Re: Getting Lost

"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddollnofeckingspam1958@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "80 Knight" ...
>> "Wickeddoll®"
>>>> "Anim8rFSK"
>>>>>> >> "Wouter Valentijn"
>>>>>> >>>>> "Ron" ...
>>>>>> >>>>>> I was watching "The Empath"
the other night and suddenly
>>>>>> >>>>>> realized
>>>>>> >>>>>> just how much that episode looked like
it was ripped off from
>>>>>> >>>>>> Lost
>>>>>> >>>>>> In Space with the people in the tubes
and the surrealist sets.
>>>>>> >>>>>> People usually accuse LIS of ripping
of Star Trek (which was
>>>>>> >>>>>> never
>>>>>> >>>>>> true) but for once it looks like
things went the other way
>>>>>> >>>>>> around.
>>>>>> >>>>>> :-) Ron
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> Yeah, but most black-and-white shows of
the 60s jumped the
>>>>>> >>>>> shark
>>>>>> >>>>> once they went to color.
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> Can we talk about the talking carrot?!
(incidentally played by
>>>>>> >>>>> Stanley Adams, the guy who sold the
tribbles - much more
>>>>>> >>>>> dignified!)
>>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> Natalie
>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>> >>>> I read once that during filming of "The
Great Vegetable
>>>>>> >>>> Rebellion",
>>>>>> >>>> two of the stars, Guy Williams and June
Lockhart (Professor and
>>>>>> >>>> Mrs.
>>>>>> >>>> Robinson) laughed so many times, that the
producers punished
>>>>>> >>>> them by
>>>>>> >>>> writing them out of the next 2 episodes.
>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>> >>> Shame on those producers!
>>>>>> >>> What normal person would not laugh?
>>>>>> >>> There's only one other legit reaction imo: Tears.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> LOL  I also read that this episode was one reason LIS
didn't get a
>>>>>> >> 4th
>>>>>> >> season.  I guess a lot of people thought the show had
finally gone
>>>>>> >> down
>>>>>> >> the toilet, so the network must've agreed.  Its too
bad.  Though
>>>>>> >> LIS was
>>>>>> >> (IMHO) never as good as Trek, it did have some very
good episodes,
>>>>>> >> and I
>>>>>> >> did enjoying watching it as a kid, and even now.  I
wish the
>>>>>> >> network
>>>>>> >> would've picked up the new series after the pilot was
made a few
>>>>>> >> years
>>>>>> >> ago.  I saw the pilot (a rather bad copy...SFX weren't
even fully
>>>>>> >> completed) quite a while ago, and though it is quite
different
>>>>>> >> from the
>>>>>> >> LIS we all knew, it did look like it could've made it.
 Though, I
>>>>>> >> liked
>>>>>> >> the 1997 movie better...who would have known that Matt
LeBlanc
>>>>>> >> could
>>>>>> >> actually act?
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> > I thought that movie just sort of laid there, even with
cameos from
>>>>>> > original cast members, and the presence of Gary Oldman.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I loved the FX (especially for 1997), and the look of the new
Jupiter
>>>>>> 2. I
>>>>>> thought the movie was ok.  Definitely not great, but not
terrible. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > If I were Bill Mumy, I'd sue for them casting his
character with
>>>>>> > that
>>>>>> > *fugly* guy!  Mumy is no stud-muffin, but he's at least
still cute.
>>>>>> > He
>>>>>> > also looks great for a guy in his 50s; usually red haired,
>>>>>> > fair-skinned
>>>>>> > folks age badly. Maybe they did that in revenge for Mumy
turning
>>>>>> > down the
>>>>>> > part:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2612632320/nm0612621
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He turned down the part?  I remember reading that he was
actually
>>>>>> ticked off
>>>>>> that they wouldn't let him play his part.
>>>>>
>>>>> He said the only problem was that they didn't agree on money.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan Harris turned down what they offered him because he wasn't
>>>>> going to do a bit part.
>>>>
>>>> Didn't they first offer Jonathan Harris the part of the dude Gary
>>>> Oldman was talking too in the holographic environment?  I recall
>>>> reading that, like you said, Harris wouldn't play such a small part,
>>>> and considering how popular he was on the original LIS, I don't blame
>>>> him.
>>>>
>>> Yeah, but he was no more important than Angela Cartwright, and she took
>>> a cameo.
>>>
>>> :-P
>>
>> That's true.  Actually, other then Jonathan Harris, Billy Mummy, and Guy
>> Williams (who passed away in 1989), the entire cast did cameo's.  IIRC,
>> June Lockhart was the school principal, Mark Goodard was the Admiral, and
>> Marta Kristen and (as you said) Angela Cartwright were reporters.  They
>> even managed to get Dick Tufeld (actor who did the voice of the original
>> Robot) to provide the voice of the new Robot.  I do though, think it
>> would have been neat to have Jonathan Harris play the part of the new Dr.
>> Smith's boss.
>>
>
> Yeah, but alas, it wasn't meant to be.
>
> Natalie

True, true. :)
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