It’s a copout used by people who don’t like something and don’t know why. “Wooden acting?” I disallow this argument. But detractors cite 1999’s “wooden acting” and “scientific implausibility.” Most of the same people who revile 1999 love Star Wars, not realizing that the maligned TV show set the standard of special effects that George Lucas wanted to equal or surpass when he made a space movie. Everyone old enough to have watched TV in the 1970s remembers the Eagle spaceships and thinks they were cool. Everyone looked down on us, including all other fans! To this day, I’m careful at cons and on panel discussions about mentioning my love of this series, because people actually groan in revulsion. Everyone looked down on you, to include your peers, siblings, teachers, sometimes even your parents! Well, as bad as that felt for, say a Star Trek fan, it was worse for a Space: 1999 fan.
Yeah, it was a bad feeling to be a fan in those days. Punctuation is key.) Before geek was chic? If you’re a fan over the age of about 35, you remember how it felt to like Star Trek or comic books, back before Fandom became just another cash cow for Hollywood? Before the Marvel Movies conquered the box office? Before The Big Bang Theory? (The show, not the actual theory. I’ve got a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it, in fact, because the show seems to provoke resentment from most corners of Fandom. I’ve always been a huge fan of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s 1975 – 1977 science fiction series, Space: 1999. I happened upon this volume almost by accident.
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