No new episode this week. Instead, here is a “lost episode” that has never been uploaded in some time until now!
RECOLLECTIONS: Season one to me is a rough patch. There are some episodes I am ok with and some that still bother me given the early years was a literal trial period. When Season 6 was put on hold, I tried to make an attempt to go back and fine tune the first 45 episodes to relax my annoyances. Turns out, it was far more time consuming than I imagined and the thought of going through all those episodes with a fine tooth comb was placed on hold. Some of them you can see on my Vimeo page and this was one of them.
Thankfully, this is one of those episodes I am fine with sharing. The 1991 remake of Land of the Lost remains a big cornerstone of my childhood and felt it would be good to cover given the new movie that was out at the time. Because the series was originally on a one episode per month release, plans deterred quick on the original intention of the Land of the Lost ’91 review. It was intended to be a trilogy spread over June, July, and August. In-between that, I filmed some commentary riffs on some episodes from the 1991 series and was going to have those in uploaded to fill the dead wait time (they got deleted over time for storage space.)
However, the 2009 big screen movie was a massive flop and things immediately fell apart. The three part series was cut down to two and July saw the upload of a top 10 list instead to make up for lost time. It made more sense to attach onto something that was popular in the public eye and connect to something that would be labeled a disappointment. Yet, folks wanted to see me finish covering the 1991 series, so I did given there was some material to go over. For your viewing pleasure, I stitched together the remastered editions of Episodes 7 and 9. Both are updated and contain some extra material that I wish I covered back then. Even more botched was episode 9, whose production occurred all in one day. It was filmed early in the morning on my birthday, edited hastily in the afternoon, and uploaded around early evening. Now, this version is a little more in-depth on certain elements like the rouge gallery and botched moments of Season 2.
There’s also some better quality footage of the series spliced in, yet my material remains under low quality. The idea of exporting the series in a high quality master was not thought of well back then and I’m still kicking myself for it. Looking back on it now, the smarter choice would have been to export the show onto DVD for storage and then use those masters as a base. Instead, the episodes were exported as low quality MPEGs and they are stuck as such. Keep in mind, season one was an experimental era to see what worked and what didn’t. The show had no identity, no script, and it was the tone was “let’s throw this at the wall and see what sticks.” Thankfully, this is one of those which still sticks well enough despite the rough patches.
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