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Thursday, September 28, 2017

THE ORVILLE Just Provided the Final Episode for An EARLIER TV Series!

Tonight's The Orville "If the Stars Should Appear"...

...provided a series finale for the 1973 show The Starlost!

Let's look at the similarities...

A domed generation ship!

People in the dome don't realize they're on a ship since they've been isolated and sealed in the dome for generations!

They use comparatively-primitive tech, compared to the vessel's tech.

Rulers use religion to control the populace.

Ship had an accident about a hundred years after leaving home.

Ship on collision course with a star.

Sound's like Harlan Ellison's disowned tv series (described in detail by Ellison himself in "Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore, Toto!", available in the book listed below!).

Now some of you might claim the ep is actually based on Star Trek's "The World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" or Space:1999's "Mission of the Darians", and there are elements of both, but most of the "appropriating" is clearly from The Starlost, down to the dome itself!

Agree?

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The Starlost #1

Phoenix Without Ashes

by Harlan Ellison and Edward Bryant

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Monday, May 24, 2010

LOST: the Series Finale...

Well, I was fine with it for the first 2 1/4 hours...
Didn't they say it wasn't Purgatory?
Apparently, they're saying the Island itself (and it's timeline including flashbacks and flashforwards) wasn't Purgatory, just the "flash-sideways" alternate universe!

But that, in and of itself, opens up a number of questions...
The only "real" people in the flash-sideways universe were the ones assembled in the church?
Why was Claire's child, Aaron, still a baby? He was shown as 3-4 before Kate turned him over to his maternal grandmother in the "real world". Did the grandmother kill him? (We didn't see Sun & Jin's child, Ji Yeon, indicating she was still alive.)
Where was the now-mortal Richard Alpert?
Who replaced Hurley as the Protector of the Island? (Ben Linus would've been the obvious choice)
Why did everyone look the same age as their last appearences together on the Island in the main timeline? Since some died after (perhaps long after) Jack died, wouldn't they look like they would at the time of their passing?

The upcoming 6th Season DVD set will have an additional 20 minutes cut from the series finale that'll, hopefully, explain more...

Not since the end of the "reimagined" BattleStar Galactica have I been so disappointed...came to love the series (big fan of the original), hated the ending!

My head hurts...