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LOST IN SPACE-FORBIDDEN WORLD

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  FORBIDDEN WORLD WRITER-BARNEY SLATER DIR-DON RICHARDSON MUSIC-ROBERT DRASNIN   NARRATION: Last week, as you recall, we left our space family just as they made their escape from the deadly world of the robots. All were unaware that even now, a terrifying engine of destruction was bearing down on them at incredible speed.   TEASER-fully recapped The Jupiter flies away from the alien planet. Smith, Penny, Will and Robot have already come up to the control room. Smith touches a switch which opens a porthole which is inside that closet like alcove, "Farewell, malevolent planet. If our paths cross again, it will be much too soon."   Penny and Will go to the porthole. Maureen and Judy ride up on the glide elevator which robot opens for them. Maureen says, "Thank you."   Robot says, "You're welcome."    John and Don fantasize in ordering dinner---steak and potatoes, asparagus with holiday sauce which Smith mocks, telling him his wild fantasy ...
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NEW VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, THE TIME TUNNEL and LAND OF THE GIANTS???

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  About Aviva Goldman's announcement about a new VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, LAND OF THE GIANTS, and TIME TUNNEL: a mixture of feelings about this: remorse, feeling that it's too late, knowing that the Godzilla movies are a mix of great and bad and meh, knowing he also screwed up the LOST IN SPACE movie, and yet a shared universe (does that mean crossovers?) might be an interesting thing but I have a feeling it will not be what it could have been in the 1970s, excitement that someone might do something good with these classic premises but also knowing how godawful bad these things can go. If they do GIANTS where a huge crowd of canon fodder crashes and argue all the time and are sneaky unlikable awful people who get themselves killed and others killed on a regular basis ala WALKING DEAD and GAME OF THRONES, no thanks. Additionally, ALLEN'S shows were all very eclectic, often balancing tones of comedy, action adventure, horror, space opera, family values, loyalty, love...
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DOCTOR WHO: BOTH SIDES OF THE WOKE ISSUE? Scripts?

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  Some people on both sides of the DOCTOR WHO woke issue are totally wrong. Some use the idea that the woke destroyed the show last year (years as we can count 2023 in on that crap) and some say the show was always woke. No, no, and no. The show was never like the garbage crap writing we are getting now, even during the awful Moffat years. To say that people are calling out the woke is wrong, they're calling out how badly written it is or rather that side of the issue IS wrong if all they focus on is that the show is desperately trying to bring diversity, representation, and issues to the public---if that is the only criticism---they ARE wrong. The main problem here is that "woke" stuff has been done for years and years but when it is well written as in THE FUGITIVE, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, STARMAN, KUNG FU, OUR HOUSE, LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRARIES, BONANZA and many, many others like BIG VALLEY, IRONSIDE, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, BEWITCHED, it's GREAT and gives us an awareness ...
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SNOW WHITE 2025

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  Saw SNOW WHITE last night thanks to being treated! Thanks! Anyway, I only had a very vague idea of some of the controversy surrounding this movie and you know it was a GREAT movie. Fun, funny, beautiful, inspired, filled to the brim with loyal characters, love, cute animals and great motivations. I think the controversy hurts both sides of these issues and sometimes I think the movie makers and public think that the controversy will somehow help the movie. Well, it doesn't need help and it doesn't need the controversy. This movie was GREAT. And I even liked the musical numbers. You will SMILE during great stretches of this movie! And none of the controversy on both sides of this movie (and commenters I DO NOT want to hear anything about those sides of these issues, I DO NOT care one way or the other) so I think the controversy hurts the movies and the viewing public. When a movie is fun and beautiful----this one is like artwork come to life----it needs to be seen and the cont...
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WHY I love AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER and HATE KORRA, the series.

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  WHY I love THE original animated AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER and loathe the series KORRA (but not the character). I don't hate the character at all. It's the show I hate. I think I tried the first two episodes and hated it all. I found it boring, I loved AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER animated series. I loved the humor, the action, the setting, the way the 'ERA" was presented, the serious issues, the artwork, and the relationships between the characters. I loved the entire thing and loved that it was sort of ancient times. KORRA changed ALL of that. I could not relate to or like the characters at all. Maybe I didn't give it a chance at the outset but I still won't. I love the Avatar universe and have the dvds but not sure why. I will never watch them. In addition to wanting more of Aang and his friends (we had them in the graphic novels and comic which were nice but AVATAR is best as an animated TV series and NOT comics and NOT live action) so I really felt angered ...
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DARK SHADOWS 556

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  DARK SHADOWS 556 “I intend, my dear, to create a race of super beings who will serve my master and control the world.”   “I haven’t seen many policemen as handsome as you are.”   “Then Victoria Winters will die!”   Lara. Vicki has been missing 24 hours. House by the Sea looks odd; the background looks strange. Reprise is different.   In this reprise, someone was nice enough to pin Vicki’s hair back differently so it’s not longish and hanging to the sides of her face! There is no echo when she screams, “Help! HALP!”  Someone was also nice enough to clean up that large cardboard box and replace with a kind of cheap wood garbage basket…that Vicki knocks into and starts it shaking slightly. AND this time she moves back to the window that’s been boarded up for her dialog where in the last episode’s cliffhanger, she did NOT.   Of note: there are only about 22 episodes left of Alexandra Moltke as Vicki.   Angelique opens her eyes. Blair calls her usefu...
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