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The Big Fat Mine Field Thread of 90s Nostalgia

The '90s begins (more or less) with "Terminator 2" and "Star Trek VI" and ends with "The Matrix" (and "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" but we try to forget that). And TNG: Best of Both Worlds is 1990.
 
I had the hugest crush on Delores here:



Which pretty much fits my pattern because apparently she was a complete psycho and I was completely on board with psychos in 1993.
 
And while my little squirrel brain is on the thought train here, how about this shit with Proto-Frodo?

 
Or this, for that matter.
 
If I may derail for boring nerdiness for a moment, "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" is interesting to me on a number of levels:

It started out kind of like "Columbo", where it wasn't a series, it was occasional movies. Originally it stuck a bit closer to the actual mythology--and they actually got Anthony Quinn to play Zeus. Then it's like, they realized the costumes and actors were cheap and you could do a lot of the location shooting just outside in New Zealand and started cranking out a sword and sandals series that could be syndicated and make a nice little profit. Then they had the "Warrior Princess" episode and realized that the format would be even more successful if they replaced the titular character and his buddy with hot chicks and we got "Xena: Warrior Princess."
 


Round The Twist was first aired by the BBC in April 1990, when I would have been 8. I definitely remember watching it from the start (and having feelings I didn't quite understand yet about the daughter) and it marked a shift for me from the CHILDISH shows I enjoyed to the eighties to MATURE ADULT DRAMA. Okay, it obviously wasn't that, but it still felt a bit more EDGY and scary than any kids' show I'd seen before. The theme song is burned into the brain of any one who saw it at the time and I wanted to live in a lighthouse because that seemed cool.
 
Premiered in the summer of 1990 and ran for 6 seasons... one of my all-time favorites

 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Premiered in the summer of 1990 and ran for 6 seasons... one of my all-time favorites

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Wow, I thought Northern Exposure was post 1990 by a bit, but cool show.
 
 
The UPN is the epitome of the '90s. Anyhow, I was rolling the "Hercules" theme around in my head while walking The Dog and thinking how tedious and self-important the ST:VOY theme is so when I got home I pulled up the Voyager credits in one window, muted the sound on it, and played the Hercules theme in another window. Obviously the visual cues don't match up perfectly, and the Hercules theme is almost a minute shorter than Voyager's credits, but it's interesting--a totally different vibe than the Goldsmith theme.

And that theme ruined me on Goldsmith for a long time. I associated him with ponderous pompous scores until I eventually realized all the great stuff he's done--including the theme for "Stargate: SG-1".
 
I've been running around setting clocks forward because that's a thing, and randomly decided to do the car clock and also see if the CD player in the thing still works. It does.

 
CaptainWacky said:


Round The Twist was first aired by the BBC in April 1990, when I would have been 8. I definitely remember watching it from the start (and having feelings I didn't quite understand yet about the daughter) and it marked a shift for me from the CHILDISH shows I enjoyed to the eighties to MATURE ADULT DRAMA. Okay, it obviously wasn't that, but it still felt a bit more EDGY and scary than any kids' show I'd seen before. The theme song is burned into the brain of any one who saw it at the time and I wanted to live in a lighthouse because that seemed cool.
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I loved it and yeah, the theme is completely iconic and something it is impossible to forget. I am SURE it wouldn't hold up if I watched it now but I'm really hoping that RoseTintedSpectrum does the full treatment soon. A lot of people have been pestering him in his comments to do it.

On that subject, he did series 2 of the Queens Nose!

 
And I just discovered a movie theater fairly close to me is doing 3 episodes of Twin Peaks every Sunday at 1730 hours, so I know what I'm fucking doing tomorrow.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
I've been running around setting clocks forward because that's a thing, and randomly decided to do the car clock and also see if the CD player in the thing still works. It does.
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Did someone say "car music"? (Sadly, Google tells me the song is from 1988, so it's 2 years early for the thread.)
 


The US cranks out cop shows, but NYPD Blue was one of the good ones.
 


My nephew loved Johnny Bravo.
 
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
And I just discovered a movie theater fairly close to me is doing 3 episodes of Twin Peaks every Sunday at 1730 hours, so I know what I'm fucking doing tomorrow.
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Where are you, if you don't mind? Louisville is crap on cool theaters. And the 2 that sucked the least closed. My favorite Portland theater, McMenamin's Mission Theater, did a run of "The Prisoner" that was awesome. They also did "Angel" but I was in Hawaii at the time (IIRC). I caught one night while I was in town on vacation. Wild, the idea of leaving Hawaii for a vacation.
 
Volpone said:
Where are you, if you don't mind? Louisville is crap on cool theaters. And the 2 that sucked the least closed. My favorite Portland theater, McMenamin's Mission Theater, did a run of "The Prisoner" that was awesome. They also did "Angel" but I was in Hawaii at the time (IIRC). I caught one night while I was in town on vacation. Wild, the idea of leaving Hawaii for a vacation.
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Kansas City. https://www.screenland.com/now-playing
 
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