“You know I like to stick with you, Avon. Where it’s safe.” OH VILA! If only you hadn’t foreshadowed!!
Egrorian may be the campest man alive, although Avon is giving him a run for his money on the radio exchange. I enjoy Avon’s bravado/insanity (viewpoint dependant) and his banter with Vila about going down to the planet - but it’s a bit full on. Hard to take for more than one episode.
Pindar’s look of jealousy when Egrorian is talking to Vila is just heart breaking. Lots of gender neutral references too - telling king from queen, Pindar’s limited vocabulary in this area. Their lack of clear surfaces is amusing. Like many houses I know.
“Vila weighs 73 kilos, Avon.”
I think that’s the saddest line in the entire series. The music suddenly grows most sinister. I like to think Avon is hamming up his pleas for help from Vila especially so Vila WON’T show himself and they will go down together.
In space, does the ship actually tilt upwards relative to you? That looked like quite bad science.
I found this to be well written, funny and then dark, and great character development. One of the better ones.
Their lack of clear surfaces is amusing. Like many houses I know. It would feel slightly inappropriate to use the word "realistic" about Egrorian and Pinder, but at least their relationship seems... interestingly multifaceted? I like the hints that Pinder is really only "the nice one" by direct comparison with Egrorian, and that they may actually be fairly well suited to each other...
I like to think Avon is hamming up his pleas for help from Vila especially so Vila WON’T show himself He must be (subconsciously or half-consciously.) If he had really wanted to convince Vila that it was safe to come out he should have tried to keep his usual harsh tone and called him an idiot for thinking he would heed Orac's suggestion. As it is he is actually underlining his own untrustworthiness by not addressing the actual cause of Vila's fear, while clearly demonstrating that he understands that he is hiding from him (and therefore must have heard what Orac said.)
In space, does the ship actually tilt upwards relative to you? Well, gravity is what they're trying to escape from, so it must still exert some pull at that point... But then, the shuttle (like all other ships in this show) apparently has some kind of artifical internal gravity generator, in which case surely it should *appear* level at all times to those inside it... (I'm not going to pretend that I'm good at this kind of physics though...)
In space, does the ship actually tilt upwards relative to you?
Maybe they've decided to be cool and subtle and visually illustrate the somatogravic illusion... High acceleration forward sometimes feels like pitching up if you haven't got a good horizon so your eyes can correct the info your ears are misreporting... Human bodies are rubbish at telling the difference between acceleration in general and actual gravity.
Ermm but more likely the writers just don't get it. ;)
A pitch up isn't needed for Orac to slide off the panel in any case though - acceleration will suffice for that, as anyone who's had their phone fly off the dash when they put their foot down knows! It's actually a slightly nice touch since I can't imagine anything was really tilting when they filmed so someone's given the prop a shove to add to the effect.
You have to admire the actors for managing to keep a straight face in these scenes when there must be all these other people crouched behind the furniture, rattling or pushing it about as needed... *g*
Egrorian may be the campest man alive, although Avon is giving him a run for his money on the radio exchange. I enjoy Avon’s bravado/insanity (viewpoint dependant) and his banter with Vila about going down to the planet - but it’s a bit full on. Hard to take for more than one episode.
Pindar’s look of jealousy when Egrorian is talking to Vila is just heart breaking. Lots of gender neutral references too - telling king from queen, Pindar’s limited vocabulary in this area.
Their lack of clear surfaces is amusing. Like many houses I know.
“Vila weighs 73 kilos, Avon.”
I think that’s the saddest line in the entire series. The music suddenly grows most sinister. I like to think Avon is hamming up his pleas for help from Vila especially so Vila WON’T show himself and they will go down together.
In space, does the ship actually tilt upwards relative to you? That looked like quite bad science.
I found this to be well written, funny and then dark, and great character development. One of the better ones.
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It would feel slightly inappropriate to use the word "realistic" about Egrorian and Pinder, but at least their relationship seems... interestingly multifaceted? I like the hints that Pinder is really only "the nice one" by direct comparison with Egrorian, and that they may actually be fairly well suited to each other...
I like to think Avon is hamming up his pleas for help from Vila especially so Vila WON’T show himself
He must be (subconsciously or half-consciously.) If he had really wanted to convince Vila that it was safe to come out he should have tried to keep his usual harsh tone and called him an idiot for thinking he would heed Orac's suggestion. As it is he is actually underlining his own untrustworthiness by not addressing the actual cause of Vila's fear, while clearly demonstrating that he understands that he is hiding from him (and therefore must have heard what Orac said.)
In space, does the ship actually tilt upwards relative to you?
Well, gravity is what they're trying to escape from, so it must still exert some pull at that point... But then, the shuttle (like all other ships in this show) apparently has some kind of artifical internal gravity generator, in which case surely it should *appear* level at all times to those inside it... (I'm not going to pretend that I'm good at this kind of physics though...)
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Maybe they've decided to be cool and subtle and visually illustrate the somatogravic illusion... High acceleration forward sometimes feels like pitching up if you haven't got a good horizon so your eyes can correct the info your ears are misreporting... Human bodies are rubbish at telling the difference between acceleration in general and actual gravity.
Ermm but more likely the writers just don't get it. ;)
A pitch up isn't needed for Orac to slide off the panel in any case though - acceleration will suffice for that, as anyone who's had their phone fly off the dash when they put their foot down knows! It's actually a slightly nice touch since I can't imagine anything was really tilting when they filmed so someone's given the prop a shove to add to the effect.
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