Episode 4: The New Avengers
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Other Viewpoints |
Le dernier des Cybernautes ?
Das stählerne Monster
L'ultimo dei cibernauti
De laatste der Cybernauten
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One trip too many to the well? Pursued by our threesome, double-agent Kane meets a fiery death in a car crash—or does he? Horribly deformed and confined to a wheelchair, Kane learns of the secret of the cybernauts and devises a means to inhabit a robot body in order to exact his revenge on the Avengers!
IMHO |
The plot is akin to the phrase it inspires, "Been there, done that"—both of them are overused. But since they insisted on doing it anyway, riddle me this: Frederick Jaeger was still available, having appeared in "Target!," so why didn't they have him reprise his role as Benson, Armstrong's assistant? A familiar face might have added a fun sense of history to an otherwise uninspired effort that is capped by the lame humor of the "plastic skin" solution.
To its credit, however, the episode retains some of the original series' best elements: an obsessive diabolical mastermind (who inhabits a great set), a minimalist cast, and the bleak, lifeless streets of a fantasy-land London.
Trivia |
The original that inspired this mess was "The Cybernauts," which was followed by "Return of the Cybernauts." Rather like a lot of movies that wind up as trilogies.
All too obvious at times are the public-service-announcement-style shots of our heroes carefully buckling their seat belts before engaging in high-speed car chases...
Essential Reading |
- The Avengers Declassified by Alan Hayes
- Mrs. Peel... We're Needed by Piers Johnson