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This is Lightly Used with Adam and Karen. 
A: Cool.

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K: What have you got there? 
A: You know, I lost my

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comm badge for my USS Shit Show costume?
K: Yeah,

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A: yeah - Found it. 
K: Oh,! Awesome. 
A: Yeah, Rob says wardrobe,

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want it back, so I've got to... 
K: Well, you know.

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Props cost a dollar and all that, and we aren't

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sponsored or anything. Can I have a play? 
A: Yeah,

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yeah. Show me, show me. Ah, fuck me. 
A: Sorry. 
K: Jesus.

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A: That was a terrible throw. 
K: That's all right.

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I'll let you off. I've always wanted to try this.

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Hang on, hang on. Two to beam up. 
A: Yeah, right. [TRANSPORTER SOUND]

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Oh, fuck. [UNTITLED SCI-FI SHOW theme plays}
Adam, I'm not sure you should be pressing

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all those buttons. They don't do anything. Really?

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Access denied, see? Yeah, it's probably for the

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best that they don't work. It gets into trouble.

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I mean, we're already kind of in a weird spot.

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As we're here, watch any good sci -fi shows?

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Films or anything lately? Yeah, actually. I have

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been absolutely overdosing on sci -fi recently.

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Thoroughly enjoying myself with it. oh what have

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i watched um from although i don't know if that

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really counts as sci -fi um there's three seasons

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of that i believe a fourth season is coming out

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this year at some point um and that's about a

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bunch of people that end up in a town that they

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can't escape and there's weird things that go

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on in the background and they're trying to figure

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out all the mysteries and how they can get out

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and people keep dying and you said it drew you

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in pretty quickly as well yeah it really did

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yeah i was i was in on that from the very first

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episode and i raw dog back to back every episode

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of the free season i know raw dog in from uh

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i highly recommend it it's really good i'm not

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going to go into too much detail about it because

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since i finished watching that i've then watched

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the leftovers That is four seasons. Oh, before

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going into the leftovers a bit more, I know that

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you said pretty much early on there were mysteries

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that really drew you in. Yes. Have any of those

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early mysteries been explained or has it been

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an ongoing, that's still there, or has that been

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explained? But now there's some further questions,

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or is it still the very first question? What

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the fuck is going on? I mean, the what the fuck

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is going on still remains throughout the spine

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of... Yeah, they are trying to figure out what

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is going on and how they can get out of the situation

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that they're in. And it's three seasons of people

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dying horribly through, I guess, like, vampiric

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means. Fun for the kids, then. Not one for the

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kids. Over 15s only, I would say, unless you've

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got a really creepy kid that's been watching

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horror movies since they were 10. Yeah, lots

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of mysteries. It's like, who is... the bad guy

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if there is a bad guy how are they trapped what

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causes them to be trapped you know what is the

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what is the barrier is it metaphysical is it

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physical is there someone behind it or is it

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an environmental thing yeah is it a big social

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experiment to see how people survive in a situation

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where they can't escape and the rules of the

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game keep changing um there's lots of side quests

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that go on that all tie into the main line of

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the story, the how have we gotten here and how

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can't we get out. I do really recommend it. I

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thoroughly enjoyed it and I will probably watch

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those three seasons again prior to the release

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of season four later this year. And what's it

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on? Is it Amazon or Netflix? It's on Sky. Yeah,

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it's one of the shows that Sky recommends at

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the moment. Sky Atlantic or Sky One? I think

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it was a Sky Atlantic. Years and years ago when

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Sky Atlantic started. I'm sure it was HBO. I

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thought that was really good. I can't remember

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the series that they had. It was one of their

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flagship things. Game of Thrones? Oh, no. This

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was, I think, way before Game of Thrones. Michael

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Gambon was in it. I think he was set in a North

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Pole or something like that. I think that was

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one of the initial shows. Oh, my God. Oh, my

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God. Was it called... Because I've seen it, and

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it keeps coming up on my recommended, and I want

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to re -watch it. It'll be about 15, 20... Fortitude.

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Yes, about 15 years old. Am I about 20 years

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old? Fortitude. Absolutely gold standard, brilliant

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television. I will re -watch that probably until

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the day I die. Yeah, as far as I remember, that

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was the flagship launch show for Sky Atlantic.

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That was, hey, we're doing big boy telly now.

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And it really is big boy telly. Yeah, Fortitude.

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It's been coming up on my, because I've got a

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Sky TV because I'm a posh cow. it comes up on

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a strip of recommended shows like The Best of

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Sky and Fortitude is in the top five at the moment.

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I'm sure I did watch that with a mate, Simon,

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when it was on, but again, we're going back nearly

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20 years now. I mean, like... I keep saying this

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every time I mention the show, it's 10 years,

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15 years, 20 years now. Yeah, yeah. And the way

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they ended Fortitude as well, they could have

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carried on with a spin -off series in mainland

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Norway. I was going to ask if it did have a second

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series. It didn't. Well, I think there was two,

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there might be... two seasons but it didn't it

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didn't hit the the thing that was going on didn't

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hit mainland but in the last episode somebody

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was infected and was on a plane that was going

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to said mainland so they could have taken it

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in a really crazy direction but they they ended

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it there uh absolute classic television i'm yeah

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brilliant whilst still promoting it There's still

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interest in it. Yeah, absolutely. Do that mainland.

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How many Jurassic Parks have there been now?

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Oh God, I don't even know. Come on, 42. You can

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leave a gap between it and go, hey, we can come

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back to this. This is what's happened. Or 28

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years later. Exactly. Big gap, come back. This

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is what's going on in the meantime. Yeah. Although

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I haven't seen either of the new, is there two

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or three new, new ones? Haven't seen beyond 28

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weeks. I haven't seen beyond 28 weeks later.

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So the two most recent movies I have not seen,

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but I would like to. I know, yeah, from Rob and

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Tom, they can highly recommend it. Yeah, Tom

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particularly enjoyed Bone Temple. I think I remember

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him doing a good review of that on the Variety

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show. I remember there being a review of Zombie

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Dick in it. Oh, Zombie Dick. I think that was

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the titular Bone Temple. Oh my God. From what

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I remember from the review that they gave. Speaking

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of Dick. Going back to the leftovers, this is

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such a weird tangent, but it fits. The main character

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at one point in the final series is like, he's

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in between two realities. So our world and then

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the other world, like dead world or whatever.

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And he is the president of the United States

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of America. And to get into his secure bunker,

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he has to like pass some security questions.

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And then he's got to do, what do you call them,

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the bio... Biometrics. Biometric sensors. So

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they do his eye, they do his palm print. And

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then... Breath? No. Then an extra slot opens

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at... Waist height? Gusset height. Oh, I was

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only joking. And this little shelf falls out

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that is a perfect penile placement place. What

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if the PMs are female? Well, I mean, I suppose

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it would depend. We need to change all the security

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measure here. Slap a boob on it. You have to

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squat down to get there. But no, he literally

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had to unzip and flop his dick on the biometrics

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reader plate to prove that he was exactly who

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he was. And the security guard was like, yeah,

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well, you might know the answer to these questions.

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And plastic surgery could sort your hands and

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your face out, but no one's going as far as doing

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their dick. Well, someone could get this lob

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weight or something. I don't know. Is there a

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specific dick print? What are they calculating?

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Is it the weight? I don't know. I mean, also,

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if one day he goes in and he's happy to be in

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work. Yeah, I mean... Access denied! His print

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might be entirely different on those days. You

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never know. It's winter. Can we wait till summer

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for these to take more scans and everything?

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So from one knob to another. Yeah, the leftovers...

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That'll change day to day. I don't think it's...

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I don't think he's getting into that room ever.

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One time, and that's it. It's never going to

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match ever again. I mean, you're a man. Over

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the years, your member might have changed in

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size and appearance. It changes between we's.

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We've covered this before. So, like, I wonder

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how regularly you'd have to have a penis scan

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for the penis scanner shelf to be accurate. You're

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better off with just, I don't know, having...

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Pressing your cheeks up against it. A pressed

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ham scanner or something. Chocolate starfish.

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I wasn't spreading them, I was just pushing it

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up against it. Who's cleaning their scanner then?

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Well, the security guard wiped it down with an

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anti -baccloth and then closed it back up again.

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You want to stand away with a screw. Yeah. He

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did try to get a look, yeah. But the leftovers

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just... Oh, no, I was saying, not to look. No,

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no, the security guard tried to get a look. That's

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what they're saying. You don't want to do that.

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It's like urinal etiquette. Yeah. Come on, you

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don't want to be having a piss next to this guy.

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I need to see the Prime Minister's willy. It's

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for security reasons. This is the machinist.

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That's the only thing you need to see it. Otherwise,

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I could just show it to you. And if you're the

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one that remembers what my cock looks like, that's

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your one job, security guard. Question. Have

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there been any American presidents that you would

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be willing to see the dick of? I'd be... Out

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of interest. I'd be willing to see... God made

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it to look or be interested to see them. If you

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were stood in a stall, in a urinal stall, and

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a president, you know, any of the American presidents

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walked in, would you, like... I would. I'd be

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all up in there. Wouldn't you say, if you're

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willing to, I was imagining, like, a hall of

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presidents or waxworks. We have all of these

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biologically and anatomically correct. Would

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you be happy to see them? I'd walk along the

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row. I mean, I wouldn't pay to go in there. You'd

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pick by cuppage. I'd imagine it'd be like Madame

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Tussauds. You can look but don't touch. Yeah.

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Because, yeah, it just takes a couple of tourists.

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I reckon Obama has had the nicest willy in the

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White House. Just, you know, randomly. Not that

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I fancied him or anything, because I really didn't.

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But I reckon out of all the presidents that have

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been in the White House, he's probably got the

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nicest willy. That's some excellent speculation.

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Yeah. Shall I go back to describing the leftovers?

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Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry. I did take you on a side

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tangent. No, it's all right. I do it to myself

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and to you all the time as well. So the long

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and short of the leftovers is one day everybody's

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on Earth and then at a certain point in time,

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I think it's like 9 % of the world's population

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just vanishes. They disappear out of thin air

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and the people who are left are the leftovers

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and they try to rebuild their lives. There's

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a lot of culty stuff that happens. Lots of...

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Civil war -y type things. Towns and villages.

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blocking themselves off there's this one town

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in the whole of america that didn't lose anybody

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on the day that you know the disappearance day

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so then that gets renamed a miracle and people

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try to go and live there because it's like the

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safest place on the planet because nobody's vanished

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it's like the one we've had the more lottery

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winners from this shop everyone goes to that

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shop to buy their tickets just like the one in

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morriston yeah that's the one i was thinking

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yeah i've never won anything on a ticket that

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i've bought from that shop in morriston i reckon

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it's a lie Well, it just happens to have been

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because, yeah, we sold the winning lottery ticket.

