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May as well add one more to the pile (speaking of shitty acting). The Starlost was another single season flop which may appeal to fans of old school colour SF TV in the same general ballpark of Star Trek, Blake's 7, Pertwee/Tom Baker era Doctor Who and so on but which is notably shittier than any of these.
It takes place on a massive interstellar ark upon which some disaster centuries ago has utterly fucked the entire mission to the point that the survivors no longer even remember that they are living on a spaceship. Each group lives in an isolated part of the ship and have no power of mobility for the most part so over the generations most of them seem to have forgotten that there is a universe beyond the walls that hold them in, or that the Earth ever existed. After the episodes I've seen so far it's been a "weird space community of the week" format with three explorers getting into one scrape or another. First they escape from their own reactionary religious community, living in a biodome with a society much like the more isolated religious settlements we saw on Firefly who live and dress like it's the 19th century besides a handful of more advanced technological artifacts and their elders are using superstition to control them. Then there was a tribe of people descended from a security platoon and their families, who were in charge of guarding a medical bay when the whatever happened and have regressed to living like cave people in the corridors, also a reverse Amazon society which has weeded out women and intellectuals and reproduces male offspring in a lab (based on one of Ursula's books apparently). You get the idea.
Its a pretty cool classic SF era concept, pretty flawed in it's execution though. Harlan Ellison was the original creator but disowned it before it even aired. Ben Bova was hired as the science adviser and he quit too. Also an experimental camera that got around some of the limitations of bluescreening was scrapped because it didn't work as well as it was supposed to so the intended FX hit a major setback and things had to be scaled back considerably. Makes you wonder how great it COULD have been if it were done right. Re
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