On 22/01/2011 15:19, Alan Dicey wrote:
> On 22/01/2011 03:53, John W. Kennedy wrote:
>
>> It's not a question of artistic value, but one of historic importance.
>> There are plenty of parallels. The American musical, for example, was
>> strongly influenced by "The Black Crook" (1866, I think)
and the 1902
>> "Wizard of Oz", but neither one is tolerable today. No
one ever does
>> "The Black Crook", and the single amateur performance of
"Wizard of
>> Oz" last summer was the first full-dress production since the 1920s.
>> Similarly, "Lost in Space" is a landmark, even though
most of it is
>> bloody awful. "Fireball XL-5" was a kiddy show,
"The Starlost" was
>> repudiated by its creator even before it went on the air, and
"UFO"
>> was an adult production of a kiddy-show concept. (And
"Fireball XL-5"
>> and "UFO" were British, anyway, which puts them out of
"Pioneers"'
>> purview.)
>>
>
> What, British SF is somehow derivative? Or is it just British TV?
>
>
>
Hollywood is praising itself, not its British rival.

Andrew Swallow
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