So there is a regulation about women's hairdos in certain postions? I guess the means purple is required for the moon.

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no sorry, that was 1/9th of the runtime set in bathrooms: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112154051455738467

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@chris @aburka lol, like 'Casual Friday' #Monsterdon

OH SHIT, THE ALIENS ARE BEAVERS

TREE DOWN, TREE DOWN!

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Katy Perry does a darn good English accent.

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@mxchara "It's either more oxygen, or more hair dye, make the decision Striker!"

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Careful, Gay, your boyfriend’s out there. #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon

Approach carefully and mind the Ewoks

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Ask your doctor if LEXFIELD is right for you. Side effects include terrible editing. Nausea. Drowsiness. #monsterdon

actual SHADO CONTROL vehicle:

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All 3 of Canada's Piper Cubs, (the totality of the Canadian Air Force) are all located at Lexfield AFB
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Go little model tanks go!

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I like the rover models. Very cool. #monsterdon

This would be more coherent if you just played back the original show at 4x speed.
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In stores now! SHADO Action Playset! You control the tanks! You control the action!

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I don't know about you guys, but I take great comfort in the fact the air force has been secretly skirmishing with UFOs with moderate success.

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RE: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@RobynGoodfellow/116593051289622601

“Yes. Because…yes.”
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Usually I think you learn more about movie making by watching bad movies than good movies. The lesson this one is teaching is editing matters.
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Does the whole craft spin like that or just the drive section?

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@floatybirb @jsadow @Rozzychan

Yup. Part of their uniform.

When on earthy they sport their natural hair color.

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Oh speaking of spaceships, I found a newer thing trying to remember the name of the Terran Trade books.
https://mrjakeparker.gumroad.com/l/spaceships-book?layout=profile
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@jsadow @floatybirb

Yes,
In an interview they said that back then people had uniforms for everything. Airline stewardesses had strict costumes.

It was perfectly predictable to think that someone might include wigs in their uniform code.
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I also love how the Communist Bloc seem to be like "sure, Aliens...take all our money!"

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Did we ever get an explanation for that couple gunned down in the beginning of the movie? #monsterdon

@allanb i assume the tv show reused a lot of sequences. reminds me of the original battlestar galactica where they'd pull the same trick on the cylons again and again

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Canada mentioned! #monsterdon

@ohiofi I kinda wish Thunderbirds had been Thunderbirds with purple wigs now

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He couldn’t just turn his spaceship? #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon

“We know that these beings are capable of traveling across billions of miles - can someone tell the astronomers to stop laughing when I’m trying to talk - so what could they possibly need from us besides, obviously, biological pumps and filters.”
“But sir, if they can make ships like that and we can make dialysis mac-“
“SHUT UP ABOUT THE DIALYSIS MACHINES”
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This isn't unpleasent, but it isn't stimulating. So far this is a good example of a 5/10. #monsterdon

Rogue Three, checking i- oops, wrong franchise

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None of these pilots come back, they burn all their fuel in intercepting the UFOs, its dark....

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So the purple moon ladies are a polycule?
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This is very typical '60's British sci-fi, the obsession with the Moon landing and American "coolness" while simultaneously projecting an air of snootiness that the way those vulgar colonials do things just isn't /proper/... but still having the leading man hero butcher an American accent. Along with the wigs, you can see more of this sort of thing in Moon Zero Two. #Monsterdon #InvasionUFO

THE LADY WHO WORKS ON THE MOON WITH A BUNCH OF OTHER LADIES IS NAMED GAY!?

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Imagine the frequent flyer miles. #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon

Strayker takes some other people to his Extremely Fucking Cool Meeting room to tell the audience his inferences about aliens, which the audience knows is correct because we never see a second possible explanation for weird shit in a #monsterdon movie, the first explanation is always right.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. floating conspiracy theories about alien planets again

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It's kind of impressive how much better the moon landscapes got between this and Space: 1999. Obviously, having ground-level photos makes all the difference.

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Dull monologue exposition almost makes this seem like a real movie. #monsterdon

oooo, new model

I wonder if this one transforms into a robot?

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Metacommentary on the TV series (vs. this "movie"):

"Coming to Earth for replacement organs" is one of a whole fleet of contradictory reasons for their showing up on Earth. As viewers, we never do really get a definitive answer or answers.

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I'd like a slow zoom on an unnamed extra

Thank you

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That is a huge fuckload of speculation you have going on there, Commander. JUST SAYING.

