to put it bluntly, this show is roughly as good as
smallville is. so if you like
smallville, chances are you'll like this one.
hahahahahaha
xstephx
Posted at 13/08/2007, 16:54
i have seen it and i agree with previous posters : it sucks.
that's too bad considering it's based on a good comic, but this tv show has
really nothing good : bad acting, bad storyline, ridiculous scenes (at the
beginning when flash goes to see his father's tomb at the cemetery... come on,
that scene is so classical it's lame!).
plus, it reminded me of sliders, but in a worse way. well now, i just wanna
watch sliders again !
thx for sg
Posted at 13/08/2007, 17:01
the way the networks are canceling good shows, this will go for at least 10
seasons if not more.
saintdesy
Posted at 13/08/2007, 17:19
Quote by xstephx
plus, it reminded me of sliders, but in a worse way. well now, i
just wanna watch sliders again !
yeah, maybe sliders after they killed off the professor + wade wells and things
stopped making any sense at all...
don't compare the first couple seasons of sliders (which were some great and
really inventive sci-fi) with this crapola.
StuZZR
Posted at 13/08/2007, 17:22
nope, wasn't impressed, but apparently i'm no judge as i liked firefly
(cancelled) drive (cancelled) surface (cancelled) invasion (cancelled) reunion
(cancelled) you get the picture, so unfortunately this may last for a while. oh
shit! i liked thje pre-airs of californication (absolutely brilliant, funny and
sexy a real difficult combo to pull off but this works) and the big bang theory
so they're pretty much doomed!
chibchakan
Posted at 13/08/2007, 17:44
Quote by fredcatcheur
to put it bluntly, this show is roughly as good as
smallville is. so if you like
smallville, chances are you\'ll like this one.
wrong. the writing, acting, directing & special effects in smallville are
leagues ahead of this pile of crap.
flash gordon has taken tv shows to a new level of suckiness.
swordsama
Posted at 13/08/2007, 18:29
i dont usually post, but honestly after seeing great sci-fi shows ending too
soon (farscape,serenity, hide,just to quote some) its just sad to see this
pile of crap beeing aired, my father is a huge fan of f.g and has a b&w dvd
with what i think its the original series and let me tell u it has more in the
sense of style and plot that this "show" ever will. the special efects are on
the same level tougth.
kill it and bring back serenity,or drive or the black donnellys, hell bring
back the dresden files,that was a show with potential if they ever could make
it more like the books andi liked terrence maan as bob
fredcatcheur
Posted at 13/08/2007, 19:13
Quote by chibchakan
wrong. the writing, acting, directing & special effects in smallville are
leagues ahead of this pile of crap.
ok, i'll grant you this one.
but as far as i'm concerned, smallville is also a pile of crap... so if
smallville is leagues ahead of flash gordon, what does it say about flash gordon?
;)
topoopon
Posted at 13/08/2007, 19:27
Quote by rondutt
i actually thought it was a pretty awesome show and has great
potential. its a
bit like sliders but the alternate (and true version of flash gordon) is far
worse. in case people don't know, heres an excerpt from wikipedia:
"the comic strip followed the adventures of flash gordon and his companions
dale
arden and dr. hans zarkov. the story begins with earth bombarded by fiery
meteors. dr. zarkov believes the meteors are from outer space, and invents a
rocket ship to locate their place of origin. half mad, he kidnaps flash and
dale, and the three travel to the planet mongo, where they discover that the
meteors are weapons devised by ming the merciless, evil ruler of mongo."
so you see, they actually made things a *tiny* bit better by not making flash
be
half mad, or make him "kidnap" people the rocket ship would've been cool
though :d
reread what you quoted and you'll see, zarkov is half mad, not flash gordon.
and without the meteors? the few slow robots they sent were a joke. i didn't
care for this either. i'd rather rewatch the 1980's movie version, a scifi
classic!
fattywads
Posted at 13/08/2007, 19:42
Quote by devlynsyde
Quote by fredcatcheur
to put it bluntly, this show is roughly as
good as
smallville is. so if you like
smallville, chances are you'll like this one.
however, if for you, flash gordon is synonymous with intergalactic adventures,
evil bearded emperor, lotsa sfx, and compelling (or at least charismatic)
actors, forget about this.
