On 22/01/2011 15:19, Alan Dicey wrote:   
   > On 22/01/2011 03:53, John W. Kennedy wrote:   
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   >> It's not a question of artistic value, but one of historic importance.   
   >> There are plenty of parallels. The American musical, for example, was   
   >> strongly influenced by "The Black Crook" (1866, I think) and the 1902   
   >> "Wizard of Oz", but neither one is tolerable today. No one ever does   
   >> "The Black Crook", and the single amateur performance of "Wizard of   
   >> Oz" last summer was the first full-dress production since the 1920s.   
   >> Similarly, "Lost in Space" is a landmark, even though most of it is   
   >> bloody awful. "Fireball XL-5" was a kiddy show, "The Starlost" was   
   >> repudiated by its creator even before it went on the air, and "UFO"   
   >> was an adult production of a kiddy-show concept. (And "Fireball XL-5"   
   >> and "UFO" were British, anyway, which puts them out of "Pioneers"'   
   >> purview.)   
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   > What, British SF is somehow derivative? Or is it just British TV?   
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   Hollywood is praising itself, not its British rival.   
      
   Andrew Swallow   
   --- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32   
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