Part II: "Just On The Border of Your Waking Mind"
“Oh yes, the rivalry was real to start with, especially with Denise working on the show. But we soon found that we had much the same audience, and before we knew it, people were starring in one show, then appearing in the other. There’s a real sense of camaraderie between our two franchises now.”
- Marina Sirtis, taken from a 1993 interview.
“I’m not sure what anybody thought was going to happen going into the nineties, with the fall of the Iron Curtain, but there seemed to be a real feeling of hope in America at least. In the end, we got a decade full of camp fun with serious drama.”
- allohistory.com user GallifreyHands on a thread titled “AHC: Change the culture of the 1990s significantly’”. [1]
“The musical looked like it was going to be mainly an animated thing going into the 1990s, but we managed to change that. Not that there weren’t live action musicals before, they were just less common. Now, it seems like every summer there are two or three blockbuster films based on some concept album or a musical.”
- Andrew Lloyd-Webber, taken from a 2008 interview. [2]
“I loved working on that show. Admittedly, I was somewhat typecast for a while afterwards, but it really helped me go from a pure comedic actor to more serious work that I do today. Comedy is really a young man’s game.”
- Hugh Laurie, taken from
An Adventure in Space and Time. [3]
[1] Part II will cover 1988-1995(-ish). Many thing will happen as OTL, but many will not.
[2] You'll come to see that this is hardly due to his influence alone, but he would probably say this.
[3] The last part is paraphrasing an actual Hugh Laurie quote. Given the time frame, I hardly think its a spoiler to reveal he won't be around forever, but he will stay for a while.