Re: Bennu
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:31 pm
Looks like I'm dropping by the UCLA archive next time I'm in L.A.!
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As you can see, he even now owns the original Phoenix medallion, which was made out of gold.I am most interested in anything you want to discuss about the show or its star, and especially its Effects on you, as it has so dramatically changed my life (and still continues to). I saw it when it first came out but did not begin to notice anything until I got to see "In Search Of Mira" for the first time since SINCE 1982 - on Odometric Millennium Day, 1/1/2000. If you believe in God, whatever you call Him, that is one of a great number of Divine Practical Jokes and other Interventions He has blessed me with - most coming directly FROM The Phoenix.
For example, Mark Carliner said that all of his paperwork for the show was lost, along with that of several others of his, when a storage unit was emptied without his authorization. The films (positives and negatives) and a set of magnetic tapes (from which the DVD masters were made after I had to pay thousands in unexpected costs for color correction, hence the price) were all that was left -except for the original series Medallion, complete with a link where a "break loop" must have been so when the deputy pulls it off Bennu's neck the chain can't be seen to break (and of course is whole in the later scenes). Imagine what it feels like the few hours a week I allow myself to wear It. Because of the closed break loop, it's proven to be the original, the one seen in the close up as Bennu takes his Sun Charge - at least until the glow fades and he is wearing a different one, a modified pilot Medallion (with bar over the Phoenix's head, but no gem).
As a compulsive collector I began a collection of The Phoenix / Judson Scott memorabilia, which was still in its infancy the one time I met Judson and he proclaimed it "the best collection of The Phoenix in the US - no, the world."
Now I have so many amazing things in it. One non-Phoenix one is from Wrath Of Khan. If you've ever seen the promo photo which includes Khan and Joachim in confrontation (it's very common) it has the code "ST-II - 5169 -19 on it. 5169 refers to the contact print number for that pose, 19 being the cell chosen for the particular pose used on the promo. And I have that contact print sheet!
Sadly Judson is ultraprivate when not in performance / convention mode so he will never see it while I am alive
When you watch the DVDs, since you are already a recipient of the Effects, open yourself to them. Perhaps you will be further Blessed.
Yours forever in The Phoenix and the Hope for Humanity it brings.
Richard
This they never mention by name in the pilot. I have a pic from the pre-credits sequence in the European VHS release.