Spectrum Spectator: Star Marine 2

Hello and welcome to Spectrum Spectator. Thanks for joining us! That fine gentleman is Lars Gonall, and I, as always, am the indomitable Daisy Wences. If you were looking for a show with all the latest spectrum news, reviews, and a bunch of opinionated arguing, then you’ve found the right place.

Lars: If, however, you were hoping for a show about cooking aboard your starship, then you are in the completely wrong place. What you probably want is Dinner Adrift with Chef Carmilla.

Good point, Lars. We are not Dinner Adrift.

Lars: Now that I think about it, have we ever reviewed Dinner Adrift?

I don’t believe we have. We don’t really talk too often about cooking shows.

Lars: Well, at least ones that aren’t competition cooking shows.

True, we both got a little too invested in Hot Out the Oven last season. Still think Beatrice should have won Best Baker. Her scones were objectively a million times better.

Lars: Did you hear that neither host will be returning for the premiere of Celebrity Hot Out the Oven this season?

Yeah, my guess is that neither one of them were willing to risk trying a cake that Ellroy Cass baked.

Lars: What would that even taste like?

Glitter and sadness.

Lars: For those of you keeping track of the score, that’s Daisy one hundred and fifteen and Ellroy Cass zero.

It’s pretty easy to win an insult contest when the other person doesn’t even know you’re alive.

Lars: Sure, you say that now, but for all we know Cass is out there right now crying in a bathroom.

Safe money is always on Cass being in a bathroom doing something.

Lars: One hundred and sixteen.

All right, playful banter achieved! Shall we move on to today’s actual reviews? I’ll even let you pick where we start.

Lars: Oh boy!

What do you say? Rory or Star Marine?

Lars: Definitely going with the return of one my childhood heroes here. How could I not? I used to devour old Rory Nova episodes when I was a kid. People used to actually call me Rory.

I’m sure they did. For those of you who didn’t catch it, this weekend marked the premiere of a brand new Rory Nova series titled Rory Nova: Ready to Blast Off. This is the first time an original Rory Nova program has been on the spectrum in over 15 years, and it’s changed a fair bit from the wacky cat who flies a ship. Featuring a completely different animation style and a brand new cast of characters, this version has been updated to appeal to the kids of today, which apparently means a ton more missiles and transforming suits.

Lars: Yeah, they upped the action a bit, but that’s to be expected when you see the other shows that RTBO is going up against.

RTBO?

Lars: It’s what people are calling the new show on the message boards. RNOS is the original series.

Right …

Lars: Don’t give me that look. I love Rory Nova, no apologies. So trust me when I say as a fan, even I was in impressed by how deep RTBO dove into the show’s mythology. All these little winks and nods to RNOS have been used to create this incredibly rich setting. For example, in the original, Rory flew out of Spaceport Ringeroo, and you never knew what it was there for or who was in charge. Now in the new series, the writers have gone out of their way to give a full backstory to the owner of the station, Chief Grummels, who was only featured once before as a guy who kept slipping in Rory’s spilled soda. There is real storytelling going on here, and this is just the first episode. Makes me excited to see where they take it.

I wasn’t so sold. It felt like the show didn’t know who they were trying to appeal to: kids who probably don’t remember Rory at all, or the adults who do. I was expecting to see a silly cat get into trouble aboard his good ship Scootaloo, and instead there were all these new characters with complicated backstories. All of whom, I might add, just happened to be deeply scarred by personal tragedies they were trying to avenge.

Lars: I think a lot of the show’s original whimsy is still there, they just added depth to it so that the laughs mean more.

You laughed?

Lars: If you go back and watch some of the older stuff, and then watch the new premiere, there’s a lot of DNA being shared beneath the surface. The showrunners even went so far as having Eli Talloway, the widow of the original voice of Rory, Arthur Vin, come in to give the show her blessing.

I can see you are well gone on this one, which is quite touching in sort of a weird way. So, the verdict is, if you are an adult who remembers the original or a kid who loves missiles, then Rory Nova: Ready to Blast Off may be just right for you. For everyone else … meh.

Lars: Always exciting when we have a split decision.

You mean pretty much every show.

Lars: Yup. Every show we do is exciting.

Speaking of pure unadulterated excitement, Star Marine 2: BloodLock premiered last week. This is the sequel to Star Marine, which itself was of course the financially successfully yet critically panned film version of the popular sim franchise with the same name.

