WEBVTT NOTE This transcript was created on 2026-06-07 at 21:58:32 1 00:00:03.660 --> 00:00:06.360 Maximal power. 2 00:00:08.939 --> 00:00:19.260 Welcome to Maximum Power, the pestilential rat hole of a podcast with Vulpine degenerates, space tramps, and a 10 credit touch if you're lucky. 3 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:27.719 Because this week we're off for the eviscerating experience of Amelia DeCat's KitKat Club Cabaret Space Chess Carnival, it's Gambit. 4 00:00:27.780 --> 00:00:28.800 I'm Pete. 5 00:00:28.859 --> 00:00:31.079 I'm the very Vulpine Brendan. 6 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:32.460 I'm Colin. 7 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:33.600 I'm Mark. 8 00:00:33.659 --> 00:00:34.979 And I'm Nathan. 9 00:00:35.219 --> 00:00:42.299 Now, I think it's fair to say that nobody thinks Gambit is an average episode of Blake Sam. 10 00:00:42.899 --> 00:00:49.979 But a gambit is a chess move where you sacrifice a pawn at the beginning to try and give yourself an advantage. 11 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:51.359 Nathan, what did you make of this episode? 12 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.719 I had always loved this one. 13 00:00:54.780 --> 00:00:59.579 I'm doing a reverse TARD on this. listen to flights through entirety. 14 00:00:59.700 --> 00:01:06.900 And watching it lately and every time I've watched it lately, I actually think it's probably not very good. 15 00:01:06.900 --> 00:01:11.280 And I think it's hardly. 16 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:17.760 It's almost all George Spenton Foster's fault. 17 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.920 He's terrible. 18 00:01:19.980 --> 00:01:22.019 The pacing is absolutely shit. 19 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:23.340 There's no atmosphere. 20 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:31.980 We desperately need June Hudson in this episode and we have Ken Ledsome or whatever who, what did, yes, minister. 21 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.340 And even Bob Holmes seems to be having a bad day. 22 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:46.739 I agree with you, Nathan. you know, received wisdom, as we say, is that this is like the classic and it's a good one. 23 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.379 Um, and I watched, I watched singing this afternoon. 24 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.200 I was like, there's so many characters. 25 00:01:52.200 --> 00:02:01.859 And I was, and at one point, I've, I, I was like, I was getting bored and looked up and goes, this scene's still going on between the guy dressed as a humbug. 26 00:02:01.859 --> 00:02:06.599 And the, you know, John Leeson dressed as a Centauri. 27 00:02:06.659 --> 00:02:07.920 I was like, is this still going on? 28 00:02:07.980 --> 00:02:19.199 So, yeah, it's kind of like, there's a couple of good bits, but the rest of it is just like this long padding to just find out that your arm isn't going to explode. 29 00:02:19.259 --> 00:02:19.740 That's it. 30 00:02:20.939 --> 00:02:41.879 Yeah, and it's never quite clear to me whether Travis thinks the bomb is real until he's saying, oh, get it out of my arm, but he sort of wakes up and says the server lab, what have you done to me, knowing there's a listening device and it's just, what do people know in this episode and when do they know it? 31 00:02:41.939 --> 00:02:43.860 He's something that's not entirely clear. 32 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:49.740 Even though there's hours and hours of scenes explaining things to each other. 33 00:02:49.860 --> 00:02:52.919 This is John Lacarre level plotting. 34 00:02:52.979 --> 00:02:55.379 This is, we don't know, everyone's got at least 2 names. 35 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:00.120 People have only got one name and get their name pronounced different ways just to help make it more confusing. 36 00:03:00.180 --> 00:03:06.060 Um, I, I, I think, um, Jeriere's little, um, proto Sylvester McCoy. 37 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:24.360 Sylvester McCoy could play that role in the movie that I'm sketching out in my head. as Serverland's hench person. and replaced the fact that she's replaced that she's replaced Travis with literally a fool, which will get another iteration of next week. 38 00:03:24.419 --> 00:03:27.060 There's a theme running here, I think. 39 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.740 Yeah, why is Lee Fair even in it? 40 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.560 Someone for her to expond it to. 41 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:33.539 I mean, that's all. 42 00:03:33.539 --> 00:03:35.280 You say that like it's a bad thing? 43 00:03:36.419 --> 00:03:44.460 It's like I said, way back in weapon that they should have kept Carnel on to give Servolan someone intelligent to talk to. 44 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:50.039 You know, I'm sitting here going, why is she putting up with this person who keeps saying, but why? 45 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.139 Commander. 46 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:58.680 I mean, the problem is that the show won't do any more regulars than it already has. 47 00:03:58.740 --> 00:04:03.479 So it was never going to contract someone to play that role. 48 00:04:03.539 --> 00:04:07.080 And so we just get a sort of different person each week. 49 00:04:07.139 --> 00:04:12.120 And look, I think one of the strengths of Blake 7 is that it's completely different every week. 50 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:22.199 Never again is anywhere near the Federation, anything like this with fucking nuns and, you know, priests and shit all over the place. 51 00:04:22.259 --> 00:04:24.180 And I think that's great. 52 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:34.379 We've talked about that as a strength before, but it also just means there's no kind of overall plan and it all just sort of wanders from place to place a bit, despite the arc. 53 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:44.939 I think there's a brilliant idea at the heart of this episode, which isn't fully realised, and that is that there's a Mardi Gras carnival on. 54 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:53.939 So the one day of the year where everybody's dressed up as regency princes and cavaliers and nuns is the day that they all arrive. 55 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:04.139 And they should have made more of the fact that that means that they stand out like a sore thumb because they're not in the costume and Blake should have thought, I should have worn my big sleeve thing. 56 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:05.339 At least I'd have fit in a bit more. 57 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:19.560 It's like, you know, in Blackadder, when he's facing the court martial and Baldrick brings in the escape kit and he said, you know, if you got something to help me blend in in a French village and he goes, I have, and he pulls out a Robin Hood outfit or something. 58 00:05:19.620 --> 00:05:25.560 And he says, well, I thought, what if the village was having a fancy dress party when you arrive? 59 00:05:26.939 --> 00:05:29.279 It's like the reverse of that. 60 00:05:30.420 --> 00:05:33.720 If Zen had been switched on this week. 61 00:05:33.779 --> 00:05:34.800 Maybe he would have thought. 62 00:05:35.100 --> 00:05:38.339 Yeah, tends to start learning updates this week, I think. 63 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:40.439 That's why he came up from it. 64 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:48.240 At least so, okay, Jenna and Callie get to go on a mission and I love Jenna's bye to Villa and Avon as they go down. 65 00:05:48.300 --> 00:06:02.759 But unfortunately it's me, I really get to do all that much apart from having their amazing cat fight, but apparently that was edited, their roles were edited quite a bit because originally they had a whole plot line of being ladies of the night that was, it was decided, had to be taken out of it. 66 00:06:02.819 --> 00:06:04.259 It's like, yeah, that's your one. 67 00:06:04.259 --> 00:06:07.740 The one time they get to go on a mission, or pretending to be anyway, you know. 68 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:10.980 There are 2 great things about that cat fight. 69 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.579 One is it is basically Pat and Peggy from each EastEnders. 70 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.279 Yeah, you slag. 71 00:06:17.339 --> 00:06:23.519 And then it's when it's off camera and they're still fighting each other and there's all these ridiculous sound effects. 72 00:06:23.579 --> 00:06:25.319 Oh my god, what are they doing? 73 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:33.720 What it says, what it says, you so-and-so, where the scripts, the scripts obviously run out, they just have they continue to fight. 74 00:06:34.379 --> 00:06:36.839 No, you are, but what am I? 75 00:06:37.860 --> 00:06:40.439 You space harpy. 76 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.699 I will say as much fun as that was. 77 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.459 I was kind of sitting there going, so let me get this straight. 78 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:55.980 They've been on the ship making the coffee for 10 weeks and when you give them something to do, they're 2 women scratching at each other's eyes out because of that. 79 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:58.800 Yeah, because we will do that to anyone, to be fair. 80 00:06:58.860 --> 00:06:59.399 Yeah. 81 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:02.759 I think it's the sure that she puts in the Midori. 82 00:07:02.819 --> 00:07:03.899 It's like what the hell are they doing? 83 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:14.579 Because I really liked them sitting at the bar being surly having their drinks and everyone else is having a great time and they're just like, we don't want to talk to anyone. 