Why doesn't Callie look for her weapon before jumping the guard? He's clearly fiddling around on the other side of the room, so she's got time to glance around, at the very least.
Why bother picking the lock? Walk up to the gate contact Liberator & have Jenna transport Blake up & then move the destination thing over a few feet? (We do see Jenna manually work the green light when preparing to beam down the rest of the group. Would it really be that hard to nudge the thing over a bit?)
I assume there must be some good reason why they couldn't just scale the fence either.
The lock has several problems:
First, it only scans Blake. Apprently it doesn't have any kind of detection unit to determine how many people are standing around it.
Second, it sure took a long time for the signal to go to the computer, check its records, then send a reject signal.
Third, apparently this gate is programmed to open if it doesn't recive a reject code within the specified span of time, because when Vila blocks the signal, the gate still opens, even though it hasn't recieved an okay signal.
Vila is distracting the guards and Blake runs up behind and knocks them out. However, considering those helmets the guards wear, how did Blake knock them out? The Vulcan nerve pinch???
How come none of the scientists said anything when Gan, Avon & Cally teleported down? Blake in Cygnus Alpha did say teleportation was a very big project, so one of these scientists should have been familiar with the project.
If they had tied the scientists & guards up & locked the door behind them, Cally wouldn't be captured.
Apparently Blake & company have been very, very busy while we weren't looking. Now Blake is very famous for being a rebel and is having all sorts of things credited to him. However, the only things we the viewer saw them do to the Federation was 1. Blake & company temporarily took over a prison ship. 2. Escaped on an alien vessel. 3. Destroyed the communication center in Time Squad. Now #1 might be common knowledge, although I think the Federation might try to keep that hushed up to avoid future attempts. Number 2 might be known, but again, why would the Federation let too many people know of this escape. Maybe one, or more, of the officers assigned to hunt Blake down had talked about it, but how public would the info really be. No one should know that Blake was involved in #3, because as far as anyone knows, the sabatuers went into the complex on a suicide mission. No one in the Federation, at this point, should know that Blake has a working teleport system.
The explosive devices are placed on the walls, but after the explosion, only the equipment is in pieces.
When talking to Servalan after finding out about the stolen encoder, you can see the white of the actor's eye through the hole in Travis' eye patch.
Apparently Cally's interrogation was successful. Travis knows that Libertor's transporter range is less than a quarter of a million miles (or was it spacials?). The only way he could know that is if Cally talked.
I wonder if the black patch over the left side of Travis' face was inspired by a similar black patch over the left side of Thomas Leighton's face in the Star Trek episode The Conscience Of The King?
This episode aired yesterday in Britain. At the end of the episode when Blake & co teleported out just in the time of nick, I half expected Travis to shrug and say in a Cockney accent, "Fair do's - I'll catch yer next time!" (Stephen Greif is currently appearing in a coffee commercial where he says that at the end)
Oh, and another thing - the crew need to check the efficiency of their bombs in future. When Gan sets one bomb in the cypher machine room, Blake insists on a second one because he wants the room totally annihilated so that no-one will even notice that the cypher machine has gone. But apparently the explosion was so weak that even the cabling wasn't melted, let alone larger stuff blown into smithereens.
It could have been worse Callie, Stephen could have called Blake 'Trotsky' since he played the gangster Harry Fenning in Citizen Smith.
Odd fact from the DVD commentary for this episode, Stephen Greif went to school opposite the gasworks (abandoned by the time the BBC came to film there) where the external scenes of the communications centre were filmed.
It was in Chelsea apparently.
Quite a good commentary (Michael Keating and Jacqueline Pearce are also involved), although Jacqueline gets a little too "luvvie" and keeps calling everyone darling.
Haven't listened to the commentary on this one yet, but after the Two Doctors, I doubt I'll ever find commentaries with Pearce especially appealing.
She's the same on the Project Avalon commentary, but it's worth listening to the commentaries for the others taking part (Stephen Greif also does both, Micheal Keating does S-L-D, Sally Knyvette does P:A - they nearly have an arguement over whether Glynis Barber played one of the Mutoids - Sally doesn't think it's her and Jacqueline sides with her, although Stephen's proved right by the credits).