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oh, *television*
Jan. 9th, 2011 11:52 pmPoking around on IMDB (like you do), I looked up "Man From Atlantis." (For those of you who have forgotten, it's a late '70s lite-SF show starring Patrick Duffy as, um, a man from Atlantis.) It was only on for 17 episodes, which was somehow enough for me to remember it 33 years later.
This sentence from the description of the show made me laugh out loud -- a) because it's hilarious, and b) because it roughly describes most SF TV shows I can think of, including SGA and every permutation of Star Trek:
"They encounter several bizarre phenomena, including portals leading to other dimensions, a substance capable of altering personalities, an impish creature whose touch causes a mental return to childhood, and the scheme of a portly millionaire, Mr. Schubert, to melt the polar icecaps."
This sentence from the description of the show made me laugh out loud -- a) because it's hilarious, and b) because it roughly describes most SF TV shows I can think of, including SGA and every permutation of Star Trek:
"They encounter several bizarre phenomena, including portals leading to other dimensions, a substance capable of altering personalities, an impish creature whose touch causes a mental return to childhood, and the scheme of a portly millionaire, Mr. Schubert, to melt the polar icecaps."