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I watched some UFO recently. It was……. Errr…… interesting. Extremely sexist and misogynistic. That sort of stuff doesn’t worry me much usually but this was har
by andrewstuart 3y ago
I watched some UFO recently. It was……. Errr…… interesting.
Extremely sexist and misogynistic. That sort of stuff doesn’t worry me much usually but this was hard to watch.
Some good sci-fi though.
- TheOtherHobbes 3y agoIt's of its time in some ways. But far, far ahead of its time in others. I rewatched it a few years ago and was surprised how dark and adult it was.
- funnybeam 3y agoRecently watched it. There are about 2 instances of incredible sexism throughout the whole series but the rest of the time it’s extremely egalitarian. The first episode in particular was so badly sexist that I nearly didn’t watch the rest of the series but was glad I did because the awful misogynist character in the first episode seems to have a complete change of personality and never behaves like that again - the actor playing him seemed visibly uncomfortable at times so I don’t know if he influenced that or whether they got feedback from others to change things. Get past the first episode and it’s great, like a sci-fi version of The Prisoner. Very much of its time but in a good way - filmed in 1970 but set in the eighties it’s like a vision of the future (past now) that never happened but could have - something very bad clearly happened in our timeline during the seventies to result in everything being so grim when just ten years earlier we were full of optimism.
- euroderf 3y agoYes it had deep and dark themes, but what stands out IMO is the wild-ass production design. Everything oozed cool and spiffy. Especially the various SHADO vehicles and other conveyances, and the costumes for the ladies.