Lars: Unadulterated? If anything I’d say the action was full adulterated. Too adulterated even. They fell into the classic sequel trap of trying to outdo the first film by blowing up more stuff and killing even more people and lost sight of what made the first film such enjoyable camp.

I actually liked the first Star Marine, too. It was a mess structurally, but the action sequences really captured the feeling of playing the game. Like during the big second set piece when Captain Bledsoe races down the corridor, snags the ammo, dives into zero g, pops the clip as he spins upside down, and unloads just as the thug lines up his rocket launcher. I swear I’ve done that exact thing in the game.

Lars: It was a lovely bit of action choreography. Sadly, all the action in the sequel was a confused mess of dark close-ups, frantic cutting, random explosions and wide shots where you have no idea what you’re supposed to be looking at.

And it was just so much harder to get into the characters this time around. The story picks up where the first one left off: Captain Bledsoe has retired from the Star Marines and he’s now trying to forget his blood-soaked past on a transfer station in Nexus, when they get attacked by a gang looking to take it over. Bledsoe has no choice but to form up a squad with some of the ne’er do wells hanging around and take the outlaws down himself. Notice, I’m saying outlaws here. That’s because for the life of me I could not tell you what their name or motivation was in the film. I know from the press release that it was supposed be the Blinders, and that their fearsome leader lost an eye to Bledsoe in the past or something, but I’d be hard pressed to say if any of that was in the movie.

Lars: Yeah, the generic-to-the-point-of-bland bad guys were bad, but nothing compared to the cliché spewing compatriots. Were we actually supposed to root for these people to live? Holy crap, if I heard that mechanic say, “Screw it twice with a wrench!” one more time, I was going to snap my screen in half.

You don’t screw things with a wrench!

Lars: I know!

One thing they did get right was the station itself, which was directly modeled off the OP Station Demien level from the game. Everything from the door placements, to the weapon stash, to the path they take to get the advantage in the final shoot out, all lined up pretty perfectly with what you can experience in-game. It made me wonder though, why didn’t they just use the lore from that station in-game for the movie?

Lars: What do you mean?

If you dive into the Star Marine fiction, they have all this great stuff about how there was this terrible massacre there when these gang members slipped aboard the station and murdered almost everyone. One survivor managed to make it to a comm station and alert the authorities, and that’s when they send in the Star Marines. How cool would that have been? Bledsoe being the lone survivor and having to hold out till the Star Marines arrive?

Lars: Well we can only hope they do better with the inevitable Star Marine 3.

That’s a perfect spot to take a break. When we come back, we go from sequels to another remake; this time of the classic film One Way to Go which itself was a remake of another, even earlier film.

Lars: I actually didn’t know that until Daisy pointed it out to me. Turns out nothing is original ever.

Pretty much. We’ll give you plenty of history tidbits, and let you know how the new one stacks up, when Spectrum Spectator returns.

Hallo und willkommen beim Spectrum Spectator. Danke, dass du dich uns angeschlossen hast! Dieser feine Herr ist Lars Gonall, und ich bin, wie immer, die unbezwingbare Daisy Wences. Wenn Sie auf der Suche nach einer Show mit den neuesten Spektrum-Neuigkeiten, Rezensionen und einem Haufen von rechthaberischen Argumenten waren, dann sind Sie hier genau richtig.

Lars: Wenn du jedoch auf eine Show über das Kochen an Bord deines Raumschiffs gehofft hast, dann bist du hier völlig falsch. Was du wahrscheinlich willst, ist Dinner Adrift mit Chef Carmilla.

Gutes Argument, Lars. Wir sind nicht Dinner Adrift.

Lars: Wenn ich jetzt darüber nachdenke, haben wir uns jemals mit Dinner Adrift beschäftigt?

Ich glaube nicht, dass wir das haben. Wir reden nicht wirklich oft über Kochshows.

Lars: Nun, zumindest solche, die keine Wettkampfkochshows sind.

Stimmt, wir beide haben in der vergangenen Saison ein wenig zu sehr in Hot Out the Oven investiert. Ich denke immer noch, dass Beatrice hätte Best Baker gewinnen sollen. Ihre Scones waren objektiv eine Million Mal besser.

Lars: Hast du gehört, dass keiner der beiden Gastgeber zur Premiere von Celebrity Hot Out the Oven in dieser Saison zurückkehren wird?

