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Originally Posted by Damocles
ISLAND CITY
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110163/
This had potential: 
The problems are of course how do you explain a viable city in a waste world?
You need a Harlan Ellison or a JMS to pull it off. I can see a type of New Chicago story on a Buck Rogers type fallen Earth, but you have to have cojones to run with the concept. |
I find it hilarious you give this one a thumbs up since it WAS a Logan's Run knock-off. Actually this one was LOGAN'S RUN meets DAMNATION ALLEY with a twist of AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK.
the people having crystals embedded in their skin is a obvious nod to LR. However I liked the twist that the crystals were for identifying genetic compatibility, which is part of why I think this would have made such a great series. In the right hands you have quite a bit to explore as that idea gives you a stratified social structure based not on skin color but crystal color. Plenty of room for exploration of cultural taboos via metaphor, I thought.
Wish it had been picked up.
