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It was a 1988 made for syndication show


It was never meant to withstand fanboy scrutiny.

Cripes, just watch it and laugh will ya?

No one wants to hear WHY the martians do what they do...they just want to see them killed or kill something.

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I quite agree. Upon reviewing the DVDs, I am almost completely certain that the show was intended as a sitcom. In this sense, it's a spiritual ancestor of Buffy.
(No, seriously, watch Goliath Is My Name and Thy Kingdom Come, and tell me they weren't supposed to be funny?)

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"It was never meant to withstand fanboy scrutiny"

So was Star Trek: The Next Generation!

"No one wants to hear WHY the martians do what they do"

These boards are for fans to discuss the very things you are obviously not interested in, so go laugh by yourself and let people talk about what they want to. I hate dorks who pretend to speak for everyone.

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Thought it was a good show.. much better than a lot of the other crap that's on these days, and comparing this to Buffy, well, that's just wrong, dude...

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