Planet Earth (1974) is the movie for this Sunday’s “monsterdon” watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 1 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 2am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100045369/planet-earth
- uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
- archive: https://archive.org/details/planet-earth-1974
- it’s usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/planet-earth
…made-for-television science fiction film that was created by Gene Roddenberry … It was presented as a pilot for what was hoped to be a new weekly television series.[1] The pilot focused on gender relations from an early 1970s perspective.
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It is the year 2133, and Earth was devastated by a nuclear war decades earlier. PAX, a science-based society dedicated to restoring civilization and peace to the world, sends a team to conduct a survey of central California.[2]
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In the years since the movie’s release, many critics have focused on comparing the movie to other Roddenberry works, especially Star Trek.[3][11] In a three-way comparison between the earlier Genesis II, Planet Earth and Star Trek, Saxon’s character was considered closer to Star Trek’s Captain Kirk in that he shared the same “physical beauty” and “charming arrogance” as Kirk, compared to the dark, brooding star of Genesis II, played by Alex Cord. Saxon’s fighting skills were also complimented by critics, “… you have to love Saxon delivering a full-on Captain Kirk drop-kick to a Kreeg.”[11] Janet Margolin has also been compared favorably to some of the female characters in Star Trek, including Yeoman Colt, featured in the first Star Trek episode “The Cage”.[11]