And the verdict is... ? (Instrument of Destruction review)

by **hazel** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:46 pm

Indgio - Join the "they didn't do it like that in OUR day" generation. Old age creeps up fast these days, don't it?

by **Steven** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:06 am

Marion wrote: James C - MOM - is Ministry of Mayhem - a children's 'programme' with silly games, guest stars and 'fun' - very slapstick. The very first episode of CS was shown in 2 ten minute chunks with a gap of about 20 minutes in between - whilst they played a 'game' of trying to identify somebody's mother.
The second part of the series - the following week - was shown towards the end of the show - with only a break for adverts. But it did have a scroll message running across it twice - with a quiz question and the phone number...
It seems that the howls of protest after the frist episode, must've done some good! Part 2 came over much better - there was a chance for the tension to build. Mind you - it'd be even better with NO adverts and no scrolling messages... we can but hope.

Too right, this should of been show on BBC1 or BBC2. Even then the BBC sometimes cuts programmes in sections.

by **Captain Indigo** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:54 pm

hazel wrote:Indgio - Join the "they didn't do it like that in OUR day" generation. Old age creeps up fast these days, don't it?

That's a depressing thought, considering the fact that I turned 20 two weeks ago!

by **C21** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:59 pm

The new series of Captain Scarlet more or less in time for your 20th brthday. You luck so and so!

I'll have the DVDs sent out by family in time for my 40th birthday.

Time for a sherry and a lie down. :cry:

C not so 21

by **captain wil** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:00 am

C21 wrote:Ah Swap Shop ... how about Saturday Scene with Sally James? For some reason eating Freddo the Chocolate Frog (Cadburys) and sitting through Saturday Scene after watching one of Gerry's shows feels more like three minutes ago rather than three decades

C21

Uh, oh - I feel a nostalgia fest coming on!
My one lasting memory of Sally James' pre-Tiswas saturdays was when she had Martian Landau and Barbara Bain on as guests and they had some real Space 1999 props as prizes in a compo! Oh, how I wanted those!!

Sorry, off topic I know.

Wil

by **Kambei** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:59 pm

Marion, would we really want the BBC to get their hands on our favourite show? The slightest hint of anything controversial and it would be cut to ribbons. Also, the next episode would be postponed for X number of weeks to fit in with major sporting events. They would also have competition and advert blurbs going across the bottom of the screen. I admit that ITV is far from perfect, but maybe Scarlet would have been better served being shown like the Dan Dare cartoon was. Now what a wasted oppotunity that was. Please don't get me started on that subject. Especially Digby being a cockney. Nothing against them, but I happen to come from Wigan.
I will be interested to see what format the repeats are shown in.

by **Marion** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:15 pm

The Beeb showed the 90's repeats at 6pm - no advert breaks, no scrolls - just CS - wonderful. That'll do me.

by **shaqui** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:16 am

Marion wrote:The Beeb showed the 90's repeats at 6pm - no advert breaks, no scrolls - just CS - wonderful. That'll do me.

Yeah but they edited 'UFO', and hacked the titles of 'Space:1999' about before the fans yelled out and they expanded the time slot from the 45 minutes (what were they thinking!!??) allocated.

by **Scarlet Lady** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:09 am

Kambei wrote:Marion, would we really want the BBC to get their hands on our favourite show? The slightest hint of anything controversial and it would be cut to ribbons. Also, the next episode would be postponed for X number of weeks to fit in with major sporting events. They would also have competition and advert blurbs going across the bottom of the screen. I admit that ITV is far from perfect, but maybe Scarlet would have been better served being shown like the Dan Dare cartoon was. Now what a wasted oppotunity that was. Please don't get me started on that subject. Especially Digby being a cockney. Nothing against them, but I happen to come from Wigan.
I will be interested to see what format the repeats are shown in.

I'm anxious to find out about repeat slots, myself! MOM's 'OK' - heck, it's no worse than the Saturday morning TV I watched when I was younger...

However, what they do to Captain Scarlet leaves a lot to be desired, and the other programmes they show drive me mental, meaning that I have to keep the ruddy box switched off, or on silent. This meant that last week, when they changed the broadcast time without saying a flipping word, I thought I'd missed it!

Grr! Can't wait to get the DVDs - that'll put an end to all this!