84 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:16.019 We're too cool for this. 85 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:17.279 And it ties in with. 86 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:25.860 He ties in with what you were saying earlier that everyone else is here for Mardi Gras, but they're here to find out information on Star one. 87 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.100 And that's the other thing I'm finding with the Star one arc. 88 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:32.459 The stories aren't really about the search for Star one. 89 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:37.920 It's just at the end of the episode, Blake grabs the guest of the week and says, well, where's Star one? 90 00:07:37.980 --> 00:07:43.019 And they're like, I don't know, but this person does and he's for God's sake. 91 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:47.519 So... 92 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:48.899 Docily. 93 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:51.360 Now, time has clearly passed since the last episode. 94 00:07:51.420 --> 00:07:56.519 That's the way I read these things, which some people would call a plot hole, but I think time has passed in various ways. 95 00:07:56.579 --> 00:07:58.500 One being Dockley has now been doxed by everyone. 96 00:07:58.500 --> 00:08:01.860 And then, oh, here's a photo of the guy we've been looking for. 97 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.439 He's spotlight photo, actually, it turns out. 98 00:08:04.500 --> 00:08:05.519 It's a very nice photo, yeah. 99 00:08:05.579 --> 00:08:08.879 It's always nice when a cyber surgeon gets a nice photo taken. 100 00:08:08.939 --> 00:08:11.699 He is possibly the world's worst side surge.. 101 00:08:14.699 --> 00:08:17.339 It's Professor Chrono tits again. 102 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:20.579 It is hard to take him seriously as this hard bitten. 103 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:28.740 Did you, I didn't know until I watched it with the subtitles on to make my concentration on the plot that, um, it, uh, Doc Colley, it's spelt as like Doc Holiday. 104 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:31.079 I've already mentioned this in another episode, but yeah. 105 00:08:31.139 --> 00:08:35.940 So he was supposed, it's not, it sounds like they're saying dockerly, like a bit like a docker. 106 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.360 And the fact that he goes down to the docking area at one point as well. 107 00:08:39.419 --> 00:08:44.340 This was the 1st episode of Blake 7 that I rewatched as an adult. 108 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:50.340 Um, so it did set me with very unrealistic expectations as to what I was going to be getting with the rest of the thing. 109 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.139 But it worked. 110 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:53.039 It did its job. 111 00:08:53.100 --> 00:08:55.559 My friend was like, yeah, I think I'll show you this one, Pete. 112 00:08:55.620 --> 00:08:58.740 I think I think this might get you get you get you back into it. 113 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:02.039 But yeah, it's supposed to be this amazing cyber surgeon. 114 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:04.019 It starts with a guy complaining his legs are the wrong length. 115 00:09:04.019 --> 00:09:09.899 And then when Travis has got a broker arm doesn't work, he's just immediately going back to him with his guarantee. 116 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:14.580 I don't know what the what kind of warranty he gives on these jobs that he's doing. 117 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:16.500 He's really got a very good record at all. 118 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:18.899 Can we just talk about the arm for a second? 119 00:09:19.139 --> 00:09:21.779 It's really shit, isn't it? 120 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.879 Like, it's really quite extraordinary. 121 00:09:23.940 --> 00:09:25.559 And like they just stick it. 122 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:28.200 Like it's like he's got one shoulder longer than the other. 123 00:09:28.259 --> 00:09:34.200 Like there's literally no attempt to do anything, but stick it on the outside of his actual arm. 124 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:42.960 And you know, there's kind of a, I've used this line before, I think, when we were talking about the chase on another podcast. 125 00:09:43.019 --> 00:09:47.580 Spent and Foster has this kind of that'll do attitude. 126 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:51.659 You know, like there's just half-assedness to the production. 127 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.659 It's a half-assed universe. 128 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:55.679 I read that. 129 00:09:55.679 --> 00:09:56.940 It's very digetic. 130 00:09:58.139 --> 00:10:00.299 The crappy tinsel. 131 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:01.860 It isn't even a good Mardi Gras. 132 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.500 Yeah, tint someone out. car park. 133 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.320 Yeah. show in the galaxy car park. 134 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:10.379 It's the beer is under the beer. 135 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:12.299 It's under the BFI, isn't it, I think? 136 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:13.740 National Theatre. 137 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:14.519 Yeah. 138 00:10:14.580 --> 00:10:19.620 Which says so much about so many of these cats did go to Rada. 139 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:26.580 And now here they are covered in tinsel in the basement under the national. including Aubrey Woods. 140 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:32.700 The scene when Cini's packing Dockley off to, yeah, she tries to help him on with his coat. 141 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:36.299 And he's also trying to put the coat on and the 2 of them can figure out. 142 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:42.299 So they just style it out and she'll treat it as a stall or something instead. 143 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.360 We're still gonna keep going. 144 00:10:45.419 --> 00:10:47.580 Still keep going. 145 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.000 No, they spent hours working that out in rehearsal. 146 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:53.519 It'll be a little bit business. 147 00:10:53.580 --> 00:10:54.179 It will be great. 148 00:10:54.659 --> 00:11:00.659 We do get lots lots of our homes and double act clacks in this. 149 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:13.259 Everyone gets a pair and and and, well, there's a lot of that and and they're all about reflecting each other and and Dockley and Cini are definitely one of those and they get some of them. 150 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.379 I did a because this has got a heck of a lot of people in it, hasn't it? 151 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:18.059 And it was a lot of names to learn. 152 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:19.320 And I did a little word search. 153 00:11:19.379 --> 00:11:22.679 Who do you think gets the most lines in this episode? 154 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.120 Jerry Ere. 155 00:11:26.220 --> 00:11:29.759 No, he's not even he's about ninth or something. 156 00:11:29.820 --> 00:11:33.659 He gets, he gets 10 more lines than Jenna, and he's not in the top. 157 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:34.379 Oh, God. 158 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.120 And a lot more. 159 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:42.000 Is it the woman that looks like Betty Davis from Death on the Nile that says 1000000 credits? 160 00:11:42.059 --> 00:11:44.039 Yeah. 161 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:47.460 She's gone to Mardi Gras, Madonna. 162 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:48.299 No, it's not her. 163 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:49.980 It's Servolan. 164 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:58.980 I've got a theory that this whole episode is a backdoor pilot for a server and spinoff where she just goes around the universe finding things tiresome. and having people killed. 165 00:11:59.940 --> 00:12:02.159 That's a show. 166 00:12:02.220 --> 00:12:03.539 What more do you need? 167 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:05.580 Jimmy Cranky could be a sidekick next week. 168 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:12.000 It's actually kind of funny seeing her be being prim and being a bit of a good girl. 169 00:12:12.059 --> 00:12:16.320 You know, she won't take the drugs, she won't sort of eat the patechy cakes. 170 00:12:16.379 --> 00:12:22.919 She's actually really kind of a little bit less naughty than, you know, Crantor is. 171 00:12:23.340 --> 00:12:26.700 Yeah, and we don't know to what extent that's her. 172 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:33.179 I think in this episode, we get to see a new layer to serve alone because we can see she's not, she's outside the Federation. 173 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:50.820 She's not on her own turf, although she's got plans for it, and there's that, there's, there's one line that, that just really stands out to me where she's, she's someone who doesn't want to have the place closed down and she just says, as I have argued for years, like she's a put-upon member of the, of the project team. 174 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:56.279 Federation HQ who's been trying to convince she's the supreme commander. 175 00:12:56.340 --> 00:12:58.080 Who has she argued with for years? 176 00:12:58.139 --> 00:13:00.299 And unsuccessfully. 177 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.059 That's an amazing thing to just sort of drop in there. 178 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.179 And I think that turns her from the steely... 179 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:07.679 I mean, we've seen, oh, we've seen it. 180 00:13:07.740 --> 00:13:12.600 We seen it before plenty of times really, but here it just, that just really lands it, that there's more to her. 181 00:13:12.659 --> 00:13:14.580 She's not just Darth Vader in her dress. 