this flash gordon is all about canadian forests, cheap sfx, a bad cylon/borg
clone straight out of power rangers, awful lead actors, and a ming so
transparent it's not even funny. and it's so slow you just want to hang yourself.
oooh, and i almost forgot the dude with the segway under his huge robe....
another great failure for sci-fi.
i don't know if this was an insult or a compliment since i enjoy smallville..
but thought flash gordon was horrible. fiance and i couldn't make it through to
the end. i'm a big fan of sg, sg:a, bsg, firefly, hell basically most shows
scifi puts out.. but this was just bad.
well, i wasnt going to dl this show after all the bad comments but then i read
comments like this and i think it might be too good for you people. after all
star gate is one of the cheesiest shows since xena, and firefly was just
retarded, those idiots couldnt act thier way out of a paper bag.
akbar56
Posted at 13/08/2007, 20:33
what is sad is that scifi ordered a full 22 episode season of this show already
so more than likely we will see all of it.
too bad that they decided to fund this instead of doing the bsg prequel 'caprica'
jtw
Posted at 13/08/2007, 20:36
sci fi could put its money to better use.
if you can\'t pull top notch fx out of la or some ranch.. hire some online
blender buddies.
find a decent novel and seek out the author for first to film or creative
license rights.. and just don\'t try to turn scifi into mgm while your at it.
i mean there are some awesome, absolutely awesome storylines out there that
blow the doors off sci fi dribbling around now a days.
and it doesn\'t all have to be goreific (sorry al) or so deep you can\'t see
the
point.
take a look at \'inherit the stars\', \'gentle giants of ganymede\', \'giants
star!\'
and just tell me zorac isn\'t your favorite ai.. and this was twenty years
before the world wide web.
ggg is a little like jurasic park, red planet, and the matrix all rold into
one, with a heavy dose of empathy thrown in.. as they set course for oblivion
only to be rescued by the poor pathetic humans and their lunar radio telescopes
heralding. the supernova was excellent. it\'s all i hope stargate universe
turns
out to be.
how about \'life probe\' and \'procyon\'s promise\'.. and at the end of the
twenty
century an ancient star traveler risks everything to change course for a dreary
planet on the edge of a galactic spiral arm in order to barter for supplies.. a
chance to find a nearby civilization with an faster than light drive (at a star
known to humans as procyon) to save its makers. when the descendents of life
probe return to earth to make it live up to its promise.. will earth be up to
the challenge of an interstellar rescue mission for an entire civilization?
and the \'proteus operation\'.. president kennedy sets the proteus operation in
motion to rearrange time and perhaps rescue the world from nazi rule.
or any of stephen baxter\'s novels.. but especially the h.g. wells follow up
to \'the time machine\'.. \'timeships\'.. ring world, interstellar architects..
and
lost traveler far from home.
let's see 'traitor to the living'.. 'burster'.. 'world at the end of time'
galactic war wages between beings who inhabit the stars, and one dislodges a
cluster of 12 stars and sends them hurtling towards the end of the universe at
nearly the speed of light. on one of the planets of a single star a human
colony is in for the ride of its life as relativistic speeds protect the young
civilization from the ravages of time.. and they must come to terms with the
being that has brought them to the end of the universe.
there are so many more that would make such wonderful films or series.. i'd
love a arc series of the gistar novels.
soo many good stories.. i can't believe the stuff on tv and in the theatres
today..
Oscaron
Posted at 13/08/2007, 20:53
Quote by rondutt
so you see, they actually made things a *tiny* bit better by not
making flash be half mad, or make him "kidnap" people the rocket ship
would've been cool
though :d
actually...you'll notice, if you read that quote again, that zarkov is the one
who is half-mad, not flash otherwise flash would be kidnapping himself.
just sayin'.
dlkbc
Posted at 13/08/2007, 21:02
i was curious about this show because it's being filmed in vancouver and there
have been a lot of 'space' shows that have thrived.
but...i can only take this show in small doses...i can only watch it for a few
minutes and then i have to bolt...doesn't catch my interest at all.
i wince because the so-called special effects remind me of stuff from decades
ago. and acting, what acting?
the rocket ship would've been cool
otherwise flash would be kidnapping himself.
