Fw: [SHADO] Padding and inconsistencies

I like the sepia effect in "The Long Sleep"; it works extremely well and the entire episode has a kind of swinging-sixties "flower power" feel to it which is captured nicely considering it's supposed to be 1980.
The swinging-sixties is also evident in the party scene of "Ordeal." The guests at the party look as though they are auditioning for a role in the hippy musical "Hair" (which was actually on at the Shaftesbury Theatre at the time).

All The Best,

BRIAN



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I feel the party scene in "Ordeal" and the drug trip in "The Long Sleep" are both fine. Neither is key to the plot but both are integral to the atmosphere of the episodes and capture the culture of the time. The party scene is especially fun and helps to highlight Foster's hedonistic personality which in part makes him more vulnerable to capture later in the episode. The dream explanation is of course a cop-out but then might not members of SHADOreally have nightmares about this sort of thing happening?
 
There are inconsistencies in the programme. Some can be explained away. I'msure if members of the public stumbled across SHADO members in uniform thebadge would mean nothing to them and it could just be explained as some sort of military or security organisation. Others are less explicable. I've never undestood why Ed Straker - who is billed as a film executive and may have some sort of public profile - speaks to the head of Dalotek quite openly in his military role in "The Dalotek Affair". However almost all shows have inconsistencies, including those that have a "bible". Writers and producers may indeed deliberately ignore any series guide in order to createa better result on screen in their view. Most of these either pass over viewers' heads or are forgiven by fans. It's only really in the video and DVDage where we can watch episodes again and again that many of these have struck us. I don't find the inconsistencies in UFO much of a problem but
they will be for some people.
 
AB

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From: Mark Davies <[hidden email]. com>
Subject: [SHADO] Padding and inconsistencies
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Date: Sunday, 28 March, 2010, 14:42

 

Sorry John,that does not explain the inconsistencies and continuity errors in the show. UFO still works in spite of these however.

For example in Survival,an Alien walks miles to shoot a single projectile through a window in a leisure sphere,which none of the occupants hears and then tramps all the way back again.
Leaving aside (for the sake of your argument) that the Aliens have lost numerous craft trying to destroy moonbase,it' s patently clear why the episodes starts the way it does.

This is about motivating a character and making sure he comes face to face with his friends killer who in turn saves him.Nothing must get in the way of that,not even common sense.From the writers view its a great story and I can tolerate it because I can up with my own personal and elaborate solution to explain it.

But an audience is not ordinarily expected to do that.

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> I like the sepia effect in "The Long Sleep"; it works extremely well and
> the entire episode has a kind of swinging-sixties "flower power" feel to
> it which is captured nicely considering it's supposed to be 1980.

Well, the sepia scenes were flashbacks, so it was supposed to be 1970,
not 1980.

Marc

Well, OK 1970. I don't remember much about that year. I was only eight at the time. Tessa Wyatt didn't age very well, did she?

All The Best,

BRIAN



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> I like the sepia effect in "The Long Sleep"; it works extremely well and
> the entire episode has a kind of swinging-sixties "flower power" feel to
> it which is captured nicely considering it's supposed to be 1980.

Well, the sepia scenes were flashbacks, so it was supposed to be 1970,
not 1980.

Marc




     

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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:33:33 +0000 (GMT)
Brian Serridge <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I like the sepia effect in "The Long Sleep"; it works extremely well
> and the entire episode has a kind of swinging-sixties "flower power"
> feel to it which is captured nicely considering it's supposed to be
> 1980.

Which reminds me .. Covent Garden, where some of those scenes were
filmed was one of my favourite haunts when I lived in London, and
not long after the DVDs came out, I took some present day photos
there to match as closely as possible some screen captures I'd
grabbed from The Long Sleep, for a 'then and now' effect.

It's about eight years since I posted these so I think a rerun is in
order:

http://groover.kicks-ass.net/images/cgmthennow.jpg

http://groover.kicks-ass.net/images/covthennow.jpg

http://groover.kicks-ass.net/images/cgsthennow.jpg

http://groover.kicks-ass.net/images/pcthennow.jpg


The Piccadilly Circus scene (the last one listed above) was shot
from the window of the first floor of what for many years was
Tower Records, although it was a department store when The Long
Sleep was filmed. Unfortunately I had to take my photo from the
adjacent window, so the perspective is slightly out. The
'authentic' window was part of a private office when I took that
photo in 2002.

James

Hi James,

Thank you very much for posting these.

Griff

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These were great. Thanks for the links! Picadilly Circus looks much more attractive with some of that signage gone.

Bill

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