Quote - >> Frankly I never paid that muchattention to the concept of it being an Homage to anything

Go look at some of those old serials, like Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers, and you'll see where he got a lot of his original ideas.

Oh I recognise that now, I'm just sayin'! When they came out I was in Jr. High and my art teacher took me to see the first one with his (VERY Cute) son. I might have been a bit distracted.