Starhyke

Not sure if I'm in the right place for this thread, but anyway.

Has anybody heard of a Brit sci-fi comedy series called "Starhyke"? I was in the pub tonight having a drink with a writer mate who was talking about it - he said it's one of the worst things he's ever seen, and the prod co who made it entirely financed the series themselves but they haven't been able to sell it to any channel.

Don't know much more about it, apart from the fact that it looks like there's been a lot of (perhaps ill-advised) cash thrown at it, and it has Claudia Christian from Babylon 5 in it, and Danny John Jules.

Trailer's here, it seems to start off as a serious, Battlestar Galactica type sci-fi thing, then it changes into...something else. Not sure what. Anyway, check it out. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJHCy4xg8k4

Available on DVD and got about 1 star from both the reputable scifi mags in the UK.

I don't know if I'm just very susceptible to suggestion but I watched the trailer and have now purchased series 1 from Play...

Quote: Die Hard @ July 20 2010, 8:29 AM BST

I don't know if I'm just very susceptible to suggestion but I watched the trailer and have now purchased series 1 from Play...

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Cool! Report back when you've seen it, I'm genuinely interested to hear what it's like.

Will do. Got to run just realised I'm late for work! Effects look brilliant.

Susan Ivanova, Cat and Boba Fett all in the same show! It looks like they've spliced spare Babylon 5 SFX with something made by Ed Wood.

I want it!

2.2/10 on IMDB though. This has got to be the sort of thing that goes cult.

Quote: Lee Henman @ July 20 2010, 8:43 AM BST

Cool! Report back when you've seen it, I'm genuinely interested to hear what it's like.

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Hi Lee if you're still online at this late hour

I am 100% in agreement with your friend's assessment. This is the worst thing I have ever seen. Ever. Having just watched the first episode and 2/3s of the 2nd I can honestly say I feel thoroughly violated. It is BAD, not good bad, it is dire.

I'd like to quantify that by saying that I genuinely loved Hyperdrive and didn't mind the Halle Berry remake of Catwoman, so my standards are not impossibly high.

The best thing in it (apart from the effects and half-android's voice - which was cool) was Claudia Christian, and she was terrible. Really, truly terrible. My eyes are still burning.

Danny John Jules was only in it for a split second and I think that was just a one-off as he is listed as a guest star.

The writing (if indeed it was written, rather than just improvised whilst stoned) is beyond dreadful. Poor botched film homages (which made me want to claw off my own skin) are only marginally better than the juvenile nonsense in between. I am so disappointed, the trailer looked fantastic.

I notice it says 'Created and Directed by Andrew Dymond' and wonder if that is because the 'writer' either never existed, or ran off (before he was as brutally murdered as the original concept).

It plays out like the work of a 17 year old virgin, Benny Hill obsessive with learning difficulties, whose only talent lies in CGI and sound effects.

Do not watch this. It is painful.

Hope that helps. I have posted this here, rather than PM you, ...to warn others.

Thanks for a comprehensive and damning report that only reinforces the general concensus that this series was a dribbling, festering canker on the very anus of British Comedy.

Can't wait to see it, I've ordered the DVD too. I wonder if it's SO bad that in the future it could attain Plan 9 From Outer Space status?

I think the genuinely lovely space effects, and the (really quite cool) half-android's electronic voice might just pull it back from 'Plan 9' status but it really did make 'Coming of Age' look like 'Friends'.

The only funny / best bit in it, is when the alien on board falls through each floor of the ship and the computer says 'intruder on level 9 ...8 ...7 ...6 ...5 etc as they smash through each floor. ...It's quite early on and gives the impression that it may improve. It does not.