Space Pen

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Supermarionation: Fireball XL5: Space Pen
By Adam on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 9:37 am:

The fourth and last appearance of Mr and Mrs Space Spy.


By Kinggodzillak on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 3:15 pm:

'As a pilot, you'd make a great plumber!'

Er WHAT?


By D.K. Henderson on Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 2:15 pm:

I really would like to see Lt. 90 punch Commander Zero's lights out...the Lieutenant has the patience of a saint.

I wonder if Zero tried to blame the Lieutenant for the crooks landing, when HE was the one who ignored basic security measures. He didn't even think to ask them why they were two days early. (They would have lied, of course, but he still should have asked.)

Even in the 1960's, they surely had more...um... more subtle burglar alarms? For that matter, the entire Space City complex should have been rigged with alarms. Maybe they will, now....

The second part of the show was quite interesting, but the first part relied too much on the implausible--that they would allow a ship to land with only the most cursory of checks, that Prof. Matic's silly burglar alarm, installed only that day, would fail on its first real use, that Steve is such a heavy sleeper that he hears absolutely nothing through his open bedroom door, and that the Command Center of Space City shuts down completely at night. Have they never heard of night shifts?

What exactly happened at Conva, anyway? Was there a major prisoner revolt? Were the guards captured, or were they killed? The impression I got was that Conva was a criminal base, where the Burglars' Guild could store their loot. And quite a lot of loot it was. Why did it take the authorities so long to move in?

As soon as I heard reference to the big boss, and his wife, I thought, "Uh, oh...they're gonna be in trouble!"

These television criminals really need to learn to kill their enemies quickly. Slow death might be fun from the psychological point of view, but it always gives the good guys a chance to escape! Or be rescued by a deus ex machina, as in this case.

Those poor, incompetent Space Spys. Why didn't they load their loot straight onto their ship, rather than piling it outside? Grizelda will no doubt find a way to blame her husband for that....


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