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Survivors S3 Ep12 Power
OneSparePart	#41 Posted on 05-10-2022 19:41
Alpha Grade Posts: 11306 Joined: 16.01.22	Night. Afternoon. Morning. They're all good! See you Tuesday . Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!


trevor travis	#42 Posted on 07-10-2022 19:54
Alpha Grade Posts: 8372 Joined: 16.01.22	Will catch up on your comments Paula and OSP. Would you both be interested in starting up something else on Wednesdays, starting from the first Wednesday of November? How about Fawlty Towers or the Prisoner, unless you have something else in mind? Vote Og.


M1795537OCVirn	#43 Posted on 08-10-2022 08:50
Admin Posts: 14115 Joined: 14.01.22	trevor travis wrote: ↑ Will catch up on your comments Paula and OSP. Would you both be interested in starting up something else on Wednesdays, starting from the first Wednesday of November? How about Fawlty Towers or the Prisoner, unless you have something else in mind? Er... please check the 'ideas for non-B7 rewatches' thread as well. "You're not sulking, I hope?"


OneSparePart	#44 Posted on 11-10-2022 17:08
Alpha Grade Posts: 11306 Joined: 16.01.22	trevor travis wrote: ↑ Will catch up on your comments Paula and OSP. Would you both be interested in starting up something else on Wednesdays, starting from the first Wednesday of November? How about Fawlty Towers or the Prisoner, unless you have something else in mind? I am up for a rewatch of either. M'virn has suggested an alternative. Fight it out... Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!


trevor travis	#45 Posted on 11-10-2022 18:22
Alpha Grade Posts: 8372 Joined: 16.01.22	OneSparePart wrote: ↑ trevor travis wrote: ↑ Will catch up on your comments Paula and OSP. Would you both be interested in starting up something else on Wednesdays, starting from the first Wednesday of November? How about Fawlty Towers or the Prisoner, unless you have something else in mind? I am up for a rewatch of either. M'virn has suggested an alternative. Fight it out... Cheers OSP. I'll add my suggestions to the other thread, so they are all in the same place, as I've already told off for not noticing the other thread Vote Og.


GradeFourIgnorant	#46 Posted on 12-02-2023 18:23
Ungraded Posts: 7 Joined: 22.01.22	I think it's interesting. Power feels like it's the start of a series setting up a new status quo, and that Long Live the King feels more like a series finale, with the myth of King Greg being used to usher in federation. There's also a nice, unintended, mirroring that in The Fourth Horseman David and Abby sit down to supper by candlelight because they have to, but here the Laird and Mrs. Crombie sit down to supper by candlelight because they want to.


OneSparePart	#47 Posted on 12-02-2023 19:25
Alpha Grade Posts: 11306 Joined: 16.01.22	GradeFourIgnorant wrote: ↑ I think it's interesting. Power feels like it's the start of a series setting up a new status quo, and that Long Live the King feels more like a series finale, with the myth of King Greg being used to usher in federation. There's also a nice, unintended, mirroring that in The Fourth Horseman David and Abby sit down to supper by candlelight because they have to, but here the Laird and Mrs. Crombie sit down to supper by candlelight because they want to. S3 was up and down...not just in the quality of the writing but also in the intent of the story. It was literally and metaphorically all over the place. A 4th series would have been interesting with the writing quality of S1 and S2. The myth that they started to build around Gregg was a good idea but...oh, the pain of getting there. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!


trevor travis	#48 Posted on 14-02-2023 09:42
Alpha Grade Posts: 8372 Joined: 16.01.22	GradeFourIgnorant wrote: ↑ I think it's interesting. Power feels like it's the start of a series setting up a new status quo, and that Long Live the King feels more like a series finale, with the myth of King Greg being used to usher in federation. There's also a nice, unintended, mirroring that in The Fourth Horseman David and Abby sit down to supper by candlelight because they have to, but here the Laird and Mrs. Crombie sit down to supper by candlelight because they want to. Power is a solid enough episode (which is a big plus point, after the drudgery of some other episodes from Season 3), but its problem is that it seems to belong to another series entirely. It just doesn't feel like Survivors - it's got a different tonal quality, while the regulars are either pushed into the background or completely absent. It's like there being a 53rd and final episode of B7 that decides to concentrate on what Arlen did next. Plus Power is insanely optimistic - Terry Nation would have never approved, if he hadn't been heaved aside at the end of the first season. On one point, about all those Scottish people still being alive, the Laird is simply lying. We don't see them and we know from Gone To The Angels you can't run and hide from the Death. And when you come under contact with a carrier you have the same (roughly) 1 in 10,000 chance of everyone else. Survivors was never supposed to have an optimistic ending. IMO Survivors should have ended two episodes earlier, with The Last Laugh and the rest of the regulars realising that Greg will die from smallpox. It would have been a much stronger ending, focusing on a main character. Vote Og.