{"id":35,"date":"2009-03-03T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-03-09T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T20:52:46","slug":"oddly-passionless-as-well-and-i-dont-think-this-is-entirely-because-this-is-a-canadian-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/03\/03\/oddly-passionless-as-well-and-i-dont-think-this-is-entirely-because-this-is-a-canadian-show\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oddly passionless as well, and I don&#8217;t think this is entirely because this is a Canadian show&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nJames Nicoll reviews legendary bad sci-fi tv series <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/james-nicoll.livejournal.com\/1672214.html\">Starlost<\/a><\/cite>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBen Bova famously wrote a fictional treatment of the disaster that was this series, <cite>Starcrossed<\/cite>, which I keep seeing in local secondhand bookstores. The series itself was based on a Harlan Ellison treatment, but in the end he was so infuriated with the way his ideas were treated, he took his name of it. Here&#8217;s what he wrote for <cite>Starcrossed<\/cite>&#8216;s cover blurb:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nIt has been pointed out to me that Ben Bova&#8217;s vaguely hilarious novel is roughly patterned on events and characters involved in the short but loathsome existence of a TV series I had the misfortune to create, &#8220;The Starlost.&#8221; Nonsense! Just because my series had a studio executive as rapacious as a weasel, a producer who was a certified brain damage case, actors who should have been ditch-diggers and money grubbers who should have taken up residence at Dachau &#8230; and Bova&#8217;s novel has the same &#8230; is just lousy coincidence. Clearly it isn&#8217;t one-for-one: the writer in Bova&#8217;s book, Ron Gabriel, isn&#8217;t one-millionth as terrific and sexy as me! You&#8217;ll hear from my attorneys in the morning.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nShould I get this novel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Nicoll reviews legendary bad sci-fi tv series Starlost. Ben Bova famously wrote a fictional treatment of the disaster that was this series, Starcrossed, which I keep seeing in local secondhand bookstores. The series itself was based on a Harlan Ellison treatment, but in the end he was so infuriated with the way his ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[30,29,28],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-ben-bova","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-starlost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}