Sorry, I'm done, now. :oops:

by **Marion** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:42 am

I can't speak about what the Beeb did to 'Space 1999' - which I have never - and do not particularly want to - watched. I had not been able to see 'UFO' at all when it was first broadcast - and I did want to watch that one - so on the grounds that anything is better than nothing - the Beeb did okay by me.
I am not a great Sci-Fi fan - so comparisons with Babylon 5, Dan Dare, Star-Gate - mean nothing to me. I have never seen them. I even gave up watching 'Doctor Who' when Peter Davidson took over, as I couldn't take to him at all.
I watched Star Trek in all its forms, because my husband did and still does, like them. I liked them too - but not so as I would want to spend my time talking about them decades later.
When BBC 2 started showing 'Thunderbirds' and then the other Anderson shows I was delighted - especially as they did not have advert breaks in them. I have a lifelong aversion to adverts and there has to be a powerful draw for me to watch anything on a channel that has them in. These days I can, thankfully, video the programme and fast forward through the breaks.

I would have prefered the new CS:CGI to have been shown uninterrupted, at a sensible time, when I could have set my video and watched it afterwards, safe from custard pie throwing contests - or whatever drivel MOM choses to desecrate the screens with

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(I work until 7pm weekdays and Saturday mornings - so the joys of Saturday morning TV passed me by as well - one of the few perks of working in a Public Library :wink:

I am really an old fogey at heart... :grin:

) As it is, I am having to rely on my family to video CS:CGI for me - so they are having to sit through MOM... I live in fear they'll rebel and plain refuse to do it! :cry:

Must dash - another day at work begins....

by **shaqui** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:07 pm

Belated thanks to Aegis for the response to Kim's questions. Kim has now simplified it to down to:

Are the detailing and rendering times different, according to how much a character is used? (e.g. Scarlet, Black, Destiny etc would have more but background characters less)

I hope that makes sense...

by **Kambei** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:56 am

One good thing about the new series opening theme, it could NEVER be as bad as the Japanese version of the theme music for the original series. :roll:

For anyone who has not experienced this, please believe me when I say, you really don't want to. I have just been watching the extras DVD that came with the box set and was feeling masochistic from insomnia, so I put it on. :cry:

by **gojohnniegogo** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:30 am

Before Captain Indigo's age was revealed, I was going to say, "Hey, you're about my age!" 21 on the 8th infact, and still proud to get up at a random unspecified time in the morning to watch Captain Scarlet. Sky Mix had two classic episodes on two weeks ago including "The Launching". And when I do indeed get up for CS I seem to resemble the ever-pale Captain Black, having gone to bed about three AM. I also grew up watching Going Live, L&K, Ghost Train and whatever else they had on ITV to replace Ghost Train. I think that was the one with Jenny Powell.

Anyway I have been impressed with the show and thought that its going to get better. But I do have my complaints:

1. Lt. Green - I think this is one most people agree on, I've really stuck up for Mr. Griffiths on my IMDB posts. One of the questions I'd ask Mr. Anderson would be "If some of the new characters aren't well recieved would you think about changing them?"

2. Destiny - Why oh, why couldn't they have left her voice? That accent was great!

What I'd like to point ouit is that Brown exploding is still a posibility, he's on the cast list on the news page of Spectrum HQ! And if I'm not mistaken, we've already seen Captain Indigo in Instrument of Destruction PT2, steering the vehicle Captain Blue was in I think.

Well roll on rest of the series. And let's hope there's a little more than cameo roles for Indigo and Brown, though it doesnt look likeley.

by **Captain Indigo** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:39 am

gojohnniegogo wrote:Before Captain Indigo's age was revealed, I was going to say, "Hey, you're about my age!" 21 on the 8th infact...

Now, isn't that a very odd thing? My 20th birthday was on the 9th!

by **gojohnniegogo** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 6:54 pm

Captain Indigo wrote:
gojohnniegogo wrote:Before Captain Indigo's age was revealed, I was going to say, "Hey, you're about my age!" 21 on the 8th infact...

Now, isn't that a very odd thing? My 20th birthday was on the 9th!

Whoops, guess I wasn't clear, mines actually 8th March. Sorry for confusion. Still a pattern, mind.