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Another handy site to look at in preparation for [b]Omega[/b] is Mr Latham’s own website, where (over 3 years ago, it has to be said….) he started a little ‘diary’ while developing the novel:
http://www.williamlatham.net/diaryhome.html
Personally, I found it interesting to see some of the preparation and thought processes!
– Simon
Also received here in England 🙂
I must say I’m rather impressed with lulu.com. The book incidentally looks [i]great[/i] – excellent cover reproduction, solidly bound, etc.
Looking forward to starting reading [b]Shepherd Moon[/b]. And of course, to getting the [i]next[/i] book due off the starting blocks soon…..
– Simon
PS: Pleased though I was to receive the book, I had no desire to kiss the postman
[b]kalthon wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]Lonemagpie wrote:[/b]
[quote]Cool! Any chance you could mail me what she says?[/quote]Surely it would be better to wait for the book and read it then? After all, that’s what she wrote the foreword for…
Simon[/quote]
Ha Ha!
Scratch my last comment above – I just realised who ‘lonemagpie’ is!
If the author can’t have a sneak preview of the foreword, who can?!!!!
😀
– Simon
[b]Lonemagpie wrote:[/b]
[quote]Cool! Any chance you could mail me what she says?[/quote]Surely it would be better to wait for the book and read it then? After all, that’s what she wrote the foreword for…
Simon
Yes, I’d agree in general with Jim’s summary.
Oddly enough though, while I enjoyed New Adam, New Eve (my favourite episode of Year 2), I positively HATED The Dorcons.
Maybe I dislike it because it was the last episode of the series – but I thought it was camp and awfully acted (the late Gerry Sundquist springs to mind) and looked like it was shot of a budget of 500 quid.
Who knows – maybe £500 was all that was left in the budget by then?
Simon
I think Year One was much higher quality – there was less money for Year 2, and it increasingly showed. The ‘double-up’ stories in Y2 (where two episodes were filmed simultaneously splitting the cast up) were a terrible idea, although I’m sure they worked to save ITC money.
Year 2 is still extremely enjoyable for all that. If I had to take one season with me to a desert island, it would be Y2. I liked many of the changes to the sets – although they could have left Main Mission I think – but was less enthusiastic about the cast. I liked Maya, but found Verdeschi irritating, and the way supporting characters just came and went (Sandra, Mathias etc) was really irritating. I loved the Year 2 music scores.
One of the strengths of the Powys novels is that they are trying to build believable reasons for these changes (eg the move to Command Centre) into the novels. The purists may not agree with the idea of a Year 3, but there are real attempts in the novels to combine the strengths of both seasons, and I think it may have been the way the actual series might have developed had it been renewed for further seasons.
To be honest though, the “which season is better?” question has been debated to death over the years in various forums and I have yet to hear any new arguments or thoughts on the matter.
Simon
[b]admin wrote:[/b]
[quote]I think you’ll find that the quality of the printed book is an exact match to our prior books — paper stock, binding, you name it — lulu does good work.
[/quote]If you Google ‘lulu.com’, there are a fair number of opinions on the web in various forums and in general they don’t seem to come out too badly at all.
I have one or two books which have been printed on demand and they are excellent quality, although I imagine there are occasionally some variations.
Using print on demand makes the books more ‘do-able’ – and I’m all in favour of that.
Simon
[b]Papillon wrote:[/b]
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Some time past, I discovered on wikipedia that if a third season of Space:1999 had been commissioned, Tony Anholt had stated that he would not have returned as Tony Verdeschi.:side:[/quote]
I wouldn’t believe everything that Wikipedia says. A lot of rumours and half-truths soon get turned into ‘facts’.
Anholt didn’t do that many interviews where he discussed the series. There was one which he did years before his death where he was asked if he would have done a Year 3. He replied that he [i]would[/i] have had some qualms about it – nothing to do with the cast or quality or how he viewed the series (which, I think it’s fair to say, was with at least [i]some[/i] disdain…). He said it was more to do with his aspirations and goals as an actor, and – paraphrasing what he said – he was afraid of getting into a situation where he stayed in a role for the sake of the money and security. He felt that his role in [b]The Protectors[/b] did him quite a lot of harm since casting directors saw him as an ‘international’ sort of face/actor which probably limited his ability to land other roles for quite some time. He did say that all other factors being taken into consideration, he “might well have said yes”.
The beauty of course of novels is that the wishes of Tony Anholt (or indeed any other actor) mean absolutely nothing. The [b]Space:1999[/b] universe and it’s people can be developed in all kinds of directions that the series would never have explored. Of course, some fans aren’t necessarily going to like any sort of departure from what they saw on the screen, while others don’t even acknowledge that Year 2 exists! So, it’s a challenging task, I would think.
Simon
