More classic SF on DVD

[bunsen_h]

Well, for some value of "classic".  The Starlost, coming soon.

But not for me, not at that price, I think.  The show's concept was strong but the execution was terrible.  I'd like to see an episode or two again for the sake of nostalgia, but I'm not willing to fork out that kind of money for it.

Only last week, while we were discussing the DVD release of Quark, one of my colleagues at work described the hypothetical DVD distribution of The Starlost as a sign of the Apocalypse.  Time to put things in order, I guess.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

All of fandom? Or specific, toxic subsets of it? I'd think probably the latter, myself, based on "Xenogenesis" alone.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Ellison has a generally poor attitude about fans in general, at least a lot of the time. Many people have encountered him, made some polite comment, and been nastily snubbed. "Xenogenesis" was highly biased -- talk with Donald Kingsbury about his interaction with Ellison on that project, for example. I don't mean to suggest that there aren't some thoroughly noxious people in fandom, but I think that a lot of the unpleasantness that Ellison draws is a result of people echoing back his own behaviour.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Granted, I've only had the one or two direct "in the same room/hallway with" chance meetings, so my first-hand impressions may well not be the best guide for anyone to go by. But that first-hand impression of mine is not quite so harsh.