1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:07,960 This is MJ welcome to red panda report special report number three one last chance 2 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:11,120 So this time I'm talking about 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:12,920 episode 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:19,480 17 of season one of the red panda. I'm sorry not at the red panda of the shadow, which is why it's a special episode 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:25,880 So this is season one episode 17 sabotage originally aired January 16th, 1938 and 6 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,440 And I'll just jump right on into it 7 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,880 By the way, if you want to you can pause this go back into the feed go back into the show notes or go back 8 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,620 Onto mg-manos.com and you can find the link for the episode 9 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:43,000 It'll be I think it'll be called episode. This is episode. This is a special number three 10 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,040 So this will be two point five because it's before three 11 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,520 Right, and that'll that's where you can find sabotage 12 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,920 So anyway, listen to that bad boy and then come back here and hear me talk about it 13 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:57,440 I know that you've done that I want to tell you what I thought was off this episode 14 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,920 the exposition 15 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:05,540 Conversation between Lamont and Margo would have been much better as a description from the narrator 16 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,740 Perhaps the dialogue could have been reworked so that it would work out 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,400 More smoothly and more naturally between the two of them. But the way it was here. It was just odd 18 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:19,420 Excuse me. I just got a report from the sanctum. Let me see. Let me recover where I was 19 00:01:19,420 --> 00:01:22,840 Oh, yes. There we go. The dialogue could have been more natural for the exposition 20 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,480 They came quite close in the current iteration of the episode to saying as you know 21 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:31,320 Which you know, you're not supposed to do right? 22 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:38,180 Anyway, moving on to the stuff that was on it was very good in the performance of the episode is the terror in the voices 23 00:01:38,180 --> 00:01:40,180 of the men dying of 24 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:46,020 Sabotage in the montage that started the episode is chilling. It felt so very real 25 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:50,260 Yeah, it actually moved me a little bit hearing these guys 26 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:53,780 Dying and I know it was fake and it was for radio 27 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:58,340 It was for the drama of a show, but it just really hit me. So good on them 28 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:02,060 Something I found odd was a on time in the shadow 29 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:07,300 I have a standoff similar to that from the temple bells of Nibon, but I find it exciting 30 00:02:07,300 --> 00:02:09,300 There is tension in the scene 31 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:13,580 Again another transmission from the sanctum interrupting my 32 00:02:14,140 --> 00:02:17,540 Transmission here my recording anyway 33 00:02:18,420 --> 00:02:23,900 So yeah, there's a similar standoff like from the temple bells of Nibon, but I really felt the tension here 34 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:30,780 I think it's because onheim has the gas in the room and it's hurting him 35 00:02:32,260 --> 00:02:34,260 And he 36 00:02:34,260 --> 00:02:39,740 Let me say one of their smart gases is it because onheim gases and threatens to shoot the shadow himself 37 00:02:39,740 --> 00:02:44,220 Oh, maybe because he's handling it himself as opposed to relying on a hired gunman to do it for him 38 00:02:44,220 --> 00:02:46,860 Or is it because onheim is affected by the gas too? I'm not sure 39 00:02:47,380 --> 00:02:50,060 But that is a good detail that I do enjoy them including there 40 00:02:51,540 --> 00:02:54,660 All right, and there were some gadgets at play in this episode 41 00:02:55,460 --> 00:02:59,900 Margo uses a shortwave radio setup Lamont mentions a radio set up 42 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:05,900 Lamont mentions a frequency he uses as the shadow it's unclear to me if he has a personal radio device on him 43 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:12,100 Or if he can somehow use his powers or natural magic as he might call it to communicate in a way 44 00:03:12,340 --> 00:03:20,300 That she can pick up on with said equipment. That's kind of weird red panda. You'll see in flying squirrel both have radio rings 45 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:23,900 And they use them 46 00:03:24,380 --> 00:03:26,380 So talking with his villain Doctor Strange 47 00:03:26,380 --> 00:03:30,940 They use them so talking with his villain, Dr. Onheim 48 00:03:31,340 --> 00:03:34,780 He's a doctor at a sanitarium and the head of a sabotage ring 49 00:03:34,780 --> 00:03:41,680 I don't think it has ever explained why he is sabotaging military ships, but Lamont and Margo speak of the shadow working for his country 50 00:03:42,340 --> 00:03:49,180 On this case, is it possible that onheim was part of the German-American Bund and working to undermine US forces? 51 00:03:49,260 --> 00:03:53,540 The German-American Bund or GAB was established in 1936 52 00:03:53,540 --> 00:03:57,020 This episode would have taken place you would imagine in 1938 53 00:03:58,020 --> 00:04:02,980 Captain America punched out Hitler on a comic book cover in 1941 as part of an effort 54 00:04:03,380 --> 00:04:09,620 From certain individuals to try to get the United States involved in World War two among other things. So it's 55 00:04:10,340 --> 00:04:12,340 Reasonable that that could be what that's about 56 00:04:13,580 --> 00:04:17,860 I didn't really pick up on any any nuggets of lore from this episode 57 00:04:17,860 --> 00:04:19,580 I really enjoy sabotage overall 58 00:04:19,580 --> 00:04:24,660 It's a very tense episode that mix in the beginning of all the guys dying to sabotage is is terrible 59 00:04:24,660 --> 00:04:30,620 And like I said for some reason there's really good tension with the professor dying and then there the doctor on I'm dying 60 00:04:30,620 --> 00:04:32,620 And then it's interesting 61 00:04:32,860 --> 00:04:36,080 The shadow warns onheim that he has sabotaged his boat 62 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,880 So it'll become a death trap for him and he doesn't believe the shadow he flees on it and he dies 63 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:45,360 Anyway as the shadows recovering and the cops come in to help because he had Margo call them 64 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,400 It's tied up really nicely and it's tidy and onheim is a bad guy 65 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:55,560 But it's interesting how clever he is and how he can detect the shadow or guess that the shadows there in the room with him 66 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,560 And it's just it was a really fun episode 67 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:03,120 The actress for Margo Lane isn't the typical one or isn't the one from the first couple episodes. She was out or something 68 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,600 But yeah, that's pretty much it. I 69 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:14,880 Hope you enjoyed that go to MJMunoz.com to leave any questions comments or other feedback you might have 70 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,960 There you can find all of my analysis art and fiction. I 71 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,880 cover books tokusatsu comic books anime and more 72 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:39,880 Look around you're sure to find something else that you'll enjoy as well. This has been a story over everything production