From crackfic to crack television...

[liz_marcs]

Yes, I am spamming you...

For those of you old enough to remember Galactica: 1980 (the ill-fated follow-up Battlestar Galactica (1978), guess what series has been greenlit for DVD?

No, guess!

Back when I was active in Battlestar Galactica 1978 fandom, my hatred was such that I wrote 1,001 Reasons to Hate Galactica: 1980. *shivers*

And it that

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[missmurchison]

I vaguely remember this! But, perhaps because it was even worse, I remember something called "Space:1999." Or did I imagine that horror? Wasn't the premise something about moons that acted like ping-pong balls, hopping all over the galaxy while managing to hang on to their atmospheres?

[missmurchison]

I just checked it out on Wikipedia and found this gem:

In his 1988 opinion in the case of Williams v. Boles, a case concerning allegations of police brutality, Judge Frank Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit alluded to the series' low reputation among the general public, writing "Many things - beating with a rubber truncheon, water torture, electric shock, incessant noise, reruns of Space: 1999 - may cause agony as they occur yet leave no enduring injury."

I remember now why the damn show was so annoying. It was sold as an upscale version of Star Trek, had decent special effects and a few biggish-name stars, but utterly craptastic scripts.

[xxmagex]

No you didn't imagine. Space 1999 was on the air in the late 1970s. It was so bad that a Federal Judge Frank Easterbrook actually wrote, in an opinion on police brutality, "Many things - beating with a rubber truncheon, water torture, electric shock, incessant noise, reruns of Space: 1999 - may cause agony as they occur yet leave no enduring injury."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999#Trivia

This was in turn quoted by Justice Clarence Thomas in a Supreme Court dissent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_v._McMillian

So we have the United States Court system weighing in on just how bad Space 1999 was.

[liz_marcs]

*laughs hysterically*

I'll be...I'll be...overherelaughing...