Flash Gordon , one of the SciFi Channel ’s raw offerings this time of year , is so mind - bogglingly awful that it has transcended into the tall mallow stratosphere and become absolutely compelling , must - keep an eye on insanity . And it ’s coming back tonight , beginning a cosmic string of raw sequence . If you tune in to this show about rift - tripping swot and hotties , you wo n’t be able to look off – partly because you might miss the regular news bulletin of nip and ass on planet Mongo , where the garb code for ladies is “ slit skirt diaphanous . ” Here are the five estimable grounds to catch Flash Gordon now , before it ’s canceled or meliorate to the point of being boring .
5 . Though all the past versions of Flash Gordon , travel back to the thirties , have had rocket ships and blank space travel , this Flash Gordon is totally post - Space Age . flashgun and his intrepid gang get to major planet Mongo via some variety of badly - define dimensional rift that looks sort of like a bad special effect run splat on the screen .
4 . Everything has a goofy name . Nobody on this show has made any effort to make the show weighty or austere , like the updated Battlestar Galactica . We still have a main character name Flash , plus satellite Mongo , govern by evil Ming , his leather - dress - wearing pal Rankol , and his girl Princess Aura . indweller of Mongo include the Hawkmen and the Deviates . Even strange is that the show retained the names Mongo and Ming , despite their origins in anti - Asian sentiment of the early twentieth century ( Ming the Merciless was originally Asiatic looking , and Mongo is a consultation to Mongolia ) – I imagine they estimate that if a bland , prissy white clotheshorse played Ming that nobody would realise .
3 . There are pile of mantle . The Hawkmen have these awful , Gwar - comparable capes that tolerate them to take flight in a way that is wonderfully inexplicable . Prince Barin has a openhanded leather ness . Who can resist a show where cape are worn with no irony ?
2 . Rankol , Ming ’s evil advisor , floats around inside a giant black - leather attire covered in rivets . It ’s hint that the ground we never see his feet is that he ’s actually scooting along on a elephantine tentacle . Plus , a part of his psyche joint out of his top dog . And he ’s get the hots for Princess Aura , which leads to hilarious thinking of what he ’d do with that tentacle given a luck .
1 . Princess Aura ’s outfits and constitution are 1980s - retro sublime . A ruddy swish across her eye matches the spangly red , see - through Stevie Nicks identification number she ’s wearing . dim lacing - up boots meet the black , see - through radical - mini sheath she ’s wear . Her eyeliner is affecting . Her gold range belts barely keep the floaty textile in check . Sometimes , she has a see - through cape . I wish Aura would vote out Flash and become the headliner of this show .
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