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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 13:13:23 -0800
From: Ronald Dudley (dudleyrd@expert.cc.purdue4tag.edu)
Subject: ["Mission of the Darians" Bloopers]
Darians:
Did anybody catch the blooper in the fight scene in Mission of the Darians?
After Paul's gun stuns one of those silver-suited Darians, the big bald and
bearded Darian survivor gets up and kicks Alan in the gut. As Alan is falling
down, the big bald and bearded Darian then walks through a door, out of the
room, and Paul runs after the other silver-suited Darian and Helena. If the
big bald and bearded Darian survivor was trying to subdue these disruptive
alphans, then why does he appear to kick one, and then walk out?
I suspect that this fight scene ends so badly choreographed because the big
bald bearded Darian survivor (actor Bernard Bresslaw ?) injured his foot when
he kicked Nick Tate in the gut with his bare foot. Perhaps Tate was wearing
a steel corset, or something, and the scene was never reshot.
Bresslaw does look like he is stumbling as he goes out that door, possibly
possibly in great pain. Otherwise, its the most corny fight I've seen in 1999.
I think the actor was credited in 1999 as 'Robert Russell' instead of 'Bernard
Bresslaw'. 'Bresslaw' is the credit I found for this big guy in the Internet
Movie Database for "Hawk the Slayer" & "Krull". "Hawk the Slayer" is a great
low budget sword-and-sorcery film, and I reccomend renting it. Bresslaw plays
a giant, and smashes lots of bad guys with a giant sledgehammer. Cool, heh heh.
Back to Darians:
Another awkward scene was where Paul stunned that Darian just before Koenig and
Bergman found him. You never see wheather Paul actually hit the Darian, or
missed. Just a scene of Paul firing, then a scene of the Darian stumbling
backward and then down. Perhaps the Darian fainted from being surprised.
Also: the burning altar is the same prop as the probe from the planet Ariel
that attached itself to Alan's eagle, and then gave the moon an atmosphere
in "Last Sunset". It has the same size and shape, just a different paint job.
Sci-fi channel did their usual chop-chop job. I never saw what happened to
the female mutant captured along with Helena & Lowry by those Neman-worshippers
(Joan Collins had her for lunch). I never saw how Lowery was humming when he
found the third doorway into the ship. Doo dee doo dee doo, Oh look, here's a
secret door! I think I'll open it and see what trouble is waiting for us on the
other side! (Joan Collins had him for dinner).
Also: does anybody have any info on the upcomming "Mission: Impossible"
movie starring Tom Cruise? Specifically, are Landau & Bain's old characters
in it, and if so, who's playing them?
Ronald
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 15:06:28 -0800
From: Ronald Dudley (dudleyrd@expert.cc.purdue4tag.edu)
More regarding "Mission of the Darians":
Who do you suppose ate more people:
Joan Collins or the Ultra Monster from "Dragon's Domain"?
My money is on Collins. She was (after all) 900 years old then, and Joan
has one big apppetite for men. That Darian ship probably held far more
people for Joan to gobble up than all the ships in the Ultra graveyard combined.
Once the Ultra Monster cleaned out a ship, it just went into hibernation, and
had to wait for the next meal to stumble along. But Joan on the other hand,
had a 100 square mile farm to continuously feed her insatiable appetite for
fresh meat.
I love how daring this show was before Fred Freiberger arrived. Mentor
turned people into zombies, and the Dorcons wanted Maya's brain, but that's
nothing compared to the Ultra Monster vomiting out corpses, Joan Collins
eating her own people, and all the horrible kinds of death they showed, like
in Force of Life, Troubled Spirit, and Death's Other Dominion! This show was
probably gorier than anything else on TV in 1975! I love the horror of Season1!
A while back (or maybe I read it in the archives), someone asked about Italian
influences in Season1, since it was a joint venture between ITC and RAI.
I read several years ago in TVGuide that Italian TV News was typically filled
with gory news items such as train wrecks, car accidents, factory explosions,
etc., and Italian TV drama was similarly bloody. Perhaps this was just
hypocritical american journalists looking down on foreigners. (TVGuide also
said French TV is full of nudity and immorality. More hypocricy?) I invite
the Europeans on this mailing list to confirm or deny that Italian TV has more
blood and gore than British or American TV, or that Italians prefer blood and
gore in TV news or entertainment. If so, then perhaps all the horor in Season1
can be attributed to RAI (which I liked), and its abscence in Season2 to Fred's
efforts at americanizing the show (which I didn't like). If not, then perhaps
its just a case of going overboard in the beginning, and showing moderation
later on, which anybody could have done, RAI or Fred not withstanding.
Ronald
PS: does anybody have any info on the upcomming "Mission: Impossible"
movie starring Tom Cruise? Specifically, are Landau & Bain's old characters
in it, and if so, who's playing them?
From: Petiepry@aol4tag.com
To: Amardeep Chana@XN
Subject: Re: Mission of the Darians
Date: Monday, March 18, 1996 6:38PM
Thanks to my cable system, my TV went blank half way through the episode.
Would you give me a brief overview of the ending? I would really appreciate
it.
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:39:40 -0800
From: Amardeep_Chana@xn.xerox4tag.com (Chana,Amardeep)
Subject: Re: Mission of the Darians
Greetings,
Helena and Lowry were kidnapped by the savages. Lowry had a missing
segment in one of his fingers and was declared a mutant, and
'sacrificed' to their god Nimon (he was vaporized in a wall alcove).
Helena, not having any apparent physical defects, was chosen to be
given to the 'spirits' (i.e. Darian's in space suits). The space
suited guys were collecting Helena when Paul and Alan attacked. One
of the suits was stunned, the other got away with the doctor. Paul
made it through the door and followed them. Alan showed the savages
that the stunned suited guy was not a spirit but just a human. He
formed a lynch mob and made the suited guy take them to the protected
area of the ship where the Darian leaders were hiding.
Meanwhile, Victor and Koenig figured out that the Darians' food
processors lacked basic protein and amino acid stores. It turns out
that the alcove used to sacrifice people by the savages (i.e. what
happened to Lowry) was just a raw materials source for the food
processor. Confronting the Darians, Koenig was shown that a gene bank
of their species existed and its preservation warranted cannibalism.
Koenig had an excellent line here, "You Darians value yourselves very
highly." Of course, he said it with a great deal of dismay and sarcasm.
(By the way, they never explained what the protein source was for the
savages... I mean, they must have eaten *something*.)
Later Paul met up with Koenig and Bergman and let them know that Helena
was captive. They forced the Darians to bring them to her. Here it
was revealed that she was going to be an unwilling organ doner. The
Darians were using those non-mutated bodies sent by the savages as a
means to sustain themselves beyond normal life expectancies. Again,
they used the gene bank as justification.
At this point, Alan and the lynch mob showed up and started crashing
and banging things. The big bald guy threw their now exposed fake god
Nimon through the gene bank and that made Joan Collins really upset.
She was all cut up that their species now had no future. Koenig
pointed out that they would have to live with the savages and not just
exploit them.
There was a brief scene of bereavement over the loss of Lowry as the
eagle made its way back to base.
Regards,
Amardeep
P.S. I hope you don't mind that I'm sharing my reply with the list.