Lee Homer Lieutenant Offline Long Live UFO Posts: 62 Location: United Kindom UFO/Joe 90 crossover Apr 23rd, 2011 at 7:46pm Print Post I was watching Joe 90 the other day followed by an episode of UFO and the thought just occurred to me. What if WIN helped SHADO in a mission? I need some help as to whether I can pull it off or not? If Sky One was real....I'd be flying it right about now IP Logged
Matt Colonel Offline Everyone at SHADO drinks coffee! Posts: 2391 Location: Coventry, RI Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #1 - Apr 23rd, 2011 at 7:59pm Print Post I'm not familiar with Joe 90 but I've written a crossover with Bonanza that worked quite well. Go for it! What do you mean, we're out of coffee! WWW IP Logged
Lee Homer Lieutenant Offline Long Live UFO Posts: 62 Location: United Kindom Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #2 - Apr 23rd, 2011 at 8:13pm Print Post Thanks. Allow me to explain a bit about Joe 90 so you can familiarise yourself with the characters. The show is about a young 9 year old boy who lives with his adopted father (Professor Mac Mclane) in a cottage. They work for WIN which stands for "World Intelligence Network" which is an agency which deals with terrorists, espionage and that. Sam Loover and Shane Weston are their bosses who assign Joe to these dangerous missions, but to carry out the missions, Joe is given specific brain pattens that enable him to do specific tasks. Mac Maclane transfers them to Joe through a machine he invented called the BIG RAT. Then wearing these special sets of glasses, Joe uses his new transferred knowledge to carry out these dangerous missions. I watch the episodes on Youtube and I think it's a neat little puppet show If Sky One was real....I'd be flying it right about now IP Logged
Librarian IAC Member Offline I may be blonde but... Posts: 658 Location: Washington (not DC) Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #3 - Apr 23rd, 2011 at 8:31pm Print Post My one qualm about Joe90 is (assuming the character is meant to be a real boy) is the use of a real child (even a fictional one) being programmed and put into danger. If Joe90 is an android (which is what would make sense and is kind of inferred from the name), then you might have some interesting possibilities with SHADO personnel reacting badly to just that idea of a child being put into danger. This is one of those cases where what works for anime or puppets may not translate well to 'live action'. But as I indicated, if Joe90 is an android, or you make him an android ala AI, then it could work nicely. If you only have one solution to a problem - you're not trying. IP Logged
Lee Homer Lieutenant Offline Long Live UFO Posts: 62 Location: United Kindom Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #4 - Apr 23rd, 2011 at 8:38pm Print Post The idea I had in mind was that Joe is a real boy like he is in the show, but he is given the brain pattens of Peter Carlin so he can pilot an important SHADO flight that is threatened by the Aliens. Just like most episode endings went in Joe 90, no one would believe that it was Joe who would do the missions. So I'm going to try to keep it like the show would end in a sense. The reason his codename is "90" is because WIN called the BIG RAT project "Project 90." hense Joe 90 Gerry Anderson is kinda smart there If Sky One was real....I'd be flying it right about now IP Logged
Normandie Captain Offline UFO Rocks! Posts: 132 Location: In the veg patch... Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #5 - Apr 23rd, 2011 at 9:56pm Print Post Librarian wrote on Apr 23rd, 2011 at 8:31pm:My one qualm about Joe90 is (assuming the character is meant to be a real boy) is the use of a real child (even a fictional one) being programmed and put into danger. Yes. Good point. It's somewhat a question of target audience, I think. Children viewing would not see the "adults knowingly putting a child in danger" implication; they'd see their contemporary solving crimes that adults couldn't solve without "their" assistance - which would be cool in their perception. Many children's books have the young protagonists going into danger - Phillip Pullman, Michael Morpurgo's Alex Rider 006.5 - and that's fine. But as you say, with an adult target audience, "using" a child / teenager is wrong. Especally one programmed thus removing at least a degree of free will. IP Logged
Lee Homer Lieutenant Offline Long Live UFO Posts: 62 Location: United Kindom Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #6 - Apr 23rd, 2011 at 10:04pm Print Post Normandie wrote on Apr 23rd, 2011 at 9:56pm:Librarian wrote on Apr 23rd, 2011 at 8:31pm:My one qualm about Joe90 is (assuming the character is meant to be a real boy) is the use of a real child (even a fictional one) being programmed and put into danger. Yes. Good point. It's somewhat a question of target audience, I think. Children viewing would not see the "adults knowingly putting a child in danger" implication; they'd see their contemporary solving crimes that adults couldn't solve without "their" assistance - which would be cool in their perception. Many children's books have the young protagonists going into danger - Phillip Pullman, Michael Morpurgo's Alex Rider 006.5 - and that's fine. But as you say, with an adult target audience, "using" a child / teenager is wrong. Especally one programmed thus removing free will. I think that Gerry Anderson just wanted to base a show about a 9 year old boy who is the hero and my aim is to show that even a 9 year old boy can handle UFO's as well as Straker can If Sky One was real....I'd be flying it right about now IP Logged
Librarian IAC Member Offline I may be blonde but... Posts: 658 Location: Washington (not DC) Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #7 - Apr 24th, 2011 at 12:02am Print Post I think it's doable - but the real trick to make it work is getting a plausible set up as to why SHADO would agree to work with even a super-powered kid. Everything will fall together after that. If you only have one solution to a problem - you're not trying. IP Logged
Lee Homer Lieutenant Offline Long Live UFO Posts: 62 Location: United Kindom Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #8 - Apr 24th, 2011 at 9:15am Print Post Well I do have an idea, but it'll have to in the style as Joe 90 If Sky One was real....I'd be flying it right about now IP Logged
Librarian IAC Member Offline I may be blonde but... Posts: 658 Location: Washington (not DC) Re: UFO/Joe 90 crossover Reply #9 - Apr 24th, 2011 at 2:19pm Print Post Then go for it. As a 'kid's' story, it should work quite well. If you only have one solution to a problem - you're not trying. IP Logged
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