Voyage neepery
Mar. 15th, 2007 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienComments on Graveyard of Fear, cut for those who don't care.
This is not my favourite episode by a long chalk, and it doesn't seem to have inspired any fanfic that I know of, but it wasn't quite as awful as I remembered. (There's still a dreadful logic hole at the end, which could have been patched by changing a couple of lines of dialog, but never mind that now.)*
The points that attracted my attention, and which I choose to squirrel away as information rather than dismiss as continuity errors:
There's an interesting variation on the Flying Sub launch sequence -- it uses the same old stock footage, of course, but this time they open the outer hatch before Crane goes aboard, apparently to save time.
There's an escape hatch in the Engine Room? Hah. First I've heard of it, and I don't think we ever see it. As far as I can remember, the Engine Room itself is only seen in S3's Death Watch.
Also, why does Crane apparently drop about fifty IQ points when trapped in the Flying Sub? He shows no initiative at all from that point until he returns to Seaview -- just follows the Admiral's fairly obvious instructions, and seems to take forever to think of using a wrench on the jammed hatch. Stupefying effect of the gas, maybe?
They must have been desperate for a couple of minutes of footage, to use that dive sequence from the pilot again.
*(Two hundred year old woman. Thirty-something scientist describes her as his 'creation'. You do the math.)
This is not my favourite episode by a long chalk, and it doesn't seem to have inspired any fanfic that I know of, but it wasn't quite as awful as I remembered. (There's still a dreadful logic hole at the end, which could have been patched by changing a couple of lines of dialog, but never mind that now.)*
The points that attracted my attention, and which I choose to squirrel away as information rather than dismiss as continuity errors:
There's an interesting variation on the Flying Sub launch sequence -- it uses the same old stock footage, of course, but this time they open the outer hatch before Crane goes aboard, apparently to save time.
There's an escape hatch in the Engine Room? Hah. First I've heard of it, and I don't think we ever see it. As far as I can remember, the Engine Room itself is only seen in S3's Death Watch.
Also, why does Crane apparently drop about fifty IQ points when trapped in the Flying Sub? He shows no initiative at all from that point until he returns to Seaview -- just follows the Admiral's fairly obvious instructions, and seems to take forever to think of using a wrench on the jammed hatch. Stupefying effect of the gas, maybe?
They must have been desperate for a couple of minutes of footage, to use that dive sequence from the pilot again.
*(Two hundred year old woman. Thirty-something scientist describes her as his 'creation'. You do the math.)
