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Space: 1999
Space: 1999 Alpha
The adventure begun in Omega continues!
Moonbase Alpha struggles to survive as past, present, and future collide and the fate of a universe hangs in the balance!
Moonbase Alpha struggles to survive as past, present, and future collide and the fate of a universe hangs in the balance!
169 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2010
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September 7, 2011
If you were looking for something that takes a huge stinking shit on Alphan mythology then Alpha and its so-called prequel Omega fit that need. Bill is my favorite "new" author in the Powys line but I am quite disappointed with this highly confusing rambling story. If this is the future of Alpha, I may not care what happens to them. After reading Alpha, I lowered my initial ranking of Omega to one star from two.
February 27, 2013
I think the issue ultimately around stories like this is that tying everything in a neat bow causes existing stories to lose their edginess. Dragons Domain was always a frightening story but the use of the "dragons" as tame monsters now renders them as merely " misunderstood". Stories thrive when you don't explain everything,when mystery pervades back-story. This issue is what happened imho with the Star Wars prequels and it's what's happened with Omega and Alpha. The loss of Victor Bergman in the previous stories was sad and filled with regret; bringing him back here just serves to cheapen the previous storyline. Paul's reappearance is similarly an issue.
I think the story also suffered from endless fight scenes which served to reduce the struggle to an arms race between opposing sides rather than a moral conflict and struggle.
Overall, I feel the story could have been better served by a single volume and with less thought to tying up disparate storylines. Space:1999 worked best with mystery and through difficult ambiguous storylines with no clear resolution. I'm not saying for a minute they didn't have major flaws at times, but as compared to the stories in the Powys series that came before, unfortunately Omega/Alpha tried too hard.
I think the story also suffered from endless fight scenes which served to reduce the struggle to an arms race between opposing sides rather than a moral conflict and struggle.
Overall, I feel the story could have been better served by a single volume and with less thought to tying up disparate storylines. Space:1999 worked best with mystery and through difficult ambiguous storylines with no clear resolution. I'm not saying for a minute they didn't have major flaws at times, but as compared to the stories in the Powys series that came before, unfortunately Omega/Alpha tried too hard.
March 27, 2010
(Finished 2010-03-27 before 19:20 EDT)
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