Calling all Geeks: the search is not over
Monday, March 1st, 2004 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanFor a moment there I thought I had a winner for the movie-TV-movie sequence of a couple of entries back.
Just for the briefest, shiniest of geek moments it looked as though we had one incontrovertible example of the hardest to find entertainment genre in the world.
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mikedrfc texted me with the suggestion of Robocop. His reasoning was thus: Movie followed by two increasingly miserable sequels, spawns dismal TV series which in turn spawns the ever more dismal movie, Robocop: Dark Justice. This looked very promising.
Sadly, a little research showed that the three movies spawned both the TV series and a very poor TV cartoon series. Once the TV series (which built upon the third movie) was cancelled, a Canadian production company acquired the rights to the Robocop franchise and proceeded to make their own, darker, TV show supposedly taking the concept back to its roots. It seems that Dark Justice is an episode from this short-lived second TV series which was eventually edited together as a single movie, Robocop: Prime Directives.
So, geekdom must continue its search. There is, as yet, no out and out winner.
Which is a pity, because this doesn't warrant the amount of effort being expended upon it by too many sad people.
Just for the briefest, shiniest of geek moments it looked as though we had one incontrovertible example of the hardest to find entertainment genre in the world.
mikedrfc texted me with the suggestion of Robocop. His reasoning was thus: Movie followed by two increasingly miserable sequels, spawns dismal TV series which in turn spawns the ever more dismal movie, Robocop: Dark Justice. This looked very promising.Sadly, a little research showed that the three movies spawned both the TV series and a very poor TV cartoon series. Once the TV series (which built upon the third movie) was cancelled, a Canadian production company acquired the rights to the Robocop franchise and proceeded to make their own, darker, TV show supposedly taking the concept back to its roots. It seems that Dark Justice is an episode from this short-lived second TV series which was eventually edited together as a single movie, Robocop: Prime Directives.
So, geekdom must continue its search. There is, as yet, no out and out winner.
Which is a pity, because this doesn't warrant the amount of effort being expended upon it by too many sad people.