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This guy looks like he works at a mall court fast food restaurant.
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@mxchara Or one of the Star Trek: Voyager aliens

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Brought to you by Big Tobacco. #InvasionUFO #UFO #50ShadesofGrade #Monsterdon

um dude your pantsuit is crawling up your ass
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The Aliens were attracted to our baseless memes about declining birth rates

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Oh, this is a movie where relativity isn't real and you can just accelerate to whatever speed. What in E E Smith...?

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"'10 Years Later...'

Cut to woman's bum in spandex walking away."

I'm sure that worked well on the page. 😆

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Why do I feel that nurse lady was Sylvia Anderson doing a Hitchcock?

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The first alien contact with the Blue Man Group.
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lol, are they stealing people's organs to make fake people?

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Such plentiful organs! #Monsterdon #invasionUFO

"muscular development poor". Don't bodyshame. Not cool. #monsterdon

oh, I think it's just Pickled Human. dang.

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70s toys made with the amber plastic used in the visors tasted bitter if you licked them.

I’ve heard.

I never licked them.

That’s dumb.

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Anyway, I think the shoe-fighters failed to destroy the aliens with their toe missiles, so its up to the submarine, which also launches a jet from its nose, because why the fuck not.

The aliens seem to be going after our super-sonic transport, for reasons, I don't remember what, maybe there's candy inside.

Anyway, the submarine jet captain shoots some rockets at the UFO but it escapes into the clouds. Funky music intensifies.

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I don't know if I have ever seen a combat fighter pilot looking more bored.
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That UFO is now a USO!
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#Monsterdon #InvasionUfo omg they got an alien

I feels like I missed-out on some whole story they haven't told, like, for example, why is all this skirmishing happening

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"Sky 1 to Shado Control. Reporting direct hit on Yoofo. Negative on detection of the plot, though."

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This movie has so much rogering!

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hey they have g-strings in tthe future!
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But why launch from underwater… when you could just launch from THE GROUND?!

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Heat shield? That's not what the bending nose cone is for...
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I want a X-Com-like UFO defense game with the aesthetics of this #monsterdon

If there's somethin' unidentified in your atmosphere
Who you gon' call? (S.H.A.D.O!)
If there's somethin' spinning and looks severe
Who you gon' call? (S.H.A.D.O!)

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@paco I expect them to wear the same eye shadow and hair color. I’m indifferent about wigs vs dyed hair.

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Lots of people jumping down tubes in this film. Someone had a formative experience in a laundry chute, I think. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon these space battles was all I understood as a kid.

Who the fuck approved fishnet costumes? I want names. #monsterdon

Always wondered if the lady on the sub was flashing nip like the men were too....

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we couldn't afford battle stations, so launch stations it is.

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Warn Skydiver is my pen name

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Nothing says excitement like exchanging control codes and range measurements

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1.5 million miles per second at 75 million miles? (670 km/s at 0.75 au)

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Weeeee, Space Fighters!

in 1980!

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Quick! Fire the Theremin torpedoes!

foom foom woooOEEEEOOOOOEOOOOOOOO

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#monsterdon OMG, the satellite protecting humanity is an AI!

I also extremely like the set design for Shado headquarters, which has all the power of the 60s flowing through it.

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Being of the Working Class I have an instinctual reaction to that accent telling me what to fucking do...

"fuck off computer, thinking you're better than me"

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Is it possible this film is reusing Space 1999 sets?

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@diazona Everyone needs a pair for those times you’re just in an evil mood though.
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Some of the smallest scale models of all time

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These are excellent blinking lights, though.

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Not working on a plot very much here. It's mostly about showing of the Anderson model making.

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After landing a super-sonic transport to do something, we get to see the moon base, which is staffed by ladies in jumpsuits but also purple wigs. I kind of like how they decided purple wigs would be the futuristic fashion thin for astronauts, just because its strange.

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#monsterdon It's difficult, it's trying, it's vexing, mildly irksome!

Straight dude finding it difficult leading a double life.....

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All their infrastructure is managed by ....... S.H.A.D.O. IT

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Me at work next year: "No one even dreams what my real function is."

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The fishnet outfits are hilarious

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#monsterdon Reel to reel data tapes! And a fish tank. Talk about practical effects, and uh, fishnet tops... on men... well, okay, that's breatheable…

Nipples.....

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I know of a Submariner and I;m going to ask him if they dressed like that down there....

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tinfoil jumpsuits? - check
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@Lazarou Space: 1999 was originally conceived as UFO Series 2, tentatively titled "UFO: 1999" - so you're not even a little wrong.

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