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The producers would have been happy to keep the franchise alive and the actors were all onboard. No one knows what happened. There were plenty of scripts around. Enough for 2 additional seasons of Gladiators and Roman politics. The invasion of Britain was discussed and the war with Carthage and Hannibal was a possible. But in the end everyone went home due to lack of interest by the big companies. Are Gladiators now second to Game Thrones & dragon type stuff? That'll pass, just like the vampire craze did in 2017, and soon the Walking Dead (any Zombies vs living people stuff) interest will fade as well. That's why now would be a great time to bring back Ancient rome & galdiator type series.

No Spoilers: Give it a chance, and allow for it's age and somewhat bleak acting. Props and stages are lacking but plausible. Accepting the film even with all it's grittiness and subpar pre-Star Trekian visuals will help. *Some old films wind up wasting the viewers time. *Some films are just annoying and asinine. But, 'some do surpass the IQ ceiling for late fifties & early sixties sci-fi movies. Yes! Some have good plots, even artistic, but can have lousy special effects, while others are the opposite, poor storylines but good, believable or even surreal special effects. This film seems to have an "even amount" of each category, including dialog and a reasonable 'traveling on a spaceship" believability. That's why I've labeled it adult. For the adult level IQ. Because it does not raise or lower your IQ flags along the way. The viewer will easily note that this film is intelligently scripted. In a way the story will remind you (if your old enough) of those 35 cent Sci-Fi paperbacks with cool art covers you'd find by chance at the local second hand bookstore, and then found reading it was a joy and you wished the author would have written a sequel. Just like that paperback book you found by chance you'll take to this movie. Not a so called 'space opera' but rather a uniquely simplistic look into the future of space travel. Specifically to other planets within our own solar system. Not a super-stellar storyline but solid story telling. As with all film critics some viewers will think it's average, some will love it. Enjoying this particular film to the fullest is up to the viewer. While watching it forgive it for it's irregularities along the way and just go with it, you'll enjoy it more.

From beginning to end it had me grabbing my armchair armrest. Of any made for TV short series in my recent memory none gets higher praise then TWQ. It's the only made for TV 'anything' that I cared to watch twice! Rebecca Ferguson as Queen Elizabeth Ist rocked it and I've never seen anyone look better on a Royal Throne! She wore her crown with majesty! Jacquetta Of Luxembourg is a rare treat. Wait and see the series.

Without the presence of Borgnine, Hollis Mclaren, and MJ Pollard I doubt this movie would be anything but a forgotten 'B' movie. 'Out of nowhere three bank robbers appear at a farmhouse owned by Borgnine and he is ready for them. Captured he decides to punish them for their crimes instead of handing them over to the "too lenient" court system! Hollis McLaren plays her part of the shocked granddaughter extremely well and becomes a pain in Grandpa's side but he presses on anyway. All of the stars played their parts convincingly and made a semi weak picture a tight absorbing study of criminality and citizens vengeance gone wrong. Watch the scene where Borgnine releases his dogs on one of them. Tight acting and great editing. The flick is a pleasant surprize from the 70's.

Without a doubt this is one of the season's best episodes. Probably second only to the finale. It has palace intrigues, hard drama, key cast interactions, hard drama, and is extremely well acted by the stars. It's as though this is each member of the cast's personal best effort in each member's career. *Note Spoiler alert>: At the end of this episode Jaime Lannister and a troop of Lannister soldiers kill Lord Stark's personal guard including his close friend and bodyguard (Jori) who was at Ned's side each previous episode. Jaime and Ned then go on to an epic duel to the death sword fight, but they're interrupted by a Lannister guard who spears Ned from behind without provocation completely through the calf, thus ending the sword fight prematurally. Jaime angrily slams the hilt of his sword into the guard's head knocking him out. .Jaime then sheaths his sword and tells Ned, "My Brother, Lord Stark!" as he and his troop ride off. And the episode ends. Truly a powerful closing scene, and one of the first poignant scenes of this calibre GOT would become famous for.

Nope, "Breezy" didn't work for me. Kay is delightful in the role but Bill Holden's age (and looks his age) didn't work for me. Maybe a bit younger man? Or, a more attractive man bill's age? At any rate I couldn't wrap this movie around my head. 'Getting into it, or rather 'trying to get into it made me cringe and grind my teeth. Painful to watch, especially the ...gulp...'love scene', aggghhh I still suffer writing this... it had me looking for the FF on the remote. OK, maybe i'm over reacting and a little over the top, but that's my feelings now. Perhaps back in the early 1970s when I was a 16 -23 year old fun loving youth I would have liked the movie. So my review is based on the morals of a 60 + year old grandpa, not a young dreamer who lacks the wisdom that comes with age. Funny, I never even heard of the movie 'till a few years ago. I owe the discovery to the internet.

So few Sci-Fi series can come out with a pure Sci-Fi related effort that I wonder if they really are just night time soap operas sometimes. This particular episode works along the fringes of being just that 'a pure/real Sci-Fi show. A viewer could catch this ep by accident and enjoy it for what it is in itself. The musical soundtrack is also worth mentioning. Check it out!

I gave it a 7.3 in my mind but marked it an 8 due to the year it was made and how it might have been if they had today's tech working for it.... Here we have a genuine Sci-Fi feature Mini Series that uses all the old Hollywood tricks of filming spaceships taking off , traveling, and landing, all with wires and toy rockets. You have to forgive it and open up your mind, give it a chance to play out and just go with it. The star-laden cast and story-line will pull it through for you. The era it was created is just before "Star Trek The Next Generation" and just after "Star Wars" the movie so it had tough competition in a young but rapidly widening outer space-opera genre. The heavy here is a 50-ish Rock Hudson playing the lead along with a hard working cast of TV series & TV movie regulars. The surprising part is how serious the cast is about their respective roles, there's no clowning around or rolling the eyes or goofy expressions, they take it seriously and it helps. Take a Sunday afternoon off and go ahead and watch it, if your a sci-fi fan and like your CG graphics you'll have to bend your standards and grin and bear it, but if your the casual sci-fi fan without great expectations, and like easy to follow scripts ,then this movie is for you! At the end you'll be glad you watched it.

Excellent all the way! Not one bad scene in the whole movie. The only problem is the curse of Richard Hatch. No matter what he does film wise it turns out a loser. He's had the curse all his life, look up his film/TV credits and see what I mean. He ruins it in Best Friends by schlepping his way through most of the films scenes, and being too old for the part. His acting was fine per say but didn't compare to the exceptional performances by Noland and the rest of the cast. The ending was considered bad by most viewers but actually was kinda status quo for the era. ...Many films between 1967 and 1978 had the rather unfinished "imagine" type ending that left the viewer to determine the outcome in their own mind's eye.