BUCK ROGERS on SCI-FI now

by Leolaia 29 Replies latest social entertainment

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  Fleur

  oh dear lord! and i remember on the first battlestars when they only let the women fly the vipers after all the guys got the spaceflu or something i did meet dirk benedict at a sci fi con about three years ago, and he still looks great! must be that wacky macrobiotic diet (i couldn't stick to that if my life depended on it lol)...i told him he was my first crush in kindergarten and he laughed and thought it was funny. when i told him that my sister had said she and her best friend (5th grade at the time) wanted to have a 'double space wedding' with him and apollo, he signed the book i bought her "we better hurry on that wedding, i'm getting old!" lol

  what about gil gerard doing something called, what was it, "Fish cops?"!!!!!!!! oh how far one falls so fast ROFLMAO

  biddy biddy indeed!

  leolaia we must be close to the same age, i was third grade when buck was on tv lol

  hugs

  fleur
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  slipnslidemaster

  Buck Rodgers rawks!! I can't wait to see them!!!! I kinda thought it got stupid when they went exploring in deep space but still cool.

  Battlestar Galactica was the SHIZNIT!! essie, did you see the remake last year? I was ready to hate it and it turned out to be really good!
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  Left_Field

  Edward James Olmos played Adama... and we may remember him from such fine 80's cop shows as Miami Vice... [Lt Martin Castillo] man I was in those threads too!!! lol

  I saw Mr Olmos playing a Mexican Seargent / U.S Army on an episode of Touched By an Angel. That man just oooozes Academy Award. Fingers crossed from me.

  Nick
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  Leolaia

  slipnslidemaster.....One of the things I really liked about Buck Rogers was that it was set really far into the future (A.D. 2494, I think it was), so the jumps in technology were not that hard to accept (tho they all were still speaking English), and the early episodes were earth-based which I thought was really kewl .... in Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Lost in Space you never really got to see how things were like on Earth in the future, and part of the fun of Buck Rogers was seeing how this old 20th-century dude reacted to all the changes. Interesting, tho, I don't quite recall much manned solar system exploration in A.D. 1987. But that sure was one hell of an intro. I think it was the best part of every episode.

  Fleur.....*hugs* fellow sci-fi geek...
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  Leolaia

  I love that old guy doctor too. He had a real soothing quiveriness to his voice.
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  slipnslidemaster

  That is a really interesting thought! In 500 years, will they/we be able to understand "English"? Wow. That just blew my mind.

  Lets see...1500 was roughly starting "Modern English" as we know it. You can still sucessfully read most works from that time period. A couple centuries before and we would be very confused. 2500! I would love to see how the language has evolved. I wish I could be around to hear it. I wonder if polictical changes between China and the US will introduce a ton of new Manderin or Cantonese words into English?
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  Left_Field

  May be hybrid languages like Engderin or Cantolish?
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  Sassy

  I love the old show. I am going to have to look it up!
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  slipnslidemaster

  Me too! Let's look it up together!
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  Leolaia

  slipnslidemaster.....Interestingly, I just had a conversation about this with frankiespeakin, markincali, and Sirius yesterday. I recited for them the first section of the Canterbury Tales, from 1200 AD or so. Maybe they can comment on how understandable it was, but once you get over the weird pronunciation and gramamr, most of the words are familiar.