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NEW CAPTAIN SCARLET TV SERIES!
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| DSJ 26 Nov 2003 19:05:27 |
I just received an email from captainscarlet.tv NEW CAPTAIN SCARLET TV SERIES! Captain Scarlet Exclusive!! We are excited to announce that Gerry Anderson is creating a brand new 26-part series of Captain Scarlet using the latest in High Definition and 3D CGI animation technology. It will be coming to our television screens in 2005 and there are many surprises in store, so watch this space. Its going to be worth the wait! Well looks like were going to get this CGI show.  Thoughts? |
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| Dada Baggins 23 Dec 2003 21:13:35 |
GREAT! Hope will come soon to the Italian screens, too!!!  Bye, Dada Baggins P.S.= Is Gerry Anderson still alive? |
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| DSJ 23 Dec 2003 23:03:16 |
Very much so! |
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| Dada Baggins 24 Dec 2003 18:31:20 |
Good, VERY VERY good! Bye, Dada Baggins |
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| Huntsman 16 Jun 2004 19:29:08 |
is there any new info on the new series? The website seems dated... | ||
| DSJ 27 Dec 2004 07:14:31 |
This was posted in the catacombs. Captain Scarlet.com Not sure when it's going to be released here, looks like next fall for the UK. I am sure looking forward to the series. |
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| Huntsman 27 Dec 2004 23:09:51 |
I should get some of the DVDs as I've never seen the series. I know I'd probably enjoy it... | ||
| DSJ 09 Feb 2005 17:12:05 |
I just received an email from CaptainScarlet.com
So for those of you in the UK, boy your lucky! Wonder when it will be released here in Canada or the US. |
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| Martin 12 Feb 2005 12:59:29 |
Just watched the first Capt Scarlet. It's pretty much non-stop action. Well, it would have been if they didn't put 15 minutes of the kids quiz nonsense in the middle. I hate Saturday morning TV. The story was much the same as the original, although Mysteron Scarlet's plot and demise wasn't as impressive (falling off a skyscraper probably isn't acceptible now, he just gets shot by Blue and falls off a gantry, and I'm not quite sure what he was doing with those levers anyway). The Spectrum parachute when he jumps out of Cloudbase was a nice touch. Some of the visuals are quite good, and others are typical TV quality cgi. Faces and some body movements were often very stiff and artificial, especially in contrast to the motion capture running. The farmer, seen very briefly, looked pretty bad, and the guy in the car with the rigid collar that didn't move when he turned his head just looked weird. Okay, the originals were puppets and had no expressions or range of motion, but the mixture of realistic and fake motions and textures seems more disconcerting here. The Martian landscape was nice, but the farm-land landscape was very bland in some shots. The Angel airplanes looked really good (the Grand Canyon landscape below them was less so). Yes, they do the Matrix bullet-time slow-motion during action sequences, although not as much as the trailer. Martin |
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| captphil 12 Feb 2005 17:38:36 |
I like the way the original looks, because of the Keith Wilson touch but I could never really get into the stories. That said it sounds interesting, from your description could they have used more time working on this since it wasn't supposed to debut until the fall I think or did it look finished? (Meaning, is this what they wanted or were they rushed to get this on the air?) Also how was the soundtrack? Did they take the same approach as Gray did in the 1960's, writing for adults or was it more for kids. Or did it fall for that bland Star Trek Voyager muzaktrack sound? I'd be interested in getting it on DVD so I won't have to deal with whatever dumb time slot it gets in the US. Any news on a Region 1 release or should I plan on the R2 in October (I can wait until October)?  John and Paul are supposed to be watching the new CaptScarlet in this picture. Anyway that's the goofy idea |
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| Martin 12 Feb 2005 18:35:58 |
It was finished, but the pace was very fast, practically non-stop action. Bits of exposition, such as the Doctor who announces Scarlet is indestructible, or Destiny laying a flower on Black's coffin, were few and far between. It needed a little bit more plot. None of the jokiness of Terrahawks or Space Precinct (or year 2...) thank god. The kiddy show around it (and stuck in the middle) were the most annoying parts. Really annoying. Unfortunately I've completely forgotten what the soundtrack was like. Which probably isn't a good sign.  It does have a version of Barry Gray's dum-dum-dum percussion at fade outs.Martin |
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| DSJ 18 Feb 2005 19:06:54 |
Another email from CaptainScarlet.com
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| Martin 19 Feb 2005 21:52:59 |
It actually started around 11am (the mute button on the remote control and a Saturday newspaper is necessary while waiting). There was an ad break, but no quiz in the middle. There was a banner displayed at the bottom of the screen for several minutes, obscuring the action (which included Black letting loose a mechanical spider on the floor, when you needed to see the bottom of the screen...). You have no hope of setting a video to record this.  The episode itself was okay. Lots of action like last time- effectively three episodes in one- attempted assassination of Col White, Russian planes attacking cloudbase, then trying to blow up the Earth. The pace is so fast, it feels like you're watching a trailer, not the real thing. Lots more vehicles this time. Some nice designs, including a transport plane like one seen in Doppelganger. One of those unnatural things that leaps out at you is every road and ground surface is perfectly flat, and vehicles seem to glide rather than drive on wheels. |
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| DSJ 20 Feb 2005 20:11:53 |
Well, very interesting first episode I must say. I really enjoyed watching it, different but enjoyable. The part with Scarlet playing with the levers looks like he was trying to unstabilizing the engines on Cloudbase (Skybase) thus I guess having the base drop from the sky. Scarlet when he fell of the gantry fell through some kind of plasma/ion rays so I'm guessing thats where the combinations of the rays and being under the Mysteron control get fused together and make him indestructible. Yes, the Spectrum parachute is a nice touch. The farmer, well not great. It's like I've seen that kind of CGI before on a character but I cannot place it. The vehicles are super, the Angel Interceptors (Falcon's) are sleek, Scarlet's car (The Cheetah), is more of a racing car than the original SPC was. Blue's flying bike (The Raid Bike) is neat, bulky but neat. I'm looking forward to seeing the second episode of the two parter when the download completes. The internet, gotta love it!  |
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| Bringer-of-Wonder 23 Feb 2005 14:31:31 |
Sounds cool enough, at least it's been made.... one thing though, it ain't going to be Gerry Anderson himself doing it unless he's been mysteronised. | ||
| Martin 24 Feb 2005 15:16:42 |
Yes, it is Gerry producing Captain Scarlet.com/Gerry But if he has been mysteronised, is he Capt Scarlet or Capt Black?  |
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| Martin 19 Mar 2005 15:13:36 |
I missed the last few episodes, but I saw Mercury Falling today. Good story, fast paced but not rushed (it didn't feel like a trailer of highlights). Good setpieces (a Fireball XL5 space shuttle launch, car chases and a spaceship re-entry). On the negative side... The CGI is still variable, with the character stuff being less successful. There's one very poor scene of Scarlet running across a carpark to a helicopter, and the car chases still have a strange gliding motion (but the drivers show realistic jerkiness). Scarlet's acrobatics as he jumps down from the radio telescope was a bad idea. But a strong story made the flaws less obvious. Fanderson episode guide |
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| DSJ 27 Nov 2005 05:24:16 |
Sorry I have out of the loop for awhile, has anyone watched Season 2? I still have to download them. |
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