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Law of averages, it could be any of the shops

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that have sold it. It doesn't mean this is the

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luckiest shop. It just happens. It's got to come

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from some shop. That's true. That's true. Unless

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you get your ticket online. Yeah, you shouldn't

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go and buy your tickets at a shop that sold a

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previously winning lottery ticket and hoping

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that that's a lucky shop. Yeah. It's the person

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who got the tickets, the numbers. That's a lucky

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one. They're the ones that had the luck on the

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day. They had to play those numbers at some place.

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Was it a lucky dip which made it extra lucky?

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I don't know. They still have a banner outside.

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It was looking... I don't think... The shop is

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still open. I haven't been in there for a long

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time. Because they used to have a big banner

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across saying the luckiest. It started looking

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a bit grotty after... The luckiest shop. About

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five years, ten years. It was up there for a

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long time. It was. I remember seeing it. Now

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that you've mentioned it, I don't know if it's

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there anymore. They may not be able to claim

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that. Someone might have taken over. But for

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a good number of years, they did have that banner

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outside saying they were the luckiest lotto shop

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in Wales. I can't remember the name of the shop

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to tell people to look for it on Google. It's

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not a... It'll be Google -able, but if you look

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on Street View, that banner will have been there

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a long time. Yeah, outside of the shop is blue

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around the windows. I can't remember what colour

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it was when they had the banner up originally.

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It might have been white. It might have been.

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Anyway, sorry, leftovers. And they're Miracle

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Town. Yeah, Miracle Town. Where everyone won

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the lottery tickets. And then extra weird stuff

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starts happening. And the main guy, he ends up

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being convinced that he's, I don't know, the

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second coming of Jesus or something. So it all

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takes a bit of a weird religious turn. Just a

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bit. And he ends up... Killing himself. Oh, well.

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He doesn't kill himself. His father drowns him

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three times so he can fix the problem with the

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world. I'm sure it wasn't the second coming of

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Rasputin. It wasn't enough sex. Oh, no, there

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was quite a bit of sex. Yeah, there was quite

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a bit of sex. I don't think anyone tried drowning

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Jesus. I mean, I've not met him to ask. I imagine,

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like... Is that what made people think he's Jesus

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as far as the show goes? So the brother -in -law

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of the main guy... is a priest. He's played by

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Christopher Eccleston. Excellent. The whole cast,

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actually, for Leftovers and for From are very

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good. And there's some crossovers between. Some

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of the actors from From have also been in Leftovers.

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Christopher Eccleston, priest, brother -in -law,

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is a bit of a fanatic, I would say. He's looking

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for answers. And he decided his... This guy matched

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all the criteria? Yeah, he imagines himself into

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becoming the person who's writing the New New

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Testament. And the brother -in -law, who was

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the main character, becomes the second coming

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of Jesus. Because basically he can't die. He

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can't or won't. He's been shot, what should be

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fatally, a few times. This is Rasputin! Stabbed.

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I don't know if he was stabbed. He definitely

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drowned a couple of times. He tried to drown

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himself and the whole fucking lake was drained

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of water. You know, and just really weird. So

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it is sci -fi, but it also goes a bit weird religious.

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However, I thoroughly enjoyed it. And the idea

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of one of the characters trying to get from the

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leftover side of life to where the people that

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disappeared to are. I found really interesting

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because it was her husband and her two kids that

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vanished and she was left alone. And then she's

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approached by a physics professor who's got this

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fancy machine that can send you over there, but

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it like kills you on this side. It's weird. So

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she goes over, finds her ex -husband and her

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kids, but ex -husband is remarried. The kids

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are happy and she's like, okay. Oh, it does work.

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Yeah, it does work. This machine, sit in the

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bath. I'll pass you a toaster. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I don't belong here because my family are happy.

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So now I need to find the person who invented

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this machine to make me a new one so I can go

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back to normal life. Then she ends up living

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some weird life in Australia. And yeah, it gets

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weird, but it's good. And I think it's the kind

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of TV program that ends. Like, they wrote an

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ending. I'm not going to tell you what the ending

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is. No, I appreciate that, instead of it just

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going on and on until, you know, we're getting

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money out of the show, we're keeping people watching.

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We've got a story to tell, and there's an end

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point, and that's the story we're telling. We

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don't need to milk this. Yeah, it could have

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gone very lost, but it didn't. Definitely for

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the best. They had a theme, they knew where they

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wanted to get to, and all of the stops in between

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to get to the end point are really entertaining.

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Some of them good, some of them bad. But I, again,

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binge watched it. And now I'm on Night Agent,

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which isn't sci -fi. And I've only got one episode

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of that left because I watched eight episodes

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in two days. Oh, and I started watching Falling

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Skies. Now, I remember it as being quite good.

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Now, from what you've told me, I've got some

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rose -tinted glasses on about this show. It is

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of its time, but really good for of its time

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if we were still in of its time. I remember watching

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this when it was a current show. I think it was

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the sci -fi, sci -fi changeover. It was when

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they still had a good budget. Especially after

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season three. Not that I finished it all. I'm

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on season three. Thanks, Tom. tom james you pain

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for mentioning it on your show and i thought

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oh i've run out of stuff to watch i'll put that

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on so after three seasons um like the cgi budget

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is increased and they start working with alien

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species together like the um revolutionaries

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or whatever you call them people who were trying

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to like protect the earth humans they start working

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with different races of aliens and some of them

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are really really well done i don't know how

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much is cgi how much is prosthetic i think it's

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a bit of a mix from what i remember yeah uh but

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really good season one i would say that there's

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a definite flatness to the quality of the supposed

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three -dimensional modelling of the aliens in

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particular. They look very much like they've

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been stuck on, like a transfer. But it does improve.

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The storyline does not improve. The acting does

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not improve. You know, the scene set -up is really

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good throughout, but it is... background noise

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for me there is a couple of people in the cast

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doing all the heavy lifting and there's only

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so much you can do for that quite a large crew

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yes it's um Yeah, I mean, it'll be one of those

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I've started, so now I'll finish, you know, mastermind

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nonsense that I get with television programmes,

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even if I hate them. I've got to get to the end,

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just so I never have to worry about going back

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to them again. I think by season three, you've

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probably passed the point of no return. Was there

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only four, maybe five seasons? I don't know,

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but I think I'd watched, like, two episodes of

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season one, and I said to you, I don't know if

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I'm going to stick with this, and now I'm on

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season three. I can't remember if I encouraged

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you to stick with it or if you're not. into it

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you're fine to bail yeah i think it was like

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a 50 50 like if you you know carry on see what

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you think and if it's rubbish yeah get just stop

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watching it but i can't i can't not finish it

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now that i've started it yeah i think i've got

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to take my share of blame for that i'm putting

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all the blame on tom i'm happy not to take any

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blame for that anyway that's me all sci -fi'd

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out what have you been watching Adam, for fuck's

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sake, stop pressing buttons. No, I thought it

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was just a screener display. I didn't know it

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was a touch screen. You never heard of the thing

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like look, don't touch? Nothing's labelled. Window

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shopping, boy. Window shopping. But no, I'm glad

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you've watched quite a bit because I haven't

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really watched all that much. I started watching

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because I've seen talk shows promoting season

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two of Monarch, Legacy of Monsters, with Kurt

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and Wyatt Russell have been doing the talk show

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series. I remember the first show, first season,

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sorry, I downloaded it ages ago. Never got around

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to watching it. It's a sort of TV spin -off of

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the current Godzilla universe of shows. Right,

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as in like the minus one? No, the American versions.

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Oh, right, okay, sorry. The American Godzillas

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started with breaking Bryan Cranston, Walter

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White. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the organisation

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behind the American... Godzilla films, is Monarch.

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Right. This is a TV spin -off series set over

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two different periods of time in the early 1950s,

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late 1960s, with Wyatt Russell playing the same

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character, which in the modern day is played

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by Kurt Russell. Oh my God, right, okay. Going

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back to all the, including the original Godzillas,

00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:54.549
most of the good Godzilla films... you don't

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see much of Godzilla in it. That's because Godzilla's

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expensive. Well, even when there was a guy in

00:22:01.089 --> 00:22:04.049
a rubber suit. Yeah, still spendy. You've built

00:22:04.049 --> 00:22:06.509
the suit, you've got to put it on screen. But

00:22:06.509 --> 00:22:08.509
yeah, it still is an element of, it's more the

00:22:08.509 --> 00:22:12.109
human stories around Godzilla. And the good ones

00:22:12.109 --> 00:22:15.650
I'm thinking of is the original 1954 Godzilla,

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and more recently, Godzilla Resurgence Shin Godzilla,

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the Japanese one, where a lot of the story is...

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the impact Godzilla is having, and even though

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I'm saying the best Godzillas don't have Godzilla

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in them very much, that is pretty much fuck all

00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:34.420
Godzilla so far. I'm five episodes in, and...

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Have you even seen, like, a snippet cut through?

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Yes, we've seen one Godzilla get blown up in

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the distance in the 1950s. Possibly blown up.

00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:46.240
The bomb goes off. Nobody sees. Godzilla crawling.

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Has he actually gone? We don't actually see...

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Is there a crater where he used to be? Or did

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anyone see him actually go? Are there any signs

00:22:53.059 --> 00:22:56.019
of a big tail drag mark away? So yeah, that's

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inconclusive. And we see his back spikes coming

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through the water. Right. And some footage of

00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:05.440
Godzilla from some of the recent films. Okay.

00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:09.450
But... I'm halfway through the season. Yeah.

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And there's been no actual Godzilla in this so

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far, really. Yeah, that sucks. I've not been

00:23:14.970 --> 00:23:18.750
in the rush to go back to it. Fair. So, yeah,

00:23:18.910 --> 00:23:22.690
that's been my sci -fi indulgence so far. You

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need something that moves a bit faster. I do

00:23:25.170 --> 00:23:29.049
enjoy slow burn TV shows. It was Slow Horses

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is a prime example. I've watched like one episode

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of it with you and I'm like, what? I was going

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to give another Wyatt Russell series as the example.

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Lodge 49 is a very slow burn TV show. I'm sure

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I tried getting you into it. Yes, you did. We

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got against one of those to even get into. If

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you can stick with the first four episodes. Then,

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oh, there's an event at the end of, I think,

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episode three or four. Ah, ah. You should have

00:23:56.819 --> 00:23:59.599
put that in maybe episode two. Yeah, just start

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with that and then work backwards. But for me,

00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:06.400
Lodge 49 is an absolutely brilliant show. But

00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:08.180
there was only two seasons and there was planned

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to be four seasons. And they did not get a chance

00:24:11.259 --> 00:24:13.819
to write an ending. Were they Apple TV or Paramount?

