Posted by jamesgibbon on
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Bruce Sherman wrote:
> i liked this episode, we had the more cliqueish thing of alien
> mind control in it, sure there is a lot of script holes in it, but
> i like to kick back and enjoy it, not analize the pleasure away.
>

That's a good philosophy to adopt when watching UFO I think. While
watching it, try not to worry about the logic of the plot too much.
But here on the list, I find nit-picking after the event quite
therapeutic .. ;)

'Psychobombs' is not one of my favourites, I'm not keen on all the
alien body-snatching/mind-control voodoo that became so popular
toward the end of the series, and the idea of human bombs doesn't
really work for me. I can accept mind-control reluctantly, but not
magic explosive powers, even after hearing Dr Jackson's
explanation. It wouldn't have been too hard, surely, to have
worked something more plausible into the script - perhaps a tiny
alien anti-matter device hidden in a wristwatch or something.

Also, this episode is notable for the brief appearance of another
vessel in the SkyDiver fleet (number 4, if memory serves) - the
only episode in the canon where it's established that there is more
than one SkyDiver, even though it's strongly suggested in most of
the episodes that there's just the one.

James