51. Space Scamps
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After watching some times Star Trek delved into Cosmic Horror, Miles might have told Charlie ‘Oh, this stuff is tame, let’s watch Space 1999’ instead. So, for this episode, we are now rebranding as #spacescamps as we talk about the greatest collection of space adventuring office workers Moonbase Alpha has to offer in Gerry Anderson’s Space 1999.
After we briefly gloss over the opening episode ‘Breakaway,’ we discuss Brian Blessed being out-hammed by the amazingly named JOHN SHRAPNEL in ‘Death’s Other Dominion’ (27:36), things get a bit tentacle monster in ‘Dragon’s Domain’ (40:26), watch some amazing class politics and screams of ‘MUUUUUUUTANT’ in ‘Mission of the Darians,’ (51:57) and bring it all to a close in ‘End of Eternity’ (01:01:09) as we meet a crazed immortal psychopath, which, if you watch the previous episode just come to the conclusion that this happens a lot in Space 1999. It’s not Star Trek, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun! Launch All Eagles! Stop being weird!
Talking Points Include: A FUCKING NUCLEAR EXPLOSION ON THE MOON. Balataro, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the 2016 Ghostbusters film is fun, The Mad Max movies, Date Movies, Miles ruining ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ for the person in front of him (EDITOR NOTE: While Ian Holm is the British actor in question, he doesn’t deliver the final toast to Manchester United in the scene, that’s actually Richard McMillan) What is Space 1999? Supermarionation, Gerry Anderson, The Elevator Pitch, the Earth is fucked, Christopher Lee in an episode we did not watch, Space 1999’s budget is akin to bullying 1970s Doctor Who for it’s lunch money, the cast of Space 1999 are not qualified space heroes, Koenig is far more Office Boss than Space Cowboy, it’s nice to have our characters called Nick and Paul and Adamn, but it does make it hard to distinguish, Charlie’s notes are sometimes as complex as ‘man wearing neck-tie… evil?’, Peter Wyngarde, BRIAN BLESSED, JOHN SHRAPNEL, Grant Morrison comics we wouldn’t reread, asbestos everywhere, Brian’s fate in this episode, Michael Sheard (Who actually plays Ozzel in Empire Strikes Back) some good horror beats that devolve straight into Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace-esque shenanigans, they’ll never meet anyone nice, Charlie has started watching ‘Sapphire and Steel,’ ‘it’s a metaphor for capitalism,’ Barbaria Bain’s leg envy re: Joan Collins, Koenig’s ever continual frustration at the inability of people to simply be normal in space, more on Dave, Charlie’s former (and sketchy) employer, Immortal Hellraiser BS, Victory through OSHA violations, Long Recapping of DC’ Comics Legion Lost, is this the first time Miles has done his Werner Herzog impression? Charlie mentions the roleplaying game ‘Mothership’ about ten times throughout the episode, did Charlie like it? Would Star Trek Phase II have been like this? UFO, Miles recorded the second part of the Breakfast in the Ruins episode of ‘The Coming of the Terraphiles’ and GUESS WHAT It’s going to be a Three Parter!
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.
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