The Hoard Potato Remembers.

[athelind]

Before this day is done, I felt I should acknowledge the anniversary of that unimaginable catastrophe that we all remember so clearly. Who doesn't remember where they were, what they were doing when they first heard the news, ten years ago today?

Here's to the brave men and women of Moonbase Alpha, wherever they might be.

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Comments

[tilton.livejournal.com]

The distant future of 1999 is all about slap bass.

And I am not afraid to admit that even now, this theme sounds freakin' awesome!

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

You're right, it was a disaster of a kind seldom seen in history. I mean, double-knit sweatsuits as uniforms? What were they thinking? With just a little forethought they could have avoided the horror of the worst style disaster in history, but no... it still makes me shudder just thinking about it.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I always liked those uniforms, actually. Especially the second-season variations. They're certainly no worse than the various Starfleet uniforms.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

But the WIGS....

[athelind.livejournal.com]

The wigs were only in UFO, man.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Alas I am undone!

(goes to watch Space Precinct....)

Dang it I ought to have remembered.... my mind is going...

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

...which uniforms they had to wear because you can't tell it's The Future unless everyone is wearing double-knit jumpsuits.

Nobody would wear such a thing today because it would be hard to create a garment that was hotter, clammier, stickier, and more all-around miserable. But apparently the fabric scientists of The Future have devoted person-years of work to producing double-knit fabrics that can actually breathe. Heaven alone knows why.

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Space 1999. Where I learned that even though security has guns (with several settings no less, I had one as a toy) real men always try to grapple with the huge slimy alien.

[morphyloon.livejournal.com]

Never got a gun but I did get a ship and several figures. Still, never was there manlier men than those of Moonbase Alpha taking it old school with the alien-on-the-week, going toe to toe and... somehow... putting the beatdown on E.T. Granted, they did loose a few personel, but it was always no one important (no Red Shirts made it a fun challenge to guess who was gonna die)

[silussa.livejournal.com]

I believe that the effects of nuclear radiation from the explosion gradually affected them....or, as a group of Englishmen including a noted gynecologist would have said, "just too silly".

Also, different opening which is less...jumpy?

[drakegrey.livejournal.com]

The Brit comic TV21 tied all the Anderson shows into one future history, for their comics.

Which meant they had to explain why there was a Moon, in shows like Captain Scarlet, that were set AFTER Space: 1999.

... So in one issue they did. They explained that humans took Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta and made a new Moon out of their mass. Oh, AND sculpted it with all the same craters and maria that the old Moon had.

DAMN. That Jeff Tracy and his boys sure did earn every consulting dollar they got! :)