Ja, ich schätze, dass keiner von ihnen bereit war, einen Kuchen zu probieren, den Ellroy Cass gebacken hat.

Lars: Wie würde das überhaupt schmecken?

Glitzer und Traurigkeit.

Lars: Für diejenigen unter euch, die den Überblick behalten, sind das Daisy einhundertfünfzehn und Ellroy Cass null.

Es ist ziemlich einfach, einen Beleidigungswettbewerb zu gewinnen, wenn die andere Person nicht einmal weiß, dass du am Leben bist.

Lars: Sicher, das sagst du jetzt, aber soweit wir wissen, ist Cass gerade da draußen und weint in einem Badezimmer.

Sicheres Geld ist immer auf Cass, der in einem Badezimmer ist und etwas tut.

Lars: 1.16.

In Ordnung, spielerisches Necken erreicht! Kommen wir nun zu den heutigen aktuellen Reviews? Ich lasse dich sogar wählen, wo wir anfangen.

Lars: Oh Mann!

Was sagst du dazu? Rory oder Star Marine?

Lars: Definitiv mit der Rückkehr eines meiner Kindheitshelden hier. Wie könnte ich das nicht? Als Kind habe ich alte Rory Nova-Episoden verschlungen. Früher nannten mich die Leute eigentlich Rory.

Ich bin sicher, das haben sie. Für diejenigen unter Ihnen, die es nicht bemerkt haben, war dieses Wochenende die Premiere einer brandneuen Rory Nova-Serie mit dem Titel Rory Nova: Ready to Blast Off. Dies ist das erste Mal seit über 15 Jahren, dass ein originelles Rory Nova-Programm auf dem Programm steht, und es hat sich einiges von der verrückten Katze, die ein Schiff fliegt, geändert. Mit einem völlig anderen Animationsstil und einer völlig neuen Charaktere, wurde diese Version aktualisiert, um die Kinder von heute anzusprechen, was anscheinend eine Tonne mehr Raketen und verwandelnde Anzüge bedeutet.

Lars: Ja, sie haben die Action ein wenig gesteigert, aber das ist zu erwarten, wenn man die anderen Shows sieht, gegen die RTBO antreten wird.

RTBO?

Lars: So nennen die Leute die neue Show auf den Messageboards. RNOS ist die ursprüngliche Serie.

Richtig....

Lars: Schau mich nicht so an. Ich liebe Rory Nova, keine Entschuldigungen. Also vertrau mir, wenn ich als Fan sage, selbst ich war beeindruckt, wie tief RTBO in die Mythologie der Show eintaucht. All diese kleinen Zwinkern und Nicken von RNOS wurden verwendet, um diese unglaublich reiche Umgebung zu schaffen. Zum Beispiel flog Rory im Original aus dem Spaceport Ringeroo, und man wusste nie, wofür es da war oder wer das Sagen hatte. Jetzt in der neuen Serie sind die Autoren aus dem Weg gegangen, um dem Besitzer der Station, Chief Grummels, eine vollständige Hintergrundgeschichte zu erzählen, der nur einmal zuvor als ein Typ vorgestellt wurde, der immer wieder in Rorys verschütteter Limo rutschte. Hier wird wirklich Geschichten erzählt, und das ist nur die erste Episode. Es macht mich aufgeregt zu sehen, wohin sie es bringen.

Ich war nicht so begeistert. Es fühlte sich an, als wüsste die Show nicht, an wen sie sich wenden wollte: an Kinder, die sich wahrscheinlich überhaupt nicht an Rory erinnern, oder an die Erwachsenen, die es tun. Ich hatte erwartet, dass eine dumme Katze an Bord seines guten Schiffes Scootaloo in Schwierigkeiten gerät, und stattdessen gab es all diese neuen Charaktere mit komplizierten Hintergrundgeschichten. Alle, die, wie ich hinzufügen möchte, zufällig tief von persönlichen Tragödien betroffen waren, die sie zu rächen versuchten.

Lars: Ich denke, ein Großteil der ursprünglichen Laune der Show ist noch da, sie haben ihr nur noch mehr Tiefe verliehen, so dass das Lachen mehr bedeutet.

Du hast gelacht?

