calhoun07

Yeah, I picked up on the connection when they finally realized it was the watch, but it really sounded like Imax all along. Just a horribly executed idea all together. He could have been looking for the S.S. device and realized the entire time it was up his ass

marty888

Well, I purposefully did not read any reviews or comments here or on the SciFiForum until after watching the pilot just now. A mistake. If I had read all the perceptive and accurate comments, it might have lowered my expectations enough so that I might have thought it was simply a bad show.

It's not a "bad show". It's a bad idea gone wrong. Misconceived, badly scripted, poorly acted, photographed with all the skill of of an instamatic novice, and a blight on the TV schedule.

It's full of ideas - all from other shows. (I thought of Stargate, Sliders and even the "beaming" from Star Trek was used.)

What really pisses me off is that this will probably kill off the possibility of better talents trying anything with the property for years to come.

OldBoy

beyond terrible. this was so laughable i had to see till the end just to see if it got even minutely better. wrong! i can't believe how inept ALL the actors were. the dialogue was like something from UPN. it was beyond bad. the only thing, the only thing i liked was the incredibly bad rendition of Queen's song with the preiview for upcoming episodes. now, i am not talking the singer who did it bc even she was bad, but just to hear the theme was ok.

this was a bad opening and i won't be sticking around for another minute. this was crap tv at its worstest.

Panda Phil

Dear Sc-Fi,

Don't try to re-imagine a franchise unless you actually have an imagination.



Made me love the 1980 movie even more.

calhoun07

Kind of like how the 70's Buck Rogers series killed that property, and it still appears to be dead.

Baron Of Hell

This was just bad. Nobody can act. Ming wasn't mean enough. The daughter wasn't sexy enough. The story wasn't interesting. I starting to think sci fi is trying to put out crap. The last good original show they put out was the dune mini series.

OldBoy

i was really expecting a re-imagining like Battlestar...i don't watch the show, but know it is critically loved and brings sci-fi its best #'s. i was in awe at just how everything was so completely off, with Flash a runner and Ming a blond shorty with no menace whatsoever. this series makes the 80 movie an absolute Oscar contender!!

Jason

That's retarded.

I saw a few minutes of it this morning, and it looked like a zero-budget, early 1990's straight-to-video movie.

Sean O'Hara

[blockquote]I saw a few minutes of it this morning, and it looked like a zero-budget, early 1990's straight-to-video movie.[/blockquote]

That is an insult to Dale Midkiff and Dolph Lundgren.

bboisvert

I have really enjoyed Flash Gordon in all of the various incarnations throughout the years. I really can find the good in just about every version...

... but this first episode was a steaming turd. Actually, it wasn't even bad enough to be a turd. At least something painfully bad would have had its own charm. This was just lifeless and pointless.

Ouch. I won't be back for episode 2.

DaveCole

I am going to try and be an optimist and hope it gets better as the show goes on.

stingermck

Nice. You can be the one to tell the rest of us, if it gets better

JACOB

it will probably get worse, not better.

Jacob

JasonF

I meant to watch this and completely forgot. Now I'm glad I did so.

Seriously, though -- how the hell do you screw up Flash Gordon? It was a huge success in the Thirties for a reason -- Alex Raymond just came up with one damned cool concept after another. I love how people lincese a property, then "remagine" it into failure. Why even pay for the rights to Flash if you're just going to change it into something worse?

Chew

^ On that note: why even call it Flash Gordon to begin with? With Battlestar, the same basic premise is still there and it feels like the original. This feels nothing like Flash Gordon. If they had followed the 80's camp version, at least I could enjoy the cheese!

I'll give it one more episode, but that was one of the worst pilots I've seen in ages.

Maybe it was because it was putting me to sleep, but did Zarkov actually ever introduce himself? I only heard his name once.

No Hawkmen?

AGuyNamedMike

Criminy that was bad.

Superman07

Wow, I didn't think it was great, but I didn't find it that bad.

I think the low points were the nerdy science guy (bad casting/imaging) and the IMAX being the Timex.

The preview for the upcoming episodes looks good enough. I was thinking SciFi version of Hercules I suppose. Probably more episodic than overarching storyline though. I'll definitely be giving it a chance for a while to see if it improves.

Perhaps the strongest point I felt was the chemistry between a lot of the leading roles. Unfortunately, the scripting was rather on the weak side.

Sean O'Hara

Sure, if you want the adventures of some guys fighting off secret alien invaders on Earth. But I liked it better when it was called The Third Wave. I mean, the next episode looks like it's going to be a sitcom with Flash having to hid the existence of the alien warrior chick from his mom.

Sorry, but that isn't Flash Gordon.

adamblast

Welcome to the SciFi channel. Any day now I'm sure they'll redo Star Trek as an earthbound show about secret alien conspiracies.

Ayre

^^^ Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict

Shannon Nutt

It wasn't. I found it to be a so-so diversion. It certainly has room to improve, but it's far from horrible. I think people were expecting another Battlestar Galactica, and this plays more like a low-rent Smallville.

calhoun07

This thread reminded me it's time to cancel my cable (well...at least scale back to just local channels). I've been meaning to do it for a little while and was going to last week, but then I recalled that Flash Gordon was on and I wanted to see it.

Sorry I waited.

dan30oly

As someone that likes Smallville, I take great offense to that.

This Flash Gordon played like a horrible sci-fi channel made-for-tv movie.

milo bloom

I caught about 30-40 minutes of this before the wife called me to bring a bottle for the baby. I've never been so happy to hear that crying kid before

Seriously, they couldn't promise Ron Moore two full seasons to finish out BSG and low-rent hackwork like this gets picked up?

E. Honda

i caught most of the pilot. Total garbage. Bad script, bad direction, bad production design, bad everything. The pilot for the ABC "Cavemen" was better than this.