and The Long Sleep ...

Hi again.

Thanks everyone for your responses to my queries about A Question Of Priorities and Alec's fate. I think it's great to have this forum to discuss the show.

I like to think Alec was still with SHADO and just not seen in the Virginia Lake episodes. (Still, on TV shows in general if a major character disappears, I think it would be good if the producers would acknowledge it. One of the things I didn't like about season 2 of Space:1999 was that Victor Bergman - and also Paul Morrow and David Kano - disappeared without any mention. I understand there was a line in the script of The Metamorph that did mention Victor's death, but that the scene was cut in editing. And I think that some of the fan fic mentioned the fates of the three characters.)

I know this forum has been around for several years, so please forgive me if these topics have been discussed at length before.

I also have a few queries about The Long Sleep. It's a great episode. The sepia-toned flashbacks are creative, and help to convey a sense of the hippy, trippy times of Catherine Fraser's younger days. We also get to see Ed be (sort of) a father figure to Catherine. Perhaps this helps to fill, to a small extent and for a very short time, the emptiness that Ed feels in his life.

That said, there are a few things that don't really bear close scrutiny, eg:

Catherine looks pretty healthy, for someone who just awakened after a 10-year coma. Amazingly, she had suffered very little muscle atrophy. (But people awaking from comas on TV and in movies always bounce right back.)

If the Aliens have these amazing abilities, like giving Tim extra years of life at Catherine's expense, couldn't they read her mind while she was in a coma to find out where the detonator is?

Couldn't the Aliens get another detonator for the bomb?

Catherine remembers dropping the detonator onto a canal boat. Even if the same boat is in exactly the same place 10 years later, which I suppose is possible if that is the owner's usual mooring spot, why would the detonators still be there? Wouldn't the boat owner have found it a long time before, and got rid of it, not knowing of any practical use for it?

Anyway just a few thoughts....

Dave ////


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Dave T <myspeedometer@...> wrote:
"(Still, on TV shows in general if a major character disappears, I think itwould be good if the producers would acknowledge it."



But to the average viewer, then and now, Freeman didn't leave, he just wasn't in intermittent episodes - just like some of the other characters. He only "left" if you know the background story, which hardly any casual viewer does. If the internet hadn't come along, most of the rest of us wouldn't know either.
Most viewers, if they thought about it at all (which they don't), would assume that the episodes are shown in the order originally intended and with the intended cast.

Regards
John