00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:18.140
AMC. Oh, interesting. Yeah, and this is when

00:24:18.140 --> 00:24:20.900
I think AMC was, I think it might have been just

00:24:20.900 --> 00:24:25.099
before the Stonks thing on the internet. So AMC

00:24:25.099 --> 00:24:28.240
was doing well. It was a fairly popular show.

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They'd sold it to the UK. It was shown here,

00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.859
but yeah, I guess it didn't quite get the audience.

00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:36.339
But it's got a bit of a cult following and it's

00:24:36.339 --> 00:24:38.480
got some amazing music. So at the very least,

00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:40.579
if you're on Spotify or something, if you check

00:24:40.579 --> 00:24:46.829
out the soundtrack to Lodge 49 or... or the playlist

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larry's jukebox i knew that was the one you were

00:24:49.950 --> 00:24:52.190
looking for i was like i was sat here going you're

00:24:52.190 --> 00:24:53.809
scrolling through your phone and the only other

00:24:53.809 --> 00:24:57.509
playlist i know the name of in your spotify is

00:24:57.509 --> 00:24:59.329
our jukebox i was like that's got to be the one

00:24:59.329 --> 00:25:01.730
he's looking for yeah larry was the the old man

00:25:01.730 --> 00:25:05.250
leader of the lodge there's some fucking bangers

00:25:05.250 --> 00:25:07.589
in that playlist there are actually i've heard

00:25:07.589 --> 00:25:10.390
it a few times and i i thoroughly agree but yeah

00:25:10.390 --> 00:25:12.829
trying to get into monarch legacy of monsters

00:25:12.829 --> 00:25:15.980
has been my sci -fi indulgence and that's Not

00:25:15.980 --> 00:25:18.940
being as easy as, oh, can I watch Godzilla show?

00:25:19.220 --> 00:25:21.579
Yeah. Where's Godzilla in the Godzilla show?

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Hibernating? Yeah. I can't really recommend it,

00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:28.599
but I haven't seen all the season yet, so it's

00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:32.039
too soon for me to recommend, but I wouldn't

00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:34.640
rush to watch it unless you're... I'm a huge

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Godzilla fucking fan. I've seen every single

00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:39.259
Godzilla. That's impressive. I've got all of

00:25:39.259 --> 00:25:41.470
them on my computer. That's... doubly impressive

00:25:41.470 --> 00:25:43.569
and possibly one of the reasons why your computer

00:25:43.569 --> 00:25:47.109
runs so slowly. I was going to say something,

00:25:47.309 --> 00:25:48.529
I can't remember what it was. It's full of zillas.

00:25:49.170 --> 00:25:53.650
Yeah, it's full of zillas. My thought has gone.

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Don't know. It wasn't important, clearly. Anything

00:25:58.670 --> 00:26:03.069
else? I want to press that big green button over

00:26:03.069 --> 00:26:06.470
there. No, no. I'm going to press it. No, for

00:26:06.470 --> 00:26:11.099
fuck's sake. Adam! Adam! Look, look, look, I

00:26:11.099 --> 00:26:13.680
found a library. We can watch TV shows and films

00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:17.700
and stuff while we wait. I suppose that's relatively

00:26:17.700 --> 00:26:21.359
safe to play with. Go on then. Anything interesting

00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:30.140
on there? Oh, I'm playing this. Accessing library

00:26:30.140 --> 00:26:36.619
computer data. So... We watched three episodes

00:26:36.619 --> 00:26:40.220
of Captain Scarlet. We did. We watched the very

00:26:40.220 --> 00:26:43.099
first one. We had to watch a little bit of the

00:26:43.099 --> 00:26:45.380
second episode. To see if there was a continuity.

00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:48.819
Yeah. So the first episode, it's got an introduction

00:26:48.819 --> 00:26:51.880
sequence. Yes. And the voiceover setting up the

00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:55.200
entire premise of the show of Captain Scarlet.

00:26:55.700 --> 00:26:57.680
Setting up quite a bit of tension in it as well.

00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:04.250
Yes. The finger is on the trigger. The finger

00:27:04.250 --> 00:27:09.109
is on the trigger. About to unleash a force with

00:27:09.109 --> 00:27:12.130
terrible powers beyond the comprehension of man.

00:27:14.049 --> 00:27:20.410
This force we shall know as the Mysterons. This

00:27:20.410 --> 00:27:22.809
man will be our hero, for fate will make him

00:27:22.809 --> 00:27:29.000
indestructible. His name, Captain Scarlet. Ahead

00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:32.079
of the inciting incident that marks the involvement

00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:35.799
between humans and Mysterons. Yes. I really enjoyed

00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:37.779
it. For a kids' show as well, this is quite dark.

00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:41.960
It is. It's surprisingly dark, actually. And

00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:48.059
I had also misplaced the memory of Captain Black

00:27:48.059 --> 00:27:52.500
creating a disaster. Do you want to explain why?

00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:56.740
Well, we were the bad guys. Yeah. Like, humans...

00:27:56.970 --> 00:28:01.670
We suck. We are the bad guys. We shot first.

00:28:02.369 --> 00:28:05.150
Mysterons were there on the moon, minding the

00:28:05.150 --> 00:28:07.950
moon business. Yeah. Just Mysteroning out. Actually,

00:28:07.970 --> 00:28:10.309
they were on Mars on the first episode. Oh, was

00:28:10.309 --> 00:28:13.430
it Mars? And the last episode, they have a base

00:28:13.430 --> 00:28:16.170
on the moon. Either way, they were just minding

00:28:16.170 --> 00:28:17.450
their own business. Yeah, they were just chilling.

00:28:17.609 --> 00:28:20.369
They spotted us with our little moon, but a Martian.

00:28:20.730 --> 00:28:24.130
Mars buggy. Truck on the horizon. Oh, the humans

00:28:24.130 --> 00:28:27.029
are here. Like us, they're curious about the

00:28:27.029 --> 00:28:29.750
universe. We must welcome them. Yes, we should

00:28:29.750 --> 00:28:32.109
say hello. Let's get a closer look. And I'll

00:28:32.109 --> 00:28:35.450
just move this telescope three millimetres. Ah,

00:28:35.710 --> 00:28:39.069
we've been spotted. Attack. Attack, attack, attack.

00:28:39.650 --> 00:28:43.329
And destroy their entire base. Yeah, so the Mysterons

00:28:43.329 --> 00:28:45.210
just wanted... Unprovoked. Yeah, the Mysterons

00:28:45.210 --> 00:28:47.789
wanted to have a quick look, shake their hands,

00:28:47.970 --> 00:28:50.230
say hello, let's have a chat about the universe.

00:28:50.470 --> 00:28:54.980
And Captain Black, typical man... Typical man.

00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:56.859
Was it Captain Black or the other two that he

00:28:56.859 --> 00:28:58.579
was with which got spooked first? I think it

00:28:58.579 --> 00:28:59.880
was Captain Black, wasn't it? I think Captain

00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:01.880
Black got spooked first. The guy next to him

00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:04.059
was like, oh, my God, we've been spotted. And

00:29:04.059 --> 00:29:05.880
Captain Black was like, boom, boom, boom, boom,

00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:11.319
boom. Explosion. Fire. Kaboom, kaboom. Flames

00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:14.359
and everything. It was all very dramatic. Oh,

00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:17.819
well, guys, the camera slash periscope did look

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:22.200
a little bit gun -like. I suppose. A round tube

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:24.940
from a distance. Let's just... Stay here for

00:29:24.940 --> 00:29:30.259
a second. No attempt to establish communications

00:29:30.259 --> 00:29:34.279
at all. We saw something move in our direction.

00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:40.880
I suppose from a 1967 geopolitical point of view,

00:29:41.059 --> 00:29:43.400
that's slap bang in the middle of the Cold War,

00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:49.059
isn't it? So there is obviously an element of

00:29:49.059 --> 00:29:53.420
that in... The bones of Captain Scarlet. But

00:29:53.420 --> 00:29:55.920
also no attempt to even study it because they're

00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:59.259
driving around. Oh, there's nothing here. Let's

00:29:59.259 --> 00:30:01.420
head back. We've been out of here for ages at

00:30:01.420 --> 00:30:03.500
every mission. That is unsuccessful. There's

00:30:03.500 --> 00:30:06.759
nothing here to study. There's an entire base

00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:09.400
that made out of perspex. Yeah, and pretty light.

00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:12.140
Wow. I don't think they even radioed it back

00:30:12.140 --> 00:30:13.599
to the base that they'd seen it. No, they didn't

00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:16.180
tell anybody. It was just, yeah. We'll talk amongst

00:30:16.180 --> 00:30:19.240
ourselves. It moved. Kill it. Yeah. Basically,

00:30:19.380 --> 00:30:21.980
it was like they'd spotted a huntsman spider

00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:24.980
and needed a bigger frying pan, you know? They

00:30:24.980 --> 00:30:28.940
weren't giving them any time to say hello. No.

00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:31.380
And the thing we were looking for, we found it.

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:34.200
Yeah. Let's blow it up. Yeah. Let's not get closer

00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:37.099
or anything. No. Don't ask questions. Don't be

00:30:37.099 --> 00:30:40.000
curious. You can be curious and ask questions

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:43.039
and still be safe. Yeah. So we're the bad guys.

00:30:43.180 --> 00:30:46.059
We absolutely are. We attacked first. They went

00:30:46.059 --> 00:31:16.460
to welcome us. Yeah, we suck. We've been spotted.

00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:32.420
They're getting ready to attack. They're obviously

00:31:32.420 --> 00:31:34.319
hostile. Okay, Lieutenant, let them have it.

00:31:46.089 --> 00:31:49.650
So they did threaten as retaliation. They can

00:31:49.650 --> 00:31:52.589
rematerialise things. They're not bound by the

00:31:52.589 --> 00:31:55.490
same constraints as humans. That's right. Their

00:31:55.490 --> 00:31:59.049
entire base, all their mechanical bits and bobs

00:31:59.049 --> 00:32:01.829
themselves, all materialised, even though they're

00:32:01.829 --> 00:32:06.750
non -corporeal beings. Are they? Apparently not,

00:32:06.849 --> 00:32:08.410
because whenever they've been flying, they're

00:32:08.410 --> 00:32:10.069
just a couple of light rings. That's how they

00:32:10.069 --> 00:32:13.289
appear. And we didn't see anyone in the base.

00:32:13.470 --> 00:32:16.180
That was entirely empty. Question to anyone who's

00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:18.319
watched all of Captain Scarlet any time recently.

00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:22.240
Do the Mysterons ever appear in a physical form?

