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"I should shoot you more often!"

This series just gets better and better - and I love the new Captain Magenta! A romeo Spectrum officer - superb!

Nice subliminal effects in the 'virus' as Scarlet sees it - anyone catch the images of destruction and despair?

And nice that Scarlet is getting some heroic characterisation - his solution to the Cheetah crash was inspired - even I was going 'oh sh*t' when it went over, totally forgetting it had wings...

Oh, and where oh where can we get those 'full Spectrum & Angel' outfits the MoM presenters had!?

Breathtaking.

Yeah, I saw the images in the virus - nice touch.
Agentbooth

If you'll pardon the pun - stunning, quite stunning....

This will turn out to be one of my favourite episodes, I suspect. It was certainly very adult in feel, especially during the last 10 minutes.

The subliminal scenes on the main computer were an inspired touch, as was the tear on Scarlet's cheek.

It's good to see three minor characters get some lines. I especially liked Rhapsody's "darling" - just right for a Chelsea girl, I thought!

As usual, the animation was top-drawer. As well as the computer images, other noted examples: the reflections from the lift signs (small touch, I know but it just makes things look so real) and the flare from the radiation door. Also, the dog-fight (spot the detail on the undercarriage of Destiny's escape pod!).

Phew! Never mind the first series on DVD - I'm already hankering for the second!

Wonderful episode. I just hope that the rest of this second season lives up to the extremely high quality of scripting and animation that we have had from the first two episodes. If I wasn't already enjoying the CGI series, Virus would have converted me. Can't think of any faults with it at all. In fact, one of my previous criticisms, that the episodes are too short, does not apply with this one. The script was nice and tightly plotted, as were all of the sequences. Loved the bit where Scarlet dragged Blue out of the Cheetah and used his own body to cushion the fall. Okay, he is indestructible, but oh man, that fall through the trees had to really hurt. There is real friendship for you.

Hmmm, Captain Magenta, so was he a 'Romeo' or just a plain old letch?! - I know where my vote falls!!

I always thought Captain Scarlet had a really **CENSORED** job, and it is quite poignant that he is realising it himself - what did he say to Doctor Gold, something like "what use is it being indestructible when everyone around me is so fragile?"

And ouch that must have hurt, landing under Captain Blue like he did!! Retrometabolism working overtime there??!

Oh, and where oh where can we get those 'full Spectrum & Angel' outfits the MoM presenters had!?

I'm kind of hoping Holly will keep hers and wear it more often...

Uh, did I say that out loud?

Aegis wrote:I'm kind of hoping Holly will keep hers and wear it more often...

Uh, did I say that out loud?

OK Aegis, you ARE Captain Magenta in disguise and I claim my five pounds!

Busted!

Chris C wrote:I always thought Captain Scarlet had a really job, and it is quite poignant that he is realising it himself

Absolutely.

After all, in OCS, Dr Fawn tells Scarlet that "a bullet will make you bleed; you will feel the pain...".

I always winced during the fiddling-about-with-the-brain scene in Operation: Time where it is obvious that Scarlet is in some discomfort.

Yet you always got the impression that if he had been ordered to take on an assignment that meant certain death or at least some real danger of an extreme and protracted ouch-and-ooyah scenario, Colonel White would have accused him of being a right whingey baby if Scarlet had asked as much as "OK but is this going to sting a bit?"

Poor bloke. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Sorry to go off-topic BTW.

Aegis wrote:I'm kind of hoping Holly will keep hers and wear it more often...

Uh, did I say that out loud?

I didn't hear anything...

On another note - who would fancy being a Vampire pilot?

Think about it; one minute, you've just completed your training and on the way to your first mission, the next, you're a Mysteron zombie being blasted out of the sky by a white-suited babe in a Falcon interceptor.

Bet they don't mention that during the recruitment drives....

I like this episode as the animation and the secondary characters were highlights. I do like Scarlet's characterization but I was a bit let down by the finale. What was the point of those horrific images again? Why were they there? Did I miss something?

The dogfight and Cheetah crash were well executed.

KP

shadokp wrote:I do like Scarlet's characterization but I was a bit let down by the finale. What was the point of those horrific images again? Why were they there? Did I miss something?

The images the virus fed into the brain were those of destruction and despair - the implication being there were things so horrific in life it drove the victims to suicide. It was a nicer touch than just be hypnotised to destroy themselves, and also feeds back to the first story and how the Mysterons viewed humanity.

Okay - now I get it - great touch.

KP