How could Col.White know about Scarlet's Indestructibility?
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This might of been asked before, but please bear with me.
I have watched the first episode called "The Mysterons" again and at the end, Colonel White say's that Captain Scarlet is indestructible, but how could he know?
It might of been a lucky fluke that the Mysterised Captain Scarlet surived from falling from the Car-Vu.
After all Dr Fawn does'nt find out that he is indestructible, because of the test that are carried out until the next episode called "Winged Assassin".
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Let's not forget that Scarlet had fell a 800 distance to the ground, after having been shot - all the bones of his bodies would be shattered by the impact. On top of that, an enormous amount of metal debris had fallen onto his body. It might be considered another miracle that his body had been found at all, IN ONE PIECE - if not intact. Presumably then, when he was found, he was dead. And a dead body was flown back to Cloudbase, and he probably was, quite naturally, declared dead on arrival - which would explain why Destiny was called to make an identification of the body. Those kinds of things are usually done with dead bodies, rarely with lived ones.
Scarlet must have start coming back to life soon after that. Astounded by the fact that he had returned from the dead, Doctor Fawn probably had done a first series of tests - to find out what exactly might happen, why he's reviving, why his wounds are healing at an incredible rate. A NORMAL human being does not, in no circumstances, no matter how lucky he might be, heal from the kind of injuries Scarlet had subsided in a matter of hours. Fawn also had to check if this man was still under Mysteron influence.
The result of that first series of tests will have been brought to Colonel White's attention. And it probably was after the reading of that report, that the Colonel made that announcement we saw at the end of Episode 1.
In Episode 2, we see Fawn conducting another series of tests - probably the latest in a long series - and in this one he asked a few questions to Scarlet. Who knows, maybe it wasn't the first time he asked Scarlet if he recalled anything of what he had experienced. He'd had to be satisfied that the answer given by Scarlet will always be the same each time.
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chrisbishop
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<< Do we actually know that he’s indestructible? I mean, I’m happy to accept that he’s as indestructible as the next mysteronised reconstruction, but the only real evidence we’ve got that he’s genuinely indestructible is Doctor Fawn’s assessment of him at the end of Episode 1 – and that was based on his having recovered from his tumble off the Car-Vu. Now, given that the Mysterons have powers that we cannot hope to understand and all that, on what basis did Doctor Fawn make the leap from diagnosing that he’s capable of recovering from a fall to saying that he can recover from anything whatsoever?
What I’m getting at is that we don’t know he’s indestructible at all. All we know is that he can recover from anything that’s been thrown at him so far. I’m thinking that Doctor Fawn may have got it wrong, and that he simply hasn’t been hit with something serious enough to kill him – like Doc Denim’s scenarios of being incinerated, dismembered or eaten alive. We’ve never seen a scenario where a mysteronised reconstruction has recovered from something as serious as any of these fates, and I can’t see why we should assume that they can, unless their masters can step in and reconstruct them a second time. The best they can manage to date is that they’ve recovered from being shot, isn’t it?
Anyway, if that’s the case, then we’ve got two types of retrometabolism: the one that recreates them in the first place, and a process that’s effectively an enhanced version of our own normal regenerative capability – which like ours probably has its limitations. And if that's right, there's no particular reason to suppose that he won't die of natural causes - though it'll probably take more than a bout of double pneumonia to finish him off when he reaches the sort of age at which most human lives come to an end. >>
Something I’m wondering about in the light of Chris’s comments above however is this: in all of the tests that Doctor Fawn would have carried out, did it not occur to him to try a dose of high-voltage electricity on a sample of Captain Scarlet’s tissue? Or, even more obviously, to subject Scarlet to an X-ray? With most of his bones broken? I don’t believe it!
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DocBrown
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Maybe Fawn didn't think he needed to x-ray him and was so flummoxed by the retrometabolism happening before his eyes he could only gape in astonishment.
Either that or he's just not a very good doctor.....
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In the same story, she also offered a theory about the 'camera given silhouette' dilemma that is mentioned in 'Flight 104'. Brillant idea. Check the story at the following address: http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/ch ... fetime.htm
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chrisbishop
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In Winged Assassin (and I am doing this from memory - so it's not verbatim) Scarlet & Blue have a conversation - when he is about to eject Blue form the SPV chasing the Mysteronised plane -
Blue says: Ramming the wheels would be suicide
SCarlet says: For you maybe.... (which suggests he isn't sure he's indestructible.)
Blue later says - maybe he didn't die - and pressed further he adds - in vain....
So he might not be sure Fawn is right either...?
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Marion
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Dr. Fawn: Captain Scarlet, you are STILL virtually indestructible!
How on earth did the good doctor know that he was "indestructible"......EVEN before he observed first hand, his retrometabolism?
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At least that's what I've always assumed he meant...
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Marion
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One of the main assumptions I had made was that somehow Scarlet "proved" himself in that space of time. I don't believe even Dr. Fawn would resort to using him as a human guinea pig to test his indestructibility...
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