70s Sci Fi Sleepers

[Thomas Shey]

Yes, there’s the name (Dylan Hunt) and the concept of a pre-apocalyptic protagonist being thawed out post-apocalypse and deciding to bring back civilisation as he sees it. It’s also got overlaps with the 70s Buck Rogers TV series and the Lost Fleet books, for instance. But otherwise there isn’t a lot.

Of course Andromeda is explicitly based on Roddenberry’s writings so the connection is definitely there, but if you didn’t know that you’d have to squint a bit to see the connection.

Well, yeah, in that sense, but as you say, it requires some squinting otherwise, whereas Genesis II and Planet Earth where you can clearly see them as two somewhat different takes on the same concept. Of course the whole subshuttle business and the newly sprung up cultures are also fishing in the same "new world every episode" pond as Star Trek, so his interests there show pretty strongly. (You can make an argument the Tyranians were sort of an early take on the Nietzians from Andromeda, though).

(I wouldn't have minded seeing a show from that pilot, but then, I was really into post-apoc fiction at that time).

 

[jian]

Funny Story, my father took our entire family to a Boy and his Dog including all my younger siblings. He thought it was a family film.

It was not.

Jesus wept. Great for fans of Miami Vice, though, I guess.

Honestly a lot of these films may be classics but my main response to some of them is “WTF were you actually thinking, making these films? Who TF thought “Rosemary’s Baby with AI” or “R*pe monster and his psychotic dog” were good ideas?”

(I know the idea with A Boy is that the character has no morality or empathy because he’s basically feral but that’s a very stupid plot that says a lot more about the writer than about reality. It’s like The Purge films being all about murder and torture rather than, say, stealing health insurance or wiping out student loans for you and everyone you know or can help, because of course that’s what you’d do on the one day you’re allowed to break the law.)