Futura... or Unity?
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As you might know, the Captain Scarlet TV series refers to the world capital as 'Futura City', while the comic strips gave it the name 'Unity City'. In your opinion, which is the right name, and why do you prefer it?
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Alternatively, - does it have to be the same place exactly? .. the European Union has 2 capitals - one in Brussels, for administration and the making of silly rules and one in Strasbourg, where the Parliament meets to talk about how wonderful it is to meet in Strasbourg.... and anything else they can think of.
With Futura/Unity - I think one source credits the location as being in the Bahamas (or somewhere nice and sunny anyway) whilst I think I remember a comic suggesting it was on the American East coast...(a bit like the UN)...
Weston airbase in Triple Cross is described by Captain Blue as being '30 miles outside of Futura city limits' and the place we see on the screen certainly doesn't look like the Bahamas to me... not that I have ever been there, so no doubt one of our intrepid band of travellers will tell me if the place is the dead spit of Weston airbase....
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[Incidentally, there's a work of fanfic still in its early stages at the moment in which both names are used. Parallel universes and all that...]
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Of the two I like Unity better. Just because it's a pretty name.
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Chris Drake and Graeme Bassett in their book: 'Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons' explain the confusion thus:
Spectrum answers only to the World President...who is head of the World Government. Although the nations of the 21st C Earth still have their own national leaders, they are united by the World Senate which sits at Unity City. Spanning the coral reefs of Bermuda, Unity City is a fusion-powered zone of such complexity that it is dubbed 'Futura City' by the locals.
How much credence we should give that is debatable - presumably they just made an educated guess, much as we do?
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In any case the name Futura doesn't really appeal to me much. The show is already set in the future - just how far ahead of 2068+ does the name 'Futura' want to suggest?
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