I was just about to say the same thing.

If 'Narcissus' isn't the codeword, I wonder why Avon picked that particular word as the pretend code. Comment on Dorian?

41m: Vila has kept his eye on the prize (getting off the planet before the bomb goes off) and the survivors agree to work together to unlock the hangar door.

One thing in this episode's favour is that everyone (except maybe Tarrant) have something meaty to do.

Vila unlocking the door, Orac analysing the lock, Dayna fighting the men, Avon sort of Avon-ing around...

Interesting that Nina assumes that with Gunn-Sar dead, she will be in charge.

Quite possibly.

It's also a very useful outer garment and I just LOVE a man in a well-cut 3-piece suit.

She's the real hope for anyone else on this planet. Where does she go???

Soolin expects to get paid? She's in for a shock.

I was just about to edit Tyce's link and I got dumped back to the home page. It looks like Tyce's post has been deleted.

This is the url Tyce was sharing: Spencer

That needs a fanfic.

That needs a fanfic.

Everything is so grey – the ship, the costumes – you just know that things are becoming dire.

That needs a fanfic.

I would call the outer garment a waistcoat. Vest to me sounds American.

Read a good one recently, by Judith Seaman. It's got Bogomils in it!

There's a whole room full of gems! Oh wait, that's the old ship

Big Finish rubbing their hands, nodding their heads, eyes alight

Ooh, Bogomils! Link please.

I'd differentiate them on the basis a waistcoat is worn over clothing whereas vests and spencers are worn underneath.

Plus, you lot refer to underwear as pants, which is just plain wrong. Every civilised person knows they're called your good old reg grundies.

How does Pella just collapse and die, then?

So that was "Power", interested to know what people think?

I have always thought of it as very 80s - grey with little colour highlights. I have a whole selection of grey luggage from the 80s.

Looking for positives, I imagine Orac is a hard character to write for and there was a hint, just a hint, of an effective method.

There's a moment when Tarrant asks Orac to solve a problem and Orac says "The logical alternatives are within the bounds of human reasoning. I suggest you consider them and leave me in peace to reflect on those matters which are not."

I think that is a logical way to limit Orac while still preserving its status as the most amazing computer of all time. So "Power" got one thing right.

I like the puzzle about the non-working teleport and how it all comes together. The idea of a war between the sexes is completely stupid, however. How would that ever work and who would agree to that? There are some redeeming features - Avon's "You have a charming way with women" is clearly our hero saying this behaviour is NOT ON AT ALL. At the same time, there are other things implied - women aren't 100% 'real' until they're married - that are wrong on a much larger scale, and so while I dismiss it as total rubbish I can see how others may be offended or uncomfortable with it.

OK, I need to go and get a Covid jab. Thanks for the rewatch, and see you all next week.

I actually see it as BSteed saying, rather clumsily, that men and women can't manage to run a society without each other.

Avon says at the end that Orac is not being difficult, but functioning to request. Avon hasn't told the others what he is doing (trying to fix the teleport, need a crystal, going to get one from the big gang of savages or at least their territory) or what he suspects (the Seska are trying to steal the spaceship and have deliberately misdirected Dorian's efforts at a teleport into another direction). He's playing his cards close to his chest and instructs Orac to give the most roundabout answers as part of delaying them (and keeping them out of danger?).

I actually see it as BSteed saying, rather clumsily, that men and women can't manage to run a society without each other.