Space City Special

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Supermarionation: Fireball XL5: Space City Special
By Adam on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 9:42 am:

The fourth and last appearance of the Subterrans.


By Kinggodzillak on Saturday, September 07, 2002 - 3:14 pm:

When Zero, Steve, Matt, Jock and 90 are deciding who does what in the show, Steve says Zero will have to play the drums. But in the end, Robert does the drums and Zero has a trombone.

And how come Matt can't play the piano here, but in Granatoid Tanks he can play the one-man orchestra thingummy?


By Adam on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 4:50 am:

Major Todd's voice when he says "Climbing to 80,000 feet." sounds like Moid from Terrahawks.


By Adam on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 8:44 am:

Mike Mercury can be seen at the end of this episode as a cameraman.


By Adam on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 8:47 am:

I think General Rossiter is Admiral Denver but I'm not sure.


By D.K. Henderson on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 7:29 pm:

When they showed Lt. 90 and Zoonie hanging out the window at the beginning, I thought at first that it was Jonathan.

I thought that the brainwashing scene was rather well done. I liked the split screen with the Major's eyes and the planned incident with the plane. However, given the way that the Major cried out at the end, you'd think that they would have wanted to treat him some more; he seemed to be fighting it.

They seem to have improved their X-ray equipment; one doesn't have to get undressed to undergo a physical.

Venus is being an airhead again. She knows that the Major shows signs of brainwashing; she knows that something is going to happen at 80,000 feet. But it takes Steve Zodiac to state the obvious: get the man out of the pilot's chair, by any means necessary. Why didn't she think of doing that before they went into a crash dive?

Considering that Zoonie came within inches of murdering Jock, why didn't they lock the little terror up? No one even scolded him! And why do the WSP's use a ray gun that causes so much fallout that Commander Zero becomes filthy just standing beside it?

I enjoyed Lt. 90's posture after the General scolded Commander Zero for being messy. Made up for an entire series' worth of abuse. Lt. 90 will probably treasure that memory....

I wonder how Venus reacted, after her harrowing experience, when someone came up and said, "Come on Venus, you're going to be playing saxophone after the presentation this evening!"

Considering that Commander Zero didn't know until the last moment that Steve was going to sing, just what was Steve supposed to do?


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