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shaqui wrote:

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.

Never thought of it that way.
Thank's Shaqui.

Glad to hear everyone enjoyed this episode!
Its the 1st one I worked on
I promise you will be impressed with this season - We upped the ante on the action & FX!

Cheers!

Hmm, is Magenta officially confirmed as his name? I don't remember anyone calling him it in the episode, so there's always the possibility he may of undergone a name change like a few of the other characters.

Toropiusu wrote:Hmm, is Magenta officially confirmed as his name? I don't remember anyone calling him it in the episode, so there's always the possibility he may of undergone a name change like a few of the other characters.

Captain Ochre did call him Mario which is his first name.
His full name is Mario Moro, Which sounded's like an Italian name, And he look and sounded Italian American to me.
Also I would call his uniform colour Magenta.

VoxeLove wrote:Glad to hear everyone enjoyed this episode!
Its the 1st one I worked on
I promise you will be impressed with this season - We upped the ante on the action & FX!

Cheers!

Great job and welcome aboard!

KP

Glad you guys liked it! I worked on the images with the virus. They were a pain to do but it turned out just fine!

Nice to see all the Scarlet crew popping up on the forum How's it going at EA Femi? Sorry I didn't get back to you - what can I say? I'm a shambler...

And I take it that VoxeLove is you Howard..?

Just caught this one again on CITV...

It was one I remember not being too impressed with first time around, and up until the ad break I couldn't really remember why, because the first half was really good. Nice mystery, nice visuals. Liked.

Then the second half started, and suddenly it all came flooding back. Scarlet and Destiny...to quote a certain big-voiced bot "I hope they end up together...at the bottom of a well, torn apart by animals." Yes, all the good characters get put to sleep, and Destiny gets to save the day. Argh.

I don't mind Scarlet as a character, but keep him away from Destiny, and spare us all the cow's relentless whining. Argh....

Other negatives...Magenta, a good character, introduced here and then left silent for the rest of the series. Though I guess that's not really this episode's fault...

Scarlet suddenly decides that a computer virus that kills has been uploaded from Fernandez's home. "I've not used the computer since I got back to Skybase!" he cries - ignoring the fact that he used a computer to check Fernandez's security tapes...

Colonel White's plan - knock out all the potentially infected people - everyone on Skybase bar Destiny and Scarlet. Clearly, no-one knew about it - presumably if they did, that might trigger the suicidal tendencies early. But Symphony had a cup of hot tea or coffee in her hands when she passed out. Magenta was on a treadmill. Presumably there were people somewhere on the base doing far more dangerous things than that, and no one thought to warn them? Not even a simple "Would everyone please stop what they're doing and sit down on the floor?" announcement? What if an engineer had passed out and flicked the switch that keeps Skybase in the air? Big problem, that would have been.

The virus shows people humanity's worst qualities and gets them so depressed that they want to kill themselves. Fine...but everyone affected seemed remarkable calm about it. "Oh well, time to die. Off I go...". Why weren't they shouting and screaming about how crap humanity is?

The deletion of the virus..yeah. Press a few buttons and say some sciency-sounding words, that'll fix it. And what about the people it affected? Oh, not to worry - let's just have Destiny mumble something about "Some sort of auto-hypnotic something or other seems to do the trick." and then get to the snogging.

Sorry for the rant, I know a lot of people like this episode...

I liked the episode, but yeah you have a very good point there (several in fact) and am inclined to agree with them. The ending really didn't do it for me, and I like 'shipping, guess that's because Destiny is so annoying. Much prefer 'moments' between the other characters (Ochre & Magenta, blatantly sexual tension, yea or nay? )

The visuals were excellent, and plot engaging. So overall a great show.

I liked the fight between Scarlet and Blue in the Cheetah best. It was awesome how they fell out and were still fighting, then Scarlet cussioned the fal for his friend...I also love the new Captain Magenta- though he does look like Captain Orange. Do we see much more of him?

7/10