{"id":34049,"date":"2010-04-08T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanhthonextract2.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/08\/hey-jpx-how-are-you-liking-space-1999"},"modified":"2011-09-23T04:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:00:01","slug":"hey-jpx-how-are-you-liking-space-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/hey-jpx-how-are-you-liking-space-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, JPX, how are you liking &#8220;Space: 1999&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2010\/04\/s1999_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2010\/04\/s1999_1-w=300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2010\/04\/s1999_2a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2010\/04\/s1999_2a-w=300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2010\/04\/s1999_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/2010\/04\/s1999_3-w=300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Recently JPX mentioned that he&#8217;d rented the first DVD of the 1975 British sci-fi television series <i>Space: 1999<\/i>, starring Martin Landau and Angelina Jolie, which is one of my favorite television shows (and one of Octopunk&#8217;s, too). You may recall my <a href=\"http:\/\/horrorthon.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/bringers-of-wonder.html\">review<\/a> of the Season Two <i>Space: 1999<\/i> episode &#8220;The Bringers of Wonder&#8221; for Horrorthon 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Despite my contempt for the disastrous second season of the program (a contempt not <i>entirely<\/i> shared by Octopunk), I still think that <i>Space: 1999<\/i> is one of the pinnacles of filmed\/televised science fiction. The show&#8217;s far-fetched premise\u2014the Earth&#8217;s moon, blasted out of orbit by a nuclear explosion in the near future, travels through the universe encountering strange alien planets and life forms\u2014can be hard to get your mind around, but once you accept it you&#8217;re in for some great sci-fi (and some groundbreaking special effects). <\/p>\n<p>The largely British cast excelled in their portrayal of a near-future moon community, led by Commander John Koening (Landau), professor Victor Bergman (Barry Morse) and Dr. Helena Russell (Jolie), and the overall vibe of the show was a fantastic example of post-Kubrick, post-moon-landing, pre-<i>Star Wars<\/i> sensibilites about earth, space and the universe. (The aforementioned nuclear explosion that begins the series is supposed to be caused by improperly-disposed-of nuclear waste\u2014a thinly-veiled commentary on 1970s concerns about energy and pollution.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, JPX, how are you liking it so far?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/17244873-3898990067195195383?l=horrorthon.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently JPX mentioned that he&#8217;d rented the first DVD of the 1975 British sci-fi television series Space: 1999, starring Martin Landau and Angelina Jolie, which is one of my favorite television shows (and one of Octopunk&#8217;s, too). You may recall my review of the Season Two Space: 1999 episode &#8220;The Bringers of Wonder&#8221; for Horrorthon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horrorthon_posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41213,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34049\/revisions\/41213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}