Panthers, Scorpions And Eagles

Don't Worry, Gentle Reader
BOOJUM! has not been replaced by a nature programme.  Not only that, your humble scribe has cunningly woven-in a double-meaning regards this title.  Besides, even if it were a nature programme, none of those animals named above are boring, mundane herbivores, are they?
     The "Panther" mentioned above goes back to Robin Hood's Bay and Ye Dolphin pub.  

Taken from roughly our front doorstep

     Tom, boyfriend of Darling Daughter, not Quiet Tom nor Noisy Tom from work, was mentioning the replacement for what is technically the "Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance, Tracked", better known to you and I as the Scorpion light tank.  Art?

Scorpion in the Gulf.  Right at home.

     One of the replacements, as I have now determined, is known as the "Panther", and is a command and liaison vehicle.  Art?

No claws or teeth but still dangerous.

     This takes care of the first two animals mentioned.  We shall return to this topic.

"Where Eagles Dare" And The Imdb Goof List
My work of inspired pedantry continues.  I have reached the 2 hours 12 minute mark, meaning only 23 minutes left to go.
     Lest you be unaware of what the above babble refers to, let me illuminate.  For almost every film listed on the Internet Movie Data-Base, there is a list of "Goofs", or mistakes.  Conrad occasionally looks at these and idly wonders if they are correct or not.  For some reason he was inspired by the WED list to actually go over the entire film, frame by frame if need be, and see if these goofs are correct.

Conrad:  hair-splitting pedantic boor.
And those are his good qualities!

     Late-breaking news: only about 1 in 3 is correct.  I suspect some of these so-called goofs are from people who saw the film once, twenty-five years ago, after twelve pints and a rogan josh, whilst carrying on a conversation with a dozen friends and having a cat come sit on their lap every so often.  An example: 

When escaping the castle, Smith helps Mary down from the roof of the cable car and then follows her into it. Between shots the chain blocking the entrance to the cable car disappears.

No it doesn’t!

     Sorry to be blunt, but there it is.

     Conrad also - sorry to weigh in with Logic and Reason on this, of all blogs - notices a bit of a gap in the plot that nobody else has mentioned.  The two surviving traitors bargain with Schaeffer's life for their own, allowing them to escape in a cable-car.  Major Smith then takes his life in his hand to ride the cable-car support gear in order to place a bomb on the car, before desperately diving onto another cable-car going in the other direction.  Terrific nail-biting stuff!

Dining space atop cable-cars; always in short supply

     But - Mary and the major could have riddled that cable-car with gunfire as it slowly creaked it's way beneath them, since they both have guns and the cable-car is emphatically not bulletproof.  Or Smith could merely have dropped one of his time-bombs onto it's roof, set to go off in thirty seconds.
     HA!  Take that, IMDB Goofs page!

"G-Force"
As seen on the television channel guide.  Apparently only a specially-trained commando force of guinea pigs can prevent <something something> by a billionaire.
     WHAT!?
     This is my tax-dollar at work*?  Dog Buns, did we rely on specially-trained commando forces of hamsters or squirrels to spring General Carnaby from the Schloss Adler**?

Gobbling Goblin
Or, if you like to switch things around a little, Goblin gobbling.
     Conrad refers, of course, to the alcoholic beverage presented to him as a present by Sal and Tom yesterday.

     It is cloyingly sweet, which means it automatically earns a thumbs-up from Conrad, and doesn't taste at all bad, which again is cause for thumbs-up.  Also it has a custom-made label, and if we had any thumbs left they'd be raised in salute.

Z Nation - "All Good Things"
Beware folks for here be SPOILERS!




SPOILERS, I tell you!






Seriously, SPOILERS on the starboard bow.



 ... and let us now proceed.  This is the last episode of the second season so they have to end with a cliff-hanger, even if a third season has been agreed.
     So, our heroes have finally made their way to the GPS where they can divest themselves of Murphy The Miracle Cure.

     Here they meet Auntie, who serves mint tea, water and death by Ingrams M10 machine-pistol.  Clearly this is no standard Greasy Spoon.  After a gunfight in which 10K is wounded, she summons up a loitering nuclear submarine.  Murphy gets sent there, doesn't like it and suspects foul play.

"For the last time - do you have any Twinkies?"

     Meanwhile, Citizen Z abandons what's left of Camp Northern Light, towing a sled with his dog upon it.

In my day it was the other way round

     Then surprise!  La Reina and what's left of the Zeroes turn up at the Greasy Spoon.  They have been led there by a head in a box - what's left of Doctor Kurian.  Poor feller.  Blasted by a nuke, injected with Murphy's blood and then decapitated, he's really been through the wringer.

"Where is the conditioner?  And the shampoo, too!"

     Just as she's about to kill Lieutenant Warren, who shows up but Escorpion***.  I'm not entirely sure how he managed to not be devoured by zombies two episodes ago, as this seems to be glossed over, yet I did like him and - well, here he is, all reformed and penitent.

Awww!  Holding hands.  How sweet!

     Our heroes go to see what's happened to Murphy and discover this -

Nuclear submarine on fire. "Fire" + "Nuclear" = not a good combination

     Then, as a couple of foreign jets streak overhead, a whole clutch of foreign fighters emerge from hiding ...

Close-ups suggested they were Asian.

     And that will have to keep you going until 2016!



* Yes I know it should be "tax-pound" but the South Canadian equivalent sounds so much better.
** I know, objectively, that "Where Eagles Dare" is fiction, yet it seems so like a documentary.
*** You see?  You see how everything is connected to everything else?