Re: Reflections in the Water/Alien Gun

"Mark Davies" wrote:
> Does anyone agree with the notion that the doppleganger
> idea in Reflections In the Water was badly realised,and in
> fact came across as rather ludicrous and unconvincing.
>

Yes. Very much so - a strong candidate for Worst Ever UFO
Episode, and I'm afraid I do mean "worst" not "least good"!

The final sequence, where Sky One is ordered to shoot down the
remaining couple of dozen UFOs is the icing on a very dodgy cake.

James

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From: "James Gibbon" <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SHADO] Reflections in the Water/Alien Gun


> "Mark Davies" wrote:
> > Does anyone agree with the notion that the doppleganger
> > idea in Reflections In the Water was badly realised,and in
> > fact came across as rather ludicrous and unconvincing.


I haven't seen the complete episode for a long time but my impressions are
not too favourable. That said, I should add that this is because I have
memories of how this episode was edited(badly)into the compilation feature
INVASION UFO several years ago. That really *was* crap!

Simon

Yeah, I have to agree that Reflections sucks the big kahuna. Apart from
getting to see Foster and Straker in those skin tight diving suits, the
whole premise of the eps stinks to high heaven and the doppelganger effect
is cheapened by the usage of the all too human tape recorder technology -
come off it - the aliens are NOT gonna use cheap tape recorders!!!! Gerry A.
should have sent that script back to the writer with a bag of kitty litter.

Pam

P.S. two of my new fan fic stories are now on the shadolibrary.org - Habeas
Corpus (a cross over with X-Files and Law & Order), and Private Agendas.


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"Pam McCaughey" wrote:
> Yeah, I have to agree that Reflections sucks the big kahuna. Apart
> from getting to see Foster and Straker in those skin tight diving
> suits, the whole premise of the eps stinks to high heaven and the
> doppelganger effect is cheapened by the usage of the all too human
> tape recorder technology - come off it - the aliens are NOT gonna
> use cheap tape recorders!!!! -

I totally agree - I'm sure that if they had the technology to travel
in excess of the speed of light, they'd use Minidisc.