Saturday, March 27, 2010

15:30 "The Cure" (TV Series) 3085HT

We're definitely moving along the quality scale now, the only thing I can't figure out is whether it's toward "better" or "worse."

So let's see, we have:
  • Sondra Locke, pre Clint Eastwood, has some sexual version of malaria (and is shot mostly in soft focus, looking vaguely elfin).
  • The weirdest costumes so far in the form of anti-mosquito outfits that look like the way Klansmen would if they were costumed by George Lucas.
  • Albino mosquitoes, that we never actually see.  (It's not clear if Sondra Locke qualifies in this category).
  • Non-albino mosquitoes that are animated on the screen, but show up on top of the actors that you see.
  • Chinchona trees to make quinine that are actually eucalyptus.
  • The POTA theme is starting to sound suspiciously like Mission Impossible.  (Lalo Schifrin wrote both.)
You be the judge.

2 Comments:

Blogger rassmguy said...

That episode is patently ridiculous--and a perfect example of just how many things the astronauts know how to do that most people would not.

9:48 AM  
Blogger b1-66er said...

i think i like it. it's so over-the-top that you quit looking at the face appliances.

1:41 PM  

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