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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
That reminded me of the old Flash Gordon episodes we watched on TV in the 50s...
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Same ones (though I watched in the 60s... how old are you?).
Flash Gordon and
Buck Rogers serials--confusing to many, since they starred the same actor and featured most of the same sets and costumes--are so full of what can be considered the
original SF tropes (conquering alien dictators, flying men, cloaks of invisibility, hand held energy weapons, force fields, jetpacks, floating cities and more) that they've become textbook examples of the "childhood of SF," full of fantastic but
pretty-much-impossible ideas. The SF of a 6-year-old.
Star Trek (TOS) being the textbook example of "the adolescence of SF:" fantastic but
supposedly-conceivable ideas. The SF of a teenager.