[Political Junkie Too]

Back to LIS, after the initial “dark” episodes, it’s better viewed as an adventure/comedy. When they got up to the ep where folks were turned into vegetables, you know even the cast is thinking this is messed up.

You know... since up-thread it shows that MeTV has Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea following LIS, that show followed a similar pattern. The first season tried to follow the seriousness of the movie, but later seasons became the rubber monster of the week.

-PJ

[fieldmarshaldj]

Even ST:TOS was suffering by the third season (which the network didn’t want to give them, let alone a second). But it had more to do with a drastically curtailed budget that hampered what they could film. If they had been as well-funded as they were in the first season, one wonders how much better the quality of the eps would’ve been.