"Fireball XL5" A Day in the Life of a Space General (TV Episode 1963) Poster

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6/10
Whole Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
zsenorsock14 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
There is some really great stuff in here. Really great. We see Lt. Ninety with beard stubble. We see him smoke a cigar. We see him shave. We see a 5 cent stamp with Space City on it and the XL5 landing. We see Steve in a thrilling escape from quicksand. We see two ships collide and explode and the XL5 crash into the Space City tower and both explode. It's all really great stuff.

However the story all this is tied to is pretty weak. After being yelled at by Commander Zero, and exhausted by studying for tests, Lt. Ninety dreams he is promoted to General and now outranks Zero. Predictably he doesn't know what he's doing and chaos ensues. The comedy scenes between Zero and Ninety are more painful than amusing.

Steve Zodiac is barely in this episode while Matt and Venus make little more than cameo appearances. At least there's no Zoony around.

Good direction by David Elliot and a lot of cool moments make this worth watching but the story is pretty weak.
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