Thursday, April 9, 2009

Day 85: Watched the episode of Outer Limits that inspired the Terminator series


The photo speaks for itself. It's SICK!!!

But actually I've always said that Outer Limits (old and new versions) should have been a 30 minute show and not 60 minutes, and this was a good example. They spent a lot of time with the guy Quardo or whatever sitting in a padded room saying futuristic phrases and attacking film reels that tried to teach him about love.

This wasn't exactly like Terminator: basically two futuristic soldiers were fighting and they were both hit by lasers at the same time, and went back into the past. One got stuck in time while the other, our hero, went back to like the 1960s. He got arrested and thrown in an insane asylum and studied by some nice government guy. Eventually the other soldier got unstuck in time and tried to hunt down Quardo or whatever and they got in a fight and both flashed back to the future.

It was called Soldier. It wasn't exactly like Terminator, but James Cameraman paid Harlan Ellison (the guy who wrote 'Soldier' some money, so you know it inspired it at least.)

The funniest parts were the costumes, how they were dressed up like Knights of the Round In Shining Armor! All in all it was pretty cool to see this old show that inspired Terminator though. I'm psyched for the new one!

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