IDENTIFIED

>Marc Martin <[hidden email]>
commanded:
>So, for the next two weeks, let's hear people's comments on IDENTIFIED!

I sat down per my commander's orders and watched Identified. Although it's
not one of my favorite episodes, since it's the pilot and everyone isn't yet
comfortable in their roles, I find several things about it very interesting
to watch.

First, I enjoy the camera play throughout the episode. The way the camera
takes its time panning around a scene, sometimes ending up where it began,
adds to the brooding element of this episode. And the final scene that
initiates from a closeup of Straker's eye to another closeup of his eye
drawing back to the funeral in progress is very effective.

Second, I really enjoy Straker's monologue. It's overly dramatic in spots,
but it still comes across very realistically, as well as very terrifying in
its logic. We are presented with a very reasonable enemy. Callous. With
superior technology and weaponry. But reasonable nonetheless. And for me,
this adds to the fear surrounding them, instead of diminishing it. X-Files
often disappointed me by not giving enough reason behind the alien attacks
and infiltration to even seem logical. UFO always told us why, even when
the execution of the ploy didn't make sense (as some of the later episodes
prove.)

And finally, they took time in the pilot to show us everything SHADO had in
its arsenal against this fearsome foe. We got to see HQ from nearly every
angle, along with our favorite radar operator being called on the carpet.
We got to see Moonbase and its several spheres, including scenes from the
locker room that still make me blush after several viewings! (Okay, I'm a
prude!) BTW, I never got to see these scenes as a teen, since my network
edited them before they aired. And we got to see Skydiver and its cute
captain in his cabin. (I have always found it a cool touch that Leila's
picture is on his wall in that scene and didn't know about the deleted scene
until the DVDs came out. It works very well without the added scene for
me.) And it was only fitting that Peter gets to shoot down their first UFO.

How'd I do, Commander? *grin*
Yours,
Denise

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"Denise Felt" wrote:
> It works very well without the added scene for me.) And it was
> only fitting that Peter gets to shoot down their first UFO.
>

I don't get the impression that it's the first UFO to be shot
down by Sky 1, more of a 'business as usual' kind of thing -
except that it's the first time they are able to recover an
Alien.

James

>I don't get the impression that it's the first UFO to be shot
>down by Sky 1, more of a 'business as usual' kind of thing -
>except that it's the first time they are able to recover an
>Alien.

Ahh, but you're fogetting Straker's line -- something to
the effect of "we've had a few sightings, but NO interceptions".
So that WAS their first interception.  

Thanks Denise for your great comments on IDENTIFIED! You
mention that they introduce everything SHADO has in this
episode, which I think isn't strictly true -- the SHADO
mobiles and lunar module/carrier are introducted in
COMPUTER AFFAIR, and then we settle down after that...

Anyone else got any comments on IDENTIFIED?

Marc