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Watching Buck Rogers In The 25th Century

To 12/13 year old me Ham Tyler was just an amazing character (actually still is to 51 year old me) and is exactly who I'd want on my side in a guerrilla war! (I always forget that he doesn't show up until V:The Final Battle!)

I remember watching the series and while I'm sure it wasn't quite as I recall, it felt like a main cast member left every week!



I bought the DVD boxset of the first series 15+ years ago, watched it through once and have barely looked at it since. Some of the episodes are fun, especially if you're inebriated while watching them, but it didn't remotely hold up to my childhood memories unfortunately. Original BSG on the other hand did I thought.
The book back-plots him, he's in the helicopter Donovan is facing down in the first scene.
 
Ham Tyler later shows up in Andromeda as General constanza or whatever the name is.... I'd like to think he got somehow frozen and a new identity forced on him in the future
 
I had very mixed feelings about the show. I thought it was all over the map. They were so trying to make Buck a 25th Century Burt Reynolds at times. Wilma was great when they weren't undermining her. Good characters in the 1st season if underused. The 2nd season was a freaking disaster, trying to turn the show into the bastard child of Star Trek and Galactica. Hawk was the only redeeming thing about that season and they never quite knew what to do with him.
Gil Gerald was fairly vocal about your first point, complaining in interviews at the time that "all the producers seem to want to do is show Buck raising hell with some pretty girl."
 
You haven’t fully experienced Buck Rogers in the 25th Century until you’ve seen the trippy, slinky, groovy opening from the 1979 theatrical release of the pilot.

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Is it weird that I kinda like the song and lyrics??
Not at all. I liked the song well enough to buy the soundtrack album.
 
Imagine the Draconian Empire did span 3/4's of the Universe?

If the Founders were mammals that bred at a comparable rate as a human, and the Draconian Empire was founded Millions if not 100s of millions of years ago, then I doubt that the Founders would still be around because of palace coups and interbreeding.

So Ardala and her father could be Earthlings, if their family joined the Imperial Lineage only a few hundred years ago. So their identity is not predicated by their colony world, or their long forgotten homeworld, but in stead by the empire their family joined 6 generations ago.
 
I'm watching season one of South Park.

Cartman's "original" voice is like nails on a chalkboard.

A super attractive substitute teacher played by Natasha Henstridge shows up and Chef, who has not met her yet, asks the children, if she is "Pam Anderson hot or Erin Gray on Season two of Buck Rogers hot".
 
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