182 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:16.019 She's got these layers. 183 00:13:16.019 --> 00:13:20.639 And that's what goes into the whole issue of what campness is, doesn't it? 184 00:13:20.700 --> 00:13:22.679 that she can do that. 185 00:13:22.740 --> 00:13:24.059 She can drop the mask a little bit. 186 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:29.639 And her 1st scene on the space sofa, wearing a mask, holding a dove of peace. 187 00:13:29.700 --> 00:13:34.919 She immediately chucks out, chucks away as soon as Crown door is ready to see her. 188 00:13:34.980 --> 00:13:42.120 And I love the power play where Crantor keeps calling her commander and she keeps correcting him to supreme commander. 189 00:13:42.179 --> 00:13:45.000 And, uh, but then Jerry air calls a commander all the time. 190 00:13:45.059 --> 00:13:45.720 She doesn't give a shit. 191 00:13:46.740 --> 00:13:48.120 Oh, he's not even an underling, is he? 192 00:13:48.179 --> 00:13:49.320 He's a renter. 193 00:13:49.379 --> 00:13:50.879 He always came with the sofa. 194 00:13:50.940 --> 00:13:53.220 It's just a sofa delivery guy. 195 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:56.580 The great thing about server line is that how she normally dresses as well. 196 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.519 I mean, she fits in at the Mardi Gras. 197 00:13:59.580 --> 00:14:02.220 And that's what I thought he should have made a flux point of that. 198 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:10.200 Yeah, that, like, that she can just fit in easily through her normal dress in a way that, you know, Blake and his friends can't. 199 00:14:10.259 --> 00:14:12.059 But I think the 1st time I watched it. 200 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:33.480 I thought when she leaves Crantor's quarters and tells him which room she's in, uh, because they've been lying on the bed together and things, I took that to be more suggestive than it was and then as the episode unfolds, um, it becomes clear that it's just like so that you can bring me Travis and Docley and let me know the, yeah, keep me updated sort of thing. 201 00:14:33.539 --> 00:14:36.659 What happens at freedom City stays at freedom. 202 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:38.340 Maybe everyone... 203 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.519 It's probably only one key that works every room, Dora. 204 00:14:41.580 --> 00:15:00.840 Something I find very interesting about Servoland's motivations in this is, you know, usually when she wants a planet or whatever, it's because there's a scientist there that she wants or there's some resource that she wants, but she wants to shut down Freedom City because of its sort of moral decrepitude as she sees it. 205 00:15:00.899 --> 00:15:10.259 And given that crantor and toys are very unsubtly coded as being queer, if not completely gay. 206 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:21.480 Um, I find that very interesting from Serverland, who, right from her 1st episode, it's clear that she is a very sensual character when she's talking to that captain. 207 00:15:21.659 --> 00:15:22.259 Is it Roy? 208 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:23.940 Ray. 209 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:29.519 Yeah, it's very clear that they've had a dalliance in the past and she uses that against him. 210 00:15:29.580 --> 00:15:34.320 So then for Servoland to sort of turn around and say, no, this place is too sexy. 211 00:15:35.340 --> 00:15:37.379 I won't abide it. 212 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:42.360 It's very interesting because it's a change in motivation for her and... 213 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.820 It implies... 214 00:15:44.820 --> 00:15:50.639 One of the few times where she's not just out for doing something for herself. 215 00:15:50.700 --> 00:15:57.000 Like she is getting something out of it, but she actually sees this place as dangerous, not to her, but to the federation. 216 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:12.059 And I'm not even sure we see that again really from server land. you know, it's usually sort of self- self-self, even trying to track down Blake is for the kudos that gives her within the Federation. power system. 217 00:16:12.179 --> 00:16:16.379 But yeah, I was just watching that going, that's that's really interesting. 218 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:20.519 And of course, this is only Robert Holmes' 2nd script for the series, I want to say, after killer. 219 00:16:20.580 --> 00:16:21.240 Yeah, it is. 220 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:21.419 Yeah. 221 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:21.659 Yeah. 222 00:16:21.899 --> 00:16:24.179 She's got no authority here. 223 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:29.039 She probably hates that about it as much as... 224 00:16:29.100 --> 00:16:30.360 Just the idea of being somewhere. 225 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:31.799 The Becky Weaver in space. 226 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:37.379 Eat the Petrachia cake and understand it, sir. 227 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:49.860 You know, I actually really, really, seriously hate Aubrey Woods as Cran, sorry. 228 00:16:49.980 --> 00:16:52.139 And I'll tell you why. 229 00:16:52.259 --> 00:17:09.180 When I watched this as a kid, or not as a kid, like as a, like I watched this as a kid when it was 1st on TV at Australia, but when the videotapes came out, I was watching it through properly, I thought this was fantastic, it's like super gay, look, toys and crants were gay, blah, blah, blah. 230 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:27.480 But, like, Woods just leans into every, every line and makes it into a kind of smutty innuendo, you know, like the relish with which he says, you know, it is our duty to serve our fellows, you know, like to drop to our knees and serve our fellows. 231 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:31.500 And it just all just seems a little bit sordid to me. 232 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:40.920 And like he's constantly kind of like wiping something off the corner of his mouth and like I just think it's super gross, you know? 233 00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:42.119 Me too. 234 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:44.640 I love about it. 235 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:47.400 The unsubtlety. 236 00:17:47.579 --> 00:17:48.779 Yeah, the unsubtlety is great. 237 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:55.259 There's that little edit where Crantor says, well, whatever happens, Crantor wins both ways. 238 00:17:55.259 --> 00:17:58.440 And then it cuts to Villa going, they say it's wide open. 239 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:02.339 Avon says, what is? 240 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.839 So he goes, Freedom City? 241 00:18:03.900 --> 00:18:05.519 Not the character in the previous city. 242 00:18:06.900 --> 00:18:08.880 Yes, it is, boys. 243 00:18:08.940 --> 00:18:11.279 We know what you're doing wrong at home. 244 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:12.059 You're a smutter. 245 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:21.420 Do you know, actually, when he does it in a couple of years time with Agrarian and Pinder, who are just very explicitly gay, I think, you know, we can't say it on television or something. 246 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:23.880 I'm actually less offended by that. 247 00:18:23.940 --> 00:18:29.940 Even though Agrarian is really super grotesque, there's, I don't know. 248 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.900 There just seems to be some kind of unpleasant. 249 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.500 It's homes being a prick about gay people, I think, almost certainly. 250 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:45.180 And then Spenson Foster, who's never seen like a camp excess that he can't shoehorn into an episode. 251 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:47.220 Just runs with it. 252 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:50.460 And I just sort of think it all isn't that great. 253 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:55.799 See, I think it's all part of the cabaret atmosphere. 254 00:18:55.859 --> 00:18:58.740 So, Crantor is like the MC. 255 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.039 But of course, so is the croupier a little bit. 256 00:19:02.099 --> 00:19:04.799 The croupier is also a little bit liesa Manelli. 257 00:19:04.859 --> 00:19:08.160 Yeah, but, you know, more Judy Garland's age. 258 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:13.799 Um, And yeah, it's Robert Holmes doing space cabaret. 259 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:29.700 And Serverland is the Nazis coming over the hill, you know, and the thing is, you know, Robert Holmes giving Serverland a a motivation beyond what she wants for herself makes her scarier in this. 260 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:35.759 And I think that's probably him going, I know my story's a little bit ridiculous, and the characters are a little bit ridiculous. 261 00:19:35.819 --> 00:19:41.339 So I'm going to give this really quite terrifying threat because obviously it's not Brian Croucher at this point. 262 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:51.960 Like, I've said before that I've quite enjoyed Brown Crutch's performance, but it is now getting to the point where he's just sort of gnashing at the furniture. with that. 263 00:19:52.319 --> 00:20:02.940 Well, okay, because this was the 1st time I ever saw Travis, I think, because I, or the 1st time I could, I didn't have clear memories of Travis from when I was a kid, because it was only the last 2 series I remembered clearly much. 264 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.579 Um, so this was my introduction to him. 265 00:20:05.579 --> 00:20:13.740 And seeing him as this kind of, I think, um, that he just like walked out of an Ultravox video 2 years before Ultravox got invented. 266 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:18.180 And in this, he's, he's, he's camp, but it's silly and quiet and also nasty. 