Re: Digest Number 956

At 12:57 PM 1/13/03 +0000, you wrote:
Uh, Anthony...TST ("The Square Triangle") is in MY first Box Set.

In fact, it's the first episode on disk 4 of set one. Or are there
different productions of this same A&E set?

I have only ever seen eight episodes of UFO and one of those 80's era
compilation movies (actually I saw that one first at 3 in the morning and I
knew that UFO was something special). It's never been broadcast in my area,
so the 8 eps that I saw were from the VHS releases done some time in the
80's.

Now I've bought the DVD set which seems to contain many of the eps that
I've already seen, but I'm enjoying seeing them again in sparkling quality.

As for the discussion of The Square Triangle, I think that it's one of
the few epiosdes that truly works through and through. I think that all of
the Anderson shows tend to have weak endings from a story telling point of
view, but they disguide it as high drama by making the endings grim. In TST
I think that Anderson's studio's style really works to tell this story.

Court Martial is a really good episode, though it has some of the most
ridiculous moments that I've seen in a dramatic TV series. Interrogating
Foster with a fan? Top secret Shado troops chasing Foster through a gravel
pit with white go-go boots on? Niggles aside, it's still one of my
favorites if for nothing else thatn Foster's gamble that there's an escape
route through Straker's light show thingy behind his desk.

Oh, and here's another question. When Straker's office descends into
the underground complex, if we watch out the window we get a frame of
reference of the office going down. It looks to me like there is nothing
out there to disguise that a part of the building is disappearing into the
ground. i.e. the office with its outer walls is all vanishing into the
earth. I can accept a lot of things, but aren't people going to notice that
a part of the building seems to be disappearing?

Anyone want to check my physics on this?

- Bohus Blahut
(BOH-hoosh BLAH-hoot)

modern filmmaker

Hi All,

This question of Straker's office being seen descending below ground has
been raised many times before. Surely, the simple answer - if one wants
one - is one-way or mirrored glass. Straker and the occupants of the office
see out, also authenticating it's legitimate use as Straker's office to any
non-SHADO person that visits it from the inside (i.e. Jo Frazer in The
Responsibility Seat) - (film executives in Conflict). To the outside viewer,
it's just another anonymous set of windows - could be anything: bathroom,
private office, anything.

Best

Griff

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Oh, and here's another question. When Straker's office descends into
the underground complex, if we watch out the window we get a frame of
reference of the office going down. It looks to me like there is nothing
out there to disguise that a part of the building is disappearing into the
ground. i.e. the office with its outer walls is all vanishing into the
earth. I can accept a lot of things, but aren't people going to notice that
a part of the building seems to be disappearing?

Anyone want to check my physics on this?

- Bohus Blahut
(BOH-hoosh BLAH-hoot)

modern filmmaker





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