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Post by Frederick Thompson on Mar 17, 2006 13:50:10 GMT
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Post by LanceM on Mar 18, 2006 5:24:20 GMT
Hello Again,
Thanks Frederick, that was a very interresting and insightfull article. I wish I could get to see it, probably will not happen in the US. But, thanks again for the great article.
Lance.
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Post by Greg H on Mar 18, 2006 12:38:02 GMT
It will be on bittorrent a few hours after transmission. If you dont manage to get it give me a shout
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Post by Ian Levine on Mar 22, 2006 16:15:14 GMT
VERY EXCITING NEWS
THIS IS A STATEMENT OF FACT.
If A For Andromeda gets enough viewers next Monday, then BBC 4 are looking at doing an "Out Of The Unknown", complete with original titles and music.
This is something I've personally longed for throughout the last thirty years.
Please help by spreading the word and getting everyone you know to watch the new A For Andromeda this coming Monday on BBC4.
The chance of an Out Of The Unknown depends solely on viewing figures, this is straight from the horse's mouth, and I was given permission to let this scintillating titbit of information be known.
PLEASE help.
And there is also a very high chance of the A For Andromeda episode that I recovered being shown on BBC4 along with a repeat of the new version in the very near future.
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Post by Frederick Thompson on Mar 23, 2006 13:55:19 GMT
Very good news, Mr Levene. I will be contacting BBC4 to encourage them. I think the trailers on other BBC channels may well get people watching but contacting BBC4's "Have Your say" on their website cannot do any harm. I had an assurance from BBC4 some time ago that they paid attention to all the e-mails received. Judging by the fact that I got a personal letter from Richard Fell, who is responsible for the remake of A for Andromeda, nearly a year ago to say that he was going to do it, it does seem that they listen and appreciate viewer input more than any other UK channel.
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Post by Peter Chadwick on Mar 25, 2006 8:20:13 GMT
The bad news about 'A For Andromeda' is that the plot has been fiddled with, presumably to add some 'love interest'. Don't think I'll bother now.
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Post by Greg H on Mar 25, 2006 10:21:44 GMT
yeah, I have few concerns about that and that its been cut from 5 hours to 90 minutes. Im still going to keep an open mind though, they might do a really good job yet and id probably rather have some new british sci fi than not!
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Post by Greg H on Mar 27, 2006 16:48:10 GMT
I was wondering, I have been sniffing about for a while to see what stills etc remain from A for andromeda and I havent really turned up very much to be honest. Does anyone know if theres any decent printed or online documentation of extant visuals from the series? I have particularly wondered what 'the monster' the cyclops thing that the super computer makes looks like. Also can anyone conclusively comment as to wether there is an existing audio recording of this series? I have always thought that there was not. Can anyone have a go at settling this for me please?
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Post by David Robinson on Mar 27, 2006 22:24:11 GMT
Watched the programme tonight & it was good, although quite why they had to add the love bit in seemed totally unnecessary. Plus the "computer" looked like something Joe90 would find useful! Worth putting on mainstream TV though when you compare it to some of the rubbish that gets broadcast these days.
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Post by LanceM on Mar 28, 2006 5:26:09 GMT
Wish I could of seen it. I probably will not get a chance to see the recovered e[pisode, even if it is aired.
Lance.
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Post by LanceM on Mar 28, 2006 5:41:02 GMT
Is it available GH ? Also, how much material all together exists for A for Andromeda ? Minutes worth, including Face of The Tiger ? If there is a lot of material then the BBC might want to think of releasing the existing material from A for Andromeda and the episodes of Andromeda Breakthrough on a compiled DVD Set ! Especially if the ratings for the new remake are good. That would prove or disprove that there is a viable audience for such archive material. What do you guys think?
Lance.
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Post by Greg H on Mar 28, 2006 8:19:19 GMT
I have a few people on the case trawling for torrents of it as we speak, part of an underground bt community, I will post as soon as I have a source as im pretty anxious to see this. As an aside I just read the metro ( a free british newspaper ) on the train this morning and the review for it was terrible. The reviewer even went so far as to claim that it was just as slow and boring as the original.......... erm hang on a minute, so theyre claiming to have seen it then?? PRAT!!!! A very sarcastic email has already been sent to the metro's letters page, stupid tossers!! Hopefully they will expose the bluffing buffoon!!
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Post by Frederick Thompson on Mar 28, 2006 8:57:21 GMT
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Post by Dave Andrews on Mar 28, 2006 10:12:51 GMT
TheWell, a bit of a mad dash, and occasionally a tad too much 'star-trek techno-babble’ ? I think it merited a bit longer say 3x1hr, which would have given pause (well, two) for thought; that was probably what made the original so good, the weekly gap to mull over the ideas.
The worst thing was the change of the ending into a 'wipe-by-suicide' (‘Terminator-2’ ?); it was the tragic ordinariness of Andromeda's death that made the original's ending so powerful. Odd that they decided to use the name Vandenburg, (the resented American military ‘presence’ in the original) rather than Geers for this, clearly British, project director; the original Geers was the Thorness site director and fitted that role quite well.
On the positive side, changing the project from radio astronomy to super-sensitive eavesdropping was clearly in keeping with the times; and envisioning quantum computing preserved the near-future aspect.
But the best touch was changing Kaufman (the 'agent' on the moor) into an American agent; very nicely preserving the original's slight air of resentment of British deference to the American influence, and possibly a pun on the name that wasn’t even mentioned - Intel !
Hope the search for the original continues 'though.
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Post by Greg H on Apr 1, 2006 4:25:00 GMT
Ok, I managed to dl the remake!! This was really good television!!!! I was really impressed! The soundtrack was so tight, the acting was really good, it didnt even miss the 3 hours that was chopped out too badly. In short this was an excellently modernisation of an old classic!!! Congratulations BBC on a really good job! Does anyone have a link or telephone number that I can contact the BBC on to share my views? That would be really constructive and that way we might get more goodies
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