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This show needed better producers


Even for a TV series, the stunt doubles were obvious, the flying was sloppy, the constant replay of the same flight footage was easy to catch, and the awful audio dubbing of Katt screaming were just a few examples of the show getting ridiculously low production value. The main ideas were good ones. But the steps they took to put together the episodes were generic. I loved this show as a kid. But it never lived up to the hype. I think I even got bored watching it one night. Too much drama style dialog and not enough excitement. Superman the Movie saw much better Green Screen edits. They took too many shortcuts with GAH. I think an independent filmmaker that grew up loving GAH would do the show justice as a remake. The big screen would see no justice and would bomb.

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you are so right about all of this. it was more like an adult drama, now i re viewed these again on dvd. lots of problems...

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