Re: "The Cybernauts" Reviewed

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Dr Hermes wrote:

> Here is where the episode stumbles and almost hits the pavement. *Sigh*
> The scenes with Mrs Peel at the dojo just ring false in so many ways
> that it brutally cracks my suspension of disbelief. Aside from wanting
> to slap the smug obnoxious sensei (listed in the credits as "sensai")
> upside his little bald-wig head, I found the way the students were
> allegedly training to be so unconvincing it almost seems deliberate.
> Emma has to prove her credibility by challenging the only female
> student, a sullen blonde woman called Oyuka. Again, there seems to be
> more judo than karate involved and the fight is staged quite stiffly and
> in near slow-motion.

 	Sorry but I don't consider this to be a speed bump in the episode. 
I found it to be effective in its own stylized way.

> (To be fair, in 1965 very few of us in the UK or the States knew much
> about Asian martial arts.

 	My father was taking karate lessons at that time (he took lessons 
until he became a brown belt, one step below a black belt).  He was always

impressed with the moves she made.

> ...a Cybernaut. That is, a radio-controlled robot with a stiff
> metal mannequin-type head (no glowing lenses for eyes or anything like
> that). The monster dresses up in the classic black overcoat, fedora,
> gloves and sunglasses used by so many horrible movie creatures.

 	Up to the time of the Avengers, I can't remember any horror movie 
creatures with that type of costuming.  What were some of them?

> You can tell it's a British show when Armstrong's assistant wipes his
> sweating face with a handkerchief and says "It's very hot in here. It's
> over seventy!"

 	If it's over 70 degrees C. (because Centigrade is used in the 
U.K.), then it's unbelievably burning!  :-)

 					Truly,
 					Robert Bernardo