Starhyke?

[ffutures]

Today's charity shop bargain was Starhyke Season 1 - apparently comedy SF -starring Claudia Christian. I don't know much about it, and judging by a quick Wikipedia search it may not be my sort of show, but I wasn't going to turn it down for a fiver. Anyone seen it?

Later Just watched two episodes - I can see why it went straight to DVD. It's god-awful. WTF was Claudia Christian thinking?

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Starhyke

[aristophains.livejournal.com]

Hello. I found this entry during a search of LiveJournal for references to Starhyke, though as a fellow LJ Friend of rozk I don't feel a total stranger. I'd like to add a couple of points:

'WTF was Claudia Christian thinking?' It wasn't so much about pull as about push. She was "burned out" by Los Angeles and wanted a change, and being invited to be part of Starhyke (the creator/director is an old friend of hers) gave her that. She ended up living in the UK for many years and still spends a lot of time here.

I was disappointed by the first two episodes too, but much more impressed by the later episodes. Starhyke has been described many times by the creator as a "Marmite show", and while I can see that there's a lot wrong with Season 1, I am a fan nonetheless. It's certainly not the first sci-fi series to have a flawed first season, and for what it's worth, any further seasons will likely be much better.