Lars: Wenn du zurück gehst und dir einige der älteren Sachen ansiehst und dann die neue Premiere siehst, wird eine Menge DNA unter der Oberfläche geteilt. Die Showrunner gingen sogar so weit, dass Eli Talloway, die Witwe der Originalstimme von Rory, Arthur Vin, hereinkam, um der Show ihren Segen zu geben.

Ich kann sehen, dass du bei diesem Thema, das auf eine seltsame Art und Weise sehr rührend ist, gut weg bist. Also, das Urteil ist, wenn du ein Erwachsener bist, der sich an das Original erinnert, oder ein Kind, das Raketen liebt, dann ist Rory Nova: Ready to Blast Off vielleicht genau das Richtige für dich. Für alle anderen.... meh.

Lars: Immer spannend, wenn wir eine gespaltene Entscheidung haben.

Du meinst so ziemlich jede Show.

Lars: Ja. Jede Show, die wir machen, ist aufregend.

Apropos reine, unverfälschte Aufregung, Star Marine 2: BloodLock hatte letzte Woche Premiere. Dies ist die Fortsetzung von Star Marine, die selbst natürlich die finanziell erfolgreiche, aber kritisch geschwenkte Filmversion der beliebten Sim-Franchise mit dem gleichen Namen war.

Lars: Unverfälscht? Wenn überhaupt, würde ich sagen, die Aktion war vollständig verfälscht. Zu verfälscht, sogar. Sie fielen in die klassische Fortsetzung des Versuchs, den ersten Film zu übertreffen, indem sie mehr Zeug in die Luft jagten und noch mehr Menschen töteten, und verloren den Überblick darüber, was den ersten Film zu einem so unterhaltsamen Camp machte.

Ich mochte auch die erste Star Marine. Es war strukturell ein Durcheinander, aber die Action-Sequenzen fingen wirklich das Gefühl ein, das Spiel zu spielen. Wie während des großen zweiten Satzes, als Captain Bledsoe den Flur hinunter rast, die Munition holt, in Null g taucht, den Clip knallt, während er sich kopfüber dreht, und sich entlädt, während der Schläger seinen Raketenwerfer ausrichtet. Ich schwöre, ich habe genau das im Spiel getan.

Lars: Es war ein schönes Stück Action-Choreographie. Leider war die ganze Action in der Fortsetzung ein verwirrtes Durcheinander aus dunklen Nahaufnahmen, hektischen Schnitten, zufälligen Explosionen und Weitschüssen, bei denen man keine Ahnung hat, was man sich ansehen soll.

Und es war einfach so viel schwieriger, diesmal in die Charaktere einzusteigen. Die Geschichte knüpft dort an, wo die erste aufgehört hat: Captain Bledsoe hat sich von den Star Marines zurückgezogen und versucht jetzt, seine blutgetränkte Vergangenheit auf einer Transferstation in Nexus zu vergessen, als sie von einer Bande angegriffen werden, die sie übernehmen will. Bledsoe hat keine andere Wahl, als eine Gruppe zu bilden, in der einige der Ne'er Brunnen herumhängen und die Gesetzlosen selbst zur Strecke bringen. Hinweis, ich sage hier Gesetzlose. Das liegt daran, dass ich dir für mein Leben lang nicht sagen konnte, wie ihr Name oder ihre Motivation im Film war. Ich weiß aus der Pressemitteilung, dass es die Blinder sein sollten, und dass ihr furchterregender Anführer in der Vergangenheit oder so ein Auge auf Bledsoe verloren hat, aber ich wäre schwer zu sagen, ob irgendetwas davon im Film war.

Lars: Ja, die Bösewichte von der Stange waren böse, aber nichts im Vergleich zu dem Klischee, das Landsleute spuckt. Sollen wir eigentlich so anfangen, dass diese Menschen leben können? Heilige Scheiße, wenn ich diesen Mechaniker sagen hörte: "Vergiss es zweimal mit einem Schraubenschlüssel", noch einmal, dann würde ich meinen Bildschirm in zwei Hälften reißen.

Du versaust die Dinge nicht mit einem Schraubenschlüssel!

Lars: Ich weiß!

Eine Sache, die sie richtig gemacht haben, war die Station selbst, die direkt vom OP Station Demien Level aus dem Spiel modelliert wurde. Alles, von der Türplatzierung über das Waffenversteck bis hin zum Weg, den sie einschlagen, um den Vorteil im letzten Shoot Out zu erlangen, ist perfekt aufeinander abgestimmt, was man im Spiel erleben kann. Es ließ mich jedoch fragen, warum sie nicht einfach die Überlieferung aus dem Sender im Spiel für den Film verwendeten?

