boner  - 2016-06-26
This show is our monday night post-rape palate cleanser.
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Old_Zircon - 2016-06-26 American B movies really were super rapey for about 30 years there, weren't they?
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Old_Zircon - 2016-06-26 Nowhere near as bad as Hong Kong though.
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boner - 2016-06-26 I love how everyone in this documentary is talking about how crap they think everything was. Not your typical DVD featurette circle jerk.
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bawbag - 2016-06-26
I remember when this was due to be launched, the excitement from Captain Scarlet/Thunderbirds fandom was palpable, but oh boy did the reality poke a massive hole in that :(
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Nominal - 2016-06-26 How was this any worse than Thunderbirds?
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bawbag - 2016-06-27 I don't think it was, but Anderson's vision seemed really dated at the time to a lot of his usual defenders in the sci-fi community who had expected far more with it having such a massive budget.
The campy kitsch of it all just didn't really fly well by 1994 audience standards, added to that there was a lot of confusion over tone and whether it was a 'kids show' or not, leading to it being aired in weird timeslots which ultimately, is what did it in.
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Rodents of Unusual Size - 2016-06-26
Wasn't this an American show with different aliens or am I hallucinating?
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Nominal - 2016-06-26
31:10, story about how every man on the set instantly fell in love with Jane Castle.
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GravidWithHate - 2016-06-27
"My expectations were very high" Oooh... that's a great opening line for a retrospective documentary.
I love this. I love how at the beginning they all try so hard to focus on the positive, and one by one they each get to their own personal breaking points and go "Yeah, it was crap really".
"We watched it, and then went and got really quite drunk. And you can take from that what you like."
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Nominal - 2016-06-27 The thing is there really was no need for the sci-fi element. Blade Runner asked questions and explored themes that demanded the setting. There was absolutely nothing about the future space setting (the one that inflated the budget to record levels) in SP that is required.
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GravidWithHate - 2016-06-27 Thinking about it more: Gerry Anderson. That's what everyone was dancing around wasn't it? No one quite wanted to say "Anderson knew models, knew special effects, but without Sylvia Anderson and a competent producer"...
Holy shit he was the British George Lucas. Or more properly, George Lucas was the American Gerry Anderson.
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Old_Zircon - 2016-06-27 Space Precinct is way better than the Star Wars prequels, though.
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That guy - 2016-06-27
.....just the first 0:30 of this already being better than the show.
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memedumpster - 2016-06-27
I think they're being a bit hard on Space Precinct, considering how bad Space 1999 is, as well as the Doctor Who trainwreck they had come off of during that time. Space Precinct was actually a step in a better direction than what they had before. The only thing it lacked was writing, and that's 99.9% of all television, even today.
Space Precinct is still better than S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Nominal - 2016-08-14 But not Babylon 5 which came out the same year or Deep Space 9 shortly after.
Space Precinct might not have been such a disaster if it wasn't 10 years too late :\
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