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beige_alertBorders sent me one of their 25%-off coupons and I used it to buy the Battle of the Planets “25th anniversary collection” DVD set. It turns out the cashier was a total fangirl and and attempted to discuss details of the show that I couldn’t remember. She was commenting on the effeminate appearance of the head bad guy, and I was trying to remember what any character looked like.
I’ve watched one episode so far (“The Ghostly Grasshopper”) and it’s pretty much one “Hey! I vaguely remember that!” after another. I really liked the show as a tiny person way back when, and I really wondered what it would look like to me now. It’s ridiculously hilarious, of course. Corny dialog, that wacky robot 7-Zark-7 tediously explaining everything, the robot dog, the odd tendency of the characters to spend a lot of time frozen in place, often with their eyes closed, at what seem like they ought to be moments of, if not action, at least frenzied panic. They appear to be inexplicably unconscious much of the time, only to inexplicably recover. Much like Star Trek, for all the advanced technology, the simple seat belt apparently was not available to them.
Casey Kasem did the voice of Mark, which is especially special to me now because I know Casey mostly from that Negativland U2-thing, in which they mixed U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” with Casey ranting and raving and swearing, plus lots of other noise. So I associate that voice with “These guys are from England and who gives a shit” and “I want a God-damn concerted effort to come out of a record that isn’t a fucking up-tempo record every time I do a God-damned death dedication!” and, of course, “Diddley shit!”
Anyway, it combines hilarity and (for people my age, at least) nostalgia, and I have about five more hours to watch, just as soon as I get the time.
I’ve watched one episode so far (“The Ghostly Grasshopper”) and it’s pretty much one “Hey! I vaguely remember that!” after another. I really liked the show as a tiny person way back when, and I really wondered what it would look like to me now. It’s ridiculously hilarious, of course. Corny dialog, that wacky robot 7-Zark-7 tediously explaining everything, the robot dog, the odd tendency of the characters to spend a lot of time frozen in place, often with their eyes closed, at what seem like they ought to be moments of, if not action, at least frenzied panic. They appear to be inexplicably unconscious much of the time, only to inexplicably recover. Much like Star Trek, for all the advanced technology, the simple seat belt apparently was not available to them.
Casey Kasem did the voice of Mark, which is especially special to me now because I know Casey mostly from that Negativland U2-thing, in which they mixed U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” with Casey ranting and raving and swearing, plus lots of other noise. So I associate that voice with “These guys are from England and who gives a shit” and “I want a God-damn concerted effort to come out of a record that isn’t a fucking up-tempo record every time I do a God-damned death dedication!” and, of course, “Diddley shit!”
Anyway, it combines hilarity and (for people my age, at least) nostalgia, and I have about five more hours to watch, just as soon as I get the time.
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