SPACE 1999
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Here we are again with another memorable sci-fi series from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson whose other 'Hits' included Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds and UFO.
Space 1999 was set on the Moon where a Moon base has been built and nuclear waste from the Earth was stored, but things are not well and soon the nuclear waste explodes blowing the moon out of earths orbit and sets it on a course out of the solar system.
The series then follows the crew left alive the Alpha moon base as the travel around the universe and as they meet many strange aliens and come across other civilizations and weird planets.
The program aired from 1975 - 1977 and actually only lasted for 2 series but with 24 episodes in each series it seemed to go on for a lot longer.
The crew consisted of some well known ...
Advantages: rich in symbolism, giving a good insight into the zietgeist of the time Disadvantages: slow paced and often dull, Crusoe is often hard to sympathise with
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, depicts an 18th century trader gripped by a wanderlust who finds himself shipwrecked on a tropical island where he is forced to cultivate hidden survival skills, re-evaluating his own values in the process. The story is told retrospectively by Crusoe and written in a style which is extremely dry and thorough, and much of it is very tedious to read through.
Crusoe busies himself not just with the business of survival but with technological and economic advancement and the pursuit of luxury, all of which is documented exhaustively. The reader is subjected to endless painstaking descriptions of Crusoe's trial and error attempts to bake clay pots, breed goats and sow corn, interspersed with jaunts across the deserted island as Crusoe does his best to stave off loneliness and boredom. The often crushing ...
DANIEL DEFOE
ROBINSON CRUSOE
1. BIOGRAPHY
2. SUMMARY
3. INTERPRETATION
1. BIOGRAPHY
• • 1660, Cripplegate • 1731, London - Age of Enlightenment
• 1695 he changed his name from Foe to Defoe
• 1682 he abandoned his father's plan to become a Presbyterian priest and became a merchant in
Cornhill
• 1697-1701 he served as a secret agent for William III
• 1701 appeared his satirical poem "The True-Born Englishman", a bestseller
• 1703 he was arrested for "The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters", an ironical satire on High
Church extremism, committed to Newgate and pilloried. (angeprangert)
• 1703-1714 he served as a secret agent for Harley and other ministers and produced the "Review",
a pro-government newspaper
• 1719 "The Life and Strange Adventures ...
