SPACE: 1999: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH-early review

Someone posted that they didn't understand this episode: here's my a bit too harsh answer:  Gosh you guys even do SPACE: 1999? You have to use your imagination, what's there on screen, what's been written, AND the context of the rest of the first season. For me, it was anti matter. No one matter can exist on an anti matter planet. Thematically, it means the Alphans have pride and the MUF (do guys even DO MUF?), being GOD IMO, wants to teach them that...though they have free will and he cannot stop bad choices, that HIS warnings from another MUF (anti matter) not being heeded and their will going against their continuing on in the path he wants them to bring back to the other outer space aliens who used to be kind hearted where the seeds they planted on Earth will be returned to them and the Alphans will, in turn learn from them, their will...against his voice, his plan, his warning....will result in a dead end, a literal dead end. Like a few other episodes that season it is a look at what hapens when they go against God's plan and will and path for them, gently guiding them. It's better than them experiencing real destruction.

Matter of Life and Death: I know a lot of folks do not like this episode but guess what? I do. Truly spiritual, it takes the whole anti matter thing and spins it on its head. Yes, we do not find out a lot but that is Space: 1999 Year One. Why couldn't Lee just warn them out and out? What was driving him and the whole Mysterious Unknown Force? I didn't know about the MUF until Starlog proposed it in a series of articles. I wouldn't have liked 1999 if not for those articles and Year Two (Year Two made me take another look at Year One, along with the articles): they made me understand the MUF stuff better. I like that Helena's world is rocked by his return (and having a sister who lost a fireman husband in 9/11, I can see where she was coming from more now than before). It shows more depth to Helena and her increasing disconnect as well as her connect later on (as she cries over it all). True, the whole reset is a bit annoying but wasn't it nice to see everything just go all disaster-y: rock falls, wind, the Moon blowing up, Sandra blind, Alan blowing up, etc. The music is just astonishing. The last sequence as Helena watches the planet slowly get smaller without any dialog is also amazing. It allows viewers to bring to it what they will as to what she's feeling and/or thinking about and even to Koenig, who is watching her. Before that, Kano tries to cheer Koenig up with some banter and some facts about the Earth type planets they will pass: again, facts reason that they will not pass by many in enough time so again, MUF is at play with that. I love Bergman's very human and funny reaction to Kano's figures and joke (that he'll be over 2000 years old when they reach the last of the Earth type planets). John talks about "since we left Earth orbit many things have happened, unexplainable things but this time we have a chance of getting some answers." How long has passed between BREAKAWAY and this episode? Did they ever reach Meta? (see Message from Moonbase Alpha).