tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post2179071660324941504..comments2024-03-17T07:11:44.454-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Saturday Morning Cult TV Blogging: "The Drought" (November 13, 1976)John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-72569297323393562372012-07-01T13:56:13.387-04:002012-07-01T13:56:13.387-04:00Hi SGB:
I agree with you about Jonathan Harris pl...Hi SGB:<br /><br />I agree with you about Jonathan Harris playing Fagon. It's a nice literary touch, to be certain, even if I have quibbles about the fact that the Ark II crew didn't keep a closer eye on him.<br /><br />I love your idea for a continuing mission: setting up a communications network. That would have given the team a specific and worthwhile purpose, rather than these kind of hazy, nebulous assignments they go on, and which seem to have little lasting impact. That would have been a GREAT idea.<br /><br />I also share your disappointment that no model Seekers, Star Fires or Ark IIs were ever to be found on toy store shelves. What a missed opportunity for Filmation! And like you, I would have loved a Space Academy/Star Command or Ark II Technical Manual.<br /><br />We can always dream, right?<br /><br />Thank you for commenting on my review, my friend.<br /><br />best,<br />JohnJohn Kenneth Muirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-92014582107029661482012-06-30T13:04:16.678-04:002012-06-30T13:04:16.678-04:00John good review. Even with all the missteps of th...John good review. Even with all the missteps of this episode[voice command ArkII] I still like the Oliver Twist nod of Jonathan Harris playing Fagan. Based on the actions of the Ark II crew I think they put too much faith in people changing their ways, but the unfortunate reality is that once the Ark II departs the area, as you stated, Fagan will go back to his old ways. I always thought that the Ark II primary mission should have been to reestablish civilization by setting up a planetary communications network basically to leave a ‘communications device’ with each and every village they encounter so they can keep track of everyone. As for the ARK II TECHNICAL MANUAL that Fagan was reading[what a brilliant product placement for it being sold in book stores], as a boy in ‘76 I would have loved to have purchased a copy of this to go with my Star Trek Technical Manual by Franz Joseph Schnaubelt and my Starlog published Alpha Moonbase Technical Notebook. I have always been obsessed with science-fiction production design because it is what first attracts me to a series or film. Filmation never established good merchandising for their ARKII/SPACE ACADEMY/JASON OF STAR COMMAND trilogy, just some oversized SA dolls and minor things. I endlessly searched and I was constantly disappointed as a boy in the ‘70s that these three series never had model kits based on the Ark II/SA/Seeker/Starfire , playsets with action figures based on the Ark II/SA/Seeker/Starfire [like Mego Buck Rogers with action figures or Kenner Star Wars with action figures sizes]. So desperate in the ‘70s that I scratch built an ArkII , Seekers and Starfires. I know that this ARK II Technical Manual and a Space Academy/Star Command Technical Manual [I never saw on either series, you think the SA Cadets would have had them as a text book for a product available in book stores.] would have been on my must have list.<br /><br />SGBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com