was agony for three episodes.

Brian

Captain Gamma · « **Reply #3 on:** March 03, 2008, 02:16:52 PM »

:cry:

Evilcartoonist · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2008, 02:39:25 PM »

"Brian Blessed, how would you best describe the new Flash Gordon series?"

"Flying blind on a rocket cycle."

twrchtrwyth · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2008, 06:36:53 PM »

That's quite disapointing. :cry:

uti long smile · « **Reply #6 on:** March 03, 2008, 08:18:59 PM »

I'm trying to watch it now... I'm 13 minutes in and already it ain't right.

Why remove the elements that make Flash cool in the first place.

Surely it's the 30s design, high sci-fantasy elements and sentiments of the age that make it an attractive property - I know that's why I love it. Take those away and you're left with... um... well not a lot really.

How can you spend this much money at it sooooo wrong. It's a crime.

Agggghhhh - 21 minutes in. Why are we still on Earth. Where's Mongo?

Oh and now Ming has hair. Oh the humanity...

Operator5 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 03, 2008, 09:22:53 PM »

Quote from: "uti long smile"

Why remove the elements that make Flash cool in the first place.

Because those elements cost money. Instead of that, stick a recognizable name on a formula that worked for you once already (Stargate SG-1). You don't have to build expensive sets. You don't have to do much in the way of costuming. And you don't have to create CGI wings for the hawkmen.

Basically all the things that television does well.

uti long smile · « **Reply #8 on:** March 03, 2008, 10:03:53 PM »

Good point Rich!

I endured the whole pilot. The giant scientist on the skateboard was particularly special.

I feel dirty.

Operator5 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 04, 2008, 01:58:53 AM »

Quote from: "uti long smile"

The giant scientist on the skateboard was particularly special.

I made the attempt and watched nearly the whole first season. I just couldn't bear it at the end. And I have to say, that character was the most interesting of all the ones in it.

dadlamassu · « **Reply #10 on:** March 04, 2008, 08:24:22 AM »

I watched the whole first episode last night. What a disappointment.

No rockets! Ming lacked a menacing presence. And Merciless?

More of a gangster than an Evil Emperor!

Dr Who and Star Trek and Stargate and Buck Rogers and Primeval ... all have Transmats, Transporters, Anomalies and Gates so pretty much more of the same without any novel costumes, ideas, plots, and lack lustre characters.

Nope - not watching any more.

I'll bring out the film instead - War Rocket Ajax, Suadron Forty, and a Queen sound track!

Maenoferren · « **Reply #11 on:** March 04, 2008, 01:28:06 PM »

Help me _ i Watched it!

My brain has bled out

UncleRhino · « **Reply #12 on:** March 05, 2008, 12:36:48 PM »

I got all kinds of fired up when I heard this was going to be on the tube, I told AuntieRhino we would be busy on Friday nights, etc...

I made it through about 20 minutes before I was ranting and screaming at the television. She turned off the tube and asked me what the hell was wrong and why I was acting that way when it wasn't an NFL weekend. I could not even put together a coherent sentence, somehow my fevered brain came up with a plan and I think it worked.

Sometimes, you just can't beat the original, so we watched the first episode of the Crabbe serial and I asked her which one was better. Despite the corniness that it now has so many years later, she agreed and watched a few more episodes with me, up to the point with King Vultan's whitewashed bear, Urso, that just drove her over the edge.

I knew that Sci-Fi COULD do something to piss me off more than putting professional wrasslin on their channel, I wish I could have talked them into screwing up Buck Rogers instead. The only fitting fate for them is to

GET ME THE BORE WORMS

and leave the room

UncleRhino

dodge · « **Reply #13 on:** March 05, 2008, 01:26:54 PM »

You know what.

I didn't watch it and reading this I'm so glad I didn't :

:

Brain still intact and feeling clean :

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BTW Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles is quite good on Virgin 1 over here.

Couple of nice babes (sorry) in that

Dodge

Rufus · « **Reply #14 on:** March 05, 2008, 02:09:05 PM »

I've seen the pilot some time ago ... and on a scale of 1 to 10 it was somewhere around -50 or something. That was just awful television.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles on the other hand might be worth watching. I've seen that pilot also and it was quite promising. Especially with Summer Glau as a Terminator :love:

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