The Atomic Age and Space Race during the 1950's and 60's fired a whole explosion of Sci-Fi on the small and big screens.
Kids were treated to B-movies like War of the Colossal Beast and This Island Earth, TV gems like Quatermass, the space antics of Moon Zero Two, Thunderbirds' epic grandeur and the sheer style of UFO. We were immersed in Science Fiction.
The Eighties were pretty good too if I remember rightly but perhaps not the Nineties or the Naughties?
Do you think that NASA's new Mars adventure might inspire a whole new generation of Sci Fi films, series and novels?
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Does anyone remember the TV series LEXX?
I wish there was another space SF boom, but doubt it for the moment. In the naughties we had 'Mission to Mars' which didn't set the world alight. On TV both Star Trek Enterprise and Andromeda ended. There's been talk of a reboot of Gerry Anderson's UFO as a movie, a new Thunderbirds in CGI, a reboot of Space 1999 called Space 2099, and now maybe Blake's 7. Nothing has come about yet. Anyone got a few million to spend? Yes I remember Lexx! Blimey that was weird. It was on Channel 4 in the UK on friday nights after getting back from the pub. ;D
WE can always hope Woodsy! In this day of distractions, many good Sci Fi endeavors may be missed in the noise. I enjoyed the first story arc of LEXX tremendously. Firefly (and the movie Serenity), and "Space Above & Beyond" come to mind as good ones. Gaming, one dominant pop culture of today, leans towards Sci Fi (HALO, Mass Effect, Starcraft...etc.) which is good news.
I'd forgotten about Gaming because I don't partake I'm afriad. Maybe that's the new Sci Fi Frontier as you say. I;d like to see more films like MOON and Prometheus. At least one or two films about Mars. In the meantime I'm going to re-discover The Martian Chronicles online. I was admiring the toy figures by Larami from the series on the inspirational PlaidStallions site http://plaidstallions.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/martian-chronicles-toys-by-larami.html
Space/sci-fi has never left us. It's really been everywhere on the big and small screens. I think though that it's become so pervasive that for lack of a better description, it's become diluted. Nothing of really great quality has come out for some time. Case in point "John Carter of Mars", "Battleship", "Transformers", the Sci-Fi channel keeps putting out ever darker and darker series. HOPEFULLY, Curiousity will inspire well thought out, not over-produced, not CGI bloated gore-fest entertaining Science Fiction instead of the modern trend of Quasi-Science Smarm
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