tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post721053120815049843..comments2024-03-27T10:27:59.266-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Cult-TV Blogging: The Starlost: "Astro-Medics" (December 1, 1973)John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-44380248155946249092013-01-20T14:58:09.764-05:002013-01-20T14:58:09.764-05:00John, thoughful review, Starlost had so much poten...John, thoughful review, Starlost had so much potential that got lost due to the lack of good scripts.<br /><br />SGBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-48952755918913538272013-01-20T13:37:49.127-05:002013-01-20T13:37:49.127-05:00This ep was disappointing in a number of other way...This ep was disappointing in a number of other ways. Why was Devon so critically injured by the sonic chamber, while Garth who spent even more time in the chamber wasn't? Devon's injury setup a contrived moral dilema for the Astromedics of the type so endlessly done on "Star Trek: The Next Generation". The doctor's father was neither feeble or suffering from poor vision as the other doctors 'observed'. Even frail Dr. Goodfellow on "Buck Rogers" was deemed fit enough to perform surgery. A note on the acting: none of the actors were very convincing as doctors. The actual operation was incredibly lame. Keeping the 'alien' in a video blur (reminiscent of the alien's image in Star Trek's "Corbonite Manuever" for most of the ep was understandable. The make-up for the reptilian alien was awful. The Astromedics provide brilliant advice for the aliens -Turn down your heat! How such dim-witted aliens were capable of spaceflight is a mystery!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com