{"id":7825,"date":"2010-03-26T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2010-03-26T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:49:46","slug":"two-degrees-of-richard-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7825","title":{"rendered":"Two Degrees of Richard Hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i917.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad14\/wegeewegee\/Strawberry_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"234\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trust me, there&#39;s a punchline.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>La-La Land Records\u2019 release of <strong>Battlestar Galactica: The Plan and Razor<\/strong> marks the last major album  tied to the series\u2019 music, and I\u2019ve uploaded a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/b\/CD_0193_BattlestarGalacticaPlanRazor.htm\">review <\/a>of the disc, which also comes with a live version of the vocal track  \u201cApocalypse.\u201d Given that piece was nicely recorded in stereo, one can imagine a  live album might be the final nod to the series built on the 1978 big-budget  and really goofy TV series.<\/p>\n<p>The original show began with a feature-length pilot that was  re-edited into a theatrical film which I actually saw in a theatre (probably at  the Uptown or something) as well as <strong>Buck  Rogers in the 25th Century<\/strong> (with nudie-cutie title sequence)  before I was shipped at the age of 10 to Germany for six weeks to be primarily  with septuagenarians and eat dry chicken on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>(I was cheated into the deed by my mother when I was 8,  never thinking she\u2019d actually buy the stupid ticket as soon as I turned 10.)<\/p>\n<p>The original <strong>Galactica<\/strong> series starred Richard Hatch, a limited actor with an okay screen presence who  just popped up in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/i\/3542_InAlienable.htm\">InAlienable<\/a><\/strong>,  a low (low) budget sci-fi tale of parasitic infiltration and pregnancy written  by <strong>Star Trek<\/strong>\u2019s Walter Koenig. Sadly,  the film doesn\u2019t feature something like a jiggly-wiggly Judy Geeson mating in  her birthday suit, or giving birth <em>in  real time <\/em>to a cheap alien puppet, but I\u2019ve dissected the flaws of the film  (available via Anchor Bay on DVD) that has some intriguing arguments about  humanity and tentacled babies named Benjamin who smell like strawberries.<\/p>\n<p>More blather to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; MRH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD soundtrack review of Bear McCreary&#8217;s Battlestar Galactica: The Plan and Razor, plus a DVD review of Richard Hatch in Walter Koenig&#8217;s parasitic romp InAlienable\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-22d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}