267 00:20:18.180 --> 00:20:22.140 Um, homophobic to, to, uh, to Jariere. 268 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:26.640 Definitely pronouncing powder puff the way that in his natural accent. 269 00:20:26.700 --> 00:20:30.299 He's pronouncing it P-O-F, not P-U-A. Yeah, obviously. 270 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:32.339 But that's an accent thing. 271 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:35.339 Already, we don't like this guy. 272 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:38.819 It's clearly just when you're really going off somewhere. 273 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:42.420 You can find out they're even worse as well as being a genocidal thing. 274 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:47.220 Is there a bit right at the start where the guy he shoots? 275 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:49.319 Is that the same actor from the 1st episode? 276 00:20:49.380 --> 00:20:50.039 Yes. 277 00:20:50.099 --> 00:20:51.900 Yeah. the same plate? 278 00:20:52.019 --> 00:20:52.920 It's Blake's defender. 279 00:20:52.980 --> 00:20:53.279 Yeah. 280 00:20:53.460 --> 00:20:56.519 No, a different name. everyone's... 281 00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:57.240 It's not the same part. 282 00:20:57.299 --> 00:20:58.319 No. 283 00:20:58.319 --> 00:20:59.220 We can head cannon. 284 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:04.079 He's caught Z. Yeah, of course, yeah, because yeah, of course he dies, doesn't he? 285 00:21:04.140 --> 00:21:05.160 So what spoilerer? 286 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:06.960 Sorry, in the 1st episode. 287 00:21:07.019 --> 00:21:09.359 Yeah, they just found outside the film, isn't he? 288 00:21:09.420 --> 00:21:10.980 I'm like... 289 00:21:10.980 --> 00:21:14.099 Maybe you just faint his own death. hard to tell. 290 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:18.599 It's like there are 2 Tarrants, so there can be 2 whatevers. 291 00:21:18.660 --> 00:21:19.920 Tell Varon. 292 00:21:19.980 --> 00:21:22.619 His brother, Val, Darren. 293 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:36.660 The thing that really annoys me about Tell Varren being back in another role is we've just had voice from the past last week with fucking awful fake Van Glynn and his stupid beard. 294 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:48.720 It's like, you know, if, um, if Michael Halsey was available, why couldn't he have been available last week and actually tell Varon survived? 295 00:21:48.779 --> 00:21:50.579 Oh, but you were killed in a skimmer accident. 296 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:52.559 Yes, but then I killed Jeremy Wilkin. 297 00:21:52.619 --> 00:21:54.119 I wasn't actually dead. 298 00:21:54.180 --> 00:22:13.859 You know, nothing's going to say this from Travis's disguise last week, but we could have actually had, and, you know, that would make it more believable as someone who was always on Blake's side instead of someone who wasn't on Blake's side, but now is, but he's a different actor, but he's betrayed anyway. 299 00:22:13.859 --> 00:22:21.420 And I couldn't even decide last week whether I cared about Legrun or not, let alone... 300 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:23.460 She's spent and foster again. isn't it? 301 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:25.380 Like, he's really terrible. 302 00:22:30.900 --> 00:22:34.980 What do we think of Ava and Villa's plot? 303 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:36.059 I'm home alone. 304 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:37.259 It's like the opposite of home alone. 305 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:39.720 It's supposed to be staying home alone, and instead they go out. 306 00:22:39.779 --> 00:22:41.700 So can I ask a question? 307 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:46.079 Can you contact Aurac when Aurax on the ship? 308 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:49.500 Can you use your bracelet to contact Aurac from the ground? 309 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:52.019 That would have been a good idea. 310 00:22:52.079 --> 00:23:00.539 So they shrink Morak, but Villa is still communicating with him through his communicator. 311 00:23:00.599 --> 00:23:04.859 They could have been the left, I told you, not things through like this. 312 00:23:06.539 --> 00:23:10.079 Maybe Bob Holmes didn't have a mobile phone. 313 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:15.779 I guess that's just possible So he doesn't know how things work when you can communicate with people all the time. 314 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:22.019 And I'm absolutely here for that stupid scene where he tricks or acting to shrinking himself. 315 00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:25.799 My, this is how I imagine it went right. 316 00:23:25.859 --> 00:23:32.940 Someone said, like Maloney said to Bob, look, no, you can't communicate with Aurak from the ship. 317 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:35.940 So you'll have to find some way of taking him down. 318 00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:38.400 And he said, all right, fuck you. 319 00:23:38.460 --> 00:23:39.720 He is what I'm going to. 320 00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:43.500 And so he shrinks. 321 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:46.079 And like that's just the sort of home scene. 322 00:23:46.140 --> 00:23:46.920 And that's awesome. 323 00:23:46.980 --> 00:23:48.420 I think that's really great. 324 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.740 My head cannon is just about him only having Bluetooth. 325 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:55.920 Oh, fair enough. 326 00:23:55.980 --> 00:24:04.799 I will say my one disappointment with this, because it's incredibly fun, is that I think it's utterly out of character for Avon to do this. 327 00:24:04.859 --> 00:24:09.720 Like I know he, he's on the ship at the beginning because of his failed bank fraud. 328 00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:13.440 But, you know, that was to get money for Anna to get away. 329 00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:17.640 And I think he's always saying to Villa, no, don't run off. 330 00:24:17.700 --> 00:24:24.420 Don't go to the casino, don't get drunk, and this time he's like, it's Avon kind of going, yeah, I heard the security's really impressed. 331 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:25.500 Yeah, I've heard they have a lot of money. 332 00:24:25.619 --> 00:24:26.339 Yeah, Villa. 333 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:26.700 Yeah. 334 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:27.359 Don't they? 335 00:24:27.420 --> 00:24:28.259 Don't they, Villa? 336 00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:28.559 Yeah. 337 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:30.599 Don't have fun. 338 00:24:30.660 --> 00:24:32.099 Someone has to do it though. 339 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.059 It's a casino. 340 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:34.680 You want a casino heist? 341 00:24:34.740 --> 00:24:36.240 you want them to sort of play the casino? 342 00:24:36.299 --> 00:24:40.140 I just think the problem is that the realisation of the casino is so shit. 343 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:46.140 It's so tampered, you know. that it never really feels like we're in a casino. 344 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:48.000 It's cool, not Vegas, isn't it? 345 00:24:48.059 --> 00:24:49.740 Yeah, it's miserable. 346 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:53.940 And Holmes must have known that that was the best they were going to be able to do. 347 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:57.180 So it never really comes off as a casino. 348 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:02.880 But I'm absolutely there for like let's go and try and, you know, I don't know what the verb is. 349 00:25:02.940 --> 00:25:04.440 Let's go and try and kind of. 350 00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:07.200 Cheat at the casino. 351 00:25:07.259 --> 00:25:08.039 There's a verb. 352 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:11.579 You're so pure, Nathan. 353 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:12.720 You don't even know the right. 354 00:25:13.380 --> 00:25:19.319 And there's only crunter and toys who are in charge of it, in charge of security, in charge of anything. 355 00:25:20.579 --> 00:25:23.759 And then it's like he somehow is doing it. 356 00:25:23.819 --> 00:25:26.460 He keeps putting that big chunky bracelet up to his ear. 357 00:25:30.180 --> 00:25:35.460 And there's that guy in the silver anorak eating soup with another bracelet on a box. 358 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:37.140 With a flashing one? 359 00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:38.160 can't believe it. 360 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:40.799 Yeah, it's like they've never heard of communicators. 361 00:25:40.859 --> 00:25:43.380 It really is the world's shittest casino. 362 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:44.940 It's ocean too, isn't it? 363 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:45.299 Yeah. 364 00:25:45.660 --> 00:25:51.599 It's more like it's the Isle of Man rather than Blackpool. 365 00:25:51.660 --> 00:26:04.079 I suppose it's meant to be spoofing like Sun City or you know, 70s awareness of there being these out of beyond legislation areas where places like this were set up. 366 00:26:04.140 --> 00:26:04.740 But yeah, it's not. 367 00:26:04.740 --> 00:26:05.940 But we can have... 368 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:08.279 I suppose now, Pete, because we've left the European Union. 369 00:26:09.900 --> 00:26:13.559 Your sausages can be filled with sawdust. 370 00:26:14.339 --> 00:26:20.640 My favourite bit about that Avon Villa storyline is the way when they're back on the Liberator. 371 00:26:21.420 --> 00:26:22.859 And he's like, hi, the money, hide the money. 372 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:26.519 And then they call up and they one goes, hello, liberator, can I help you? 373 00:26:29.339 --> 00:26:32.400 Avon, like, I must act innocently. 