Lars: Was meinst du damit?

Wenn Sie in die Star Marine Fiktion eintauchen, haben sie all dieses großartige Zeug darüber, wie es dort zu diesem schrecklichen Massaker kam, als diese Bandenmitglieder an Bord der Station schlüpften und fast alle ermordeten. Ein Überlebender schaffte es, es zu einer Kommandostation zu schaffen und die Behörden zu alarmieren, und dann schicken sie die Sternenmarines rein. Wie cool wäre das gewesen? Bledsoe ist die einzige Überlebende und muss durchhalten, bis die Star Marines ankommen?

Lars: Nun, wir können nur hoffen, dass sie es mit der unvermeidlichen Star Marine 3 besser machen.

Das ist ein perfekter Ort, um eine Pause einzulegen. Wenn wir zurückkommen, gehen wir von Fortsetzungen zu einem anderen Remake über; diesmal des klassischen Films One Way to Go, der selbst ein Remake eines anderen, noch früheren Films war.

Lars: Das wusste ich eigentlich nicht, bis Daisy mich darauf hinwies. Es stellte sich heraus, dass nichts originell ist.

So ungefähr. Wir geben Ihnen viele historische Leckerbissen und informieren Sie darüber, wie sich der neue stapelt, wenn der Spectrum Spectator zurückkehrt.

Hello and welcome to Spectrum Spectator. Thanks for joining us! That fine gentleman is Lars Gonall, and I, as always, am the indomitable Daisy Wences. If you were looking for a show with all the latest spectrum news, reviews, and a bunch of opinionated arguing, then you’ve found the right place.

Lars: If, however, you were hoping for a show about cooking aboard your starship, then you are in the completely wrong place. What you probably want is Dinner Adrift with Chef Carmilla.

Good point, Lars. We are not Dinner Adrift.

Lars: Now that I think about it, have we ever reviewed Dinner Adrift?

I don’t believe we have. We don’t really talk too often about cooking shows.

Lars: Well, at least ones that aren’t competition cooking shows.

True, we both got a little too invested in Hot Out the Oven last season. Still think Beatrice should have won Best Baker. Her scones were objectively a million times better.

Lars: Did you hear that neither host will be returning for the premiere of Celebrity Hot Out the Oven this season?

Yeah, my guess is that neither one of them were willing to risk trying a cake that Ellroy Cass baked.

Lars: What would that even taste like?

Glitter and sadness.

Lars: For those of you keeping track of the score, that’s Daisy one hundred and fifteen and Ellroy Cass zero.

It’s pretty easy to win an insult contest when the other person doesn’t even know you’re alive.

Lars: Sure, you say that now, but for all we know Cass is out there right now crying in a bathroom.

Safe money is always on Cass being in a bathroom doing something.

Lars: One hundred and sixteen.

All right, playful banter achieved! Shall we move on to today’s actual reviews? I’ll even let you pick where we start.

Lars: Oh boy!

What do you say? Rory or Star Marine?

Lars: Definitely going with the return of one my childhood heroes here. How could I not? I used to devour old Rory Nova episodes when I was a kid. People used to actually call me Rory.

I’m sure they did. For those of you who didn’t catch it, this weekend marked the premiere of a brand new Rory Nova series titled Rory Nova: Ready to Blast Off. This is the first time an original Rory Nova program has been on the spectrum in over 15 years, and it’s changed a fair bit from the wacky cat who flies a ship. Featuring a completely different animation style and a brand new cast of characters, this version has been updated to appeal to the kids of today, which apparently means a ton more missiles and transforming suits.

Lars: Yeah, they upped the action a bit, but that’s to be expected when you see the other shows that RTBO is going up against.

RTBO?

Lars: It’s what people are calling the new show on the message boards. RNOS is the original series.

Right …

Lars: Don’t give me that look. I love Rory Nova, no apologies. So trust me when I say as a fan, even I was in impressed by how deep RTBO dove into the show’s mythology. All these little winks and nods to RNOS have been used to create this incredibly rich setting. For example, in the original, Rory flew out of Spaceport Ringeroo, and you never knew what it was there for or who was in charge. Now in the new series, the writers have gone out of their way to give a full backstory to the owner of the station, Chief Grummels, who was only featured once before as a guy who kept slipping in Rory’s spilled soda. There is real storytelling going on here, and this is just the first episode. Makes me excited to see where they take it.

