Posted by SumitonJD on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Ordeal-pitfalls-tp1498701p1498702.html

I don't see that the writer had gotten himself into such a fix plot
wise that he had to pull the old it was all a dream escape cliche. I mean
okay Foster had been kidnapped by the aliens and he was in alien spacesuit
filled with their green breathing liquid. But the UFO had been shot down and
Paul, spacesuit had been taken to the Moonbase medical center and he had
been taken out of the suit. What was the problem?
Well I can see that it would have cause some problems down the road as
Foster would have been inside the UFO and able to look it over and know
something about it. That is something that the series had been holding back
on, trying to keep the aliens and their craft a mystery. A simple way around
this would have been to put Foster in one of those metal cylinders like Russ
Stone in Sound of Silence. But that would have done away with the scene of
Foster as the helmet filled with liquid. I guess they could have had a
different type cylinder with a clear glass like material front so you could
see Paul's reactions but it brings you back to the problem of him being able
to see out into the UFO.

James K.


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