374 00:26:32.460 --> 00:26:33.779 What's that? 375 00:26:37.019 --> 00:26:39.960 Yeah, and he has that line, he has that line. 376 00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:43.859 Blake has how Blake says how it's gone and everyone says, oh, great, wonderful terrific. 377 00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:45.839 That's wonderful, terrific. 378 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:46.140 Lovely. 379 00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:46.619 Terrific. 380 00:26:46.680 --> 00:26:49.140 There's not a word you'd expect everyone to say. 381 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:53.220 Yeah, and Blake's whole suspicion seems to come down to, Avon, you're not being a prick. 382 00:26:53.279 --> 00:26:53.880 What's up? 383 00:26:53.940 --> 00:26:55.200 What's happening? 384 00:26:56.819 --> 00:26:59.099 I've seen some people claim. 385 00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:01.859 I've seen some people claim online that J. 386 00:27:01.859 --> 00:27:07.140 Michael Stratinsky was inspired by Blake 7 to create, well, he said it himself to create Babylon 5. 387 00:27:07.380 --> 00:27:17.099 I've seen people claim it was actually just this episode. make it less tinsely and you're not far off. give it higher budget. 388 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:18.000 I heard that as well. 389 00:27:18.059 --> 00:27:19.019 I'm watching it earlier. 390 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:23.039 I wrote down, you know, several kind of things about um, about Breck 7. 391 00:27:23.099 --> 00:27:32.099 It's like the Crantor and Toys do look like the Centauri, and then all the sort of drapes and everywhere in the palace, it's a little bit like that as well. 392 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:37.740 And, uh, and then there's, and you step outside and it is a car park dressed with tinsball watch. 393 00:27:37.740 --> 00:27:40.619 Well, it's about... 394 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:42.299 It's a port of call. 395 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:43.200 A home away from home. 396 00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:43.980 That's right. 397 00:27:43.980 --> 00:27:45.059 Regency princes. 398 00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:46.500 Catholic. 399 00:27:47.339 --> 00:27:49.920 Oh, last best hope for chess. 400 00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:54.000 Re-exhumed Liza Manelli. 401 00:27:54.900 --> 00:28:04.559 Can we talk about how incredibly dull and undramatic and completely lacking intention the chess scenes are? 402 00:28:04.619 --> 00:28:05.819 They're really bad. 403 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:07.380 The music. 404 00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:11.039 The music's great. 405 00:28:11.099 --> 00:28:12.660 Deep Roy is having a fun time. 406 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:17.579 The Mr. Sims laugh is actually his laugh, which is fucking terrifying. 407 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:40.380 Elizabeth Park is going great going full on Jean-Michel Ja for it. take that back I thought it was going to be some kind of twist where it turns out that Deep Roy's character was actually being fed, moves by a computer as well, and that was why Avon spotted that Aurak would be able to help him. 408 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:42.180 But it just seems to be a gamble, doesn't it? 409 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:43.559 It's just sort of like, no, play the game. 410 00:28:43.619 --> 00:28:44.220 It'll be okay. 411 00:28:44.339 --> 00:28:46.680 It's really funny. 412 00:28:46.740 --> 00:28:49.319 This is our 2nd chess computer of the season. 413 00:28:49.319 --> 00:29:04.319 And it is sort of super hilarious to think of this show being made in a world where no one knew that computers could just wipe, you know, like kick people's asses in chess with no particular difficulty without breaking a sweat all the time. 414 00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:08.579 The Queen's Gamba is definitely not based on this in any way. 415 00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:18.779 I have a suspicion that in the spring of 1979, maybe as Abu Watouring through the UK, Bjorn and Benny might have caught this episode before. 416 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:24.240 After this ABBA thing's burned out, maybe it's room for a musical in this kind of chess contest thing. 417 00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:27.240 Maybe have, you know, Elaine Page and Servolan role. 418 00:29:27.299 --> 00:29:28.859 Barbara Dixon is the klute. 419 00:29:28.859 --> 00:29:32.640 Yeah, they had to shake it up a bit for copyright reasons. 420 00:29:33.779 --> 00:29:36.960 Well, we're talking about other sci-fi series. 421 00:29:37.019 --> 00:29:43.799 When Crantor introduces the 1st speed chess contestant, does he call him a young trekker? 422 00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:47.880 Isn't that what Trekkies tried to rebrand themselves as in the 90s? 423 00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:59.039 Yeah, it was a whole fandom war thing of people wanting to be Trekkers and Trekkies and that and that's sort of what Futurama sends up with the Star Trek Wars. 424 00:29:59.099 --> 00:30:01.140 Oh, you mean the massive migration of Star Wars fans? 425 00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.400 No, that was the Star Wars trek. 426 00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:09.960 I did think for a 2nd that maybe Holmes was making fun of Star Trek, people. very probably. 427 00:30:10.019 --> 00:30:12.539 Probably didn't give a shit about that. 428 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:15.720 He doesn't look particularly young either, does he? 429 00:30:15.779 --> 00:30:21.480 He's like a, he's like a sort of another sort of fat nobleman in a regency portrait sort of guy. 430 00:30:21.539 --> 00:30:23.579 Okay, non-speaking part as well. 431 00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:25.500 He has to whisper his name like sooty. 432 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:27.779 He doesn't even... 433 00:30:27.900 --> 00:30:30.779 He doesn't get a death scream as well. 434 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:32.039 He just he just explodes. 435 00:30:32.099 --> 00:30:34.079 Yeah, his punishes. 436 00:30:34.140 --> 00:30:37.559 I guess I'd cast Stephen Toast in that role in it. 437 00:30:37.619 --> 00:30:39.599 He'd be right in. 438 00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:42.420 On the topic of the speed chess. 439 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.059 The costume designer for this story is Barbara Kidd. 440 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:47.339 Yeah, where's June? 441 00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:49.140 We really need a June this episode. 442 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:55.140 I mean, Barbara Kid just went to the BBC wardrobes and just pulled out whatever old shit she could find. 443 00:30:55.200 --> 00:31:01.380 The thing is, the Barbara kid also... costume. 444 00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:04.740 Let's put Sylvia Coleridge in a leotard. 445 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:11.339 I wonder which ones of those actually are costumes for Mardi Gras or does the nuns just actually go there every day? 446 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:12.720 Yeah, no, nuns go. 447 00:31:12.779 --> 00:31:14.220 Very degenerate. 448 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:20.880 Well, amongst her past triumphs, however, are frontier in space in Doctor Who. 449 00:31:20.940 --> 00:31:24.839 So she designed the Draconian outfit, the Ark in space. 450 00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:25.920 So she had a thing for space. 451 00:31:25.980 --> 00:31:26.700 Yeah. 452 00:31:26.700 --> 00:31:27.839 Kinder. 453 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:29.400 Okay. 454 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:29.940 Kinder. 455 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:37.980 But also the entirety of Doctor Who series 6 from a Christmas carol right through to the wedding of River Songs. 456 00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:38.759 Wow. 457 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:40.980 Which featured speed chess. 458 00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:44.039 It did be just being chess. 459 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:45.900 Live and have been in her contract. 460 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:46.440 Yeah. 461 00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:47.400 Yeah, yeah. 462 00:31:47.460 --> 00:31:51.420 So, yeah, she is designed at least 3 outfits. 463 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.619 If not, what, 4 outfits for deadly chess games. 464 00:31:55.680 --> 00:32:01.259 We did mention servilance outfit, and this is her only time wearing red ever. 465 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:03.539 And I think the outfit is magnificent. 466 00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:05.579 I think it is one of her very best. 467 00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:07.859 It is one of the full neck lizard outfits. 468 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:08.640 Yeah, wonderful. 469 00:32:08.700 --> 00:32:10.019 Yeah, from Jurassic Park. 470 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:17.640 Look, you know, if you imagine a dilophosaur, but about the size of a gerbil, that's a frill neck lizard in Australia. 471 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:20.400 Oh, right. 472 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:21.900 I thought they were just real. 473 00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:22.740 No, no. 474 00:32:22.740 --> 00:32:24.299 They're awesome. 475 00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:26.579 We used to have them on our $2 piece, I think. 476 00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:29.579 And we don't have the ยข2 piece anymore. 