00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:25.640
I think they're invisible or just those rings

00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:28.660
of light. Because if they're incorporeal, why

00:32:28.660 --> 00:32:31.680
do they need buildings to live in? To welcome

00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:33.720
us into. I guess so. They're expecting guests.

00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:35.359
I don't have anything against the Mysterons.

00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:37.619
They seemed perfectly chill until we fucked them

00:32:37.619 --> 00:32:40.740
up. Yeah. So they first take over Captain Black,

00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:45.700
the ongoing Mysteron agent. Yes. Then they take

00:32:45.700 --> 00:32:48.359
over Captain Brown and Captain Scarlet on Earth.

00:32:48.599 --> 00:32:53.700
Yes, they do, via a car crash. Their first retaliation

00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:56.880
on Earth is that they threaten the life of the

00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:59.039
President of Earth. Yes. Is it the World President?

00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:00.660
The World President. I don't remember the exact

00:33:00.660 --> 00:33:30.160
title. The World President of 1967. So they stage

00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.319
a car crash to kill Captain Scarlet and Captain

00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:35.660
Brown. They take over both their bodies. Captain

00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:39.440
Brown, they turn into a human bomb. Yeah. They

00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:41.440
get him in the same room as the world president

00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:45.200
and... Just by split -second timing, he has a

00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:48.000
magical chair that can vanish behind a wall.

00:33:48.059 --> 00:33:50.019
He just happened to be sat in at the time of

00:33:50.019 --> 00:33:51.680
the conversation just in case that happened.

00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:54.039
And also, he'd never been in that room before

00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:56.180
because he was commenting to Captain Brown how

00:33:56.180 --> 00:33:58.059
lovely the room was and how secure he felt, but

00:33:58.059 --> 00:34:00.119
then he automatically found the super -secret

00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:01.839
save -me button on the arm of his own chair.

00:34:02.339 --> 00:34:04.960
Unless the press didn't know that was there,

00:34:04.980 --> 00:34:06.859
but... Well, why would you tell anyone else it's

00:34:06.859 --> 00:34:08.460
there? That's how secure he felt. I mean, obviously

00:34:08.460 --> 00:34:10.280
Captain Brown didn't know it was there, otherwise

00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:11.579
he wouldn't have bothered trying to bomb him

00:34:11.579 --> 00:34:13.000
in the office. He'd have done it in the corridor.

00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:15.280
Need -to -know basis. Captain Brown didn't need

00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:18.219
to know. Yeah, I'm safer. You could be standing

00:34:18.219 --> 00:34:19.920
there and try to bomb me and it wouldn't work.

00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:25.579
I've got a special chair. Yeah, so press the

00:34:25.579 --> 00:34:28.179
button, flips behind the wall, and he's safe.

00:34:28.820 --> 00:34:31.039
But instead of getting an entirely new agency

00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:34.340
to look after you, or hit their own... Presumably

00:34:34.340 --> 00:34:37.360
Secret Service? No idea. Let's get another agent

00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:39.920
from the agency that's been infiltrated and you've

00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:41.480
just had a death threat from one of our agents.

00:34:41.659 --> 00:34:44.179
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This guy's got a red shirt

00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:46.719
on. That's going to be trustworthy, right? Yeah,

00:34:46.820 --> 00:34:48.800
good point. Never thought about the red shirt

00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:51.900
aspect of it. The brightest red shirt you can

00:34:51.900 --> 00:34:57.829
get. I never thought about the red shirt aspect.

00:34:58.349 --> 00:35:00.510
But I really, really enjoyed Captain Scarlet.

00:35:00.550 --> 00:35:02.570
Did you watch any of the other Super Mario Nation

00:35:02.570 --> 00:35:04.889
shows? Oh, yeah, of course we did. I mean, we

00:35:04.889 --> 00:35:07.010
were brought up on Thunderbirds. I wasn't the

00:35:07.010 --> 00:35:09.789
biggest fan of Thunderbirds. I much preferred

00:35:09.789 --> 00:35:14.590
Stingray. I think potentially I had a crush on

00:35:14.590 --> 00:35:19.090
Aquamarina. And that was why I liked Stingray.

00:35:20.469 --> 00:35:23.530
But Captain Scarlet for me is like, he's the

00:35:23.530 --> 00:35:28.289
solid hardcore. dude like it's serious puppetry

00:35:28.289 --> 00:35:30.369
there's none of the dumb walking and the jiggling

00:35:30.369 --> 00:35:35.230
about it's all very seriously posed um i really

00:35:35.230 --> 00:35:37.070
like i know they did it with the thunderbirds

00:35:37.070 --> 00:35:39.489
and probably um stingray as well with the actual

00:35:39.489 --> 00:35:43.199
physical live hand shots cutting. Oh yeah, any

00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:45.159
close -ups if you need to manipulate an object.

00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:47.199
That's it. Guy's getting his wallet out of his

00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:49.320
pocket. You know, you've got some poor actor

00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:51.440
dressed up as Captain Scarlet putting one hand

00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:54.239
in a pocket and getting his wallet out. I really,

00:35:54.340 --> 00:35:59.539
I like that. I like how they use articulated

00:35:59.539 --> 00:36:02.480
parts of humans to replace the actions they couldn't

00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:05.179
successfully do with a puppet. As we mentioned

00:36:05.179 --> 00:36:07.980
today, the attention to detail. Incredible. Just

00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:10.559
the insert shots. There was a couple of different

00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:12.719
ones we had. There was a guy putting a gun to

00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.639
somebody else's back. So they had to have somebody

00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:18.920
dressed as, is it Captain Green? Captain Scarlet.

00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:21.420
Captain Scarlet, okay, sorry. They had to have

00:36:21.420 --> 00:36:24.019
the other guy putting the gun to his back, having

00:36:24.019 --> 00:36:27.599
a matching sleeve, matching gun. And also in

00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:31.559
the background, the human room that they were

00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:34.860
in, the rug on the floor. Had a sort of matching,

00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.179
it was slightly out of focus, but it matched

00:36:37.179 --> 00:36:40.840
enough. Yes. For the set design. Yeah. That was

00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:43.159
the attention to detail. Really, really good.

00:36:43.300 --> 00:36:45.920
Very clever. And when the angels were in the

00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:49.699
space of fighter jets, fighter ships. Yeah, jets.

00:36:51.340 --> 00:36:53.880
Planes. When they were in their ships. A fighter

00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.179
variety. There was an insert shot of real people

00:36:57.179 --> 00:37:00.320
at controls. Yeah. Holding some sort of, it could

00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:02.760
have been a modified sort of, it might very well

00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:04.960
have been a Cessna sort of control. It's a basic

00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:09.380
little flight yoke. But then in the cockpit,

00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:11.380
it was just a bit of wall behind him with some

00:37:11.380 --> 00:37:14.960
lines painted on it and one sort of cooker control

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:20.630
knob. Gas mark six. Yeah. Just enough detailing

00:37:20.630 --> 00:37:22.550
that, yeah, yeah, it's plausible. It's only going

00:37:22.550 --> 00:37:24.309
to be on screen for two seconds at the most where

00:37:24.309 --> 00:37:26.309
someone's just pressing fire buttons on top of

00:37:26.309 --> 00:37:28.829
the flight yokes. Absolutely. Or pulling the

00:37:28.829 --> 00:37:30.909
control back or forward to go initiate or pull

00:37:30.909 --> 00:37:32.730
out of a dive. That's all you need to see, but

00:37:32.730 --> 00:37:35.159
just enough to be plausible. The attention to

00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:38.099
detail is absolutely astonishing. To be honest,

00:37:38.300 --> 00:37:40.639
they probably paid more attention to detail than

00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:43.019
they needed to with the number of pixels you

00:37:43.019 --> 00:37:47.500
would have had on a screen. But the way televisions

00:37:47.500 --> 00:37:50.039
worked back then, there was no such thing as

00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:52.719
high -definition kits. We watched stuff where

00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:54.659
you could see the pixels jumping around on the

00:37:54.659 --> 00:37:57.619
screen. So they probably went over and above

00:37:57.619 --> 00:38:00.280
on the back scenery for things like that because

00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:04.110
they still translate really well now. though

00:38:04.110 --> 00:38:08.230
the episodes themselves have been upgraded. They've

00:38:08.230 --> 00:38:10.389
been tarted up a little bit. I think they were

00:38:10.389 --> 00:38:13.050
recorded on film as well, which really helps

00:38:13.050 --> 00:38:15.110
with being upscaled as opposed to being on a

00:38:15.110 --> 00:38:17.690
video or something like that. The other bit of

00:38:17.690 --> 00:38:20.329
attention to detail is by the time Captain Scarlet

00:38:20.329 --> 00:38:24.010
came along, they'd had... Well, let's see if

00:38:24.010 --> 00:38:27.909
I can go through my mental roller decks. There

00:38:27.909 --> 00:38:32.329
would have been... Supercar, Fireball XL, Joe

00:38:32.329 --> 00:38:38.219
90, Stingray. thunderbirds captain scarlet i

00:38:38.219 --> 00:38:41.639
think joe 90 came after that uh were terror hawks

00:38:41.639 --> 00:38:43.920
in there as well i remember terror hawks yeah

00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.760
and joe 90 i recall as well but by the time captain

00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:48.659
scarlet came along they'd learned quite a lot

00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:51.300
from the previous things yeah he's real edgy

00:38:51.300 --> 00:38:54.119
captain scarlet compared to some of the you know

00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:56.679
charcoal brothers thunderbirds yes the proportions

00:38:56.679 --> 00:38:59.139
of the puppets are a bit more realistic to be

00:38:59.139 --> 00:39:01.119
a person so again that's another reason they

00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:02.739
made the action a bit more believable and the

00:39:02.739 --> 00:39:05.559
stakes a bit higher is they look a bit more plausibly

00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:07.559
human yeah and that you never see them walking

00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:09.980
i was gonna say they've also realized the limitations

00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:12.719
of what can we do with these puppets so that

00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:14.719
they are a bit more realistic because when they're

00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:18.019
walking it's like the bobby davro sketch That

00:39:18.019 --> 00:39:20.360
is pretty much spot on. But there's no weight

00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:22.079
to their legs when they're touching the ground.

00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:25.380
So anywhere possible in the first episode, Captain

00:39:25.380 --> 00:39:29.500
Blue had to travel across a car park to Captain

00:39:29.500 --> 00:39:32.800
Scarlet on the other side. Oh, yeah. Right. We're

00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:35.150
not going to have him walk across there. We're

00:39:35.150 --> 00:39:38.110
not going to have him drive across there. Jetpack.

