Great commentary Phelous and Linkara, man you are on a roll this week with these commentaries lol. I enjoyed watching this as much as the actual review you guys did.


I recalled someone sent me a YT clip of that "Are you my mummy?" clip with the boy and the gas mask and I have to say thank you for not using that clip because that episode actually creeped the heck out of me.

Did somebody already say this movie is Retardis? Yes? okay, well I'll say it again then because I can't think of anything remotely clever to say.

Lupa's a redhead. She'd probably get gangbanged if she ever ended up in the Marvel Universe.

That's probably true. Of course, if she ever ended up in the DC Universe, they'd likely mistake her for a super-villain.

Well, at least the pollution was cleaned up at the end of the movie and everything was fine. Nature was healed............ Wait.

Very funny video!

According to my Mum (who's old enough to remember) there was a weatherman on ITV Mornings in the early nineties called Fred Talbot who would famously get sent knitted jumpers from his viewers. I somehow doubt he would get psychic nature ghost visions as well, however.

This was a very funny review, and I really need to check out this special!

One beef I really have to bring up, because you've said it a number of times now Linkara, is that nuclear power isn't environmentally friendly; at all. Trying to lump nuclear power with solar and wind energy is laughable, as at the best of times these "low-emissions" plants produce incredibly harmful radioactive waste, and at the worst of times we get disasters that claim many lives and spoil the ground and water for decades, as has recently occurred in Japan. I think recent events have decisively concluded that nuclear power is not a solution to the energy crisis; at least not one that is to the benefit of the environment or the human race.

Yes there are safer ways to harness nuclear power now. Yes, there are better ways to dispose it now with bacteria that eats it.

Problem is, these things are still in their infancy...and a majority of our nuclear power plants were made long before these technologies were invented. Those plants produce tons of waste that is very harmful. Those plants need to be shut down and rebuilt with the new technology to be safe.

If a tornado hits a new plant...we're OK. If a tornado hits an old plant...we a screwed. And right now, the only places that have a high concentration of these new plants....is Europe.

Yeah most of the power plants I am personally familiar with are thirty to fifty years out of date. The people who say it's environmentally friendly are usually only comparing it to coal- which is worse by a long shot on a day to day basis. On a day with a disaster in it- then even coal comes out ahead. (when devastating explosions are your good option, look out.)

Actually, nuclear power, AFAIK, produces far LESS waste than other forms of power generation (exceptions being wind and solar, of course), and the only real big problem aside from keeping the power plants up to code and safe is spent fuel rods... which would not be an issue in the United States if not for the fact that breeder reactors are prohibited in the USA, but are in use in several European countries (including France, which, from what I've read, has better air quality in areas with nuclear plants in them - which is what I was trying to refer to in the commentary considering the knee-jerk reaction of many environmentalists who say nuclear power is bad all-around, and subsequently the Airzone woman's cries of how the environmentalists want to get rid of cars, nuclear power, and washing machines).

Saying that old plants means nuclear power is bad is ludicrous - it just means that they have to be repaired, upgraded, improved, or decommissioned - not that the entire idea is bad. In terms of nuclear accidents, we've had relatively few compared to other kinds of power plants - and even then, most of them are small with few or no fatalities. Yes, we remember the big ones - Chernobyl, Japan, but I think the track record speaks for itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ List_of_civilian_nuclear_ accidents
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ List_of_civilian_nuclear_ incidents

But Linkara, a nuclear power plant accident is far more devastating than an accident at a more conventional plant. What Wiki's list of civilian nuclear accidents does not mention are individuals who suffered the effects of compounded radiation once it has entered the environment. Birth defects are common where there have been nuclear accidents, and can occur long after the initial clean up. When there is a nuclear accident, future generations will feel its effects; Plutonium has a half life of 24,100 years. Moreover, old nuclear plants are notoriously hard to clean up and repair, and historically all it has taken for a plant to vent harmful radiation is for a few mechanisms to break. Furthermore, even cleaning up a decommissioned plant where there haven't been any accidents is a time consuming and dangerous process that usually leaves behind residual waste.

Breeder reactors also have additional problems involving their reliance on the coolant liquid sodium, which explodes when it comes into contact with water, as well as their production of plutonium-239, which is of course very dangerous. The impetus behind the decision to ban the use of Breeder reactors in the US came when the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station almost exploded due to a problem with the coolant. Other countries have experienced similar problems to varying degrees (no pun intended).