477 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:42.960 And also for fans of Ultraman, you can see a very similar looking thing in the monster, girass, that's girass, which is actually just a recycled Godzilla costume painted green with a frill attached. 478 00:32:43.019 --> 00:32:43.559 Nice. 479 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.380 And Ultraman is totally a dick and rips off the frill. 480 00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:47.160 Wow. 481 00:32:47.220 --> 00:32:47.640 Yeah. 482 00:32:47.700 --> 00:32:49.200 Ultraman's an asshole. 483 00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:52.500 Just better get out there. 484 00:32:53.400 --> 00:33:00.839 Well, remember, this whole story ends with them going on a quest to find a song with a brain print on it, which I love. 485 00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:06.119 Apparently, thong doesn't just have to be worn around the groin. 486 00:33:06.180 --> 00:33:06.779 It can be one. 487 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:07.559 Oh my god. 488 00:33:07.619 --> 00:33:08.519 Imagine if... 489 00:33:08.579 --> 00:33:11.700 Bruce Purchase had been wearing a thong in next week. 490 00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:16.559 That's what you call flip flops in Australia, isn't it? 491 00:33:16.619 --> 00:33:17.819 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 492 00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:20.759 I remember walking into a pub that said no thongs. 493 00:33:20.819 --> 00:33:24.180 And I thought, and you were wandering a thong. 494 00:33:24.180 --> 00:33:25.740 That's shit. 495 00:33:25.859 --> 00:33:27.599 And then you think, oh, no, no, it's all right. 496 00:33:27.660 --> 00:33:28.319 My shoes are fine. 497 00:33:28.380 --> 00:33:30.539 I thought is it somebody's job to check. 498 00:33:36.059 --> 00:33:38.099 Sylvia Coleridge. 499 00:33:46.019 --> 00:33:49.859 There's a nice little dialogue loop back that I noticed. 500 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:51.119 No, I could, I'm saying this. 501 00:33:51.180 --> 00:33:54.960 It could just be a reuse, but in city at the edge of forever. 502 00:33:55.019 --> 00:34:00.119 There's a moment where Villa produces the diamonds and whatnot near the end, and Avon goes, I'm impressed. 503 00:34:00.180 --> 00:34:02.940 And Villa says, wonderful, that makes it all worthwhile. 504 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:08.400 And then this one, Villa says, Avon, there are times I almost get to like you. 505 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:11.159 And Avon goes, well, that makes it all worthwhile. 506 00:34:11.460 --> 00:34:16.920 I figured that might be a little coming back to coming back to that. 507 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:19.739 If it's a Chris Boucherism. 508 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:20.519 Maybe. 509 00:34:20.579 --> 00:34:21.360 Yeah, yeah. 510 00:34:21.420 --> 00:34:28.380 This is the, so, I think I just note it down to talk about was theatricality, which we've currently touched on a lot. 511 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:33.059 So I did a thing of just listening to the audio of this while I was commuting. 512 00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:39.480 And didn't miss, despite it being such a visual story, it was so much style and over the top stuff. 513 00:34:39.539 --> 00:34:42.420 Um, it's really wordy. 514 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:46.860 It's all about word games, which people either find tedious or amusing or maybe both. 515 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:52.260 Um, but and so a lot of the sets, I mean, some, we talk about things not having a 4th wall. 516 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:53.579 A lot of these sets don't have any walls. 517 00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:55.199 They're almost just in the round. 518 00:34:55.260 --> 00:35:00.960 Like you just put a big round bed in the middle, plonk your characters on it and get them to spa with each other. 519 00:35:01.019 --> 00:35:03.719 And I just don't know if any other episodes done in that way. 520 00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:05.760 And it surprises me that spent in foster. 521 00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:16.019 It doesn't seem, in that way, the way that it's all staged and set up feels quite, uh, I don't know if radicals will, yeah, just or just unusual, anyway, it's certainly unusual. 522 00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:20.400 There's no corridors because there's no rooms almost. 523 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:22.260 You're right. 524 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:24.179 There are there are really only in 2 rooms. 525 00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:26.760 And it really lets it down. 526 00:35:26.820 --> 00:35:30.059 It's like it doesn't feel like it's in a casino. 527 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:31.980 It's like not lit like one. 528 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:36.239 It's lit like, you know, studio 2 in Lane, you know? 529 00:35:36.300 --> 00:35:37.739 It doesn't feel like it. 530 00:35:39.179 --> 00:35:41.940 One character we haven't talked about. 531 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.059 I genuinely thought was called clever dick. 532 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:52.079 But it's it's Chevedic by everyone's favourite American in Doctor Who, Paul Grist. 533 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:55.739 And he's doesn't appear on location. 534 00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:02.340 So he just 80 R's his lines over the car park scene. 535 00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:03.539 So he's not even there. 536 00:36:03.659 --> 00:36:05.219 His most important scene. 537 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:06.179 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 538 00:36:06.659 --> 00:36:09.480 It was on it was filmed on his day off. 539 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:15.719 I love to imagine him at convention saying, no, I didn't get to go to the car park, unfortunately. 540 00:36:15.780 --> 00:36:17.639 I was devastated. 541 00:36:17.699 --> 00:36:20.039 A lot of Doctor Who people. 542 00:36:20.099 --> 00:36:22.800 Yeah, it's and it's sleep is slapdash, isn't it? 543 00:36:22.860 --> 00:36:23.460 Yeah. 544 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:28.860 And that's the thing, like, unlike Colin, I quite like Dennis Carey, whenever I see him. 545 00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:33.900 But it seems like he can be sort of easily flummoxed as an actor. 546 00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:37.500 Like, I think in Shada, Pennant Roberts for all his other failings. 547 00:36:37.619 --> 00:36:41.280 Every actor who works with him says, no, no, no, I completely understood what was going on because of Penn. 548 00:36:41.340 --> 00:36:46.320 And I can imagine Pennant Roberts explaining the, you know, unalive scenes to him and whatnot. 549 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:50.579 Dennis seems really kind of all at sea with this. 550 00:36:50.639 --> 00:37:06.360 He seems to pretty much get, you know, that he was some kind of surgeon, but then, you know, during the scenes with Cheney, it's like then he's not quite sure what their relationship is, like she sort of flirting with him and he's like, what, uh, who are you? 551 00:37:06.780 --> 00:37:16.260 I actually think he does really well because I do think that he brings a kind of vulnerability and maybe it is just the act of not knowing what's going on. 552 00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:25.559 No, I think it's because the rest of the whole thing, I think there's definitely 2 layers to him and he's being inclined and he's being his real self too. 553 00:37:25.619 --> 00:37:32.760 Um, so the times when he's letting that mask slip, uh, which I don't I don't read as an act of being inconsistent. 554 00:37:32.820 --> 00:37:36.300 I think he is, and I get him, and in the early scenes. 555 00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:44.039 I think I think I'll pick up the, he, yeah, he and Cheney do have um, a history together, a very, very recent history, but they're, they're involved. 556 00:37:44.099 --> 00:37:45.960 I mean, you know, we know that they're not just meeting there. 557 00:37:46.019 --> 00:38:13.260 Um, and we know that a lot of time has passed since the whole thing that set it in motion with the, uh, the, the crashed ship where he met, um, Travis for the 1st time, which I assume were meant to infer is Travis caused, maybe causing the crash of that ship so that he could get to Docley because he's wanting, he, Travis is getting to Docley because he knows that Blake is trying to get to Docley, isn't he? 558 00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:16.440 That's why he wants to be his bodyguard. 559 00:38:16.500 --> 00:38:20.820 And so I figure that Travis has actually set a lot of this up in motion. 560 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:28.559 But it feels like a four-part story that's been chopped down to a Blake 7 single episode. 561 00:38:28.619 --> 00:38:30.719 I wonder if there was a version of this, it was a Doctor Who story. 562 00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:35.219 In the in the back of Robert Holmes's mind as it was germinating. 563 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.159 Speaking of the whole a surgery thing. 564 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:43.440 The other thing I really like about this episode is when they're trying to attach the arm and everything. 565 00:38:43.500 --> 00:38:45.300 It's all like camera. 566 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:51.300 So you've got these like, and then, insert server lands like, insert A over B and turn like... 567 00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:54.539 Like, well, that doesn't fucking work because they can't get it to work. 568 00:38:55.860 --> 00:38:58.260 Use Alan Key. 569 00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:01.559 Instructions are in Swedish. 