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by Rick Norwood
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It's not science fiction, since the apparent time travel, I gather, is caused by the hero having a
concussion, but I watched the premiere of the American version of Life on Mars. The British version
was a limited series, which is all this thin idea could sustain. Also, the British version, I'm told,
showed how bad the racism and sexism were in the 70s compared to today. The U.S. version is much more nostalgic
about the good old days, before criminals had "rights," when policemen could beat up anybody they pleased,
and nobody complained that it was "politically incorrect" to call a female cop "no nuts." All good clean fun,
which the goddamn liberals have spoiled for Joe Sixpack. On the other hand, Harvey Keitel is kinda fun as the
tough cop who punches his own officers in the gut to keep them in line.
Terminator has been given a green light for a full season, but has skipped several weeks, so
that two episodes originally scheduled for October have been pushed back to November.
As Smallville gets increasingly camp, I wonder if they'll have an episode featuring Bouncing
Boy, from the Legion of Substitute Superheroes.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
I've been enjoying Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes. I have not
been enjoying Fringe or Smallville. In Smallville, the Queen of
Outer Space character is particularly out of place. Now, if they could have gotten an animatronic Zsa Zsa Gabor
to play the part, and channeled Charles Beaumont to write the script… nah, it would still suck.
SF on TV in November
Monday, November 3
 
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