Podcast:Invasion Earth 2150AD - Episode 017 - String Theory

[gordon_r_d]

We talk about Thunderbirds with our usual dedication to staying on topic and go round and round trying to decide what's setting the mood and what's showing off when it comes to excellent model work.

0:00 - 0:31 News.
0:32 - 2:12 Thunderbirds.

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[pedanther]

I thought the episode with the train contained some degree of the old series recklessness: Testing a new high-speed train? Why not do it on an active line with a much slower train full of passengers up ahead? (And then they shunt the runaway train onto another line which rapidly comes to a dead end in the middle of the city - why not shunt the passenger train onto that line instead?)

The story about the Global Frequency series getting cancelled because the pilot was leaked onto the internet isn't actually true: it's a conflation of two separate events. The network had already decided against going to series weeks before the leak occurred, due to a more usual set of network-politics-related reasons. The decision they were still making when the leak happened was whether to show the pilot, or release it on DVD, as a standalone TV movie, and that's what they decided not to do after the leak, either to spite all the people who downloaded it or because they genuinely thought that nobody who'd downloaded it would pay to get a clean copy on DVD.

The writer who said the thing about sending someone through the door with a gun whenever the audience might be getting bored was Raymond Chandler, the author of The Big Sleep. One of the things I like about him was that although he used the rule himself he often managed to put some kind of spin on it. (My favourite is the scene in, if memory serves, The Lady in the Lake: Marlowe's searching a suspect's house when a woman comes through the door holding a gun. He's just about made up his mind to try jumping her and wrestling the gun off her when she explains that she just found the gun in the next room, and does he have any thoughts about what she should do with it.)

[gordon_r_d]

Oh yes, definitely bringing some more of the recklessness in, especially with the episode that aired here at the weekend with a reckless, cost-cutting, corner-shaving idiot causes all manner of problems.

Thanks for the clarification on the Global Frequency pilot, a lot of places still seem to list the false reason for cancellation.

Raymond Chandler, of course. I always link the phrase to the old pen'n'paper RPG Feng Shui, which used it as a gamesmastering tip. Name completely escaped me. I've heard comic writers quote it as well a few times.