Re: OT: Heavy Gear TV series.

I hear what your saying but keep in mind that Sony also is the umbrella
organization responsible for SST chronicles and they ahve made NONE of
the
mistakes you mention with that series. (Well, noone says "fuck" and they
haven't shown dizzy's boobs either). 

Los

At 11:19 AM 11/4/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>	My primary concern though is that HG isn't really considered
>"family fair" and Sony may try to water-down the dark and gritty HG
>universe (violence, sex, politics, religion, and other things our
nation's
>bluenoses think that people should be insulated from) in order to make
it
>palatible for children and their nosey parents.  
>
>	If the show is just a "WOW cool giant robots" series with no
>serious plot, then it's going to be tripe.  If they focus on the story
and
>the charecters and keep the technology where it belongs (as "props")
then
>it will be something worth watching.  However, given America's
prejudice
>toward sci-fi, I don't think that it will go very far.
>