I'm going to introduce myself here because I put you on my friends list when you posted that you were waiting for your 'Voyage' DVDs the day after the Region 1 box set was issued.
I fell in love with 'Voyage' first season on its original broadcast in the UK, and have remained in love with said first season ever since. I was... let me see... 14 or 15. I had a best friend who I bored silly with recitations of what had happened in the early episodes - the only way I had of hanging on to them in those days, as there was no videotape and we didn't possess a reel to reel sound recorder. Well, I bored her silly until 'Mutiny', which was when she fell just as deeply in love with it as I was. I used to put myself to sleep reciting the dialogue and plots. It was that bad...
I was incredibly excited by the next season, but as time went on, though I never missed an episode or a repeat, I had enough critical faculties left to realise it wasn't that good. I bought a reel to reel, and taped most of the episodes on repeat, then started novelising the scripts. Well, it certainly taught me a good deal about the technicalities of writing without having to worry too much about dialogue or script. Except, of course, for first season, where I had to fill everything around the bits I remembered. Of course, being black and white it wasn't repeated...
Until Channel 4 decided to show the whole thing, in production order, on Sunday mornings. What's more, the b&w prints were spanking new and gorgeous, and I am hoping they are the ones used for the transfer. The first few episodes (which I hadn't seen back in '64) worried me enormously, because it seemed to take both Basehart and Hedison time to 'find' Nelson and Crane and their relationship. Then, suddenly, we were in the epsisodes I knew, and I found that the dialogue I'd memorised over twenty years before was pretty accurate. I put (nearly) all of the first season on videotape, plus those episodes of the other three seasons that took my fancy, so I have not been deprived of it since then. And I found, to my joy, that because I could now treat first season as a separate entity, I could write fanfic - in this case for my own amusement, as the zine the long story I wrote was to be published in never happened, and I wasn't overly impressed by some of the other stuff about at the time.
As 'Lost in Space' came out on Region 2 soon after the Region 1 broadcast, and I prefer to buy Region 2 in case that the major DVD publishers manage to either ban or 'fix' multiregion players, I am sitting on my hands trying desperately not to purchase the Region 1 set.
The first series of 'Voyage' was one of the best of its time. The plots made sense and did not repeat themselves week after week, as happened in the later seasons. All the characters were strong and complex, and there was a lot of conflict, which is the heart of drama. First loves do not go away. For me, 'Voyage' never has.
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Date: 2006-03-01 09:35 am (UTC)I fell in love with 'Voyage' first season on its original broadcast in the UK, and have remained in love with said first season ever since. I was... let me see... 14 or 15. I had a best friend who I bored silly with recitations of what had happened in the early episodes - the only way I had of hanging on to them in those days, as there was no videotape and we didn't possess a reel to reel sound recorder. Well, I bored her silly until 'Mutiny', which was when she fell just as deeply in love with it as I was. I used to put myself to sleep reciting the dialogue and plots. It was that bad...
I was incredibly excited by the next season, but as time went on, though I never missed an episode or a repeat, I had enough critical faculties left to realise it wasn't that good. I bought a reel to reel, and taped most of the episodes on repeat, then started novelising the scripts. Well, it certainly taught me a good deal about the technicalities of writing without having to worry too much about dialogue or script. Except, of course, for first season, where I had to fill everything around the bits I remembered. Of course, being black and white it wasn't repeated...
Until Channel 4 decided to show the whole thing, in production order, on Sunday mornings. What's more, the b&w prints were spanking new and gorgeous, and I am hoping they are the ones used for the transfer. The first few episodes (which I hadn't seen back in '64) worried me enormously, because it seemed to take both Basehart and Hedison time to 'find' Nelson and Crane and their relationship. Then, suddenly, we were in the epsisodes I knew, and I found that the dialogue I'd memorised over twenty years before was pretty accurate. I put (nearly) all of the first season on videotape, plus those episodes of the other three seasons that took my fancy, so I have not been deprived of it since then. And I found, to my joy, that because I could now treat first season as a separate entity, I could write fanfic - in this case for my own amusement, as the zine the long story I wrote was to be published in never happened, and I wasn't overly impressed by some of the other stuff about at the time.
As 'Lost in Space' came out on Region 2 soon after the Region 1 broadcast, and I prefer to buy Region 2 in case that the major DVD publishers manage to either ban or 'fix' multiregion players, I am sitting on my hands trying desperately not to purchase the Region 1 set.
The first series of 'Voyage' was one of the best of its time. The plots made sense and did not repeat themselves week after week, as happened in the later seasons. All the characters were strong and complex, and there was a lot of conflict, which is the heart of drama. First loves do not go away. For me, 'Voyage' never has.