00:39:38.269 --> 00:39:40.750
He can fly across there. So any way that their

00:39:40.750 --> 00:39:42.670
legs don't have to move or they're in the cloud

00:39:42.670 --> 00:39:45.409
base, yet the Travelator or Captain Green is

00:39:45.409 --> 00:39:47.670
on this chair. Lieutenant Green. Lieutenant Green.

00:39:47.769 --> 00:39:50.670
Sorry, yes. Completely different rank to everybody

00:39:50.670 --> 00:39:53.849
else. Yes, he is. Oh, sorry. No, no, no. That's

00:39:53.849 --> 00:39:55.690
not the thing I was going to point out, but it

00:39:55.690 --> 00:39:57.530
is related to the thing that I was going to point

00:39:57.530 --> 00:39:59.329
out. We'll come back to that. That's fine. Yes,

00:39:59.369 --> 00:40:01.969
they've realised limitations of... how they can

00:40:01.969 --> 00:40:04.050
realistically portray the characters on screen

00:40:04.050 --> 00:40:06.789
and, as you said, not showing them moving. So

00:40:06.789 --> 00:40:10.409
the times where they have got them walking, it's

00:40:10.409 --> 00:40:12.929
only the implications of walking. We don't actually

00:40:12.929 --> 00:40:14.969
see their legs. It's like a shoulder rise, you

00:40:14.969 --> 00:40:18.489
know? So, like, you would see someone from mid

00:40:18.489 --> 00:40:21.860
-torso up. You'd see the puppets from mid -tour

00:40:21.860 --> 00:40:24.780
or so. So it would give you the illusion and

00:40:24.780 --> 00:40:26.360
the motion of walking because you've got the

00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:28.260
shoulders moving up and down and you can't see

00:40:28.260 --> 00:40:30.179
any of the stuff that's not happening down below

00:40:30.179 --> 00:40:33.260
because the legs are dangling. Listeners at home,

00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:36.539
stand up and just start walking on the spot.

00:40:36.820 --> 00:40:39.280
You'll notice that your shoulders will lift.

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.179
That's the motion. No, do it now. Don't just

00:40:42.179 --> 00:40:43.440
pretend you're doing it as you're listening.

00:40:44.059 --> 00:40:46.219
Or do it like me and just sit in the chair and

00:40:46.219 --> 00:40:48.920
bob. I'm doing it. I'm bobbing to my own internal

00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:51.000
jukebox rhythm. We're doing it, so you've got

00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:53.719
to do it now. It's exercise time. Just for three

00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:56.059
more seconds. Cameron and Adam. Now breathe in.

00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:58.420
And that's what they were doing. Now you know.

00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:00.840
You can pretend you were Captain Scarlet. Along

00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:03.739
with us. Wasn't that fun? They're dressed so

00:41:03.739 --> 00:41:06.619
snappily as well. The uniforms and the attention

00:41:06.619 --> 00:41:10.079
to detail. We were discussing earlier that all

00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:13.840
of the... Cloth elements, they must be hand -stitched

00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:16.639
because they're so small. Unless you're someone

00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:20.719
who was a doll maker and a dressmaker for dolls

00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:23.460
before they got into the puppetry side of things,

00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:26.400
you wouldn't be using a machine to make a three

00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.420
-inch sleeping bag. I mean, obviously, it's bigger

00:41:28.420 --> 00:41:30.000
than three inches because I don't know how tall

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:31.360
they are. They're like, what, a foot and a half,

00:41:31.460 --> 00:41:33.179
two feet tall, something like that? I think maybe

00:41:33.179 --> 00:41:35.079
about two feet, I think, about that time, yeah.

00:41:35.340 --> 00:41:37.860
So, I mean, I suppose it's like dressing a baby

00:41:37.860 --> 00:41:40.539
a little bit. Trying to work things. The fabrics

00:41:40.539 --> 00:41:43.360
that will scale will be... Plausible at that

00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:45.099
scale. Yeah, you can't reuse anything with a

00:41:45.099 --> 00:41:49.420
pattern. Captain Black, when he's out of his

00:41:49.420 --> 00:41:54.079
Spectrum uniform, has an ochre -coloured rolled

00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:56.420
-down turtleneck. Turtlenecks are quite big in

00:41:56.420 --> 00:41:59.099
Captain Scarlet, aren't they? So someone has

00:41:59.099 --> 00:42:02.159
knitted that tiny little turtleneck for Captain

00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:05.420
Black. And I'm like, this is really, really impressive.

00:42:05.699 --> 00:42:09.320
And the leather gilet. Oh, yeah, Captain Leather

00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:15.090
Daddy gilet. Episode 28. I think that's become...

00:42:15.090 --> 00:42:17.070
He's usually in leather as well, Captain Black.

00:42:17.210 --> 00:42:19.550
Once he's working for the Mysterons, they go,

00:42:19.590 --> 00:42:21.570
right, we're going to put some drip on you, son.

00:42:21.789 --> 00:42:23.610
Yeah, they drained all the colour out of his

00:42:23.610 --> 00:42:27.010
face, dressed him top to toe in leather. So you

00:42:27.010 --> 00:42:29.550
don't look well, but you also look pretty cool.

00:42:29.690 --> 00:42:31.630
You look like a vampire, mate. It's a great one.

00:42:31.730 --> 00:42:34.190
It's a good look. He kind of does. He totally

00:42:34.190 --> 00:42:37.110
pulls it off. He's just missing a big cigar.

00:42:38.969 --> 00:42:42.190
So, yeah, going back to the overall plot of Captain

00:42:42.190 --> 00:42:45.329
Scarlet. So at the end of the first episode,

00:42:45.489 --> 00:42:48.030
Captain Scarlet was taken over by the Mysterons.

00:42:48.030 --> 00:42:50.969
Captain Blue kills him, saves the world president,

00:42:51.070 --> 00:42:52.969
president of Earth. I keep forgetting. World

00:42:52.969 --> 00:42:54.570
president. World president. I keep forgetting

00:42:54.570 --> 00:42:57.170
which round his title is. And Captain Scarlet

00:42:57.170 --> 00:42:59.800
falls to his death from the top of... what's

00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:03.159
essentially a massive, massive car park with

00:43:03.159 --> 00:43:06.519
only one level for parking, about a mile high.

00:43:06.619 --> 00:43:09.760
All the rest is just a ramp spiralling up to

00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:12.239
it. I've got something to compare it to. If you've

00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.719
seen The NeverEnding Story and you recall the

00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:19.280
ivory tower, the top of the ivory tower is like

00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.289
a three -leaf clover. And it's a viewpoint. And

00:43:22.289 --> 00:43:24.329
then the rest of the tower is just tower to get

00:43:24.329 --> 00:43:28.710
up to there. So if you replaced the ivory tower

00:43:28.710 --> 00:43:32.130
with a spiral driveway that you would get in

00:43:32.130 --> 00:43:34.909
a multi -storey car park and stuck a three -leaf

00:43:34.909 --> 00:43:37.130
clover on top, that is where they were in London.

00:43:37.230 --> 00:43:40.710
The London Car View, which opens at 10am. Yeah,

00:43:40.730 --> 00:43:44.969
not all of London. I saw the sign and I was like,

00:43:45.090 --> 00:43:49.960
London's open from 10am. What? Congestion charge

00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:51.659
in the future. It was just for the car view.

00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:55.639
It wasn't for the whole city, obviously. But

00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:57.619
yeah, so Captain Scarlet gets killed at the end

00:43:57.619 --> 00:43:59.920
of the first episode. Does he get killed every

00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:03.340
episode? Pretty much. Fair enough. We were just

00:44:03.340 --> 00:44:05.679
going to skip to a middle -of -the -run episode

00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:08.599
and then do the very end episode, but we did

00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:11.340
watch the start of episode two. It does kind

00:44:11.340 --> 00:44:14.829
of carry on. with Captain Scarlet in the hospital.

00:44:15.110 --> 00:44:17.590
Recovering from death. Recovering. He's being

00:44:17.590 --> 00:44:20.230
tested by a doctor. Finds that he's no longer

00:44:20.230 --> 00:44:22.389
under Mysteron control. We're not really sure

00:44:22.389 --> 00:44:24.909
of the tests he's performed. The doctor says

00:44:24.909 --> 00:44:28.929
his body is virtually indestructible. Virtually.

00:44:29.289 --> 00:44:30.889
Yeah, that doesn't come up in the theme song.

00:44:31.110 --> 00:44:35.630
Captain Scarlet. Virtually indestructible. We

00:44:35.630 --> 00:44:37.409
need to put a couple of beats in there for that.

00:44:38.309 --> 00:44:41.230
He said he can still bleed, still feel pain from

00:44:41.230 --> 00:44:45.019
his injuries. But he heals within hours. Nice

00:44:45.019 --> 00:44:46.760
exposition. I mean, it's great unless you get

00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:51.119
like a blade to the... Gut. No, the carotid artery.

00:44:51.179 --> 00:44:53.099
I mean, you bleed out in five seconds. Oh, I

00:44:53.099 --> 00:44:54.780
was saying... He wouldn't have time. He wouldn't

00:44:54.780 --> 00:44:57.980
have time to heal. Oh, once you're dead, you

00:44:57.980 --> 00:45:00.400
recover. So apparently he can be blown to bits.

00:45:00.500 --> 00:45:03.409
I think this comes up in the end theme. Didn't

00:45:03.409 --> 00:45:04.949
mention that either. There are two theme songs.

00:45:05.130 --> 00:45:07.349
There are two theme songs. One with, one without

00:45:07.349 --> 00:45:10.510
lyrics. Yeah, and I recalled the version without

00:45:10.510 --> 00:45:13.369
lyrics, but then when we watched episode 28 and

00:45:13.369 --> 00:45:16.599
the lyrics came in at the end. It didn't feel

00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:19.960
alien either, so my brain obviously knows. There

00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.239
are words, but I didn't have a strong memory

00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.780
of them as the Captain Scarlet, Captain Scarlet.

00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:29.099
Just a call and response with voc order. Yeah.

00:45:29.940 --> 00:45:33.500
They smash him, his body may burn. Shark attack,

00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:39.539
mud, a volcano. Yeah, dynamite. Dynamite, and

00:45:39.539 --> 00:45:42.199
I think a snake in a box. Probably. Something

00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:45.219
like that, yeah. So all those things, an hour

00:45:45.219 --> 00:45:47.599
or so later, he's fine. Speaking of snakes in

00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:49.599
the box, do we think Captain Blue is a snake

00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:54.639
charmer? Well, before we get to that, I'm just

00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:57.460
going to introduce how episode two varied. Okay.

00:45:57.599 --> 00:45:59.920
From episode two onwards, they added a credits

00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:03.300
sequence, as well as the titles. Whereas they

00:46:03.300 --> 00:46:05.820
showed the introduction of Captain Scarlet, he's

00:46:05.820 --> 00:46:08.119
indestructible. Also the credits sequence where

00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:10.039
the Mysterons state their threat of the episode.

