The Cure

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Supermarionation: The Secret Service: The Cure
By Kinggodzillak on Thursday, May 30, 2002 - 3:03 pm:

Blake seems to have acquired a new car since Question of Miracles (probably got destroyed in an unshown BISHOP assignment) :)


By D.K. Henderson on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 5:19 am:

This one got a little confusing.

The implication at the end of the episode was that the carrot-loving quack was not involved with the sabotoge business--his facilities were being used because they were handy. The saboteur sneaked out through the obligatory air-vent during the time that he was supposed to be undergoing a rather bizarre therapy. (The quack is presumably a big fan of the more stomach-wrenching rides at amusement parks.) However--how did he get out of the therapy rack? When Father Unwin was strapped into it, it was plain that the patient could not get out of it without assistance, so who unstrapped the saboteur? For that matter, who strapped him back in again when he sneaked back to the clinic? Another point--are we to assume that this quack is such a complete quack that he would strap patients into his therapy rack and then abandon them for the duration, with no one checking every few minutes to see if the patient has passed out or thrown up?

It's rather a shame that they didn't make the quack one of the bad guys. It would have been great cover, with all of his patients so weak from hunger and malnutrition that they were incapable of interfering in any way!

Poor Blake--no one tells him anything. Just take a special case from the clinic and hide it near the racetrack. And then? "Go home."

They put in a nice bit of tension during that final test, with Father Unwin calling orders over a regular radio and praying that Matthew could hear him. He really sounded frightened on Matthew's behalf.

I didn't really understand the necessity of shrinking Gabriel down (could he not open the large doors of the garage?) but it did look cute to see little Gabriel perking down the road.

I'm almost certain that I've seen Matthew sitting at Father Unwin's table before, so why did Mrs. Appleby make that nasty crack about having Matthew eat in the kitchen? And to make that comment in front of Matthew, instead of bringing it up privately with Father Unwin, was just plain mean.


By Kinggodzillak on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 3:23 pm:

>>It's rather a shame that they didn't make the quack one of the bad guys. It would have been great cover.

Yeah, but maybe a bit predictable...


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