The boys are on trial
even though it is clearly understood that they will be capped regardless of the
verdict. Their situation appears to have been made worse when Daniel arrives,
and the council releases the teenagers to the Black Guard, who is returning
back to central headquarters, where it is again understood they will be capped.
JL - Pig flaps hat
lady is stern. She can drop the attitude, she hasn't even got a speaking part.
JL - Daniel turns up,
just to be a sly little bitch.
IB - This is so
boring. Will gives a very badly acted speech that the French Guy repeats in his
own language. Word for word.
IB - 'You are
subversives!'
IB - Prince Harry's in
the crowd. The town architecture is great. I wonder where it was filmed.
JL - Try Tripod-pedia.
IB - Beanpole tried
his best to be nicey-nicey in French: 'nous sommes amis, oui?'
JL - Er, no. Daniel's
staying quiet.
IB - That's brutal!
They garrotte Daniel against the bars of their cage while the music swells to
emphasise.
JL - Bon D'accord, mon
ami! It's ok, they got his key so they didn't have to go all the way and behead
him. It is a kid's show.
IB - Nothing is ever
made of whether the Vichot family suffered for helping the runaways when the
Black Guard boyfriend got rescued.
JL - If he did. He
could still be there, all emaciated in that cart. Just good looking bones.
IB - Henry is unaware
he's started a fire in a room full of gasoline.
JL - It's like those
cartoons with 'acme' stamped on the side of a rocket. Labelled for the viewer.
They certainly manage to distract the Tripod with a huge explosion. What's
going on all of a sudden? There's a plot, and things happening, and not a
turban in sight.
With only two days
left before they can reach the Resistance hideaway, they begin to doubt if they
will ever make it, or if there really is a group of Free Men waiting for them.
Travelling through the rubble of an old village, they see a mine car and get in
it for a ride downhill through a trench, not seeing what is at the end of the
line: a Tripod waiting menacingly that does not witness their approach.
JL - Henry's being a
Debbie Downer. He's come all this way and only now does he doubt the Freemen
even exist. Clever.
JL - Christ, not
another chemin de ferre.
IB - How the hell did
they not see that Tripod standing there from miles away?
JL - 'Like a fat man a
Tripod cannot see his feet' Talking of fat, there's only one man for the job
then!
The boys wait to see
if the machine will move, but it never does and with them now freezing in the
cold weather they put together a plan. One of the Tripod's feet is hanging
precariously over soft rock near the trench, and by setting off below the
Tripods foot the grenades they picked up in Paris they can cause it to fall
over. The plan works, and after the machine topples a glowing green door opens,
so Henry throws their last grenade inside, causing a green slime to ooze out.
IB - Henry builds on
his Superman pose in the rail cart and actually becomes a super hero. This
sequence is brilliant. Notice how awesome the trio are compared to when they first
met.
IB - And so we see the
metal eggs from earlier in use. A green liquid oozes out of the open hatch.
Bits of Master? Henry says he saw a face.
JL - Considering
series two, he must have been hallucinating.
IB - 'They carry
people!'
JL - Yeah, weird
people made out of green goo.
IB - 'you saved us,
Henry!' Yes, 'I suppose I did' (smile) Bless!
IB - The White
Mountain! Hooray! Success! Shaking of hands! It's all jolly decent.
JL - And then - oh
noes! Loads of Tripods! Red ones with laser cannons! Wicked! This is the most
action intensive episode so far.
IB - Is the red Tripod
the equivalent of a Special Weapons Dalek? Or precursor, seeing as this came
first and Who ripped off the idea.
JL - These twelve
episodes have flown by, which is a good sign you're enjoying something... or
not paying full attention.
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