Next Phase Is This
Samara Weaving’s casting as Emma Frost gives Marvel’s upcoming X-Men reboot one of its most intriguing pieces of casting. The Australian actress is set to play the mutant telepath, according to reporting from TheWrap and Variety, with Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier directing the new film. Emma is one of Marvel’s more complicated mutant characters: originally…
“The Dorcons” serves as the official series finale for Space: 1999, and it definitely goes all out by raising the stakes to the absolute maximum. The plot circles completely around Maya, the crew’s resident alien shapeshifter. Out of nowhere, a massive, incredibly powerful alien empire known as the Dorcons shows up at Moonbase Alpha with…
“The Immunity Syndrome” is easily one of those episodes that makes you lean back and really respect the visuals they were pulling off in the late ’70s. This time around, Commander John Koenig and the crew of Moonbase Alpha land on a planet that looks like an absolute paradise. The air is clean, the water…
“Devil’s Planet” is definitely one of the wilder rides from the second season of Space: 1999. The whole setup starts with Commander John Koenig, played by Martin Landau, checking out a distress signal on a planet named Ellna. It turns out a deadly plague completely wiped out the main planet’s population. Koenig ends up crash-landing…
“Dorzak”, the 21st episode of Season 2 of Space: 1999, is a proper psychological trip. The plot centers on a prison ship landing on Moonbase Alpha with a heavy-hitter prisoner named Dorzak, who happens to be a Psychon just like Maya. Since Commander Koenig is away on a mission, Tony is running the show, which…
The Séance Spectre takes things to a completely different level. The whole setup hits you fast: Moonbase Alpha is drifting dangerously close to a mysterious, swirling space phenomenon called Tora. Commander John Koenig tries to lock down the information to keep the crew from getting their hopes up about a potential home. But things go…
“The Bringers of Wonder (Part 2)” is honestly one of the wildest and most memorable rides in the entire run of Space: 1999. Picking up right from that tense cliffhanger where Commander John Koenig is the only one seeing these gross, blobby monsters while the rest of the crew thinks they are looking at their…
“The Bringers of Wonder” is very intense. The setup hits you hard right from the jump when Commander John Koenig loses his mind, handles an Eagle spaceship completely wild, and crashes it into a nuclear zone. While he is knocked out cold in the medical bay, a massive “Superswift” ship from Earth pulls up, and…
The Lambda Factor is one of those episodes that really changes the pace. Directed by Charles Crichton and written by the legendary Doctor Who writer Terrance Dicks, this seventeenth episode takes a break from the usual alien-of-the-week formula. Instead, it leans heavily into psychological sci-fi. The whole plot kicks off when Moonbase Alpha passes through…
The whole setup is pure chaos from the jump. A mysterious, sentient space cloud drifts over Moonbase Alpha and unleashes a weird wave of illness that completely knocks out almost the entire crew, including Commander Koenig. This leaves just a handful of personnel, mainly Tony Verdeschi and the resident alien shape-shifter Maya, to defend the…