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I'm very angry about Buck Rogers

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So, I have read Armageddon 2419 a few months ago and after reading it I bought a book with Buck Rogers comic strips which were supposed to be a comic adaptation of the story.

At first, I loved the graphics, but after several strips the story said good bye to the story of the novel and sanity and intelligence too. It turned into a story for kiddies with nonsensical adventures - a bit like Flash Gordon but without his charisma and chivalry.
The comic is supposed to be post-apocalyptic with total war with technologically superior enemies but it quickly devolves into nonsense like the enemy emperor wanting the protagonist's love interest in his harem and protagonist saving her and stuff like that.

The novel was serious business - with lots of combat, descriptions of military technology and tactics, violence, genocide conducted by both sides and Rogers killing enemies in fights in gory ways. None of these is in the comic.
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Buck Rodgers was for kids wasn't it?
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Buck Rodgers was for kids wasn't it?

This should help explain it...



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This was a good flick

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I enjoyed the original novel.
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This was a good flick

That wasn't exactly a "flick." Itwas a TV series that lasted two seasons, which had an episode guest starring Buster Crabbe (who played both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon in the serials, as pictured above).

To bring it back on topic, the TV series was definitely aimed at the young (or young at heart), as evidenced by the robot that pretty much did nothing but say "beedeebeedeebeedeebee" while carrying the ORAC'ish* robot around his neck.



* ORAC is a reference to the portable computer from Blake's 7 (although, theirs had an "attitude"), in which Blake was missing for the majority of the series and the team was less than 7 for the majority as well.
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This was a good flick

That wasn't exactly a "flick." Itwas a TV series that lasted two seasons, which had an episode guest starring Buster Crabbe (who played both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon in the serials, as pictured above).

To bring it back on topic, the TV series was definitely aimed at the young (or young at heart), as evidenced by the robot that pretty much did nothing but say "beedeebeedeebeedeebee" while carrying the ORAC'ish* robot around his neck.



* ORAC is a reference to the portable computer from Blake's 7 (although, theirs had an "attitude"), in which Blake was missing for the majority of the series and the team was less than 7 for the majority as well.


Actually, it was a flick. The TV series came off of the movie, same actors and actresses.
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Buck Rodgers was for kids wasn't it?
It looks like so. Sounds like we have the first case of the infamous "franchise reimagining for broader audience".
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Buck Rodgers was for kids wasn't it?

This should help explain it...



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Flash Gordon (the comic strip) is more coherent as Flash started out as a heroic character that beats enemies up and wrestles wild animals. Such a character is much better for an idealistic comic strip. Buck Rogers just took a good story and made it stupid.

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I enjoyed the original novel.
It would be awesome if there would be a movie or a graphic novel based on the original novel.
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Actually, it was a flick. The TV series came off of the movie, same actors and actresses.

Take a closer look at the cover he uploaded for "The Complete Epic Series."
(yes, there was a theatrical movie a year or two prior)
(not to mention the serial 40 years prior).
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Ahhh ok. Gotchya.
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Yes but the movie was released in theatres before the tv series,same actors etc but some dialogue in the theatrical version wasnt in the telivised one.I remember seeing it in the drive in when I was a kid.
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Buck Rodgers was for kids wasn't it?


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Yes but the movie was released in theatres before the tv series,same actors etc but some dialogue in the theatrical version wasnt in the telivised one.I remember seeing it in the drive in when I was a kid.

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This was a good flick
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Yes but the movie was released in theatres before the tv series,same actors etc but some dialogue in the theatrical version wasnt in the telivised one.I remember seeing it in the drive in when I was a kid.

I didn't know drive-ins were for watching movies....wow..you learn something new everyday.....[:D]


I cannot remember ever watching a movie at a drive in.........
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I miss a good 'ole drive-in.......too bad that at our age me and the missus would probably fall asleep....
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AhYea! 11Cent movies with 2 Westerns, Buck Rogers Serial, Cartioon, Previews, Nickel popcorn, those were the days.

Of course there was a little problem, it was WW2., ok it may have been a Zorro Serial, Hmmm ! ?
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Yes but the movie was released in theatres before the tv series,same actors etc but some dialogue in the theatrical version wasnt in the telivised one.I remember seeing it in the drive in when I was a kid.

And yet you posted a picture for the TV series (the picture you posted was the issue, not the pre-existence of the movie)
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I didn't know drive-ins were for watching movies....wow..you learn something new everyday.....[:D]

You are kidding, right? (or are you just "kid?" *grin*)
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I cannot remember ever watching a movie at a drive in.

I can... it was a couple of weeks ago (but the bulbs are getting real bad at our (last!) local drive-in's projectors, all the movies are almost too dark to see anymore!).
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"Despite the show’s many faults Buck Rogers is however recalled with fondness by ageing Generation X’ers who watched the show as kids and whose first nocturnal emissions no doubt involved Erin Gray"[:D]

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You can include me in that bunch Baird! [:D]
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