570 00:39:02.820 --> 00:39:10.079 Also, I just remembered something about that arm. you know, not only is it really dodgy when they when they pull it off, Travis at the end. 571 00:39:10.139 --> 00:39:15.659 You can visibly see his arm is going into a pocket on his... 572 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:16.679 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 573 00:39:16.739 --> 00:39:18.659 You can see his other arm inside his costume. 574 00:39:18.780 --> 00:39:21.059 And it's just like, just pull the cloak back over it. 575 00:39:22.260 --> 00:39:30.000 You know, be already shooting him from an angle where if you have that cloak there, his shoulders wouldn't look any bigger because he's almost side off. 576 00:39:30.059 --> 00:39:32.280 Yeah, no, but it's just like... 577 00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:34.559 It is that that's good enough. 578 00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:37.559 George, that's good enough to spend and foster. 579 00:39:37.619 --> 00:39:43.079 Which is bizarre because for Doctor Who, George Spenton Foster does image of the Fendal and the Ribos operation. 580 00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:48.239 And Rybos is totally studio bound, but... and good. 581 00:39:48.300 --> 00:39:55.800 And you there's not really any part of that you look at and go, that could have been much better, except, of course, for Prentice Hancock. 582 00:39:55.860 --> 00:39:57.119 Does it have more money? 583 00:39:57.179 --> 00:39:57.960 Is that the problem? 584 00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:02.639 Is that we've got to do this whole thing in 50 minutes, whereas a Doctor Who story has... good point. 585 00:40:02.699 --> 00:40:02.880 Yeah. 586 00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:04.800 And this is a cheap one, isn't it? 587 00:40:04.860 --> 00:40:06.300 I mean, this is definitely not a big budget. 588 00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:12.960 No, that's why you book Robert Holmes because he can write wordplay as well as as well as he can write action. 589 00:40:13.019 --> 00:40:19.679 And like, yeah, we're not we're not doing action this week or not much, apart from having Travis beaten up in a car park by someone who's off screen. 590 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:46.860 But I mean, think about killer, like killer, which is his previous story this season is so much better, and it is partly, I think, because like the setting is doable on a BBC budger, we're in another space base, but it's a space base full of people saying interesting sort of clever things are not kind of slobbering over all the lines. 591 00:40:46.980 --> 00:40:53.039 I think, you know, it's surprising how this misfires, given how good. 592 00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:55.260 The previous one of these was. 593 00:40:56.400 --> 00:41:04.500 Our friend over at Making Blake 7 recently did his analysis and information about Gambit. 594 00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:06.480 It's Pete, by the way. you know that? 595 00:41:06.539 --> 00:41:07.679 Not many people know that. 596 00:41:07.739 --> 00:41:08.760 Is it? 597 00:41:08.820 --> 00:41:09.480 No. 598 00:41:09.539 --> 00:41:09.960 Oh. 599 00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:14.159 I was going to say. 600 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:19.440 I was like, I can't remember. aren't we having him on at something? 601 00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:22.380 He might have told you. 602 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:33.780 But something that those tweets raised was that even Bob Holmes said, you know, I sort of wrote it camp with the expectation that the director would temper it slightly. 603 00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:58.199 And while I love Aubrey Woods performance, it would have been more interesting if in private, he was a little colder because you can, you can be camp and still be cold and have layers, you know, but he's exactly the same as he is with Serverland, as he is with toys, except he occasionally gets a little bit grumpy. 604 00:41:58.260 --> 00:42:07.679 And, you know, you've got toys saying, uh, we should really stop this bloke who's won 3000000 credits on the wheel and Grantor's like, no, wait until he gets to five. 605 00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:11.099 I amused. 606 00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:13.739 He's just hedonism bot all the time. 607 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:23.099 And in some way, so devastated at the end because 5000000 he's got 4000000 from Servolan for finding Travis. 608 00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:28.260 So losing 5000000 isn't like, it's not going to break the bank, is it? 609 00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:31.739 And he says earlier on that they make 4000000 credits a week. 610 00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:41.579 I don't know if that's turnover on a profit, but even so, it's not like, it's not going to absolutely, you know, it hasn't broken the bank, presumably. just they've just had a bad week. 611 00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:44.039 Mark, do you work at that building society by each other? 612 00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:45.539 Yeah. 613 00:42:45.539 --> 00:42:52.679 I just mean, if you hadn't had the 1000000 quotes of several, 5000000 would have been more than a week. 614 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:56.219 It could be the principle, maybe. 615 00:42:56.280 --> 00:43:00.179 Sylvia Coleridge's leotards cost much more than you might. 616 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:02.940 They should have made a much bigger amount. 617 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:08.639 When they've talked about different amounts all the way through the episode is what I mean, if they'd made it like 20000000, right? 618 00:43:08.699 --> 00:43:11.940 That is that justifies his devastated reaction at the end. 619 00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:15.119 There's massive inflation, isn't there? 620 00:43:15.179 --> 00:43:21.059 Maybe it's after the space war at the end of this thing, but we start throwing 1000000000s around in sort of series D, I think. 621 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:23.159 Yeah, yeah. 622 00:43:23.219 --> 00:43:23.940 Yeah. 623 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:26.460 I guess that's why 10 credit touch is such an insult. 624 00:43:26.519 --> 00:43:27.900 I really got much at all. 625 00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:32.579 A 1000 credit touch. 626 00:43:40.380 --> 00:43:51.480 That sort of leads to what I find one of the more interesting things about the end of this episode in that, you know, aside from the people who have been blown up playing speed chess and um, poor grist. 627 00:43:51.539 --> 00:43:53.699 I don't think anyone else dies. 628 00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:56.880 Oh, um, Val Taran dies, of course. 629 00:43:56.940 --> 00:44:06.719 Um, But, you know, you would expect Servoland to burst into um, Crantor's chambers at the end and gun them both down. 630 00:44:06.780 --> 00:44:08.880 Yeah, see, that could have been fun. 631 00:44:08.940 --> 00:44:09.960 Why would we do that? 632 00:44:10.019 --> 00:44:12.360 But instead, we did that every week. 633 00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:15.539 Instead, turboland just seems to go at the end. 634 00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:16.320 Ah, bugger. 635 00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:19.199 Spoiled again. 636 00:44:20.579 --> 00:44:29.699 But we'll get to see her being more of a fish out of water in terms of stylistics next week down on Goth, which is much less to her aesthetic. 637 00:44:29.820 --> 00:44:31.860 Well, she bought something warmer to wear as well. 638 00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:33.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 639 00:44:34.019 --> 00:44:36.719 I wonder if she travels with all the, yes, she mustn't. 640 00:44:36.780 --> 00:44:37.440 Of course she cannot. 641 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:39.239 I thought the other federation should be possible. 642 00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:44.099 You'd tell she arrived on Freedom City. 643 00:44:44.099 --> 00:44:46.139 I was like, ah, you've dressed for Mardi Gras. 644 00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:47.699 Mardi Gras. 645 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:49.260 That's Mardi Gras. 646 00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:50.159 It's Tuesday. 647 00:44:50.219 --> 00:44:51.659 That's why I'm wearing this. 648 00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:55.559 See, yeah, the problem next week is going to be, Serverland's going to go to Goth. 649 00:44:55.619 --> 00:44:59.940 She's heard that the brain print is on a thong and she's like, well, I need to bring something to barter with. 650 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.980 And so she's got a whole box of underwear. 651 00:45:02.460 --> 00:45:05.159 And she's like, shit. 652 00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:09.000 So how does he send again? 653 00:45:09.059 --> 00:45:10.139 Oh my god. 654 00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:10.559 Yeah. 655 00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:15.179 Pay attention, they think. 656 00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:18.179 It's another crap joke, isn't it? 657 00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:20.280 It is kind of like another crap joke. 658 00:45:20.340 --> 00:45:25.800 We don't quite all sit around laughing, but we do have an attempted comedy beat, I guess. 659 00:45:25.860 --> 00:45:28.800 Yes, but in this case, something funny has actually happened. 660 00:45:28.860 --> 00:45:35.219 Avon and Villa have got away with their little side plot escapade rather than, yeah, oh, well, yeah, everybody's dead. 661 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:36.900 Yeah, get back to work. 662 00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:40.139 It's just how it sometimes is landed. 