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Music Swells! The Bad Guy Theme! Clunking and grinding and metallic noises that those inside the ship were reacting to. And Miss Breasts had her moment, grabbing a HUGE laser rifle and standing in front of the door. Oh, my.
“Let them come through this!”
I let loose a ‘Hubba Hubba!’, the Captain turning his head to the screen and nodding, a wide-eyed, appreciative look on his face. He stood behind her and tried not to grin as they waited for the airlock to open.
It was obvious to me, but I am sure the characters didn’t see it. The Captain was right next to one of these strangely convenient computer screens. And I saw a shot showing the airlock cycling, and a few buttons on the screen.
This was something I had to think about, and I watched as the Bad Guy opened the airlock door into the ship, several soldier types behind him. He did a rant about having been stollen from, that he wanted what was his, etc.. And I saw The Big Move. And it wasn’t happening.
I paused the movie right there. Something was not quite right. The Bad Guy was certain to take the cute Creature and then kill the people on the ship. That was unsatisfying.
And, I saw the eyes of the Main dart around. While paused.
“Can you hear me?” He made a small nod. “Good. This is dangerous, but you can blast him out the airlock.”
His eyes went big, glancing towards the computer screen. “Uncouple the port, close the inner door, and use the stabilizing jets to push away. I can do that.”
“Good luck.”
There was a nod from him, and a wink before I unpaused the movie.
It jerked a little in the video, but the Captain moved slightly and said, “Hold onto something.”
There was a shot of the Creatures’ eyes peering up at the Captains face from inside the shirt. MY HEART!
The Captains hand flew to the computer screen, tapping several things before the Bad Guy could do anything. The cape the Bad Guy was wearing caught in the inner door as the venting of the atmosphere in the airlock pulled everyone in the airlock out into space. There were shots of the jets pushing the ships apart, and the Bad Guy hanging onto his cape as the ships drifted apart. There was a pause in the music as the close up of the Bad Guys hand clutching at the cape loosened and let go.
Everyone in the ship seemed stunned. “That worked,” came from the Captain. It was a beat, but he had an authoritative voice when he said, “Lets get his barge moving! I don’t know if they are going to pursue us!”
Montage with exciting music of them rushing to get the ship moving and around the asteroids and through space was a little jumbled, but I don’t think they expecting to do it.
The last scene was the ship landing at a space port on a planet, with the Scientists on the gangplank onto the surface. There was a very bright sun rising, lighting everything harshly. There were hand shakes and some banter. And The Creature would not come off of the Captain. Not that I would, either, but… Ahem.
“So, Boss, what are we going to do now?” The crew, led by Miss Breasts stood behind the Captain, looking expectantly at him.
I giggled. I called out, “Get drunk.”
He smiled and nodded. “Get Drunk.” There was a cheer from the crew as they started out to find a bar on this space port. The Captain hung back and looked at the screen. I swear he looked at me, and at the Pupper, before saying, “Thank you.”
The music became all cheerful and the credits started scrolling as the camera followed him down the gangplank and putting his arm around the Gruff Engineer as they walked away into the rising sun.
I sat there for a while even after the credits had stopped. It had been a better than average b-movie, and I think the character likes…
I think I saw him in a Western, too.
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