NationStates Jolt Archive

So on Friday night the SciFi channel unveiled their newest original series, Flash Gordon.

When I heard about this I was hopful. Knowing that Battlestar Galactica will do only one more season I've been looking for a new TV show to fall in love with. Having watched various incarnations of Flash Gordon in my childhood, I hoped that SciFi could do for the franchise what it had done for BSG.

I couldn't make it past the second commercial break. The writing sucked. The acting was marginal. Whoever wrote the lines for the hispanic guy who drove the truck obviously has never had any formal training in Spanish, and the logical errors were mounting.

Did anyone see this through to the end and found that it got better?

I'll take that to mean nobody else bothered with it. Ok good now I'm more certain that I've missed nothing. :p

You know who they should bring back? Buck Rogers, that's who.

Don't know what you're on about, and in truth the only reply I could think of was along the lines of 'Flash aaahhhaaaaahhh' but I though that somebody would beat me to it!

Don't know what you're on about, and in truth the only reply I could think of was along the lines of 'Flash aaahhhaaaaahhh' but I though that somebody would beat me to it!

The first clue to me shoul dhave been that they used that very clip of music in the promo ads for the show...

I didn't watch it. I figure a sci-fi original series has about a 80% chance of being an absolute train-wreck.