Lostinthought

I have always been drawn to imagined worlds since I can remember.As a child it was the Gerry Anderson series like Stingray and Thunderbirds and then UFO and Space 1999(The first series)that ruled my imaginary life.I just loved those fantastic spacecraft like other kids wanted cars.It was always kind of thing with me to try and sketch them.I cannot explain it.The prehistoric monsters from films and the aliens from Dr Who and Star Trek came a very close second.
Then came the teenage years where only reading could open up those new dream worlds and I ate books like they were apples.Some were full of sweet and crisp ideas,others had the uniquely unforgetable flavor of classics, and yet even more,to be frank,would taste so sour and stupidly rotten that you just wanted to spit them out your head as soon as you read them.But its a terrible fault of mine that once I start a story I have to get to the end,however bad it may be.I've started so I'll finish.
Then the world outside my imagination started to catch up.Films became as good as my minds eye,and even better than some of the glossy book covers.The stuff you saw became believable.Imaginary worlds became very main stream.
"Starwars" kicked it off.That openning shot of the Star Destroyer.Wow.I saw it three times before it went away.But the fact you could so rarely repeat showings in those days before VCRS and DVD did away with the need to remember made it all the more unique, treasured. It gave you a warm feeling to recall how it was and who you saw it with instead of now just fixing it with a click on the remote.You had to try for it,make the memories sweat a little,drag them up for a jog down memory lane.
So I hail from the days when the future was fake and unreal and comparitively easy to forget as a kid to when it turned in to something brilliantly unforgetable.When sci fi and fantasy went from just one small shelf in WHSmiths to whole rows and sections.When you counted all the sci-fi films released in a year on one hand.There was a "singleness" to things,a "one time " only quality.If you lived a century now and did nothing else with your life you would still never catch up with all those weird worlds and wonderful characters and grab a taste of all those great apples!So its good to share some of my thoughts about where to pick them,either fresh off the trees and perhaps talk about some the wind blown ones that might be missed in the long grass.Oh, and I already know about "Battlestar Galactica." The new series of course.Frakking Magnificent.

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