I like the paintwork on the interior of the ship,
it makes it look alien.
But I wouldn't like that colour on my bedroom walls

What about your bathroom

No thanks
not on any walls, in any of the rooms

For some reason, I had had the idea that Marineville was on the Pacific coast, not the Atlantic. Even so, I seem to recall seeing palm trees on the coast in "The Master Plan" when Marina decided to go back to Titan, which would put Marineville along the southern part of the coast. So where did they get the snow and ice? Has the Earth had a radical alteration in the climate? Or was this a freak weather condition left over from the pink ice?

That aside, I enjoyed the snow scenes. (Although driving an open convertible in a fairly heavy snowfall would not be my idea of a good time.) They really did a nice job with the ice skating. (Marina, it would seem, prefers to move through water rather than on top of it.) Since they were moving so fast anyway, the usual awkwardness was smoothed over. I really liked seeing Commander Shore giving the boy a tow with his hover chair.

Those were the most pathetic looking Christmas trees I've ever seen. Perhaps they should try artificial ones.

I wonder, was Atlanta in the room when Troy instructed the boy to write (to Troy) "...you are my favorite Aquanaut...." I don't think she could have kept her face straight.

Considering that Marineville is an actual town, with civilian personnel (spouses of the WASPs?) I don't understand why it was such a problem to allow an Aquanaut's son to come for a visit.

The scene with Troy and Atlanta hearing strange noises (and attacking "Santa Claus") reminded me strongly of a similar scene from Thunderbirds (from THEIR Christmas episode) when Virgil and Tin-Tin heard odd noises coming from the roof and went to investigate.

Just like your typical male sterotype: sneak off and leave the womenfolk to do all the cooking.

Troy might have been embarrassed being caught out in his lie about being launched out of Stingray, but if he hadn't mentioned it before, would he have thought to try it for real?

How the heck did he manage to stop, anyway? The speed at which he shot through that hatch, he should have ended up a mangled blob on the far wall of the airlock.

They might not have expected any trouble, but I'm surprised that they didn't have an extra officer (Fisher, perhaps) on board Stingray--just in case.

The ending was rather mushy, but what else would you expect from a Christmas episode?

>> For some reason, I had had the idea that Marineville was on the Pacific coast, not the Atlantic. Even so, I seem to recall seeing palm trees on the coast in "The Master Plan" when Marina decided to go back to Titan, which would put Marineville along the southern part of the coast. So where did they get the snow and ice? Has the Earth had a radical alteration in the climate? Or was this a freak weather condition left over from the pink ice? <<

I think it's been stated in the comics that Marineville is on the West Coast. In 'The Lighthouse Dwellers', we see that Marineville is located near Arago Rock Lighthouse, which has been described in Stingray The Comic as being on the coast of Oregon.

Who knows, maybe the palm trees are genetically grown?

Maybe Marina was just walking through Marineville and happened to be walking past a rear projection screen in the training centre like they had in Rescue from the Skies?
No?
OK then....

I have a book (CULT TV) which states that Marineville in 20 miles inland from the Atlantic coast. They don't say where they got that information. Elsewhere, I've seen that Marineville is only 10 miles inland, which would be better all around for an underwater tunnel.

Also, in "Pink Ice" didn't they say that the Atlantic was frozen over? And then, that the Pacific coastline was still free? If the Atlantic had been frozen over, and Marineville was over there, how would they have gotten Stingray out and around to the Pacific?

All things considered, I think that someone just decided that, for a Christmas episode, you had to have snow.

Marineville is 10 miles inland on the west coast of America, it's outright stated in the Big Gun and again in Pink ice when they say Marineville coastine is ice free as the Pacific hadn't been hit.

I assume climate change has had some weird effects.