Space Cadets

[Halcyon]

LOL @ David.Ewles. That would be funny.

Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo

Didn't the presence of a moth in the barn prevent them from showing projected images at launch? Also did anyone see/hear charlie the actor mumbling about wanting money paid to his agent or he will blow the mission apart. come on charlie, get up and spill the beans man!!

That was the biggest anticlimax to a show EVER. what a load of rubbish!

Yes what was that mumbling all about ? They didnt even go into detail with it.
The anoying thing with this show is they seem to promise us lots of great things, but it doesnt seem to really deliver.

[MovedGoalPosts]

The "astronauts" are mumbling on about a space walk. No idea how they are going to attempt to fake that. Or maybe that is how the "joke" is to be ended, they step out the spacecraft in full suit to be greeted by a pile of cameras

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

Yes what was that mumbling all about ? They didnt even go into detail with it.

That's because once he made his 'demand', he immediately said it was a joke and didn't mean it.

[gazzae]

I have all the episodes so far on my Sky+. Is it worthwhile watch them or is it pretty crap?

[etccarmageddon]

it was building up to a 'live' launch which turned out to be pretty pathetic tv - no view out of the shuttle windows as they were blacked out and only at the end of the program did Jonny explain they were not going to see out for "the money shot" of space as they had a moth in the warehouse.

utterly crap TV. lots of 'special effects' were supposed to be used but in the end we just saw them from a perspective where there was no thrill for us and no view out into 'space'.

how about being honest with the audience instead of calling it live and how about getting it right or not bothering at all?

[TheBlueRaja]

Very negative post there, but i would disagree, it is entertaining and just because it wasnt as dramatic a launch as you would have liked it sounds like you have been taken in a bit to much by the shows premise.

Surely you didnt expect a fully fledged shuttle to launch them did you - what were you expecting?

The idea of the show is not to fool you its to fool the participants and to take the mickey out of them as well - something which is very hard to do - and to be frank they have done a superb job with it so far bar a couple of technical hitches - which they have brilliantly worked their way round with some very quick thinking - after 3 weeks of them not only still being in the Uk instead of Russia and having been through all that "training", the majority have no idea and only possibly one of the crew has suspisions outwith the actor - an amazing achievement in itself.

The show could be blown at any minute remember - and they are all flying quite literally by the seat of their pants.

I would recommend watching it if you have them on your Sky+ for sure.

[Halcyon]

The thing is I now think that a few of them have sussed it out....and they are not saying anything as they dont want to blow whatever they have coming to them......If they think back to things like Big Brother, once they have completed a task they get a reward so they are probably keeping quiet so that they win their money.

Originally Posted by gazzae

I have all the episodes so far on my Sky+. Is it worthwhile watch them or is it pretty crap?

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.

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.

[Saaf_laandon_mo]

They played the launch again yesterday without any music, just the sound the astronumpties would have heard........AND IT STILL SOUNDED CRAP. they hadnt even realised they were in "the air" so it couldnt have been that realistic. However I reckon these guys are so thick, if they had been told they'd be teleporting into space they'd have believed it

[Hom3r]

I was watching it at 1am this morning, the 'Val kimar' guy looked upset.

sounded like dried dog food being thrown on to a transit van, (soory meteor shower )

[Halcyon]

Supposedly there is a DVD coming out too. I wonder who on earth will buy it.

[montypython]

Hmmm.

http://www.performersdirectory.co.uk/extrasgirls.html

Scroll down and look for Keri Hassett, makes one think again who the joke is on, feeling it could be the viewers.

jj

[marky]

Originally Posted by montypython

Hmmm.

http://www.performersdirectory.co.uk/extrasgirls.html

Scroll down and look for Keri Hassett, makes one think again who the joke is on, feeling it could be the viewers.

jj

Hi and welcome.

They did say one would be an actor, to try and smooth out any questions

[montypython]

Originally Posted by marky

Hi and welcome.

They did say one would be an actor, to try and smooth out any questions

Hi, and thanks for the welcome.

yeah, Charlie is the admitted actor amongst the four of em. They all seem too relaxed, may be just the way i see it.

jj

Originally Posted by marky

Hi and welcome.

They did say one would be an actor, to try and smooth out any questions

What, they said one of the genuine contestants would be an actor? Aside from the three that were declared to be actors?

Thing is, you now have a situation where two of the 'contestants' are, it seems, no stranger to the performing arts. However, that said, the evidence is only for them appearing in 'extras' type roles. It is well known that these are the very sorts of people who most avidly apply for these sorts of TV shows. They may yet be genuine contestants.

I still hope that it is all a set up for the viewers though. I watch them apparently being taken in by this deception and thinking they are having life-changing experience and they aren't, and I find it all a bit sad. (I decided to give the thing a chance and watched the whole episode last night. Aside from being quite staggeringly boring and obviously drawn out to make at best 20 minutes of VT fill an hour of telly, My views on the exploitative nature of this show - assuming it is genuine - have not changed. )