WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS EARLIER?!?

[teddog]

"Anyways, PoG was ripped off the airwaves when it was at it's height of
fandom... oh well...
--Random Newsgroup post. See, there was a fandom. I just missed it by 10 years.

I've always done research stuffs for Signal Loss on Google's web search, getting by with the slim amount of info I can find.

I use Google Groups to spy on a few groups and after a depressing day, I decided on a whim to search for "Prisoners of Gravity".

SCORE! ::waves little Canadian flag around::

There's so much neato stuff going back to 1989 on the newsgroups.



For example, apparently Rick Green used to do surprise visits to conventions in character. That's kinda cool.

(As a random thought, IS&P Rick at a convention... THAT would be the funniest thing ever.
Rick> ::pulls out a map:: Directions, why do you fail me so?
Mike> ::tugs Rick's arm:: Hey! Look who's over there! I though they stayed at home for this mission! ::waves::
Rick> ::doesn't even bother looking up:: That's a cosplayer, Mike.
Mike> Oh, okay... what's a cosplayer?
And so on.)

Here's an old email address for the show:
prisoners_of_gravity@tvo.org

I now have the fine details on the PBS test run, including all the episodes, the test channels and the title of the PBS test launch:
"No Such Thing As A Free Launch"
::dies laughing::

There's also lots on the old Sci-Fi channel rumours. I wish I knew more about what happened.

WTF?!? More proof that fandoms are plotting against me.

And you think I'm a fan girl? Upgrade to Rick Greens indeed. More fandom plotting. I'm going to get those TTPCTS fictives for this!

Oh, and LOTS of sigs based on character quotes:
"Life's a bitch and then you don't die."
Cmdr. Rick on immortality - Prisoners of Gravity
"Next week on 'Second Nature' - Psychics and mind readers, don't they know how much we hate them?"
- Enrico Gruen (aka Rick Green), Prisoners of Gravity
"Do androids dream of electric sheep? And do they count them in binary, octal, or hexadecimal?"
--Rick Green, "Prisoners Of Gravity"
May the best defense contractor win.
- Prisoners of Gravity
"A new study on hummingbirds shows they don't know the words."
(Prisoners of Gravity)
"Has Elvish left the Building?"
---Comander Rick "Prisoners of Gravity"

I found this in a posted story/ficcie. Apparently characters were becoming possessed by TV shows and some poor person ended up channeling Rick. Funnily enough, the character before thought he was Red Green. This made me piss myself:
"Commander's log...greetings, Prisoners of Gravity! Its Commander
Tonk, and today, we're going to talk about the sensation that's sweeping
the 'net: Superguy! Nancy, run that segment that we taped with the man
who goes by the name of 'Lord Sabre'...it is because of his rapier like wit?"

"What's she doing?", asked Clarke, as he passed through the CSS
Laura Secord's command centre. Crossings shrugged.

"She's been doing this all day.", replied Cassandra. "She keeps
talking to a blank screen, and calling it Nancy...then she'll review some
comic books or a science fiction novel. Its eerie..."

Clarke nodded. "I agree."

"No, I mean she didn't have many nice things to say about Spider
Robinson. And that's just wrong...there's got to be something the matter
with her.


And it seems that there's quite a demand for getting the series on DVD! WE WANT PoG DVDS!

Remember - release them in season sets, not volumes.



Oh well. That was a fun waste of an hour.