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Never having seen Quatermass I binge watched them all in the past 2 weeks.
Experiment - disappointingly incomplete, II - getting there but stilted acting, Pit - excellent even if it was over long.
And Conclusion - although I watched the miniseries, the most recent and therefore you would expect the best being as TV had come a long way since the 50s and even with low 70s budgets there are series like Hitchikers, Day of The Triffids and Salems Lot that are classics.
And - Dear Lord - what a dud. Some 70s TV was appalling and this is a prime example, although that may be explained by a script written 6 years earlier, never updated and filmed in a different world of 1978.
The terrible non-explained breakdown of society, the toe cringing hippy cult Planet People - they are so bad, the generally poor acting, the appalling music.
4 hours that I suffered through, with the first episode setting your low expectations that never improved. I even skipped through some sections as I couldn't stomach their duration and I rarely do that.
Those who previously knew Quatermass - sadly biased and using words like 'chilling' and 'prescient' and explains the 10/10s and the source of down votes that don't give 9-10/10.
For anyone else - including me with an interest in popular culture history - 'is it over yet? Please, it must be over?'.
Go into it expecting nothing and you may just be able to get through it, otherwise unless you are a standing fan you will be sorely disappointed IF you get to the end.
Experiment - disappointingly incomplete, II - getting there but stilted acting, Pit - excellent even if it was over long.
And Conclusion - although I watched the miniseries, the most recent and therefore you would expect the best being as TV had come a long way since the 50s and even with low 70s budgets there are series like Hitchikers, Day of The Triffids and Salems Lot that are classics.
And - Dear Lord - what a dud. Some 70s TV was appalling and this is a prime example, although that may be explained by a script written 6 years earlier, never updated and filmed in a different world of 1978.
The terrible non-explained breakdown of society, the toe cringing hippy cult Planet People - they are so bad, the generally poor acting, the appalling music.
4 hours that I suffered through, with the first episode setting your low expectations that never improved. I even skipped through some sections as I couldn't stomach their duration and I rarely do that.
Those who previously knew Quatermass - sadly biased and using words like 'chilling' and 'prescient' and explains the 10/10s and the source of down votes that don't give 9-10/10.
For anyone else - including me with an interest in popular culture history - 'is it over yet? Please, it must be over?'.
Go into it expecting nothing and you may just be able to get through it, otherwise unless you are a standing fan you will be sorely disappointed IF you get to the end.