My review of unaired pilot episode for
Remo Williams.
Now this is from back
in 1988 and was done shortly after the movie Remo Williams, The Adventure Begins.
Now as a longtime fan of The Destroyer
series, created by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir, I had seen parts of this
before, but have never seen a decent copy that didn’t give me a severe headache
trying to watch it. Finally found the full episode again online so the link to
it is at the end here.
Well, what can I say?
It is titled Remo Williams – The Prophecy. Before I go into anything major
about it here, Master Chiun is played by Roddy McDowall. He does a good job of
it after what horrible things they did to that character in the original movie.
Though the title is The
Prophecy, any longtime fan of the series will recognize it immediately as the
novella The Day Remo Died. Now this is actually the perfect, and the true
second story, though not the second book. There are many things wrong, but
still worth a watch, especially if you liked the movie. 49 minutes 16 seconds.
That’s the time it will take to watch a decent story unfold, if inaccurately.
As to the things that are wrong. Most stem from the movie itself, and not from
this, though I will admit that it needs to be redone to accurately portray the
violence of Remo and Chiun, which was never portrayed in any way accurately.
What was wrong with the original movie was an entire list of things.
Master Chiun does not
wear glasses; he is the master of Sinanju.
Chiun ripped the ears
off a man for shutting off his soap opera, but only breaks the guys neck that
tried to kill Remo at the Statue of Liberty.
And here is where they
really messed up in the original movie, which would have screwed up any series
that tried to follow the true story. It takes years for Remo to get over a fear
so ingrained in him that it even halts his Sinanju abilities almost 20 years
later. That was screwed up by the origin they told. He didn’t die by car
submerged in river. Remo was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, sentenced
to die in an electric chair that didn't work, (though still gave him burns and a
deep fear of electricity and what it could do) and sent to work for an
organization that doesn't exist. All of that being missed would have killed the
series in the long run any way.
It
needs to be redone today, and done properly where the magic of the Sinanju
abilities can be seen. And it wouldn’t even be an expensive series to do
either. The effects now for such things like Sinanju are cheap. AMC should do
the series. Hell, if they can get walking dead on tv now, Remo and Chiun would
not be a problem, and the stories would be more exciting, and the political
satire a lot more funny than most things on tv right now, and certainly more
intelligent than a bunch of idiots trying to survive in a magical land where
gas in cars on the side of the road never goes bad, and tires never go flat
from sitting. And apparently the brakes never freeze up from sitting either. Yeah,
Remo and Chiun are certainly more believable than that show.
And
yeah, the second book now that Murphy is back is just as good as the first
after his return, if not better.
Here’s the link. Go
enjoy the next viewing of the greatest and I believe the only surviving heroes
of the Men’s Adventure genre of the 70’s and 80’s. Definitely the greatest of
them all.
IS
ISS VIABLE? ARE YOU F’ING SERIOUS?
And now on a personal note on the ISS
and the latest upheaval of silliness by our dippy governments on this planet. Oh, the things I would like to say to certain
people, and I mean to their faces. You know, if Russia wants to leave the
station, let them go. And why the fecking idiocy about whether we can keep it
going, or is it viable to do so. Who the hell do I need to slap the crap out of
here around here to wake up the idiots. Is it viable? Is research, science,
learning, knowledge, etc a viable reason, or would you idiots like to go back
to cave living which the way some sound lately, that is apparently where they
would rather be.
You
know, I remember back when I was a kid, how all we heard about was how space
was advancing mankind, and all the benefits it was giving us. I mean come on
people. Do you really think anyone actually liked that freaking TANG stuff. It
sold to people because they connected it to astronauts and space. The entire
concept back then was one of advancement, scientific inquiry, and pushing for
more. Not just a few of the people, but the entire country was behind the
concept. Good concept too. The only truly valuable one we have. Or had. Sometimes
I really feel like we are about to slip back into an age of inquisition, and
anyone that understands that the Earth isn't flat will get burned at the stake.
My
friends, we have been lied to. Everything we have been told about the world is
a lie. Something went wrong somewhere. The inmates have taken over the asylum,
and we are trapped within it. If I find a backdoor out of here, I’ll let you
know. Until then, all of you keep
looking as well. Seriously, we have to be locked in some alien experimental lab
zoo somewhere where they are seeing how long it takes to drive us bleeding
insane. I prefer the lunacy of that idea to the lunacy that all of this around
me and you folks is real, and our government and people have become so insane
as to even question the worth or viability of space, the ISS, and everything
beyond.
Interesting
though that as the search for knowledge wanes from the forefront and is
challenged even, the images of our older heroes are now being darkened and
changed to blend with modern views. Hmmm. So Superman now kills members of a
dying race (his race) and is accepted as a hero instead of the light he was
supposed to be for all to follow, while in the real world the concepts of
science and learning are being challenged and undermined from every direction. Just
a small observation on my part was all, and wondering if there is a connection.
They say ignorance and violence go hand
in hand. Well if that is the case, look around. We've turned supes into a
killer, and are attacking science and advancement and twisting what is there
into things that never were. Like dinosaurs and humans co-existing.
I've said it before, I’ll say it again. We’re freaking DOOMED. Forgot fearing the ruler
ship of the apes people. We live on The Planet of the Idiots. See you all next
time folks, provided we all haven’t been hung, exiled, or burned at the stake
by then.
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