Still having fun with that guy on the LOST IN SPACE page about widescreen LIS> He finally exploded after I posted that article about the disastrous widescreen Blu Ray of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER that Brandon sent me. Watch him foam at the mouth, then note my quiet reply: Gary Jerkface (not his real name, but well go with that): We get it, Archie. Youre a purest with the utmost respect for the integrity of the art form and devoted to the cause of the original vision of the piece as the film maker intended. Its unsophisticated rubes with their drooling fascinating for shiny object and pretty stones who clamor for the ruin of the piece in order to satisfy their primitive pallet. Of course, that over looks the fact that a GREAT many decisions and choices made by the original film makers were NOT artistic in nature but the result of budgetary concerns or technological limitations. The first season of LIS being shot in black and white was not an artistic choice any more than was the decision to shoot the first season of Gilligans Island in black and white. I watched all of this the original vision is sacred snobbery play out when TOS Star Trek was remastered and, guess what? Star Trek survived just fine and, personally, I very much enjoyed the new effects and remastered episodes. Watching them was literally the first time in probably 20 years I had sat down a actually ACTIVELY watched Star Trek, as opposed to doing the visual equivalent of skimming through a familiar and well read book in order to recall the enjoyment it first brought me. One of the reasons the Star Trek franchise has remained vital and growing whereas the Lost in Space franchise has been stagnant for 45 years is that Star Trek remained active and growing, developing and changing. The original cast movies were different than the TOS. The Next Gen family of shows were different than TOS and the TOS movies. Some if it was great and some of it sucked. But Star Trek continued and continues as a living, growing franchise whereas, with the exception of a short lived comic book series, a single movie and a failed reboot pilot--the latter two examples both being of extremely dubious quality, Lost in Space has been effectively dead since 1968. Im EXCITED about the prospect if being able to sit down and watch THE Lost in Space that I love with fresh eyes and see new aspects, even minor ones, that I have never seen before. I want to see Lost in Space as a living entity with new elements to offer than just watching the old shows I have seen literally dozens of times, effectively paying my respects at the grave site of something I love but which died nearly half a century ago. You may wish to regard LIS as the pinnacle of artistic realization by Irwin Allen and that every frame represents the ideal vision and should be respected as.such. I however think that paper mache dragons, beach ball mine fields and Christmas light electric fences, charming as they are, probably are representatives of choices made for reasons OTHER than artistic integrity. You may wish to see LIS relegated to the solemn corridors of a great museum, like the Mona Lisa, never to be touched or tampered with yet with interest dying slowly as as the original fans age and disappear. I WANT to see new things and fresh images from something I have loved since childhood. Id LOVE to see a resurgence of interest in LIS with a new generation of fans and stories. Not in the form if any re-imagining or drastic revisionism like the movie or Ang Lees DREADFUL pilot. But, if there could be a rebirth that captures the essence, feel, style and FAMILIARITY of LIS in a way similar to J.J. Abrams new Star Trek (2009 because Into Darkness sucked) worked, Lost In Space could live, breath, walk and talk again. But none of that will happen if all we do it pull out the old footage every couple decades, dust it off and just spruce it up. All youre doing there is putting flowers on the grave of something that died half a century ago. Me? I want to see Lost in Space LIVE again, not be relegated to some dusty corridor of history, never to be touched again due to some misplaced reverence for an original artistic vision that was at LEAST the result of many practical rather than artistic demands and which would REMAIN available without regard to any new formatting or remastering. Its a T.V. show. Not a holy relic to be regarded a sacrosanct and inviolable. 31 mins · Edited · Like Archie H. Waugh John Woo did the pilot, not Ang Lee. 34 mins · Like · 1
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:09:15 +0000
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