Posted by jamesgibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-Episode-Discussions-THE-RESPONSIBILITY-SEAT-tp1499810p1499827.html

Marc Martin wrote:

> Okay, I think our time for discussing the UFO episode CONFETTI
> CHECK A-OK has come and gone, so it's probably time to move onto
> our next episode. We had skipped THE RESPONSIBILITY SEAT before
> because it wasn't part of A&E's UFO DVD Set 1, so lets go back to
> that one. Anyone have any comments on this episode? If so, please
> make them within the next 2 weeks!


THE RESPONSIBILITY SEAT is most notable for me for the single
dodgiest scene in any UFO episode! An actor looking just like
Straker (from the view we get) walking across the set at exactly the
same time as Straker gets shot. Nothing to do with the plot - IMO
it's just a really cheap way of generating a bit of suspense for a
few moments.

Also - it doesn't make sense that Freeman is so under-confident and
indecisive in this episode. To get to be 2IC of SHADO, he must have
had considerable leadership experience and he never appears to have
a problem taking responsibility in other episodes. For example, he
famously has the transport plane from NY diverted in AQOP.

James