Comments on: Buck Rogers: Planet of the Slave Girls (Part 1)

By: Singapore airlines.

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By: Alpha-Girl

Alpha-Girl — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:23:27 +0000

I’ve actually seen all of these before when I was a kid (explains a lot about me, I know). I just got all caught up in moving and starting my new job that Buck and the gang fell by the wayside. I’ll get back to it. No one can resist Buck.

By: Hoobajoobah

Hoobajoobah — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:14:47 +0000

So, just out of curiosity, will we be getting more Gil Gerard BR25C reviews someday, or did Twiki and Dr. Theophilos put you off permanently?

By: Hoobajoobah

Hoobajoobah — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:08:41 +0000

Oh, don’t get me wrong, a fistula is *DAMN* gross, it’s just not automatically Vagina-and-Blatter-Without-A-Factory-Warantee gross.

Oddly, I like the Glen Larson “Buck” more now than I did as a kid. I like playing “Spot the Galactica Castoffs” and stuff, and of course I like Wilma plenty super-much big. And I’ve always liked Tim O’Connor. And any show that has Buster Crabbe show up as stunt-casting has my respet. (BTW, remember the scene in Planet of the Slave Girls, Pt. 2, where they have Gil and Buster standing side-by-side in those embarasing spandex uniforms? And remember how Gil looks all middle-aged and doughy, and Buster looks oddly cool and extremely fit, and like he could easily rip Gil’s head off with his bare hands if he wanted to? I just looked it up on Wiki: When that scene was shot, Gil was 36, and Buster was – I am not freakin’ makin’ this up – Buster Crabbe was SEVENTY ONE YEARS OLD at the time! Good God!)

By: Alpha-Girl

Alpha-Girl — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:32:33 +0000

I know BR isn’t exactly top notch TV, even for 1980, but I love it the way I love Flash Gordon, which I love the way I love elephant ears at the county fair.

And a fistula is still gross.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:35:30 +0000

I figured as much. That was a Looney Tunes cartoon from the 30s, so I imagined Buck Rogers must have been pretty old. It’s funny, though, there’s so much that exists that I wouldn’t know about were it not for Looney Tunes.

By: Hoobajoobah

Hoobajoobah — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:36:18 +0000

I remember being a super-happy 12 or 13 year old when this first aired, and being a super-unhappy 12 or 13 year old when it was over. I loved the Buck Rogers movie, and saw it 4x in the theaters, partially because I was kind of stupid, and partially because my wild-eyed missionary zeal made it particularly easy for me to talk others into seeing the movie and taking me with them (And paying.) When the show came to NBC, I was super-excited, though I was a bit confused by how different the ‘new footage’ (Buck in his Apartment, the whole “Be a spy for us” coda in the 1st ep) looked from the existing movie footage. I still think the movie looks, y’know, nice. The badly-inserted TV footage looked cheezy, even to a Jr. High Schooler. When this ep aired, I watched it w/ my family, most of whom grumbled and walked away while it was on, leaving me rather embarassed, and despondent, so this episode marks the point where my great big dreamy dreams fell apart into yet another example of Glenn Larsony Badness. (And being 12 or so, I couldn’t even admit I thought the slave girls were kinda’ cute, or else it would have been an endless barrage of “Fag! You like girls! That’s so gay!” because that’s how oddly off-base Jr. High was in those days.) Of course I still watched every episode of the show because that’s the kind of big dope I am.

FWIW: @ Teresa: This isn’t the original Buck Rogers by a long shot, the original was a movie serial back in the 30s, and there were one or two tv shows prior to this one. @ Alphagirl: A fistula is strictly speaking any accidental plumbing connection between two organs. F’rinstance, they make use of an “Intravenus Fistula” to move the sub from one set of veins to another in “Fantastic Voyage.” Wait, is “Fantastic Voyage” the one w/ the tiny submarine, or is that the one w/ the dog and the cat and the giant squid try to find their way from indiana to california…?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:32:59 +0000

And yes. I know the word is “embed.” Shut up.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:31:59 +0000

Dang it! Can I not imbed???

Oh well – here’s the link for what I was TRYING to share:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HmBUYkE48

By: Teresa

Teresa — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:30:53 +0000

This is hilarious! You know, I’ve never seen the original Buck Rogers. But you know what I have seen?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:46:51 +0000

Part 2 of this story is as far as I’ve gotten in my Buck Rogers set. I’m still decompressing a bit from that mountain!