663 00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:44.760 But shouldn't we have seen Blake's reaction to Aurak suddenly returning to normal size? 664 00:45:44.820 --> 00:45:53.219 That's when the credits roll, you know, that you, like, there's a whole 10 minute dream of him going, what? 665 00:45:56.579 --> 00:46:00.960 Blake, Blake is even posher than usual this week. 666 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:10.440 And I want to make special mention of his pronunciation of the word merciful, which I just think is, I don't know, particularly merciful. 667 00:46:10.500 --> 00:46:12.960 That's probably how liberal Democrats say it, right? 668 00:46:16.139 --> 00:46:19.619 I kind of I kind of wish Jenna just gone. 669 00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:21.059 No, I'm going to shoot him. 670 00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:31.739 Which is funny because, you know, Jenna doesn't have any particular beef with Travis. 671 00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:36.360 Yeah, yeah, you know, um, whereas, you know, Blake specifically does. 672 00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:45.000 And, but it's just, it's just funny, therefore, that Jenna's like, I'm going to shoot this guy who keeps getting us into trouble and Blake's like, nah. 673 00:46:45.059 --> 00:46:47.280 No, no. 674 00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:49.559 Blake Blake just wants to get a restraining order on the guy. 675 00:46:49.619 --> 00:46:52.320 He's just he's a stalker of everything. 676 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:54.840 He's just avloying me by turning around everywhere. 677 00:46:54.900 --> 00:46:59.280 I think that he thinks that being Brian Croucher is its own punishment. 678 00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:07.260 I don't know if it's a coincidence that I will survive is still at number one in the pop charts. 679 00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:10.679 That's a good... 680 00:47:10.739 --> 00:47:28.380 I wonder if Jacqueline Pierce was channelling anything because this was broadcast the same week that Margaret Thatcher laid down the no-confidence vote that happened a couple of days later that brought down the Labour government and ushered in her ability to punish the vulpine degenerates and pestilential rounds of the UK. 681 00:47:28.739 --> 00:47:32.219 Sometimes, sometimes fact and fiction rhyme. 682 00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:35.820 Yeah, we could have history repeated itself, but in the reverse. 683 00:47:37.019 --> 00:47:37.739 Yeah. 684 00:47:41.579 --> 00:47:49.980 So with that, we will head maybe back towards a bit more normality in our next episode, maybe not, as we head to the planet Goth next time. 685 00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:51.480 We hope you'll be joining us then. 686 00:47:51.539 --> 00:47:53.880 From now, from all of us, we'll just say goodbye. 687 00:47:53.940 --> 00:47:54.539 Goodbye. 688 00:47:54.599 --> 00:47:55.320 Goodbye. 689 00:47:55.380 --> 00:47:56.280 Goodbye. 690 00:47:56.280 --> 00:47:56.460 Goodbye. 691 00:47:56.519 --> 00:47:58.619 Anyone's in my thong? 692 00:48:02.099 --> 00:48:04.260 Switching to manual. 693 00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.300 Maximum power on all drives. 694 00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:11.219 Maximum power. 695 00:48:18.420 --> 00:48:21.840 Flashing forward to the space year 2022. 696 00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:29.460 As we record, Star Trek Discovery has just returned for the last half of its 4th series. 697 00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:31.079 God, does it have to? 698 00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:33.360 So good, Colin. 699 00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:35.880 And this season isn't. 700 00:48:35.940 --> 00:48:36.539 Sorry, Brendan. 701 00:48:37.380 --> 00:48:42.780 Now, am I going to am I spoiling last week's episode for anyone who wants to watch it? 702 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:44.460 They have a casino planet. 703 00:48:44.579 --> 00:48:45.239 Yeah. 704 00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:46.739 Pretty much. 705 00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:48.179 They go to a casino planet. 706 00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:54.000 And 1st of all, there's this hustling to get money with a physical contest in a boxing ring. 707 00:48:54.059 --> 00:48:54.480 Yeah. 708 00:48:54.480 --> 00:49:06.480 And then there is this high stakes poker game to get the magical McGuffin of the week. and they've gone they've gone here searching for a missing scientist. 709 00:49:06.539 --> 00:49:07.619 Awesome. 710 00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:09.659 There's atmosphere. 711 00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:10.679 It's incredible. 712 00:49:10.739 --> 00:49:11.280 It looks great. 713 00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:13.320 There's atmosphere, there's comedy. 714 00:49:13.500 --> 00:49:18.360 There is oho totally kicking the shit out of a really hot guy. 715 00:49:18.539 --> 00:49:20.519 He is really hot. 716 00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:21.719 Yeah, ridiculous. 717 00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:25.019 Yeah. than Travis? 718 00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:27.599 Even hotter than Dennis Carey. 719 00:49:27.659 --> 00:49:30.300 Even hotter than Stephen Grief Travis. 720 00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:30.719 Yeah. 721 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:33.300 Even hotter than Stephen O'Challa keep his top on this. 722 00:49:33.719 --> 00:49:36.900 Unfortunately, unfortunately, I agree. 723 00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:45.239 But he does gaze longingly at Sonika Martin Green for long periods of time and who can blame him? 724 00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:45.599 Really? 725 00:49:45.659 --> 00:49:46.199 I do too. 726 00:49:46.260 --> 00:49:49.800 I have done that and she's held my hand and I have melted completely. 727 00:49:49.860 --> 00:49:52.199 Oh, the other thing about this is beautiful. 728 00:49:52.260 --> 00:50:00.480 She is fantastic in every way, especially her sort of whispering emotional acting, it's like we're going to get out of the ship. 729 00:50:00.539 --> 00:50:05.699 I'm going to find you and it's going to be, she does this all the time in every mind she delivers. really, really intense and shouting. 730 00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:07.619 Yeah, she's great. 731 00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:10.380 So yeah, she's Sylvia Colebridge, I'm saying. 732 00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:11.519 Okay. 733 00:50:12.300 --> 00:50:15.780 Do we sound from this one, is it? 734 00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:19.260 Do you talk first? 735 00:50:19.260 --> 00:50:19.920 Do I talk first? 736 00:50:19.980 --> 00:50:24.840 The last Jedi, aren't they going to go to get a scientist from a casino as well? 737 00:50:24.900 --> 00:50:32.460 Is that, um, is this another inspiration that sprang from the uh, the well of... 738 00:50:32.460 --> 00:50:34.019 And then they do the... 739 00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:36.059 Yeah, and then they do the horse race bit. 740 00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:38.039 Yeah. 741 00:50:38.099 --> 00:50:42.239 They're going to get, um, what a colon, aren't they? 742 00:50:42.300 --> 00:50:43.800 The guy from license to kill. 743 00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:46.860 No, I know what you mean. 744 00:50:47.099 --> 00:50:49.440 Benicio del Toro. 745 00:50:49.500 --> 00:50:50.039 That's it. 746 00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:51.539 The guy from Sicario. 747 00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:54.840 Yeah, see a scientist, they're going to try and get from a casino. 748 00:50:54.900 --> 00:50:57.480 Maybe it's a more tenuous inspiration. 749 00:50:57.539 --> 00:50:59.519 You should do it again. 750 00:50:59.579 --> 00:51:03.300 That's just about casino scenes in science picture. 751 00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:13.619 Battlestar Galactica, the Battlestar Galactica, where all their planets blow up and then they go to a casino where there's a lounge singer with 4 mounds. 752 00:51:15.780 --> 00:51:18.960 That's the next generation one as well, isn't there? 753 00:51:19.019 --> 00:51:20.039 Yeah, the Royale. 754 00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:20.460 Season two. 755 00:51:20.460 --> 00:51:21.000 Series two. 756 00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:21.719 Yeah, yeah. 757 00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:22.199 Yeah, yeah. 758 00:51:22.260 --> 00:51:28.739 And and Gambit, where Riker totally flirts with the forehanded organ player. 759 00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:30.659 And that's not a euphemism. 760 00:51:32.099 --> 00:51:42.780 And come to think of it, Travis's plan, you know, to crash the ship he's on in order to need surgery from this bloke to work his way into his trust to trap Blake. 761 00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:56.820 It's kind of like that summer of 2012 where 3 major franchise movies hinged on the fact that the villain wanted to get caught to get inside the institution, which of and including the Bond film. 762 00:51:56.880 --> 00:51:57.360 Yep. 763 00:51:57.420 --> 00:51:58.679 So I'm talking Skyfall. 764 00:51:58.739 --> 00:52:04.500 I'm talking the Avengers and I am talking runny egg cumberbond in Star Trek into darkness. 765 00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:05.880 Oh my god. 766 00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:07.679 You see? 767 00:52:07.739 --> 00:52:10.380 And we've got gambit to thank for all of it. 768 00:52:10.739 --> 00:52:13.800 Thank you very much for listening. and good. 769 00:52:14.820 --> 00:52:17.400 It minced so they could run. 770 00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:22.739 Minced words and I like... 771 00:52:26.940 --> 00:52:36.119 It's very, I mean, in a way, it's a remake of mission to the unknown, but with chess and a casino instead of Daleks and monsters in a forest. 772 00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:39.960 When you think about it.