I hate to disagree with you, but I believe you are mistaken about the safety of nuclear power. Nuclear power is, at the very least in its current form, too dangerous for me to support. These concerns are not unrealistic and they are not a knee-jerk reaction; the world has seen first hand just what the dangers of nuclear power are.

I'll back you up here. Radioactive materials deserve more respect.

I should disclose something, to make my bias clear. I am the living proof of what you're saying. My grandfather was heavily exposed to various nuclear processes in WW2. (he wasn't trying to create electricity exactly, but the situation is arguably comparable.) He eventually died of four kinds of cancer, after passing along some creatively altered genetics to my mother and thus to myself. Thanks to the existence of people like me, we SHOULD know how much care is needed in dealing with some of these processes, but most people don't seem to get it.

Oh, I for one didn't mean to give the impression that it's completely bad. As someone with some of the most frail lungs ever, I appreciate that the local plants here are nuclear or wind as opposed to say, coal. However, those spent fuel rods are a huge deal. Nuclear plants are unique in that we get to decide where to place the waste from them, but just because the immediate environs are well off doesn't mean there is no waste. And yes, I admit bias: I'd feel better about the whole thing if our local power plant shouldn't have been torn down roughly the year I was born.

I just don't think any of it is perfect. I think pretty much every means we have of producing power is evidence that we need to try harder. I have faith in our ingenuity as a species.

It's our diligence that worries me. That's my real beef with nuclear. I know enough (professional, scientific, career oriented, intelligent) humans (who would lose their collective heads if they weren't attached) to be terribly concerned by the level of care that needs to be taken with it in order to keep it safe.

Thank you for sharing your experiences. I too am not inherently against anything that can make our air cleaner, its just that nuclear power is one of the worst polluters in human history, and typically hasn't been handled with the amount of care such a volatile means of energy production demands. It has been revealed now that the plants in Japan had a design flaw that was left in to cut costs, and that this flaw is responsible for the current crisis:

http://173.201.187.68/ science-updates/japans- nuclear-plant-design- flaw-was-raised-years-ago

The amazing thing is, other plants have similar flaws, yet nothing is being done even now.

It occurs to me- I hate to throw this film any bones at all, but ecologically speaking, it's true, we haven't found any perfect solutions.

Everyone does love Lupa..including me

Phelous And Linkara seem to me like a starting comedy duo - the really tradiotional type, like Laurel and Hardy. And starting, with the notion that they don't really work each other all that well at this point. I liked Linkara's, who allegedly stands atop the fourth wall, frustration with Phelous' breaking the fourth wall.


Oh and you mentioned Greg Crutwell! That he reminds you of Adam West. That is awesome to me.

Actually, you could have done tons of Dr. Who jokes. But honestly, I'm kinda glad you didn't. It's kind of like in MST3K's treatment of Space Mutiny: they could have done tons of Battlestar Galactica jokes, but chose not to because they figured the fans would already be expecting them. Maybe one or two would have been okay.

Yeah actually I was going to say I was kinda glad we didn't go overboard with the Doctor Who jokes just so this thing wasn't too hard for people not familiar with the show to watch.

Actually, from what I had read - they just didn't realize the footage was from Battlestar Galactica at the time and slapped their own heads afterwards when they realized it.

They probably would have done some BSG jokes had they realized it at the time.

GERONIMO!

(Bow ties are cool)

You should do more stuff from the BBV. Like maybe some of The Stranger videos. Most of BBV's productions have at least one Doctor Who actor in it, for some reason. For example P.R.O.B.E. The Zero Imperative has Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Peter Davison, and John Pertwee in it! That would be a great one to review.

It's batting a thousand not a hundred, BTW.

And why were you hitting on Lupa? Because you were hanging out with your family. That requires you to be hitting on family members. Especially if you got some attractive cousins.

"Everyone Loves Lupa"... possible TGWTG.com sitcom perhaps?

Your laughter throughout the commentary was infectious, and made listening to this really fun.

As for seeing Colin Baker and Nicoletta Byrant making out...well, if there are any 6/Peri shippers out there I'm sure makes them happy.

Damn, I just re-read my comment and saw that I got poor Nicola Byrant's name wrong...what kind of Who fan am I?

10:04- Same here.

can somebody help me find this video without the commentary? like i wanna see the vid and then again with the commentary but i am part retarded cause i cannot find it. please and thank yous!!