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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 3, 2020 13:50:12 GMT -5
I saw the latest Fab issue, #96, on the website. For someone who starts with #5 there got to be less and less of substance in Fab for me, going more into fans reviewing and reminiscing, more colour photos sometimes making text secondary (earliest issues were all b&w inside). The most recent Fab I got was #86. I see they are doing new in-depth episode guides, but they would be the third (or even fourth if you count it's predecessor S.I.G. magazine) for me, and these go less vital once you could buy an entire series on DVD for yourself. I wouldn't mind getting the S.I.G. #21 magazine someday possibly though. Coupons for Pizza Hut could go some way to luring me back!  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2020 14:37:02 GMT -5
That reminds me. I am not a member but there’s a fan club devoted to THE PRISONER. It started in 1977. It’s still going. I believe they do a quarterly magazine, but the show only ran for 17 episodes! What can the magazine still find to say after 43 years? Wouldn’t every conceivable subject have been done to death? There’s also a counter-point site which has reported on some dubious dealings by the fan club (Six of One). They did mention the quality of the magazine in this link: www.sixofone-info.co.uk/mailings.htmNow, of course, I am not (in any way, shape or form) comparing that with Fanderson. But I am saying that it must be hard for a magazine to remain relevant when there aren’t really new things being produced, some exceptions aside. True, there have been some Big Finish audio CDs for the likes of CAPTAIN SCARLET in recent years. And a THUNDERBIRDS reboot. For the most part, though, after 96 issues, it makes you wonder much ground FAB has covered. That said, I wish them luck. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 12:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 6, 2020 11:02:18 GMT -5
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the Hood puppet design was strongly influenced by Yul Brynner's character in "The King And I"? Maybe this has already been discussed and I missed it.
Dang it-- this is yet another previously undiscovered thread topic for me to bookmark.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2020 11:19:16 GMT -5
I can’t swear to it, but there’s a very good chance that someone (who wrote a booK) said the same thing!
I had a book once - I think it was called FAB Facts - and likenesses were mentioned, e.g. Sean Connery influencing Scott Tracy, James Garner influencing Troy Tempest, Laurence Olivier influencing X-20, etc. I am sure Yul Brynner might have mentioned.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 6, 2020 22:32:37 GMT -5
All I've found is this line from a wiki article... Media historian Nicholas J. Cull compares the Hood to "an evil version of Yul Brynner [as the King of Siam] in The King and I".The author of Fab Facts, Simon Archer, worked on both Fab magazine and the larger sized Century 21 mag. He died in a car crash on his way back home from seeing the first proof edition of that book following a big convention, and the biography of Gerry Anderson he had been working on had to be finished by another. From achieving a professional high to the last day of his life. He seems a sort of Ian Curtis-like shadow hanging over Anderson fandom. I always found his to be one of the most remarkable but sad fannish stories.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 7:36:02 GMT -5
This is not good for Thunderbird 5:  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 10:02:55 GMT -5
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 14, 2020 15:02:55 GMT -5
There's a new (and Canadian) 'cult tv' magazine named Chromakey. It's up to #4 which sports a cover and article (What if there had been a series two?) on Captain Scarlet as well as other features outside Anderson.  chromakeymagazine.com/ |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2020 16:08:51 GMT -5
I might have to move to Canada just to buy that!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2021 10:38:35 GMT -5
In Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, we never saw the Mysterons. We heard their voices, though.
I saw this trivia on the IMDb page for the pilot episode (“The Mysterons”):
I can’t claim to remember every aspect of the original series, but I’m sure I’ve seen every episode (they only made 32). But given that anyone can edit IMDB’s trivia page, I am questioning that. Exactly where, if at all, was it stated that the Mysterons had actually left Mars? They certainly seemed to be broadcasting from Mars and inhabiting Mars, even though we never saw them.
I mean, if the Mysterons pissed off centuries ago, why would a bunch of machines they left behind be so keen on eradicating humanity?
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