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Poor Flash and his pals are in quite a pickle. The evil usurper who rules Frigia has chained them up to die a painful death in the jaws of the bone-grinding ice worm. Luckily, a cool lady fighter with awesome steampunk goggles rescues them, but not until after she grabs Flash's ass and calls him Blondie. You think I'm joking, but it's true. Spoilers ahead.
Poor Flash and his pals are in quite a pickle. The evil usurper who rules Frigia has chained them up to die a painful death in the jaws of the bone-grinding ice worm. Luckily, a cool lady fighter with awesome steampunk goggles rescues them, but not until after she grabs Flash's ass and calls him Blondie. You think I'm joking, but it's true. Spoilers ahead.What is it with this show combining various lovely lumps with various rubber monsters? It gives the whole show a classy feeling.
Recapping a Flash episode is delightfully easy because the plots are always mind-bogglingly simple while at the same time remaining unbounded by the laws of narrative structure. In this episode, Flash decides he needs to defeat Ming by pretending to be "the one," the guy of prophesy who defeats Ming. So he goes to one of those skull-faced monks who do a lot of Burning Man-style chanting and they tell him that he has to fulfill the final piece of the prophesy and "warm the cold heart of a queen."
Then Flash is magically transported to Frigia, in a shiny silver suit. So he fights to free the queen from the ice, where she has been frozen in the lair of the ice worm by the evil usurper. He frees her, makes friends with another queen who happens to be roaming around in steampunk gear (the ass-grabber above), and then gets them both to pledge their armies to help him fight Ming.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, Dale comes out to her hot journalist girlfriend about having gone to Mongo. There is much agonizing and gazing soulfully at cameras and talking about aliens and danger. And Zarkov does a bunch of funny stuff, including talking to a scientist-hologram who is apparently trapped in evil scientist Rankol's "mind sucker" or "mind eater" or something. I think that may be the same device that makes me watch this show week after week.
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I saw this show, on YOUR ADVICE Annalee.
I think it's one saving grace is that if I let my attention wander for ten or fifteen minutes, I don't really feel like I missed anything.
Also, there are some fairly pretty girls in it. So, two. Two saving graces.
@braak: I love a show that you can watch while simultaneously blogging and playing a video game and still figure out the plot. I mean, not everything can be BSG, OK?
@Annalee: That was definitely a kind of a positive. I was severely disappointed that Ming the Merciless did not sport a Fu Manchu, or a goatee, or something.
He did behave kind of mercilessly, though.
@braak: Like I've said before, he's more like Ming the Micromanager than Ming the Merciless. But hey, at least we got to see a closeup of Flash's butt.
Ok, so apparently the real reason why Annalee likes this show is purely for Flash's butt, thus explaining the large ass crop in the photo.
Gonna echo a comment I posted from the TV this week thread:
Since there's only two more episodes left, how much "more" of this can there really be once the revolt is over? Even the movie ends when Ming is overthrown, and despite the "The End?" nothing more ever came of it.
seriously why isn't Flash having tons of freaky alien sex ? I know if I had a bunch of hot aliens fawning over me I'd be doing the interdenominational do all the time. maybe that speaks more to my character than his , and I know he is still in love with dale but what happens on Mongo should stay in Mongo!
I caught the last few minutes of this...show...right before the DirectX 8 CGI worm came on screen... and I swear I thought they had started to raid the Farscape wardrobe.
This show just needs to try a bit harder, and it will be so bad it is good.
@enolraic: Because he's Flash Gordon, not James T. Kirk. :)
What's really sad is that this was one of the best episodes so far. Yeah, it's been that bad.
I don't care- Miss Blue-faced steampunk ice poacher was a hot lil' thang.
Brought out some Farscape lust in me.
@Plague: She was sure pretty, there's no argument there.
@Macloserboy: Yeah, I think it was one of the best episodes largely because there was an actual throughline in the plot: go to place, do stuff in place, return to Mongo. Most episodes are: run around, say some stuff, where are we?, oh wait here is a new character, hi mom, whoops it's a funny outfit, and here's the ending.
And Zarkov does a bunch of funny stuff
Was that a joke? Also, Deep 13 had a better set then that ice cave.
@Seth L: Perhaps I should have put "funny" in scare quotes. But of course Zarkov is always funny.
Lame-o.
I thought this was going to be about Flesh Gordon -- the ultimate porn and pizza movie night experience.
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