ATTN: JMS: Captain Power Reprisal?
gaidheil
series. True? False? What are the particulars?
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>series. True? False? What are the particulars?
I think it's just rumors.
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Gharlane of Eddore
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> I heard a rumour about a possible reprisal of the Captain Power
> series. True? False? What are the particulars?
>
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jms...@aol.com (Jms at B5) writes:
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> I think it's just rumors.
>
Drat, drat, and double drat.
I know that by now, over a decade after the fact, you most likely
view "CAPTAIN POWER" as a mere proof-of-concept exercise, a way
station less important in your career than the stuff you did on
"MURDER, SHE WROTE" and "THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS," but a lot of
us out here thought it was a hoot, with room for long-term plot
development.
( Aside from a few minor continuity problems, like the kid's dad
having died in several different years in several different
scripts, and the chess move on the screen not matching the
chess move in the dialog.... and a few tech errors, of course...)
I'm convinced that "CAPTAIN POWER AND THE SOLDIERS OF THE FUTURE"
was the direct antecedent of the Japanese Power Rangers Industry.
Heck, someone told me they even have a computer system with a
display like "Mentor"'s....
I firmly believe that a number of Japanese toy companies owe
massive royalties to JMS & Co. for showing how to do it....
*snicker*
I figure with the loss of Power Base, and Soaron developing
something akin to an ethical awareness, by the end of season
two you could have been doing occasional "Dragonriders" type
episodes...
And I refuse to believe that an Iago-esque conniver like Lackey
could actually have gone back to the melting vat; he would have
had control cut-outs in place to over-ride instructions and
let him escape. Lackey should have ended up the REAL villain,
after they cured Lord Dread of his trauma and got his computer
adjusted to working in concert with other life forms.
Room for *all* kinds of fun stuff there, with Lackey pulling a
"Mordred."
Now that "Foundation" has proven its ability to do entire half-
hour shows in CGI ( with the "ROUGHNECKS CHRONICLES" ) it seems
to me that you and Larry DiTillio should put together a proposal
and perhaps get the thing back into production as a CGI series...
during your "copious free time." ( I'm writing in the Lehrian
sense, of course. ) It was, after all, one of the best pieces
of kids' TV ever seen on the tube.
All right, all right, I know your attitude at this point is
"Been there, done that, got shafted, went and did something
better..." But maybe you could free up some rights, and at
least do it as a "graphic novel" through your comics publisher?
Pål Are Nordal
[ About resurrecting Captain Power ]
Gharlane of Eddore wrote:
>
> All right, all right, I know your attitude at this point is
> "Been there, done that, got shafted, went and did something
> better..." But maybe you could free up some rights, and at
> least do it as a "graphic novel" through your comics publisher?
Of course, for it to be any good it would have to start with a panel
showing the wounded Pilot being digitized...
Ah, Gharlane... You're so adorable when you're being a fanboy...
[ Did you really think making me agree somewhat
with you gun-nuts would go unpunished? ]
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Pelzo63
>Of course, for it to be any good it would have to >start with a panel
>showing the wounded Pilot being digitized...
and it would need reflective panels so we can use our PowerJets, PowerOn
Converters, and Interlockers to shoot at the comic <g>
Ryan Nock
Thought bubble: "Hm . . . sounds like a neat idea. I could do a Captain
Power comic book and I'd have Lord Dread turn out to be . . . oh, crap, here
goes another year and a half of legal wrangling."
I'd prefer if story idea postings weren't quite so specific. Just my
nitpick though. :P
Pål Are Nordal
>
> And if he was gonna do it, you just spoiled it by proposing a story idea.
Since you didn't leave in any quotes it's unclear who you're referring to.
> Thought bubble: "Hm . . . sounds like a neat idea. I could do a Captain
> Power comic book and I'd have Lord Dread turn out to be . . . oh, crap, here
> goes another year and a half of legal wrangling."
>
> I'd prefer if story idea postings weren't quite so specific. Just my
> nitpick though. :P
IIRC, the ideas Gharlane posted came from what jms and DiTillio (who
wrote almost half of the episodes each) have revealed about what they
had planned for the show (going well into the 4th season).
My comment was made to annoy Gharlane, based on something he posted a
few years ago. Given how much of himself jms has admitted to putting
into Pilot's last few minutes, he won't ever cheapen them by bringing
her back.