Captain Scarlet episode reviews...

[TRK]

Secretive, I am loving every last word of these reviews! However, I do have something to say about your take on "Expo 2068".

How far inland do you suppose the explosion could be and still have it be along the "seaboard"? Because there are an awful lot of buildings--and people inside them--along the beaches of New England and the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, I think New York City is on the Atlantic shore.

[DartBrat701]

I sort of got a kick out of the pic of Capt. Black on the roof in "The Launching".

That shot makes him look like he actually WAS inside the chimney. (I was kind of halfway expecting him to slide down it, instead of teleporting himself away, that would've been a real hoot!)

[Prismatic Avatar]

These are absolutely brilliant. I can even forgive the Magenta-bashing. It's not his fault that he got picked on for the dreaded 'comedy-interest' with the writers! But the reviews make me laugh out loud every time, which can be embarrassing if I'm being bad and sneaking a peek on the office computer!

Brilliant job, Secretive. Our loss in Uni's gain, more's the pity.

[The Secretive Bus]

Glad people are still enjoying them! Only three left to be uploaded now and that'll be it! I've no plans now to cover the new CIG series - though it's covered briefly in my final article - but I do have a desire to at some point do "Thunderbirds" as a similar guide. Not sure if I'd have the time any time soon, though. Edinburgh Uni has fully accepted me now - and I should think so too (I got AAA at A level, dammit!) - and I'll be flying up there in less than two weeks! The laptop also isn't very good in doing these guides, in that I often have to pause the DVD to take some notes down but whereas a PC does this fine the laptop tends to crash. I might do the odd episode here and there but it's more likely I wouldn't be able to do many till summer, if then. Still, I certainly haven't ruled out the possibility and I'll probably do a couple of episodes before I go as an experiment.

And I love Captain Magenta really....

[Sage]

That's great, congratulations
Shall look forward to the further updates.

[zero-x]

Well done on your grades, Secretive, they're belting. And good luck at Uni too.

But surely writing these episode reviews is much, much more important?

[DartBrat701]

Kudos to you on your high marks, Secretive!!

And you can bet your boots, that if you indeed do reviews for Thunderbirds, I will most definitely look forward to them!!

[Kinggodzillak]

I've no plans now to cover the new CIG series...

"CIG - Champagne is Go!"

[The Secretive Bus]

And the guide's finished!

[shadokp]

Great job - I eager looked forward to each new review and will probably go back and read them again right before watching the episodes again - thanks!!

While watching Joe 90 and The Secret Service I was reminded of your reviews with some of the same situations - example - the second episode of Secret Service - two men talking and one says that the water plant has run for 249 hours straight without a hitch and what possibly could go wrong - he mentions this several times and of course the plant blows up a second later!!

One thing I learned from Gerry Anderson - don't be too confident on anything!

KP

[Father Unwin]

Congratulations on a hugely entertaining body of work.

Of course, it is has been very interesting to see your ratings for each episode and everyone has different likes and dislikes. I would rate the first episode, 'The Mysterons', as a 5-Scarlet episode - so much happens in 30 minutes.

Generally, I agree to within 1-Scarlet with all your ratings but I must take issue with the following 2 episodes:

Expo 2068 - your rating 1-Scarlet; my rating 4-Scarlets!
Flight to Atlantica - your rating 5-Scarlets; my rating 2-Scarlets!

Many thanks for brightening up my day.

[Father Unwin]

It was very nice to be able to read the in-depth interview conducted by Kinggodzillak with Gary Files, the voice of Captain Magenta in OCS, on Secretive's site.

For those of you interested in his work as Matthew Harding in The Secret Service you can hear him reprising his role in an amusing sketch especially made for the US boxset. This is entitled: "Secret Confessions with Special Agent Matthew Harding".

You may know that in the actual tv series Matthew (1/3 size) is chased by Gerry Anderson's (I think) dog called Kruger in The Feathered Spies and hides in the kennel of a delightfully ugly dog which licks his face in The Deadly Whisper.

In the "Confessions" sketch there is a similar confrontation between the miniaturised Matthew and a big cat which is quite funny - no pictures though, just sound.

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[Captain Indigo]

For those of you interested in his work as Matthew Harding in The Secret Service you can hear him reprising his role in an amusing sketch especially made for the US boxset. This is entitled: "Secret Confessions with Special Agent Matthew Harding".

*sigh* No wonder I always feel that us R2s seem to be left out of everything. That's not on my boxset

[Father Unwin]

Well, for what it's worth, the US boxset is actually Region 0 and not Region 1 so you can at least watch it over here if you are prepared to pay for another copy.

I am a sad case but, being a fan of The Secret Service, I also have the Australian (Umbrella) boxset as well which is also Region 0. There is not much extra on here though so unless you are a 'completist' there is no point getting this one to.

[Elentari]

I have the Secret Service Oz set too and there was one thing I was quite impressed with - the quality of the photo stills.

OK there wasn't anything else - apart from the episodes of course - to be pleased about in that set (shame on Umbrella Ent!! ), but I have other DVD sets where the still galleries have been very very dull indeed - not to mention quite poor in actual photo quality.

It is a shame though. Having got one thing right, it's a pity there weren't more extras included.