the ORIGINAL Gathering - I\'ve Found Her!
The better half (let me rephrase - the MUCH better half) had me cleaning tonight. That normally doesn't make me resort to caps instead of well spoken English, even if I am on the wrong side of the pond... color? colour?
Either way, in doing my bit tonight, I uncovered a true gem... get this... I'm still shaking... my ORIGINAL TAPE, of Bab 5: The Gathering, THE FIRST TIME IT EVEN AIRED! With commercials!
The quality on the tape is pretty hideous. However, I bet its as good as is out there. Commercials are on it - and I thought I'd exclude them, however, it hit me upon viewing... none of the commercials have CGI in them! Amazing!
We're only up to "we will have representatives of all four major alien races on board, let's not mess it up now", but this is a true fossil. Granted, the remake is much better... but this is history.
I'm dropping it to the TiVo so I have it forever in DVD quality MPEG format, although, you'd never know it. The quality is THAT BAD.
However, the commercials and all remind me of the first time I was magically immersed into this universe... as bad as the music was, as bad as the pacing was... there was just *something*. I like to call it a vision, a writer, a last, best hope that there might be something even better than Star Trek: TNG.
Just my thoughts. And again, I reiterate... I FOUND THE TAPE!
I will never, by the way, subject you good folks to me singing Barbara Streisand's "Memories".
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah... whatever.
-Tim
The better half (let me rephrase - the MUCH better half) had me cleaning tonight. That normally doesn't make me resort to caps instead of well spoken English, even if I am on the wrong side of the pond... color? colour?
Either way, in doing my bit tonight, I uncovered a true gem... get this... I'm still shaking... my ORIGINAL TAPE, of Bab 5: The Gathering, THE FIRST TIME IT EVEN AIRED! With commercials!
The quality on the tape is pretty hideous. However, I bet its as good as is out there. Commercials are on it - and I thought I'd exclude them, however, it hit me upon viewing... none of the commercials have CGI in them! Amazing!
We're only up to "we will have representatives of all four major alien races on board, let's not mess it up now", but this is a true fossil. Granted, the remake is much better... but this is history.
I'm dropping it to the TiVo so I have it forever in DVD quality MPEG format, although, you'd never know it. The quality is THAT BAD.
However, the commercials and all remind me of the first time I was magically immersed into this universe... as bad as the music was, as bad as the pacing was... there was just *something*. I like to call it a vision, a writer, a last, best hope that there might be something even better than Star Trek: TNG.
Just my thoughts. And again, I reiterate... I FOUND THE TAPE!
I will never, by the way, subject you good folks to me singing Barbara Streisand's "Memories".
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah... whatever.
-Tim
