Remember when George Lucas went back to the first three films in his Star Wars Saga and “tweaked” the special effects?  It bothered me a bit because the first three films are iconic, and their effects were state of the art at the time that they were made.

The wholesale re-editing of scenes is another matter, but that’s a topic for another day.

Recently I discovered Space: 2099, which takes Space:1999–one of my favorite science-fiction series and iconic in its own right–and gives it a spit-and-polish treatment that brings it more in line with modern sensibilities.

What this “new” version of the show also does, which in its way is more important that  jazzed up special effects, is to bring continuity to the stories, addressing what was at the time the biggest problem that the series had, which was the jarring change in set and costume design,and characters from the first season to the second.