I wasn’t so sold. It felt like the show didn’t know who they were trying to appeal to: kids who probably don’t remember Rory at all, or the adults who do. I was expecting to see a silly cat get into trouble aboard his good ship Scootaloo, and instead there were all these new characters with complicated backstories. All of whom, I might add, just happened to be deeply scarred by personal tragedies they were trying to avenge.

Lars: I think a lot of the show’s original whimsy is still there, they just added depth to it so that the laughs mean more.

You laughed?

Lars: If you go back and watch some of the older stuff, and then watch the new premiere, there’s a lot of DNA being shared beneath the surface. The showrunners even went so far as having Eli Talloway, the widow of the original voice of Rory, Arthur Vin, come in to give the show her blessing.

I can see you are well gone on this one, which is quite touching in sort of a weird way. So, the verdict is, if you are an adult who remembers the original or a kid who loves missiles, then Rory Nova: Ready to Blast Off may be just right for you. For everyone else … meh.

Lars: Always exciting when we have a split decision.

You mean pretty much every show.

Lars: Yup. Every show we do is exciting.

Speaking of pure unadulterated excitement, Star Marine 2: BloodLock premiered last week. This is the sequel to Star Marine, which itself was of course the financially successfully yet critically panned film version of the popular sim franchise with the same name.

Lars: Unadulterated? If anything I’d say the action was full adulterated. Too adulterated even. They fell into the classic sequel trap of trying to outdo the first film by blowing up more stuff and killing even more people and lost sight of what made the first film such enjoyable camp.

I actually liked the first Star Marine, too. It was a mess structurally, but the action sequences really captured the feeling of playing the game. Like during the big second set piece when Captain Bledsoe races down the corridor, snags the ammo, dives into zero g, pops the clip as he spins upside down, and unloads just as the thug lines up his rocket launcher. I swear I’ve done that exact thing in the game.

Lars: It was a lovely bit of action choreography. Sadly, all the action in the sequel was a confused mess of dark close-ups, frantic cutting, random explosions and wide shots where you have no idea what you’re supposed to be looking at.

And it was just so much harder to get into the characters this time around. The story picks up where the first one left off: Captain Bledsoe has retired from the Star Marines and he’s now trying to forget his blood-soaked past on a transfer station in Nexus, when they get attacked by a gang looking to take it over. Bledsoe has no choice but to form up a squad with some of the ne’er do wells hanging around and take the outlaws down himself. Notice, I’m saying outlaws here. That’s because for the life of me I could not tell you what their name or motivation was in the film. I know from the press release that it was supposed be the Blinders, and that their fearsome leader lost an eye to Bledsoe in the past or something, but I’d be hard pressed to say if any of that was in the movie.

Lars: Yeah, the generic-to-the-point-of-bland bad guys were bad, but nothing compared to the cliché spewing compatriots. Were we actually supposed to root for these people to live? Holy crap, if I heard that mechanic say, “Screw it twice with a wrench!” one more time, I was going to snap my screen in half.

You don’t screw things with a wrench!

Lars: I know!

One thing they did get right was the station itself, which was directly modeled off the OP Station Demien level from the game. Everything from the door placements, to the weapon stash, to the path they take to get the advantage in the final shoot out, all lined up pretty perfectly with what you can experience in-game. It made me wonder though, why didn’t they just use the lore from that station in-game for the movie?

Lars: What do you mean?

If you dive into the Star Marine fiction, they have all this great stuff about how there was this terrible massacre there when these gang members slipped aboard the station and murdered almost everyone. One survivor managed to make it to a comm station and alert the authorities, and that’s when they send in the Star Marines. How cool would that have been? Bledsoe being the lone survivor and having to hold out till the Star Marines arrive?

Lars: Well we can only hope they do better with the inevitable Star Marine 3.

That’s a perfect spot to take a break. When we come back, we go from sequels to another remake; this time of the classic film One Way to Go which itself was a remake of another, even earlier film.

Lars: I actually didn’t know that until Daisy pointed it out to me. Turns out nothing is original ever.

Pretty much. We’ll give you plenty of history tidbits, and let you know how the new one stacks up, when Spectrum Spectator returns.