Well, I'm back. I'd like to begin this entry by thanking Mitch for all that he did over the course of the couple of days. Readers of this blog will not be aware that for reasons that I won't go into, Mitch was called into the same Robogals trip that I was at short notice, meaning that he was watching The Space Pirates in hotel rooms with poor internet (hence why he wasn't able to post episode 5 on the right day and is still yet to post something about episode 6). So once again, thanks Mitch, although The Phantom Menace is still a criminally underrated film.
So, The War Games. There is so much in here that I feel that any attempt to speak about how excellent episode 1 is will pale in comparison to the sheer brilliance of the actual product. Scene setting is done through actions, not through words. We know that there's some mystery occurring but we've got too little of it to actually know what it is exactly, meaning that the viewer has to tune in next week to find out what's going on, especially given the shocking cliffhanger at the end of the episode.
But there's one thing that caught my eye in this. Written on a wall, barely noticeable, is the phrase "Roll on death, demobs too far away", roughly meaning that the soldiers in the WW1 trenches in which this story takes place are ready to die, because of the fact that no help is going to come and they're never going to get out of this mess. It perfectly illustrates the climate in which this story is set and serves as a premonition of the story that is to come...
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