FYI - Cartoon Network is showing vintage “Astro Boy” cartoons at 2AM Saturdays.
You got that right. A society devoted to the psychological torture of the President of the United States for his actions in office ...... wait isn't that happening now?
I thought that CBS promised to rerun all the episodes...
I missed it this week.
And I thought that Hawkins was going to actually appear as "host" and not merely be a voiceover (which I had trouble with as well).
The story could've been told in 30 minutes. And the ending had been telegraphed from the first time she picked up the gun in the first five minutes. My son was playing on the laptop and not watching, but Waterson screaming "What did you do to me?" got his attention. He asked, "what did they do?" I told him exactly what was going on, "He's lost his memory of everything that's happened for a long time, he's older than he thinks he is, and something horrible happened in the world becuse the psychiatrist was about to commit suicide.
40 minutes later . . .
Any thoughts on the new Flash Gordon? I thought the first episode was okay but it seemed to be lacking the campy fun of the 1980’s movie. It seems a little bland. Zarkoff has been turned into Crazy Eddie from First Wave, and not a very good copy of Crazy Eddie.
I think the show could get better but it needs something surprising. A “wow” factor because I don’t think any of the characters as they are written here are very memorable.
For me the 1980 movie the “Go! Flash! Go!” scene is what Flash Gordon is all about. It is prescient of the dawning of the Reagan era of optimism and success and the return of pride in one’s country. There is nothing so compelling in the pilot episode of the TV show.