00:46:10.219 --> 00:46:13.480
Yes. And then... The captains and angels are

00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:16.860
introduced on screen. But yeah, a couple of the

00:46:16.860 --> 00:46:20.860
poses. They're very twee. Possibly due to the

00:46:20.860 --> 00:46:24.780
limitations of articulation of the puppets. Possibly

00:46:24.780 --> 00:46:28.780
through choice. Episode 28. There is a particular

00:46:28.780 --> 00:46:32.420
part. where Captain Scarlet and Captain Blue

00:46:32.420 --> 00:46:35.619
are inside an Aztec tower at the foot of the

00:46:35.619 --> 00:46:38.480
Andes Mountains above a desalinization plant

00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:42.800
that desalinizes seawater from the Pacific. If

00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:45.900
anyone would like to tell me how physics and

00:46:45.900 --> 00:46:47.619
geology would allow that to happen. And zoning.

00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:49.780
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Please, please do let me know.

00:46:51.180 --> 00:46:53.340
So they're walking through this Aztec temple

00:46:53.340 --> 00:46:56.199
that is 800 years old, because they state that

00:46:56.199 --> 00:46:58.980
at some point, and everything looks perfectly

00:46:58.980 --> 00:47:01.760
stable, but all of a sudden a statue starts to

00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:04.199
wobble. So Captain Scarlet does the romantic

00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:06.679
hero thing and pushes Captain Blue out of the

00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.260
way, and then they both sort of fall onto the

00:47:09.260 --> 00:47:12.340
mossy ground next to the wall in a nice, soft,

00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:16.079
comfortable, pillowy place. mr darcy and his

00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:18.920
gay best friend and they're literally like i

00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:21.159
mean captain scarlet may as well have his hand

00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:23.480
on the knee of captain blue and they sit there

00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:25.139
for a few seconds and they have a nice little

00:47:25.139 --> 00:47:27.820
chat and they're like oh maybe we should go and

00:47:27.820 --> 00:47:31.860
see if we can see what we can see um And then

00:47:31.860 --> 00:47:33.719
they carry on walking and they get up to the

00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:36.340
top level of the temple and they're looking out.

00:47:37.179 --> 00:47:39.559
You know, they're looking out and Captain Blue

00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:43.579
is sat very demurely on the wall. Quite coquettish.

00:47:43.820 --> 00:47:46.699
Yes, with one hand on his knee and one hand next

00:47:46.699 --> 00:47:49.159
to him, ever so close to Captain Scarlet. Yeah,

00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:53.420
one hand resting on the wall. Yeah, just a nice

00:47:53.420 --> 00:47:55.719
little feminine shoulder, nice little feminine

00:47:55.719 --> 00:47:59.039
shoulder twist, you know, just enough. And Captain

00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:00.840
Scarlet's there and he's like, oh, I'm being...

00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:02.880
or masculine and then look at my binoculars I'm

00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:07.579
so hot and then spying on them from a distance

00:48:07.579 --> 00:48:09.659
oh I thought they were talking about what they

00:48:09.659 --> 00:48:12.239
were about to get ready no no you can go into

00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:16.179
that bit and then from a distance leather daddy

00:48:16.179 --> 00:48:20.519
captain black cracks out his own binoculars and

00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:24.000
is watching for his pleasure he does like to

00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:27.219
watch he does a lot of watching uh and he sort

00:48:27.219 --> 00:48:30.059
of you know he watches for a bit and then he

00:48:30.059 --> 00:48:31.940
waits for captain blue to fall asleep and he

00:48:31.940 --> 00:48:34.960
sneaks over and he does his very deft climbing

00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.099
which is one of the few times that you actually

00:48:37.099 --> 00:48:42.159
see the puppet from top to bottom actively all

00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:44.900
four limbs actively doing something because Captain

00:48:44.900 --> 00:48:47.500
Black is climbing a statue inside the temple.

00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:49.800
Yeah, some excellent puppeteering work there.

00:48:49.880 --> 00:48:52.980
It's very convincing. It looks like he's supporting

00:48:52.980 --> 00:48:56.679
himself with a back foot climbing up a statue.

00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:59.380
And there's a bit where some bats fly out of

00:48:59.380 --> 00:49:02.159
the carving's mouth and he stumbles and falls.

00:49:03.019 --> 00:49:06.559
Again, we don't know how much is glued to the

00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:08.500
statue, but the puppeteering work is excellent.

00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:10.699
It's very convincing. It is really good. That

00:49:10.699 --> 00:49:13.320
he's fallen off there and he grabs a handle.

00:49:13.699 --> 00:49:15.480
Yeah, he's literally gripping with his four fingers.

00:49:15.579 --> 00:49:17.480
Excellent puppeteering. Yeah, really, really

00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:19.639
good. And Captain Blue's having his nice little

00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:21.460
sleep in his lovely little sleeping bag. And

00:49:21.460 --> 00:49:23.699
he's on his belly with his hands onto his face.

00:49:23.739 --> 00:49:26.679
He looks all angelic and cute and sweet. And

00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:28.960
then he hears this Captain Black slip, but he

00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:30.800
doesn't realise it is Captain Black. And he wakes

00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:34.969
up and he's like, oh. Oh, Paul. Paul, where are

00:49:34.969 --> 00:49:38.579
you? Paul is Captain Scarlet by the way. And

00:49:38.579 --> 00:49:41.380
Captain Scarlet comes much longer. What's the

00:49:41.380 --> 00:49:44.239
matter, Captain Blue? I'm macho. And Captain

00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:46.860
Blue's like, I heard a noise. I think there might

00:49:46.860 --> 00:49:49.460
be somebody here. And Captain Scarlet's like,

00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:51.500
oh, don't be stupid, Captain Blue. Obviously,

00:49:51.500 --> 00:49:53.380
we're perfectly safe. But let's go and have a

00:49:53.380 --> 00:49:55.320
look around instead of just sleeping, shall we?

00:49:55.559 --> 00:49:57.380
But he kind of tells him off a bit. It could

00:49:57.380 --> 00:49:59.679
have been a loose stone. Yeah, well, there was

00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:01.380
a loose stone, actually. But it was loosened

00:50:01.380 --> 00:50:04.099
by Captain Black. So I think you'll find I'm

00:50:04.099 --> 00:50:08.380
right. But there's that whole section. of that

00:50:08.380 --> 00:50:12.360
episode. There's so much... Camping trip coded.

00:50:12.500 --> 00:50:15.380
Yes, it's very... Thank you. That's a nice way

00:50:15.380 --> 00:50:18.199
to put it. It's very coded. The body language

00:50:18.199 --> 00:50:20.639
of the puppets in particular. Yeah, brilliant.

00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:24.440
Kevin Lee went, I'm going to turn in for the

00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:28.599
night. Yeah! He kind of makes a point. It looks

00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:30.920
like he's expecting Captain Scarlet. Yeah, yeah,

00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:32.920
yeah. Gives him a little side eye. Come with

00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:34.920
me, Scarlet. I'll just go and warm up the sleeping

00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:37.980
bags. There's that sort of vibe. We could be

00:50:37.980 --> 00:50:40.000
reading a lot into it because it was kind of

00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:42.800
funny. Yes, yeah. But I don't think it took too

00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.519
much to read into that. No, I mean, I didn't

00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:47.139
read anything into it. I mean, they're puppets,

00:50:47.139 --> 00:50:48.900
so we're reading a lot into it anyway. Yeah,

00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:52.420
that's so true. Like typical humans anthropomorphising

00:50:52.420 --> 00:50:55.760
inanimate objects like they're real people, because

00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:58.099
obviously... But we've only got the performances

00:50:58.099 --> 00:51:02.309
delivered and as portrayed to go on. Yeah. Yeah,

00:51:02.329 --> 00:51:04.429
we kind of both picked up there. I was like,

00:51:04.510 --> 00:51:06.590
this is a bit homoerotic, this episode, Adam.

00:51:06.690 --> 00:51:08.630
And you were like, oh, yeah, it is. And then

00:51:08.630 --> 00:51:11.130
Leather Daddy turns up in his leather jean. I'm

00:51:11.130 --> 00:51:14.130
like, I like to watch. Okay, it's 100 % a gay

00:51:14.130 --> 00:51:18.230
episode, this one. And also, Mysterons can vanish.

00:51:18.409 --> 00:51:20.190
I did not know. Oh, they've got teleporters.

00:51:20.389 --> 00:51:23.289
Captain Black just went invisible. Oh, he's spotting

00:51:23.289 --> 00:51:25.230
me peeping on these guys sleeping. Question.

00:51:25.250 --> 00:51:29.179
I'm out of here. Question. Can he only use the

00:51:29.179 --> 00:51:32.400
zappy, zappy vanish me thing in case of an emergency?

00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:34.860
Because if he could use it whenever he wanted,

00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:36.800
why didn't he just zappy, zappy himself to the

00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:40.119
top of the statue to put the homing beacon in

00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:42.559
there and then zappy, zappy himself away? Oh

00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:44.199
yeah, we should probably give the plot of the

00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:47.019
second episode. Yeah, by the way. The Mysterons

00:51:47.019 --> 00:51:49.699
took over a spaceship full of explosives. As

00:51:49.699 --> 00:51:51.579
spaceships are, they're always carrying these

00:51:51.579 --> 00:51:54.460
explosives. Nice shiny space silver dildo. Not

00:51:54.460 --> 00:51:57.559
just the fuel and everything on it. It was a

00:51:57.559 --> 00:52:00.159
spaceship carrying explosives. That was the cargo.

00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:03.460
Its payload was munitions, yeah. And as you mentioned

00:52:03.460 --> 00:52:05.320
earlier, they'd also taken over a desalinisation

00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:08.760
plant next to an Aztec temple. At the foot of

00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:12.079
the Andes Mountains. So, yeah, Captain Black

00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:16.500
was planting a transmitter in this temple. Yeah.

00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:19.159
Which was attracting the spaceship to it. And

00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:22.139
Captain Blue and Scarlet were meant to disable

00:52:22.139 --> 00:52:25.030
the transmitter. which Oh, well, they didn't

00:52:25.030 --> 00:52:26.989
even know it was there until the last five minutes,

00:52:27.010 --> 00:52:29.469
quite literally. No, but the idea was disabling

00:52:29.469 --> 00:52:31.510
transmitter would somehow stop the spaceship

00:52:31.510 --> 00:52:33.989
from heading... It's already on its way to you.

