What kind of Scarlet story would you most like to see?

[Parker Gabriel]

According to Century 21/Mentorn Television and Cinema Productions, Paul Metcalfe and Juliette Pointon had served alongside each other for two years. The Colonel, in "All The Colours Of The Rainbow," blamed Metcalfe for almost getting Pointon cashiered--instead, Metcalfe's father, a general officer, proved to be a wily kind of a man, as he used his authority to get Pointon transferred. That killed any other romantic possibilities for the two.

Then Mary Rudy came along with "Moonlight Rhapsody" and "Good Knight, Dear Lady," and that sealed it.

[chrisbishop]

Actually, to put things into perspective, Mary came first with her two stories. Mine was written well after them. I don't remember if the idea of Paul and Juliette being lovers a few years ago was hers or Kimberly Murphy's (I'll check that out when I'll have a minute, so to put the record straight), but the fact that the two of them may had been close also came to me.

The speculation DEFINITELY takes its source into the first episode of the series, when Destiny is called upon by Doctor Fawn (in sickbay?) to identify the body retrieved from the Car-Vu as Captain Scarlet (or was he already alive at the moment, it is not that clear...)

The Scarlet/Rhapsody idea was Mary's, and I just found it could be fun to continue with that... In any case, Rhapsody has been a major player in some official or semi official sources. Her biography is one of the most detailed (even if it's probably THE MOST confusing of all), she plays a big part in "THE ANGELS" comic strips (seems the storyline officially starts with her recruitment), she's a proeminent characters in two of the three novels written by John Theydon (in the first one, she seems close enough to Scarlet) and has a story for herself in the graphic novel like album, "The Angels" - which contains two stories (and in hers, having suffered a broken leg, she is transported out of the jungle into the arms of Captain Scarlet...)

It seems that the idea appealed to other writers as well, considering the amount of fanfic that have depicted them as a couple!

Strangely enough, I found, in the last years, a few websites which listed them as 'official couple'. Whether the fanfic or the other sources I listed above are responsible of this remains a mystery!

[captain canary]

About Destiny and Captain Scarlet...

...and she and Scarlet get rather chummy in the ditch during 'Seek and Destroy'... I mean, she doesn't take the chance to cuddle up with Captain Blue (the silly girl) does she?

Well, she probably knows that Captain Blue is already taken, because he and Symphony are obvious enough for my four year old to pick up on. If she can work it out, I'm sure the other Angels can.

On the other hand, she seemed worried about Captain Scarlet, when he started detecting those Mysteron Angels, so maybe it's more than that. He also forgot all about Captain Blue when they were attacked, but that was said already, wasn't it?

[Parker Gabriel]

By "The Colonel," in my previous post, I do NOT mean Colonel White; I mean our fearless moderator.

[Elentari]

Having read the John Theydon stories when they were first published, I also took Scarlet and Rhapsody to be a couple. In those days, to me his books were as valid as the TV series...and of course TV21.

[Skybase Girl]

I agree, Elentari. I think back then there was an assumption that all of the 'peripheral' stuff, i.e, the books, annuals, comics etc, were 'canon' because we all thought everything must have been properly sanctioned by the creators. It was as if they were taking us, the audience, a little bit further down the line than the TV series had been able to and were 'filling in the gaps', so to speak.

It all seemed to be a collaborative effort in many ways, so all these years later, it's very hard to know who was responsible for dreaming up these things and if any of it was what Gerry and Sylvia Anderson had intended ( assuming they'd thought about it in such depth, of course! )