This is MJ welcome to red panda report special report number three one last chance
So this time I'm talking about
episode
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
So this is season one episode 17 sabotage originally aired January 16th, 1938 and
And I'll just jump right on into it
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
Onto mg-manos.com and you can find the link for the episode
It'll be I think it'll be called episode. This is episode. This is a special number three
So this will be two point five because it's before three
Right, and that'll that's where you can find sabotage
So anyway, listen to that bad boy and then come back here and hear me talk about it
I know that you've done that I want to tell you what I thought was off this episode
the exposition
Conversation between Lamont and Margo would have been much better as a description from the narrator
Perhaps the dialogue could have been reworked so that it would work out
More smoothly and more naturally between the two of them. But the way it was here. It was just odd
Excuse me. I just got a report from the sanctum. Let me see. Let me recover where I was
Oh, yes. There we go. The dialogue could have been more natural for the exposition
They came quite close in the current iteration of the episode to saying as you know
Which you know, you're not supposed to do right?
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
of the men dying of
Sabotage in the montage that started the episode is chilling. It felt so very real
Yeah, it actually moved me a little bit hearing these guys
Dying and I know it was fake and it was for radio
It was for the drama of a show, but it just really hit me. So good on them
Something I found odd was a on time in the shadow
I have a standoff similar to that from the temple bells of Nibon, but I find it exciting
There is tension in the scene
Again another transmission from the sanctum interrupting my
Transmission here my recording anyway
So yeah, there's a similar standoff like from the temple bells of Nibon, but I really felt the tension here
I think it's because onheim has the gas in the room and it's hurting him
And he
Let me say one of their smart gases is it because onheim gases and threatens to shoot the shadow himself
Oh, maybe because he's handling it himself as opposed to relying on a hired gunman to do it for him
Or is it because onheim is affected by the gas too? I'm not sure
But that is a good detail that I do enjoy them including there
All right, and there were some gadgets at play in this episode
Margo uses a shortwave radio setup Lamont mentions a radio set up
Lamont mentions a frequency he uses as the shadow it's unclear to me if he has a personal radio device on him
Or if he can somehow use his powers or natural magic as he might call it to communicate in a way
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
And they use them
So talking with his villain Doctor Strange
They use them so talking with his villain, Dr. Onheim
He's a doctor at a sanitarium and the head of a sabotage ring
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
On this case, is it possible that onheim was part of the German-American Bund and working to undermine US forces?
The German-American Bund or GAB was established in 1936
This episode would have taken place you would imagine in 1938
Captain America punched out Hitler on a comic book cover in 1941 as part of an effort
From certain individuals to try to get the United States involved in World War two among other things. So it's
Reasonable that that could be what that's about
I didn't really pick up on any any nuggets of lore from this episode
I really enjoy sabotage overall
It's a very tense episode that mix in the beginning of all the guys dying to sabotage is is terrible
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
And then it's interesting
The shadow warns onheim that he has sabotaged his boat
So it'll become a death trap for him and he doesn't believe the shadow he flees on it and he dies
Anyway as the shadows recovering and the cops come in to help because he had Margo call them
It's tied up really nicely and it's tidy and onheim is a bad guy
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
And it's just it was a really fun episode
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
But yeah, that's pretty much it. I
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