00:52:34.050 --> 00:52:36.550
The only way to stop the spaceship is to reverse

00:52:36.550 --> 00:52:39.130
its... or send another message to it to say,

00:52:39.150 --> 00:52:40.969
go in a different direction. Yeah, I've got to

00:52:40.969 --> 00:52:42.730
be honest, once it's in the atmosphere, it's

00:52:42.730 --> 00:52:44.989
going at so many hundreds of kilometres per hour

00:52:44.989 --> 00:52:47.210
that you wouldn't have time... Five minutes wouldn't

00:52:47.210 --> 00:52:50.309
be enough time for that machine to follow an

00:52:50.309 --> 00:52:53.110
order to change direction. So it was, yeah, it

00:52:53.110 --> 00:52:55.639
was never going to... So to stop this spaceship

00:52:55.639 --> 00:52:59.300
falling and destroying this Aztec temple, Spectrum

00:52:59.300 --> 00:53:02.820
destroy the Aztec temple and the priceless artifact

00:53:02.820 --> 00:53:06.079
inside. The angels open fire specifically to

00:53:06.079 --> 00:53:08.059
destroy the temple. Yes, they do. And the sun

00:53:08.059 --> 00:53:10.539
god massive statue of the temple is built around.

00:53:10.860 --> 00:53:13.940
Yeah, yeah. Which the spaceship was going to

00:53:13.940 --> 00:53:16.179
do anyway when it fell on it. Yes, it was. Which

00:53:16.179 --> 00:53:18.980
then, as a result of it crashing, it also then

00:53:18.980 --> 00:53:21.139
destroys the desalinisation plant. Creates an

00:53:21.139 --> 00:53:23.219
avalanche. Which Spectrum was sent to protect.

00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:26.139
Yeah. So it's one of the interesting episodes

00:53:26.139 --> 00:53:29.480
that they absolutely fail on all counts. And

00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:31.960
Captain Scarlet's response to the entire thing

00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:34.260
is, oh well, the Mistrons have succeeded this

00:53:34.260 --> 00:53:36.599
time. Well, they've won this time. We'll get

00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:42.599
them next time, boys. It's an inferno. The complex

00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.960
must be completely destroyed. We can only be

00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:49.739
thankful there was no one down there. Well, the

00:53:49.739 --> 00:53:53.099
Mysterons have won this round, but the fight

00:53:53.099 --> 00:54:04.900
isn't over yet. Yeah, it's like the Raiders of

00:54:04.900 --> 00:54:08.480
the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones played no part.

00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:10.960
If Indiana Jones didn't turn up, everything that

00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:12.360
happened in the film was still going to happen

00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:14.360
in the order it happened in the film. Don't ruin

00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:16.659
Indiana Jones for me. I'm deliberately not listening

00:54:16.659 --> 00:54:18.679
to that statement that you just made. Shut up.

00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:22.739
If Spectrum didn't turn up to this event, everything

00:54:22.739 --> 00:54:26.000
would have happened the same way. And they would

00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:28.599
have saved themselves time and money. It would

00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:30.340
have happened without them. They wouldn't have

00:54:30.340 --> 00:54:33.340
had the gay episode with the massive dildo rocket

00:54:33.340 --> 00:54:35.250
if they hadn't have done it, though. Well, as

00:54:35.250 --> 00:54:37.010
you joke, we had another kind of gay episode,

00:54:37.130 --> 00:54:39.710
starting with Captain Human Scarlet on a date,

00:54:39.769 --> 00:54:42.690
you said. Inquisition, the very last episode,

00:54:42.809 --> 00:54:45.550
episode 32. So there's only one season, 32 episodes.

00:54:45.650 --> 00:54:49.469
We watched episode 1, 28 and 32. Opening scene

00:54:49.469 --> 00:54:53.210
of episode 32 cuts into nice, fancy restaurant

00:54:53.210 --> 00:54:56.610
with grand piano, man playing romantic music.

00:54:57.010 --> 00:55:00.389
Couples sat at dining tables with candles. Then

00:55:00.389 --> 00:55:04.289
pan round to the back of Captain Scarlet facing

00:55:04.289 --> 00:55:06.329
Captain Blue. And I was like, oh, look, they're

00:55:06.329 --> 00:55:08.929
on a lovely date. They're sat across the table

00:55:08.929 --> 00:55:10.489
from each other. I was like, oh, they could be

00:55:10.489 --> 00:55:14.409
playing footsie. And it turned out Captain Blue,

00:55:14.530 --> 00:55:17.710
his drink got spiked. Oh, he did get spiked.

00:55:17.710 --> 00:55:20.230
Yeah. His coffee. Someone tried. no no we're

00:55:20.230 --> 00:55:23.710
gonna say this date as far as we know we don't

00:55:23.710 --> 00:55:27.650
know i i i did make an awful joke that um captain

00:55:27.650 --> 00:55:30.170
scarlet had put a date rape drug in his he had

00:55:30.170 --> 00:55:34.030
roofied him um and he was like oh i'll just stay

00:55:34.030 --> 00:55:36.250
there adam because that's captain blue's name

00:55:36.250 --> 00:55:39.050
stay there adam i'll go and get our coats so

00:55:39.050 --> 00:55:41.010
i was like oh right he's um he's roofied him

00:55:41.010 --> 00:55:43.420
to go and have a bit of a A nice time. Not a

00:55:43.420 --> 00:55:45.119
nice time. I shouldn't carry on with this conversation,

00:55:45.260 --> 00:55:47.619
really. From his perspective. This is going down

00:55:47.619 --> 00:55:50.000
all kinds of awful paths. I disagree with that

00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:52.000
kind of activity. I'm not even going to rescue

00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:55.519
myself. Thank you. They were on a date. Captain

00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:58.239
Blue gets roofied. Captain Scarlet goes to get

00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:00.280
their coats. He turns around. Captain Blue's

00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:04.099
gone. Nowhere to be seen. And the Mister on threat,

00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:08.280
one of Spectrum, will betray you all. We will

00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:17.369
be avenged. This is the voice of the Mysterons.

00:56:17.989 --> 00:56:25.110
We know that you can hear us, Earthmen. We have

00:56:25.110 --> 00:56:28.949
observed the Spectrum Organization's attempts

00:56:28.949 --> 00:56:47.250
to counter us. So Captain Blue wakes up in a

00:56:47.250 --> 00:56:49.590
Spectrum office looking like Captain White's

00:56:49.590 --> 00:56:52.469
office. Colonel White's office. Sorry, keep going.

00:56:52.909 --> 00:56:54.590
Everyone's Captain to me, even the ones that

00:56:54.590 --> 00:56:58.329
aren't Captains in Cloudbase. He's being interrogated

00:56:58.329 --> 00:57:00.489
by a claimed intelligence agent asking about

00:57:00.489 --> 00:57:04.750
recent missions. Blue stays pretty cagey. Well,

00:57:04.849 --> 00:57:07.030
everything gets in the paper, he pretty much

00:57:07.030 --> 00:57:09.170
tells him, but any classified details he kind

00:57:09.170 --> 00:57:11.210
of keeps to himself and says, well, you know,

00:57:11.329 --> 00:57:13.250
I don't have to tell you that if you are who

00:57:13.250 --> 00:57:15.519
you say you are. It's all in the file. You can

00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:18.539
just look it up. But he's saying, well, you might

00:57:18.539 --> 00:57:20.800
not be Captain Blue. You have to prove you're

00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:22.460
Captain Blue. Give me your super secret code

00:57:22.460 --> 00:57:24.219
to prove who you are. Yeah, he's hitting that

00:57:24.219 --> 00:57:26.639
a bit too heavy on the nose. Give us a secret.

00:57:26.679 --> 00:57:28.800
And Captain Blue goes, well, no, you know it.

00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:30.719
I just have to prove who I am. I don't have to

00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:33.800
prove what I know to you. Yeah, exactly. really

00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:36.579
after this one bit of information, son. He's

00:57:36.579 --> 00:57:39.659
a smart boy. Turns out it's a narrated clip show

00:57:39.659 --> 00:57:42.619
from previous episodes. Yeah, it is. You know,

00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:46.579
it's like a backstory, but it... I kind of hate

00:57:46.579 --> 00:57:51.780
to say it, but he didn't really end it. Now,

00:57:51.820 --> 00:57:54.679
I don't know whether they knew this was going

00:57:54.679 --> 00:57:57.159
to be the last episode or whether they'd decided

00:57:57.159 --> 00:57:59.659
we've only got the budget to make so many episodes

00:57:59.659 --> 00:58:02.610
and whether they'd maybe... used up all the budget

00:58:02.610 --> 00:58:04.550
before and this was that's why this had to be

00:58:04.550 --> 00:58:06.989
a clip show yeah maybe or whether it is yeah

00:58:06.989 --> 00:58:08.909
we've run out of interest or we've already started

00:58:08.909 --> 00:58:11.110
working on the next project we're not coming

00:58:11.110 --> 00:58:13.710
back to this yeah that's entirely plausible as

00:58:13.710 --> 00:58:16.230
well true because i think actually i think they

00:58:16.230 --> 00:58:17.829
might have been working on something else or

00:58:17.829 --> 00:58:19.329
it could have been when thunderbirds was ending

00:58:19.329 --> 00:58:22.070
they might have already moved on to this i can't

00:58:22.070 --> 00:58:24.090
remember i don't know what the changeover times

00:58:24.090 --> 00:58:28.789
are yeah Did read a bit about Jerry and Sylvie

00:58:28.789 --> 00:58:30.530
Anderson's workloads and the production order,

00:58:30.630 --> 00:58:33.670
but it's completely gone now. I actually need

00:58:33.670 --> 00:58:36.449
to relay the information to people. Typical.

00:58:37.110 --> 00:58:40.050
Oh, dear. But I thought the ending of the episode

00:58:40.050 --> 00:58:44.289
was kind of fun, where Blue escaped chomping

00:58:44.289 --> 00:58:47.050
out the window. Fuck it, I've had enough of this.

00:58:47.050 --> 00:58:49.369
A guy was slowly making his way towards him.

00:58:49.449 --> 00:58:53.429
He didn't seem to be taking a single step. Okay,

00:58:53.449 --> 00:58:55.010
we're going to imply that he's getting closer

00:58:55.010 --> 00:58:57.570
by zooming in a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we're

00:58:57.570 --> 00:58:59.929
not going to show Blue taking a step away from

00:58:59.929 --> 00:59:02.769
him either. But next minute, ah, he's flicking

00:59:02.769 --> 00:59:05.090
himself out the window in cloud base. Yeah. And

00:59:05.090 --> 00:59:07.550
a Truman Show falls down a bit of a set. That

00:59:07.550 --> 00:59:09.929
was a really nice touch. That was a good one.

