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Current Talk '07 I / Re: Eve's obsession....
« on: February 01, 2007, 05:17:07 AM »
I think DS was apopropriated temporarily by cynical TV idiots, the kinds of network people who pressured every other show to go "camp" because of the success of Batman. Lost in Space went from being an intermittently respectable space adventure for intelligent kids, with some real science-fiction content, to goofiness. This was done by people who didn't enjoy DS or Lost in Space, or anything imaginative, and didn't enjoy what they turned these shows into, either. They thought it was all trash, and thought making it all stupider would increase ratings, because people like stupid, because they are stupid, to these executives. I think it was just that cynical.
I'm not dismissing DS in 1968 as trash. I think the conscientious people working on it must have been at odds with people pressuring them from above. The show was compromised, but at least they were working on 1969/1897 while putting out the 1968 episodes.
I'm not dismissing DS in 1968 as trash. I think the conscientious people working on it must have been at odds with people pressuring them from above. The show was compromised, but at least they were working on 1969/1897 while putting out the 1968 episodes.