Posted by: @icarus

I very much enjoyed the fact that the season finale for Star Wars: Ahsoka this week had the episode title of "The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord". 😀 

Not that the rest of the episode had any great Narnia parallels, but I still had a lot of fun with it,

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Following on from this Narnia-themed episode title in a Star Wars TV show, Marvel Studios today seemingly tweeted (and then deleted) a new title treatment for their upcoming Agatha Harkness TV show along a similar line....

Given that the Agatha show has been through about 4 or 5 different title changes already, I suspect this might just be their way of poking fun at their own indecisiveness, however I can't help but wondering if the guys behind the scenes at Disney Plus have got a running bet as to who can come up with the best Narnia-based pun for their episode titles  

https://screenrant.com/agatha-show-logo-title-mcu-2024/

Does anyone here own books based on old television shows?  I have books on Star Trek and Twilight Zone and even a guide to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery.  There are some books on Gerry Anderson’s puppet shows and guide to his live action television series. There are also comic book collections based on Thunderbirds and the other puppet shows. They are fun to read and the artwork is intriguing.  The guides to the shows are helpful for general reference when rewatching the classic episodes. I am glad that I collected them because some of them are now out of print. The early Star Trek novels are becoming hard to find in new/like new condition. But I am glad I can still enjoy the ones I have since they are great classic science fiction. 🙂

I think this is the most appropriate thread...

Anyway, I noticed today that Amazon (USA, I am afraid I don't know if it is available in other countries) has one of my favorite history documentaries available to watch free with ads. Blitz Spirit is a fascinating look at the first 18 months of WWII in the UK, including Operation Pied Piper. A bit harrowing at times but never gratuitously graphic. 

Not sure if this belongs here or in the vintage TV thread, but - as of today, Avatar: The Last Airbender is 20 years old (the first episode aired on February 21st, 2005). As you may have guessed from my profile pic, I love this show (it's my favorite show of all time), so I am just a wee bit excited. I'm the kind of nerd who's throwing a big party for it tomorrow, so this has been on my mind for quite a while!

It's just surreal to think that it started two decades ago. Granted, I didn't start watching it until a year later, but... I was 14 when I started watching it....

I recently did a blog post about the 2008 miniseries adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. I really did it because I wanted to write about the original book though. I don't think I had that much interesting to say about the miniseries itself.  

Sense and Adaptability | The Adaptation Station.com

Some friends and I watched the first three episodes of the 2018 Netflix reboot of Lost in Space last night.

I watched the first season when it first dropped and enjoyed it, but last night's viewing had the advantage that in the meantime, I've watched the entire original series and was able to pick up a variety of nods to it.

To use the old cliche, "it's not your father's Lost in Space," but I don't mind.  The original began as a more-serious sci-fi show and gradually fell into the camp its last two seasons are famous for. (According the special "Lost in Space Forever," much of that is due to the arrival of the intentionally-campy 1960s Batman).

In the original, the Robinsons are exposed to all sorts of deadly space dangers with nary a scratch. This version is more realistic, with lots of action. I know some fans of the original don't like it because it isn't campy, but I enjoy it on its own merits (I can't speak for its later seasons yet).

There are quite a few plot nods to the original; for example, a robot says "Danger, Will Robinson" and the planet shows a wide variety of biomes in a relatively small area. The original's theme (composed, incidentally, by the John Williams) is heard in some exciting spots, and Bill Mumy (Will Robinson) has a cameo. 

@stargazer 

I have only seen the 1960’s series of Lost in Space and the 1998 movie. It sounds like the Netflix series may be a better version, although I might prefer the original since that would probably look more classic and old fashioned. I think the original might have been much better if seasons two and three had been more like the pilot and the beginning episodes.  They were much less campy and were more like science fiction than the rest of the series.

Some people have colorized parts of the old series, but it does look rather artificial:

It is interesting to watch, but I don’t think it is an improvement. I don’t really mind the colorized versions as long as they look realistic enough so that you cannot tell the difference between them and actual color photography.