Moonshot

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So - Moonshot.

Er, I don't need to give spoiler warnings, do I? I mean, we all know what happened, don't we?

Anyway, spoilers for the program behind cut.



It didn't start well for me, in that both S and M (Heh! sorry, still funny) were still up and neither could understand why I wanted to see this program. Then, before it started the continuity person announced that it starred Daniel Lepaine (spelling?) and James Marsters. At once, two pairs of eyes swivelled in my direction.

M: O-oh, so that's why you wanted to see it. :smirks:
S: :gives me a disgusted look:
Me (feebly): I only want to see the start.

In the end, S fell asleep on the sofa and when he woke up, went off to bed, so I ended up watching the whole thing, and I really, really enjoyed it. Despite, as I said above, knowing what was going to happen, I found it suspenseful and dramatic (and if I hadn't, I would have known it was because the subtitles told me so - I had to turn them on because everyone was mumbling so much) and the blend of original TV footage and re-enactment worked really well. Much better than it usually does. James was very good, and so was everyone else. I especially liked Daniel Lepaine's very calm Armstrong contrasted with James's more volatile Aldrin, and the actress who played Armstrong's wife.

And what's more, given that it was made in Lithuania for 5p and a piece of old string, it looked really, really good, I thought.

What did everyone else think? And why isn't the DVD for sale yet on Amazon.uk?

And why don't I have a Moonshot icon? Shall have to snag some.

ETA: Finally got a Moonshot icon.

Comments

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Daniel Lepaine was very very good (as, of course, was James).

They worked well together, didn't they? Dare I say it, a bit Spike and Angel, with the tall block of wood bloke and the volatile shorter bloke.

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Armstrong's far more amiable than Angel!! ;) I did rather like that line "How does Neil feel about anything?". I'd always thought of him as your standard All American Hi! merchant before now (though I think part of me had also assumed he was dead, so...).

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Armstrong's far more amiable than Angel!! ;

I agree. I think they conveyed very well that he handled Aldrin by being calm and even tempered and non-confrontational. Unlike Angel, whose every action was designed to get Spike all cross and wound up.

Must admit, I didn't know whether Armstrong and Collins were still alive (knew Aldrin was), so it was nice to see all three greeting the President (or rather vice versa) the other day.

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Yeah, I liked that Aldrin clearly respected Armstrong for respecting him back, when everyone else seemed to have decided he wasn't worth bothering with. (Ah, anti-intellectualism, how very McCarthyist...)

*nods* It makes it all that bit more real that they didn't want to be celebrities.

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(Ah, anti-intellectualism, how very McCarthyist...)

Very true. Must admit, James didn't quite convince me as an intellectual, despite the pipe smoking.

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I do think they could have done with a scene where he did something scientific - though I quite liked intense-stare-over-aviators-while-everyone-else-cares-about-the-bet bit.

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Very late responding.

Yes he's good at that. He can out-intense anyone.