Hunters! Part 2.
This week Wreck-Gar gets into the Auto Assembly spirit by building his own cosplay costume, but then he has to go and ruin it by making pop a pop culture reference that the BBC won't like. All in my look at:
Hunters! Part 2.
27 Comments
Auntie Slag
15/8/2014 06:04:38 am
"Of course, if anyone had said in 1987 that there would still be a British Transformers comic in 2014 but The Dandy would be no more, they would have seemed crazy".
Reply
Stuart
15/8/2014 06:11:32 am
Well, I knew if I kept going at it I'd make one eventually. ;)
Reply
15/8/2014 09:37:40 am
I suspect in the long term old Saville references will become acceptable as being of their time. Vintage material often brings up these problems but once the immediacy of revelations pass it's usual to leave things as they were in relatively obscure places.
Reply
Chris Chapman
15/8/2014 10:29:52 am
Also on the Savile front, technically the term 'Jim'll Fix It' predates the TV show doesn't it? They use it in Doctor Who 'Colony in Space' in 1971 for example. Obviously Furman is thinking about Savile's show but don't let that stop me being a pedant! ;-)
Reply
Ryan F
15/8/2014 11:32:12 am
Good entry this week, especially the stuff about Planet Terry and Tintin...
Reply
Benway
15/8/2014 05:11:10 pm
Inhumanoid toys were released in the UK, though not well publicised. I had two which my dad found in a bargain bin some time after the comic ended. This blog is the first I ever heard of a cartoon. At the time I thought it was an original comic. I liked it (for the daemonic Lovecraftian monsters, magic trees and gadget based heroes) and was mightily annoyed that it ended on a cliffhanger!
Reply
Ryan F
16/8/2014 02:43:46 am
Wow, cheers Benway, never knew we had these in the UK. You learn something new every day!
Reply
Stuart
16/8/2014 05:58:15 am
Lotsa replies!
Reply
Auntie Slag
16/8/2014 07:17:47 am
@Tim: I can confirm that Return of the Jedi premiered on UK terrestrial TV in Christmas ’89. I remember missing the opportunity to record Star Wars when it first aired at Christmas ’87. What with the usual repeat schedule of films on BBC1 and ITV, its a fairly safe bet that it would get a second airing sometime in ’88, so I was only a little bothered. However, the original trilogy was never shown on terrestrial TV again until sometime in the mid-2000’s, probably a good few years after the DVD/VHS box set release in 2004 (remember what a big event that was?).
Reply
16/8/2014 09:07:03 am
I remember that Star Wars screening well with the whole trilogy screened at the rate of one a year. That's careful pacing but also a pain to arrange in advance - I wonder if any plan to redo it was put on ice because of the ITV franchise renewals/changes of 1992? And then there was a period in the 1990s when Lucasfilm were actively removing the original versions - I can recall ads for the VHS making a big thing of this being the last chance to get them - prior to the special editions. Then we got a string of releases every few years.
Reply
Philip Ayres
21/8/2015 03:13:59 pm
I'm not sure the 89 showing would have been the first time ROTJ had been on UKTV.
Reply
Stuart
16/8/2014 07:29:45 am
Now that's interesting, I was talking with my Mother yesterday as we bought out first video recorder (a snipe at £500 for a Hitatchi that was for reasons no one now remembers purchased from a hotel) specifically to tape Star Wars offa the telly, and her memory was I wasn't very old and my brother wasn't born yet which would have placed it prior to 1984.
Reply
Stuart
16/8/2014 07:37:22 am
Ah wait! This site has the full premier dates for British TV for the films, Star Wars actually debuted in October 1982 (though there were encore screening on new year's day in both 1987 and 1988, so presumably one of those is what Slag is remembering), so amazingly my mother was right! That rarely happens.
Reply
16/8/2014 09:49:01 am
Interesting - so the trilogy got split up by Sky snatching the rights. I'm sure I'm not alone in having been annoyed back then that some things were only on Sky but my parents refused to consider it, thinking four channels were enough. (They later relented and were early adopters of Freeview - so early that their box was completely missed by the switchover publicity.)
Reply
Simon Hall
16/8/2014 03:00:37 pm
And here comes my amazing contribution to this....
Reply
Stuart
16/8/2014 03:13:19 pm
ITV ARE SHOWING EMPIRE STRIKES BACK RIGHT NOW (stupidly late at night for a kids film) SO AS TO DELIBERATELY MESS WITH MY MIND.
Reply
Ryan f
16/8/2014 03:17:05 pm
Your mind is OURS.
Reply
Auntie Slag
17/8/2014 03:09:36 am
Wow, I never knew it had been on TV so many times prior to the ’87 showing (and I think the one I’m really referring to there is the 1st Jan ’88 repeat). How did I miss all those, when I was a massive Star Wars fan at the time!
Reply
Auntie Slag
17/8/2014 03:22:54 am
It looks like we got it on TV before the Americans (their first airing was 1984). Check this out!
Reply
Stuart
17/8/2014 11:46:43 am
I love that Star Wars t-shirt disco. I want to go to a disco like that.
Reply
Auntie Slag
17/8/2014 01:50:53 pm
I thought Return of the Jedi was ace. The Kevin Smith’s will bad-mouth it for having the teddy bear Ewoks, but it also had Jabba’s palace, the Emperor, more of Han being his usual cocky self and that totally brilliant half-hour space battle at the end.
Reply
17/8/2014 03:25:25 pm
I think to some extent the disappointment with Return of the Jedi was age related. Although the Star Wars films can be enjoyed by all generations they were particularly popular with children and how well later films and spin-offs are received can depend heavily on catching the audience at the right time. So a c10 year old could fall for the action and space setting of the original film and then three years later as a 13 year old they could enjoy the darker themes and downbeat ending of The Empire Strikes Back. Conversely children who encountered the films at a faster rate on TV/home entertainment/rereleases can find Empire a big disappointment because the triology has grown faster than these viewers.
Reply
Ryan F
17/8/2014 05:09:28 pm
@ Tim, that's an argument I've heard a number of times before, and I remain unconvinced by it.
Reply
18/8/2014 04:48:14 pm
Oh I agree there are deeper problems with Phantom Menace but it was amusing at the time to hear the kids of 1977 making such complaints without irony.
Reply
Stuart
18/8/2014 01:37:37 pm
I think Return of the Jedi is really good fun for the first twenty minutes (though it looks very cheap in places, I'm all over an alien who looks like a blue elephant but that's a poorly made puppet), but falls apart rapidly after that. It just feels a bit safe and dull and the "Twin sister" thing is just a rubbish "How do we top I AM YOUR FATHER?" moment.
Reply
22/8/2014 06:45:04 am
And in all these comments we've said very little about the main story beyond one line. So here goes some attempt at remedy...
Reply
The “Inhumanoids” cartoon had amazingly great animation, but the story had so much non-stop action and peril that it actually becomes too nerve-wracking and stressful to watch. Even the background music and sound effects never let up! It’s like a wall of noise. Beautiful artwork though!
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorStuart Webb. Who knows everything about nothing and not a lot about that. Archives
April 2024
Categories
All
|