cowboys and aliens and ghosts, oh my!
Jun. 14th, 2012 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomI'd decided that what I needed tonight wasn't a Hugo nominee, but something a bit more low-brow so I popped in my "Time Tunnel" DVD set and watched two episodes.
One was titled "The Ghost of Nero" and reminds us that Irwin Allen was an unsung pioneer of combining genres in... ah... 'unique' ways. Set in the Italian Alps during the Great War, this story featured guess-who possessing anybody who came too close. Bonus points if you can figure out which very young Italian soldier is taken over at the very end.
The other episode was "Visitors from beyond the Stars", which could best be described as a precursor of Jon Favreau's "Cowboys and Aliens". Here though, the aliens don't want our gold, but our beef, beans and flour.
I guess I'll now go eat a few popsicles while reading a Hugo nominee that features zombies.
One was titled "The Ghost of Nero" and reminds us that Irwin Allen was an unsung pioneer of combining genres in... ah... 'unique' ways. Set in the Italian Alps during the Great War, this story featured guess-who possessing anybody who came too close. Bonus points if you can figure out which very young Italian soldier is taken over at the very end.
The other episode was "Visitors from beyond the Stars", which could best be described as a precursor of Jon Favreau's "Cowboys and Aliens". Here though, the aliens don't want our gold, but our beef, beans and flour.
I guess I'll now go eat a few popsicles while reading a Hugo nominee that features zombies.
