FROM HELLO DOLLY:

Which I saw onstage in NYC years ago with Carol Channing (the one, the only Dolly Gallagher Levi)

Dolly sings:

Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye.

Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye.

Don't try to stop me Horace, please...

Wave your little hand and whisper

So long dearie

You ain't gonna see me anymore

And when you discover that your life is dreary

Don't you come a knockin' at my door

'Cause I'll be all dolled up

And singin' that song

That says you dog, I told you so

So wave your little hand and whisper

So long dearie

Dearie, should have said so long

So long ago

Because you've treated me so rotten and rough

I've had enough of feelin' low

So wave your little hand and whisper

So long dearie

Dearie would have said so long

So long ago

For I can hear that choo choo callin' me on

To a fancy new address

Yes, I can hear that choo choo callin' me on

On board that happiness express

I'm gonna learn to dance and drink and smoke a cigarette

I'm go'n as far away from Yonkers as a girl can get

So...on those cold winter nights, Horace...

You can snuggle up to your cash register.

It's a bit lumpy but it rings!

Don't come a knockin'

I'll be all dolled up

And singin' that song

That says you dog, I told you so

So Horace, you will find your life a sad old story

You'll be livin' in that lonesome territory

When you see your Dolly shuffle off to glory

Oh I should have said so long...

How could I have been wrong?

Oh, I should have said so long...

So Long ago!

I just watched a terrific Star Trek movie.

In it, we see a villain driven by revenge, travelling back in time, and re-writing history, and by extension, the whole of Star Trek lore. Even the beloved planet Vulcan is destroyed.

Familiar characters are revisited, and reinvented. Of course there remains a single member of the classic crew, who witnesses it all, and sets the path to place the future back on track.

Nope. I'm not talking about the 2009 movie directed by J.J. Abrams. I'm talking about the one directed by Tim Russ with the help of a legion of dedicated Star Trek fans in 2007.

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men reunites a long list of Star Trek alumni.

Walter Koeing

Nichelle Nichols

Garrett Wang

Ethan Phillips

Cirroc Lofton

and a host of others.

Star Trek was a show that was kept alive by the fans. Of Gods and Men was a movie created by the fans. You can download it and watch it for free online. There is a kind of passion a show like Star Trek instills in its audience.

I got none of that from Terra Nova. It just doesn't have the kind of legs that Star Trek did, and still does. I very much doubt that in forty years we will see people spending their own time and resources to make a Terra Nova fan film like Of Gods and Men.

Nor will we see the fans create their own episodes like we see with Star Trek: New Voyages (aka Phase II), where fans continue the series where the original TV episodes left off. They've even attracted Star Trek alumni to participate like George Takei, Majel Barrett, and Walter Koenig. Upcoming episodes promise to involve William Shatner himself.

Can you see Terra Nova commanding that kind of love and passion? I can't.

For anyone who is interested in those Star Trek sites, where you can watch full episodes and movies, here they are;

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/

http://startrekofgodsandmen.com/main/

You'll be impressed by the quality, and the stars that want to be a part of them.

Maybe I'm wrong about Terra Nova.

There was this article:

http://ca.eonline.com/news/watch_with_k ... lix/299654

Could be we'll get new episodes anyhow. Maybe one day it really will rival Star Trek... but I doubt it.

I watched about 15 minutes (not metric) of Tera Nova, I felt myself loosing brain cells in that short time span, this was a show I wonder how if even finished its first season, no surprise that it was canceled, it was not that good.

River

DonnyMac (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:48 pm River, funny you mentioned this. I watched the show from the beginning. But last month stopped recording it. Way too predictable and simplistic. Just a mild soap-opera set in the past. Sad.

Don

BOOKS - Hope that they don't become dinosaurs. All that electronic s*it sucks.