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WORST SCI-FI SHOW EVER?


For real, would love to hear your thoughts on this show.

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It's not the worst, Axton old chum. But it's damn close. It is however probably the most frustrating at least - because it would have been sooooo easy to make a great show out of Flash Gordon, and when they screwed up the first half of the season so badly they had to reboot it and at least tried to make it more like Flash Gordon was, you could see it could have been so much better if they'd simply done that from the start. There were some terrific ideas/additions to the Flash Gordon story in the show that could be held onto - the monks, the 'great sorrow', the artificially created moon etc. But the show was hampered by some terrible, terrible decisions from the start - notably the main premise of Flash Gordon being abandoned due to the showrunner not liking the original story. Awful miscasting for most of the roles didn't help, and the fact its budget was so small made it ridiculous even to attempt such a grand story on such financial constraints. It was just frustrating from start to finish - made even more so in the last episodes where it became more 'Flash'-like, just showing a hint of how good a proper Flash Gordon show could have been.
Such a lost opportunity. But then to be fair - we'll never have a Flash Gordon onscreen as close to the original books and strips, as we did with the 1980 movie. They'll never beat it. That said, they could make something great, but it would take actual love for the material to achieve that, and the producer and the SciFi channel had none of that. We had our Flash - he was Buster Crabbe, he was Sam J Jones - so at least we've got that.




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Ew... the 1980 movie. Is terrible.

For my money, the ONLY Flash Gordon adaptations worth watching are:
The Buster Crabbe serials (as limited as their resources were, they're still fairly entertaining)
The animated series from 1979 and the accompanying animated movie "Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All".
The animated series, "Defenders of the Earth"

Hopefully one day we'll get a new series or new movie that does an even better job than those.

Until then, nothing else come close.

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