From: pjm6z@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Dave Lister)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Re: Space Rangers !!Spoilers (I guess)!!
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:53:35 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

Plot points of the pilot of Space Rangers discussed below:









In article <yTiZwB3w166w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us> crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Travis Prebble) writes:
>Well, I wasn't as disappointed with this show as I was DS9.  As a matter 
>of fact, I rather liked it, perhaps because the characters, while being a 
>bit uncooperative with one another, were BELIEVABLE!  I rather wished 
>they wouldn't have canned the android quite so quickly (of course, if 
>he'd been around much longer, he would have fixed everything in the damn 
>station). =)
>
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I can't believe you like this garbage better than Deep Space Nine.  Although
DS9 had some flaws with the two hour premiere none of them were as bad
as the problems with Space Rangers.  Let's look at some of them.

1) They used computers to draw the ship of the Space Rangers.  Thus 
   we never got to see the kind of shot a model can give (my guess is that
   the ship design isn't quite completely drawn or finished).  They
   did the Hope Fort (or whatever) in computer animation as well making it
   almost too cartoony. 

Let me interject at this point that I don't feel that special effects
is the key to good sci-fi, it isn't but in a show of this type it certainly
helps.

 2) They had to put in a plot point of humans better than machines.  
    However, when the time for the android to fail it was so ridiculous
    that my father and I were left laughing.  Seriously, my 486 could
    analyze all the parts that the bad guy divided into.  This is supposed 
    to be taking place in the 22nd century, we have mutli-process computers
    now.  You mean to tell me the android couldn't process more than one
    input or task at once?  What did they give him for a brain, an old
    Atari computer?

  3) This goes along with the second point.  If this is so many years
     in the future that we have outposts on distant planets and have
     contacted and befriended different aliens, our "police" would
     not have the same semi-automatic or automatic guns we do now.
     Strapping a flashlight onto the gun doesn't make it a futuristic
     weapon.  I was willing to overlook this until the guy was boxing
     up the droid with a hammer and nails.  Don't you think that there
     would be a more efficient method of fastening wood, at least use
     a nail gun.

  4) The acting.  This was absolutely horrible.  Everyone seems to
     comment that the main characters need to have conflict amongst
     themselves to make their situation more exciting.  Maybe, but
     their conflicts and arguements came off as over played whining.

Like another poster stated, I give this show 5 weeks maximum.  I bet
they had a lot of people tuning in tonight.  Next week, there will
be maybe half that audience re-tuning in, with every other sci-fi
show (Quantum Leap, ST:TNG, ST:DS9, and Highlander) around and Babylon
5 (please god let it be good) coming this show doesn't stand a chance.

Dave Lister
lister@virginia.edu

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