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I'm just watching this for the first time in years. It's livelier than I expected, with explicit allusion to The Quatermass Experiment and strong, simple visuals.
It's tempting to view Crayford's eyepatch as a false trail, given he is introduced as a Brigadier-imposter, sitting apparently in Alistair's office, eyepatched like Inferno's Brigade-Leader; more tenuous is the possibility that the shopkeepers A.V. & N.G. Kirby is a reference to The Avengers and its penchant for mock Tudor 'Avengerland' in its latter years. The Kraals sent the five-year-old me retreating to my parents' bedroom for three weeks in 1975, butwhile their first appearance is still startling, afterwards they appear like determined pugs.
It's tempting to view Crayford's eyepatch as a false trail, given he is introduced as a Brigadier-imposter, sitting apparently in Alistair's office, eyepatched like Inferno's Brigade-Leader; more tenuous is the possibility that the shopkeepers A.V. & N.G. Kirby is a reference to The Avengers and its penchant for mock Tudor 'Avengerland' in its latter years. The Kraals sent the five-year-old me retreating to my parents' bedroom for three weeks in 1975, butwhile their first appearance is still startling, afterwards they appear like determined pugs.