00:59:09.929 --> 00:59:11.909
Having a pretend back of Coronation Street sort

00:59:11.909 --> 00:59:14.469
of effect. Yeah. Where it was going, oh, hang

00:59:14.469 --> 00:59:16.650
on, there's this unpainted wood here. And we've

00:59:16.650 --> 00:59:19.690
got a big canvas backdrop for the sky here. Ah,

00:59:19.869 --> 00:59:23.300
this is fun. that was the good bit of the rest

00:59:23.300 --> 00:59:26.159
of the episode really underwhelming and shit

00:59:26.159 --> 00:59:29.800
but also Captain Scarlet seemed really shifty

00:59:29.800 --> 00:59:34.659
at the end like ah I'm fake Captain Scarlet turned

00:59:34.659 --> 00:59:36.920
up to get you now what's that code word again

00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:40.000
honestly that's what the ending seemed like yeah

00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:42.519
it should have been that they could have tried

00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:46.159
that like the ending of existence this is the

00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:48.780
game right yeah they could have carried on that

00:59:48.780 --> 00:59:50.380
loop a little bit more that could have been fun

00:59:50.380 --> 00:59:53.159
yeah but it was good so i've really enjoyed it

00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:55.260
like i've not watched captain scarlet probably

00:59:55.260 --> 00:59:58.539
since i was about 12 they did actually do um

00:59:58.539 --> 01:00:02.559
an animated captain scarlet series in 2005 i

01:00:02.559 --> 01:00:05.079
think they've also got another one on at the

01:00:05.079 --> 01:00:09.480
moment or recently finished whether it was a

01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:12.480
continuation of the 2005 one or a completely

01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:15.000
different company and completely different animation.

01:00:15.139 --> 01:00:18.019
Clearly it's got some appeal today, but I don't

01:00:18.019 --> 01:00:20.559
think they needed to animate them or CGI them.

01:00:20.659 --> 01:00:22.380
No, I don't think so either. You've got these

01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:24.800
shows, the idea of making them puppets is that

01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:28.480
they are kind of timeless or this is what the

01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:30.820
shows used to look like, but the storylines they've

01:00:30.820 --> 01:00:33.960
given them. are still futuristic. I don't think

01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:36.820
anything really is too... Oh, that's very, very

01:00:36.820 --> 01:00:39.460
dated. Nothing in the episodes we saw anyway.

01:00:39.579 --> 01:00:42.739
I mean, Captain Scarlet... In itself, it's actually

01:00:42.739 --> 01:00:45.639
quite a progressive programme. There are women

01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:49.960
in positions of power. They're the angels. Destiny

01:00:49.960 --> 01:00:53.579
Angel is a blonde... She is a blonde French lady.

01:00:53.820 --> 01:00:56.480
And she likes to do a little shit -up with her

01:00:56.480 --> 01:01:01.119
jet. I think there's four or five Destiny Angels

01:01:01.119 --> 01:01:05.079
altogether. Destiny, Rhapsody, Melody and Harmony.

01:01:05.139 --> 01:01:07.280
There we are. All beautiful names. But they're

01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:12.019
all women. One of them is Asian. One of them

01:01:12.019 --> 01:01:15.139
is a black lady. And Lieutenant Green, going

01:01:15.139 --> 01:01:18.380
back to him, interesting points about him. These

01:01:18.380 --> 01:01:20.519
are vague memories and anyone who's listening

01:01:20.519 --> 01:01:22.840
can correct me if I'm wrong. I really don't care.

01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:24.659
You're not going to ruin my memory of my memories.

01:01:25.420 --> 01:01:30.179
To my knowledge, Lieutenant Green was one of

01:01:30.179 --> 01:01:33.900
the first black characters in the children's

01:01:33.900 --> 01:01:37.219
television program that was not portrayed in

01:01:37.219 --> 01:01:41.460
some kind of... racial bias he was also voiced

01:01:41.460 --> 01:01:44.920
by a black man oh that's very unusual in it yeah

01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:47.639
especially up until very recently actually yeah

01:01:47.639 --> 01:01:52.639
yeah um i had another fact as well oh sorry um

01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:55.840
no no it's fine um and yes him being a lieutenant

01:01:55.840 --> 01:01:58.760
and not a captain is I'm not going to read too

01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:00.940
much into that. He's a different rank. But there's

01:02:00.940 --> 01:02:03.760
only one colonel as well. So, you know, they've

01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:05.699
got scale. They've got the high one -on -one

01:02:05.699 --> 01:02:07.820
end and the low one -on -one end. But I will

01:02:07.820 --> 01:02:11.440
also say there aren't many women in administrative

01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:15.090
positions in Captain Scarlet. No, I don't think

01:02:15.090 --> 01:02:18.869
there were any. The only one, the last episode,

01:02:19.250 --> 01:02:21.989
yeah, on Cloudbase, all of the women have active

01:02:21.989 --> 01:02:25.289
roles. They are not desk jockeys like you would

01:02:25.289 --> 01:02:27.489
have in, you know, the Thunderbirds or something

01:02:27.489 --> 01:02:29.170
like that, where the women were supporting roles.

01:02:29.389 --> 01:02:32.949
These women have active roles that affect the

01:02:32.949 --> 01:02:35.730
outcome of an episode. They have dialogue, you

01:02:35.730 --> 01:02:38.989
know, they're important to the story, as is Lieutenant

01:02:38.989 --> 01:02:41.949
Green, who is featured really very prominently.

01:02:41.969 --> 01:02:44.389
He's in every single episode. I was going to

01:02:44.389 --> 01:02:47.269
say, Lieutenant Green and Colonel White are the

01:02:47.269 --> 01:02:50.130
closest to desk job people. Yes, they are. Having

01:02:50.130 --> 01:02:53.269
said that, in episodes, they are in the field.

01:02:53.869 --> 01:02:55.989
There's an episode where Lieutenant Green is

01:02:55.989 --> 01:02:58.130
assisting Captain Skull. It's an episode about

01:02:58.130 --> 01:03:00.429
them in the snow. That's a fairly early on episode.

01:03:01.090 --> 01:03:03.190
There's another episode, Colonel White is out

01:03:03.190 --> 01:03:06.179
behind the desk in the field. I remember wondering

01:03:06.179 --> 01:03:08.840
when I was a kid, like the first time I saw Lieutenant

01:03:08.840 --> 01:03:12.360
Green, I wondered whether he was disabled and

01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:13.960
didn't have use of his legs. Because, you know,

01:03:13.980 --> 01:03:17.579
his chair is on the travelator. Because he's

01:03:17.579 --> 01:03:19.699
got a very... Oh, sorry, just hit my mic. Because

01:03:19.699 --> 01:03:22.039
he's got a very long desk. It's like, I don't

01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:24.179
know, the equivalent of like a three metre long

01:03:24.179 --> 01:03:27.300
desk. So he's got a travelator that his chair

01:03:27.300 --> 01:03:29.980
moves up and down side to side, you know, to

01:03:29.980 --> 01:03:31.920
get to the switches and the knobs and the buttons

01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:34.420
that he needs to get to. So I've got a vague...

01:03:34.440 --> 01:03:36.980
memory of wondering when i was a kid whether

01:03:36.980 --> 01:03:40.639
he didn't have use of his legs which is a really

01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:43.500
interesting question because he's a puppet he

01:03:43.500 --> 01:03:46.059
doesn't have independent use of his legs he never

01:03:46.059 --> 01:03:48.480
did and he never will but i was still worried

01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:51.079
that he might have bad legs bless him well in

01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:53.559
the show he has been out in the field yes and

01:03:53.559 --> 01:03:57.639
the moving around travelator chair and also colonel

01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:01.019
white's omnipod oh his desk is cool Have you

01:04:01.019 --> 01:04:03.880
seen Team America World Police? Yeah. Those are

01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:07.000
the two, those characters' workstations combined.

01:04:07.420 --> 01:04:10.199
Sorry, I should have gone, fuck yeah. America,

01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:15.059
fuck yeah. No, fuck no to America at the moment.

01:04:15.219 --> 01:04:17.920
Coming to save the motherfucking day, yeah? Yeah,

01:04:18.119 --> 01:04:21.820
can someone please save the day? Anybody? Anyone,

01:04:21.960 --> 01:04:23.460
please. That's enough of my geopolitical. Did

01:04:23.460 --> 01:04:25.420
Spotsworth think the guy's name was? I can't,

01:04:25.500 --> 01:04:27.500
no, I think that was the, there's the Parker

01:04:27.500 --> 01:04:29.940
type thing. The main thing I remember of that

01:04:29.940 --> 01:04:37.699
is Dirk -a -Dirk -a -stan. Everyone going, in

01:04:37.699 --> 01:04:40.400
the back of the car, shaking their arms. And

01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:47.119
the sex scene. I promise I will never die. Because

01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:50.429
I was never alive to begin with. But yeah, I

01:04:50.429 --> 01:04:52.670
love Captain Scarlet. I'm so chuffed that we've

01:04:52.670 --> 01:04:55.630
given it a little go and I will probably get

01:04:55.630 --> 01:04:58.090
round to watching the whole 32 episodes at some

01:04:58.090 --> 01:05:00.389
point. I've enjoyed it. It's a nice little trip

01:05:00.389 --> 01:05:03.250
down nostalgia lane. I don't know how many episodes

01:05:03.250 --> 01:05:05.849
are available on YouTube, but I'll put a link

01:05:05.849 --> 01:05:08.210
to, I don't know if it's a separate channel of

01:05:08.210 --> 01:05:10.989
its own, but I know Century 21 and Gerry Anderson

01:05:10.989 --> 01:05:14.829
have both got YouTube channels. So as much episodes

01:05:14.829 --> 01:05:16.869
as I can or any playlists, I'll put a link to

01:05:16.869 --> 01:05:19.650
those on the blog. Brilliant. We can get out

01:05:19.650 --> 01:05:21.349
of here. Yeah, we've got to get out of this.

01:05:22.190 --> 01:05:29.110
Two to beam down. We're still here. Adam? Yeah?

01:05:29.210 --> 01:05:32.090
How many times did you press this earlier? A

01:05:32.090 --> 01:05:35.449
whole bunch, I'll be honest. A load. Yeah, I

01:05:35.449 --> 01:05:39.050
think the batteries might be flat. Nice one,

01:05:39.210 --> 01:05:44.090
mate. Nice. Please, please stop. Don't break

01:05:44.090 --> 01:05:47.469
it. Oh, hang on. I can't believe it's taken so

01:05:47.469 --> 01:05:53.760
long to think of this.... Computer! ....Oh. Okay, so

01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:57.780
how are we getting out of here? I guess we wait

01:05:57.780 --> 01:06:02.679
for a lift back with Rob? 
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