I hate stories where I can't relate to the female lead! What a complete dip she was! Surely no one is as dumb as this girl? And to add insult to injury, they have Straker fall for her. Please!!! Was Gerry Anderson trying to tell us that Straker had abominable taste in women?
Maybe it's because I haven't seen this ep in a very long time, but I thought his interest in her was more fatherly, or he felt linked to her because he ran her over...
If there's anything in the dialogue to contradict me, please remember that it's about 10 years since I've seen it! And I'll have to wait til it gets shown on Sci-Fi to see it again.
And isn't that Tessa Wyatt, yet to reach the apex of her career as the wife in Robin's Nest?
Yeah, Alice. They did make her a love interest for Straker. At one point, he tells her that when she gets out of hospital... and she smiles. I could have believed a fatherly interest, but I just don't see any attraction between them at all.
The aliens seem like dips, too, watching the girl's boyfriend jump off a bridge. And if they resuscitated the man, why is it that after he installs the bomb's arming device, he goes outside, falls to the ground dead, reverts to his non-white clothes and ungroomed appearance, then turns to bones?
Did the aliens play with time, or something? They did seem to be capable of some sort of time manipulation in "Time Lash".
And what is the point of destroying England years before SHADO was even much of a threat? All it does is destroy several million potential organ donors.
When I last watched the series in 1972-73, I remember the closing scene of this episode as Straker and Lake walk down a sidewalk away from the camera.
As his image gets blurry, Straker's silvery-grey hairdo makes him look like he's wearing one of those silver alien space suit helmets!
Did the aliens play with time, or something? They did seem to be capable of some sort of time manipulation in "Time Lash".
And what is the point of destroying England years before SHADO was even much of a threat? All it does is destroy several million potential organ donors.
You might have answered your own question there...maybe they travelled back in time and were trying to prevent SHADO from being formed.
Foster keeps referring to Tim as "the boy". Since Tim was a medical student at the time of the original incident, and ten years have passed, he should be in his mid 30s (about Foster's age), hardly a "boy".
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The Aliens are playing around with time in a way, in that it's inferred, they're using the comatose ("Tessa's") "Life force" to keep (zombified) Tim animate...
Basically, Tim's dead, but is being controlled by a Alien...
The device itself appears to be a "Doomsday Device", which the aliens placed, in the 1960's, but only decided to activate, now, so to speak...
Actually Mark they placed it in 1970, 3 days after a disasterous earthquake in Turkey.
Was there any such earthquake in Turkey in 1970?
Of course the 1970 date is a nit as it would make the 'current' year 1980, but in Computer Affair there was a wine "vintage 1984".
Why would the component the girl threw still be on the houseboat ten years later?
Why couldn't the aliens just get a replacement trigger?
I found it interesting that the flashbacks are in sepia, until the drugs are taken, then it becomes full color.
So the moral of the story is, "Take drugs & you might save the world?" ;-)
The bomb might be thermochemical, I guess. I remember an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" where a boy developing his own rocket fuel accidentally creates a thermochemical substance, which both the OSI and bad guys want to have the formula to. The boy's record-keeping was non-existent, his measurements were approximate, and his "lab" had contaminants like pizza and a chocolate bar, thus making it uncertain what trace substances might have enabled the reaction of the substance.
Ed Bishop had a great moment at the end when Paul asks if he can do antyhing for him, after seeing that Catherine had died. He replies, "No. No." The first 'no' has his voice crack just a little, as evidenced by his expression that shows how sorry he was that this happened to her.
With her blonde hair, slightly-hippy clothing, and numerous rings, Catherine seemed alot like a variation of Doctor Who's Jo Grant to me, even though it would be a year before Doctor Who created the character of Jo.
As this was the last episode in the DVD collection (which I've viewed in its entirety now for a third time), seeing Straker and Lake walk away from the camera down a path, seems like they were walking into the sunset, as if the producers made an effort to end the series there.
quote:Of course the 1970 date is a nit as it would make the 'current' year 1980, but in Computer Affair there was a wine "vintage 1984".