Science Fiction Tv Shows And Movies That have Not Aged well

[Kieran Song]

The original star trek. I'm sorry, but pink cotton balls aren't menacing.

 

[BAYLOR]

The original star trek. I'm sorry, but pink cotton balls aren't menacing.

The old special effects don't look so good on high definition.

 

[BAYLOR]

Some early episodes of the X-Files seem a bit dated. Some don't.

Most of them do hold up.

 

[logan_run]

Quantum leap

 

[coffleprong]

Star Trek for me too

 

[BAYLOR]

Star Trek for me too

The old Trek timeline hasn't aged well at all.

 

[Justin Swanton]

Space 1999

 

[Dennis E. Taylor]

TBH, Space 1999 wasn't great when it was first broadcast. I've never figured out why directors think that having people move in slow motion indicates "in vacuum".

 

[Nate Hoffelder]

After a recent revisit, I'm sad to report that Seaquest: DSV also aged very poorly...

It looked dated when it was new.

Seaquest was a Star Trek knockoff from the start, and was created by people who didn't really understand what made Star Trek great. As a result they made a cargo-cult copy - all surface and no substance.

Star Trek The Next Generation, we've pretty surpassed some the things they have, like data pads for example.

We're still working on warp drive though.

Many of the ST:TNG shows are still watchable, though.

Some early episodes of the X-Files seem a bit dated. Some don't.

I find the entire X-Files series to be dated and unwatchable. It did not age well now that we have so many good SF series to watch.

 

[HanaBi]

UFO

Everything about this old 70s TV show looks incredibly dated! And in particular the female Moonbase Alphans and their purple bobs, overdone makeup and semi-revealing "string vest" things. And the blokes in their tight-fitting, loud coloured, no-collar suits and mandatory sideburns.

Moreover, you had the computers with lots & lots of flashing lights and banks of switches that didn't actually do or tell you anything. But looked sufficiently impressive for "1980"

It was a good show for its time: like a live-action Captain Scarlet/Thunderbirds rolled into one. But looks rather hokey now (although the gull-wing car Ed Straker swanned about in, had a very Delorean feel about it)

The opening theme music still gets the pulse going though!

 

[reiver33]

Many years ago the SF Society at uni had as a guest speaker a special effects guy who'd worked on UFO. The gull-wing cars were so unreliable that they were generally given a pushed 'running start' to get them into shot - hence the smooth deceleration.

Oh, and the model of Princess Leia's ship in the original Star Wars was bigger than the Imperial Star Destroyer.

 

[BAYLOR]

Many years ago the SF Society at uni had as a guest speaker a special effects guy who'd worked on UFO. The gull-wing cars were so unreliable that they were generally given a pushed 'running start' to get them into shot - hence the smooth deceleration.

Oh, and the model of Princess Leia's ship in the original Star Wars was bigger than the Imperial Star Destroyer.

Which company built the cars for UFO?

 

[reiver33]

The futuristic, gull-winged cars driven by the Ed Straker and Paul Foster characters were originally built for the Anderson movie Doppelgänger (from Wikipedia)

 

[BAYLOR]

The futuristic, gull-winged cars driven by the Ed Straker and Paul Foster characters were originally built for the Anderson movie Doppelgänger (from Wikipedia)

Ive seen that film and it didn't dawn on me that those same cars were used in UFO.

 

[Vladd67]

Many years ago the SF Society at uni had as a guest speaker a special effects guy who'd worked on UFO. The gull-wing cars were so unreliable that they were generally given a pushed 'running start' to get them into shot - hence the smooth deceleration.

Oh, and the model of Princess Leia's ship in the original Star Wars was bigger than the Imperial Star Destroyer.

Well it was going to be the Millennium Falcon, so it was originally an important model.

 

[Ursa major]

I've never figured out why directors think that having people move in slow motion indicates "in vacuum".

Because it sucks...?

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[Vladd67]

I always thought it was more zero or low g than a vacuum.

 

[Ursa major]

But that's just wrong: things ought to be moving very fast to simulate waitweightlessness....

 

[Lafayette]

Battle Star Galactica and Buck Rogers were not my favorite programs which was rather unfortunate because I like science fiction.

What disturbed me the most about Buck Rogers was that Buck Rogers was only a Captain and here he was bossing around Colonel. Deering. Anyone with any military knowledge knows that a Captain is below a Colonel. If there was a logical reason for this I don't remembered it being explain. On reflection it makes you wonder what else the writers, the directors, and producers were totally ignorant about.

The program I did like was 'The Greatest American Hero'.

 

[Nate Hoffelder]

The program I did like was 'The Greatest American Hero'.

That was a stinker of a show even when it was new.

I'm not saying it was bad - just low budget and campy. It embraced both those qualities.