Darkprincess69
High Priestess of Slaanesh
Yeah Brigadoom as something of a classic (in an odd way), but they did it so well that it actually worked when, in all honesty, it really shouldn'y have
I found series1 a bit long and drawn out, with its four feature-length episodes, all of which would have comfortably fit into a one hour format, but it presented some great concepts and interesting if somewhat ridiculous characters. Best character of all was Kai - he was certainly the coolest. I have to say that I preferred Zev to Xev though, but Lyekka was definitely the sexiest girl in it.
Series 2 was interesting, with its two-pronged storytelling - a more or less unique plotline each week but with the overall Mantrid story arc ever present. Some of the best episodes I think were in series 2 (apart from the glaring blip when you had the same episode two weks in a row, differentiated only by a few minor edits (ie. The Net and The Web)
Series 3 was a neat idea with the twin planets of Fire and Water (though travelling between them by hot air balloon was a bit strange), but I found the character of Prince to be a bit of a pain in the arse (though not as much as he was in Series 4). Some interesting set-pieces and a slightly more serious tone (undermined by silly situations) but good fun all the same.
Then came Series 4. Before it was broadcast, I feared the worst, with it being set on Earth in the present day (well, 2000 anyway - wow, was it really that long ago?) - I still have grim memories of the debacle that was Galactica 1980
- but I think they really played a blinder in making the fourth series pure knockabout comedy that ruthlessly lampooned various other movies as well as having a very thinly disguised dig at America (it was made by a Canadian / German production company - with some funding from the UK's Channel 5) - The bumbling President Priest was a straight spoof of GW Bush, while his ex-pornstar First Lady Bunny had an intellectual capacity that makes Joey Essex look like Professor Brian Cox). Add to that the way they constantly took the piss out of the FBI and ATF, members of the US military volunteering to be anal-probed by alien robot carrots and the wonderfully insane skit on The Seventh Seal, where Kai plays a game of chess on a beach with Prince, and it all adds up to enormous fun.I actually have all four series on DVD (the fourth series wasn't released in the UK but I found a Region 4 copy on ebay quite cheap)
A great fun series - lots of happy memories sitting down to watch it when it was first broadcast
