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Originally Posted by gazzae
I have all the episodes so far on my Sky+. Is it worthwhile watch them or is it pretty crap?
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Go for it. At least that way you can fast forward past Johhny and the ads, and any other naff bits.
The big launch night was just full of things that ought to have given the game away. When they went to see the orbiter, there was just too much 'fog' and the technicians in lab coats were out of place - the fully suited ones looked much better. All in all, it just looked like a SFX shot for a film. Which is how some of them described it afterwards.
I thought the view of the control room was disappointing - never really got a good look at it, so no idea how convincing (or not) that was.
Starting with the suiting up, it started to look naffer by the minute. Those white packs they were carrying - that's just like Apollo, right? Wrong - then they were portable life-support units - designed to keep them comfortable in their suits until they could plug into the CM's life support system - i.e. those cases never went into the space craft. But the cadets were carrying these things, with no connection between them and it - shouldn't they have been asking themselves what they were for?
On boarding the craft, Keri nearly made the set come apart. They'd have done well to have told them how to get in (i.e. sitting down) - perhaps some training would have been a good idea? And what happened to the safety briefing? You even get one of those on a 1 hour flight on a plane!
Once on board, why didn't they wonder why none of the cables/hoses on their suits were connected up to anything? They should have at least included a comms loop - I mean shouting to each other over the engine noise is not very 'space' - is it.
And if you're going to wear a space suit, with helmet and visor, wouldn't you expect to actually close the visor at some point before launch?
During the early launch sequences (i.e. when the sound/motion didn't seem to match what was supposed to be happening!) some of the cadets looked worried (scared?) - was that fear of the flight, or the realisation that they'd been taken for fools?
My favourite bit though, was Charlie's bit of blackmail.
Make sure you're watching with the sound turned up properly, otherwise you'll miss those wonderful sound effects. Shame they had to have music all over that sequence too - it made it that much harder to get a sense of what it actually sounded like on board.
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Originally Posted by Halcyon
...once they have completed a task they get a reward so they are probably keeping quiet so that they win their money.
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They'll have to be very sure of it being a hoax before they declare it as such. Otherwise they'll be too scared to look even more stupid.
BTW - last night Johhny said, about the other 7, that they were already £5K richer - I thought it was per day? If not, then the reward for being made to look stupid on telly isn't that good after all.