Sa-a-ave Flash Gordon!

[DrDeth]

@Evil Captor

The other cheese that the original Flash Gordon delivered was strange adventures in exotic lands. This cheese cannot be served by having Flash spend so much of his time wandering around the outskirts of Vancouver, Canada. He needs to be on Mongo, seeing strange and exotic plants and animals, meeting with strange and exotic peoples, and visiting strange and exotic cities full of weird looking buildings and such.

And there’s an additonal bit of cheese that could help a lot: sexy cheese that plays into the Exotic Lands cheese. Start all the costume design for Mongonian women with string thongs. Add a few wisps of silk, some metallic armbands, headbands and whatnot, and stop right there. Fanservice has always worked for any kind of medium whose audience is primarily male, no reason it wouldn’t work for Flash. Hell, have the guys run abound in jogging shorts and shoulder harnesses and nothing much else if you want to be sexually egalitarian and all. (Though you really need to remember that your core audience is male and straight and put the cameras on the gals most of the time.).

Right. The Movie had fantasic sexy costumes and a couple of great locations. We are seeing far too much of Earth. And, damn it, just buy the fucking song from Queen, whydon’tyou?

But they missed with “Flash”- Flash is supposed to be a moderately famous sports hero. The new Flash is a guy who runs charity Marathons. :rolleyes:

eta: I gave it three epis, and I have given up.

[Voyager]

@Evil Captor

Yeah, it doesn’t bother me quite so much as some of the other stuff, but the guy who plays Zharkov looks and acts too much like “the guy who drinks too much beer and is incoherent a lot” in a teen sex comedy.

Zharkov and the guy in Balls of Fury - separated at birth.

I don’t get this at all. whaddya want, those stubby ships that poot cigarette smoke out their rear ends? Is this a nostalgia thing or what? Because the rifts make a lot more sense scientifically and do just as well, if not better for going from Earth to Mongo and vice versa.

The rifts make no sense. The rifts possibly causing the destruction of the universe makes even less sense. But, more importantly, you don’t have space battles with rifts. I love space battles.

I agree about the peril. There should be a sense of them getting into dangerous situations that are hard to escape from. I mean, Dale was about to be a Ming harem girl but her escape consisted of pretty much just leaving the harem. (Reminded me of the prison break in “Idiocracy.”

Hah. Her harem costume looked a bit like a prom dress. Maybe Ming had a bad high school experience.

Now, as for marrying an Asian, that worked back in the 50s when we’d just fought a war with Japan and there was still a lot of hatred and fear floating around because of all of the terrible things they did. But nowadays when I think of Asians I think of A) smart and B) nice. This is probably as much of a stereotype as the other, but I suspect I’m not alone in this respect, in fact, I think it’s the common stereotype right now. I just don’t think the old yellow peril is gonna work.

You misunderstand me. The first Flash’s, in the '30s, were at the height of American racism. If you recall, Buck Rodgers had to free America from Asian occupiers also. Someone in one of these threads quoted something about Ming being a gentleman, and I was trying to give the context. They had the Hays Office to contend with also back then.

I was not suggesting that they try to play that card today - but a Ming a bit more threatening than an investment banker might be nice, one way or another. The Enron board is far scarier!