Talk:Land of the Giants

Irwin Allen's long-term plans

Did Irwin Allen ever hint what his long term plans were for the series if it had run three more seasons? Would the Spindrift crew ever make it home to Earth? Would the exact relationship of the Giants' planet to the rest of the solar system ever be determined? I used to consider it was perhaps Earth's twin planet on the opposite side of the sun, but if Earth can be seen from the Giants' planet, the Sun could not be in the way. Perhaps the Giants' planet is in an orbit just outside our own, but the "dimension lock" keeps it from perturbing, or being perturbed by, the Earth's gravity! Too bad Irwin isn't still with us to share his ideas, but it would have been nice if a five-year series run had cleared this up, bit by bit. GBC (talk) 21:51, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Aside from the aformentioned giant-giants, no. Based on his other series. One can easily determine the answer is No. The Spindrift would have never made it home as Allen would have kept them with a cliffhanger or open ended in case the series was continued another season. As for being able to see the Earth from the giants planet. This was obviously a lie meant to buy time. Why people think it was the truth is odd to say the least. Omega2064 (talk) 17:57, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

A single long term plan hint

The only hint of Irwin Allen's long term plans that I have heard about is this. During the final season of the show,Allen's writers were pressing him to do a episode where Inspector Kobick meets space explorers from still another planet who would have been as big to him as he was to the Spindrift crew. Allen was reportedly not enthusiastic about the story and he dragged his feet until the show was off the air. Had the show continued another season he probably would have had to produce the episode. Allen did not reportedly like the idea so I am wondering what some of the shows fans think of it. March O8,2010 (SAMDEHAM) —Preceding unsigned comment added by SAMDEHAM (talk • contribs) 02:49, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Theme Music

Is the theme music the same as in Lost in Space? Avalon (talk) 01:34, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

I listened again, no they're not the same. Avalon (talk) 07:38, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

No, the two themes are not the same, though John Williams wrote both. But in one episode, "Seven Little Indians," Irwin Allen actually put in a Lost in Space track to end the fourth act, just before the tag. He did that just once.Temlakos (talk) 23:22, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Unfulfilled potential

This is the best place to talk about what Land of the Giants might have been, if Irwin Allen had grown up just a little.

Irwin Allen, quite simply, did not know what he had, and what he had created. And because he did not know, he threw away an opportunity.

Here's an authoritarian society – the Giant society – that runs on galloping mass paranoia, and beset with dissent from several quarters, and an occasional real threat of international terrorism (see "Doomsday"). Add to it: pseudo-ops, and a tendency of the "citizens" to act like sheep. And yet it has its heroes: the professor in "The Underground," and Senator Obek in "Sabotage."

Now someone here mentioned that one of Irwin Allen's team wanted him to do an episode where Giants of another order of magnitude come to the Land of the Giants and give Inspector Kobick the scare of his life. Well, Irwin Allen was right to file that in the circular file. It would have been six kinds of dumb.

But here is what Irwin Allen should have done:

By second season's end, Inspector Kobick has gotten fired. No, not fired: kicked upstairs, promoted into a nothing job that happens to pay more. The new head of the SID is the former Lieutenant Grayson from "Doomsday." But Kobick doesn't strike me as one who would go away all that easily.

Now consider: Senator Obek is standing for re-election. A resentful Kobick joins the campaign of Obek's opponent, who is part of the faction that has always wanted to keep control. Kobick's game is simple opposition research – try to intimate an improper relationship between Obek and his secretary. But what Kobick does not realize is that some people in that faction like to go further than merely digging up dirt. They're planning another pseudo-op, like the one Bolgar pulled in "Sabotage." All right, Kobick, which is it to be: your ideology, or whatever integrity you have left?

But Steve Burton has a problem, too. Three different sets of Giants are trying to use him:

1. Senator Obek's campaign,
2. The Gigantic equivalent of the John Birch Society, and
3. An even more fanatical movement who would love to use that pseudo-op as their chance to overthrow the government and set up their own, even worse tyranny.

Can Steve sort this out?

Whom can he trust?

That would have made enough material for four episodes at the end of one season, and a fifth to start the next.Temlakos (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

• Talk pages are for discussing how to improve the article, NOT for fan discussion regarding the merits of a show. 70.76.69.162 (talk) 15:37, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Original research

There's way too much OR in this article. The discussion of the political system, the areas Allen didn't cover - I mean, comparing to Watergate, really? In the 1960s? - none of this is acceptable without third party source. Per WP: NOR and WP: BOLD, I'm removing some of it but the article needs to be policed further. 70.76.69.162 (talk) 15:37, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

This one is laughable. It's not even original research. It's original fairy tale. "One continent or hemisphere is dominated by an authoritarian government (or more precisely, like America at the height of 1950s McCarthyism) which tolerates broad freedoms for a capitalist system. It simply does not tolerate any effort to effect political change. " McCarthy had nothing to do with disallowing efforts at political change. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.1.72.68 (talk) 02:09, 15 October 2016 (UTC)