Will Riley
I’m in Vancouver by the sea wall just round science world, there’s a neon sign that in a light blue says the words should I be worried. The sign is just next to the canopy Street Bridge. years before it was constructed an artist one different from the one who made the neon sign painted the bridges concrete foundation several shades of blue in horizontal lines. Each line signifies where the water will be 20 3040 years from now, as the sea level keeps rising alongside global temperatures for what it’s meant to portray. Visually, it’s unintentionally calming, several shades of a nice light blue, smoothly taking on a deeper shade as it creeps up the otherwise imposing concrete legs at the bridge. People pass by on regular summer walks listening to public pianos and the lapping waves aren’t aware of what it all means. So when I looked at the unheated neon sign framing an equally unheated Omen painted on the legs of the canopy bridge. It was a heady swirl of thoughts about how meaning is immediately subsumed into the landscape without being metabolized. All the clear and present danger abstracted away. I stared at the neon glowing for a good long time. Should I be worried? Anyway, that’s when the ambulance hit me. It hurt like hell, but I didn’t break any bones. The guy driving the ambulance started yelling at me almost immediately he asked me if I was blind. But I think it was pretty clear that it was his fault. He didn’t have his siren on even. I’m sure he knows so too because he bought me off with a gurney off the back of the ambulance. So I wouldn’t snitch on him for hitting me. The Gurney is fun. Me and my buddies like to write it down steep hills at high speed like a sort of improvised street luge, still getting hit by several tons of precision medical automotive did put things into perspective a bit, it could all end tomorrow, you only have one life to live, you know all of that. I turned 31 A while ago, I’d already been dreading turning 30 The year before because I’d already felt like I hadn’t accomplished what I should have in terms of personal growth. Not much of a love life, not where I should be professionally. There are people now that I’ve watched have illustrious and creative careers and I go, man, if I was old enough to have their experience, maybe in a few years, I could be where they are. Then they tweet out, hey, it’s my birthday. And then I find out that they’re much younger than I am. And that’s how I was feeling a year ago. 365 days later, nothing has changed at all. So the ambulance has reminded me that I have one life to live. But there isn’t really anything telling me that that one life I have to live is really going to be any good. The world presents itself to me as a series of doors that lock behind me the moment I crossed through them. And I’m starting to realize I probably went through the wrong door about 300 doors back. There’s really only one thing left to do. I think I’ll start podcasting again. Danger Danger. Danger, danger, danger, danger, danger, danger, danger, danger Danger Danger, danger, danger. Danger hasn’t been born yet
just gonna sit down
Will Riley
Hello everyone and welcome to the first ever episode of infinite danger, the show where we go on a deep deep dive episode by episode through that iconic piece of televisual art danger bay because you see what I did there you know the it’s a bay so it’s a deep dive. Anyway, this is well how’s it going? It’s been a hot second but I’m sure you remember me. It’s a fresh new show though. So I guess intros are still in order here. If you are a video gamer if you are a gaming type of guy. I was big into this scene for brink. I put out some pretty good Lior videos about that I did podcast with a lot of people that good pro Brink scene. But you know, it sprink the scenes too big. There’s not really any fertile ground, you sort of inevitably get edged out of the whole market for Brink content, no matter how popular the thing is still in 2023. So I made a switch Am I started talking about film, I did a big extended podcast about the Kung Fu legend, Bruce Lee. And I did fumble it a little bit. I mean, you got to try and get guests on your show, right? And I figured, well, you gotta go for the big dogs. So I said, Hey, guys, Twitter followers. Let’s get Bruce Lee himself on the pod fans give this post gas. Let’s do it. Come on. So I was given some constructive feedback for that. And you know, I figured, yeah, that’s on me. That’s my bad. I’m sorry, everybody, I ought to apologize. Let’s get his son Brandon on here. And we can clear everything up. And so I got a lot of feedback for that as well. Also very helpful. So genuinely, thank you. The main thing, I guess, was that people didn’t really like that the podcast had all these ads and sponsors. But I mean, I don’t like sponsored content as much as the next person. But if you saw how much money equities Echo was paying me, I mean, they were doing this whole new product line, they had a new formula. They were just showering people in money. And I mean, I took it. I mean, I don’t really know what the uproar was about with that. So I’ll just keep my mouth shut about that. And well, look, making a podcast is more a learning experience than anything else, right. And I learned a lot and I learned it very quickly. So yeah, that’s going in the w column for me. Thank you very much. It’s still around somewhere. You can probably find an episode somewhere online. I made it about how smart of an entertainer Bruce Lee was for his time. So I called it Bruce Lee, the man with the abnormally large brain check it out if you can find it. And of course, there was my political stint, I co hosted my bi weekly skewing of the news and politics, tearing it up alongside the well alongside Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald. But I mean, remember, this was like 2016, Matt and Glen. Okay, like peak vintage, like Chateau enough to pop pepti EEB. You know, best fine one Glenn Greenwald. None of the other stuff had happened yet. Okay. I, I don’t know anything about the stuff that’s happening right now. I, if you’re attending, telling me that he’s saying this crazy thing, like, oh, did you hear what Glenn Greenwald said? Yeah, I know, I know. I don’t talk with him anymore. So you can just keep it to yourself, right? Just don’t email me about it. So after all of that, not much. I just went into public relations, nothing much to write home about there, you know, learn a little bit. But you know, now I’m back. I’m here. I’m back in the noble art of podcasting. And I’m ready to have some fun. So that’s enough about me. Today. We’re here to talk about that venerable TV tradition, danger Bay. So what is danger Bay? Well, I guess that’s a silly question to even ask in the first place. It’s like asking, Who is Mickey Mouse? I mean, everyone listening to this probably already has the full collection of danger Bay Funko Pops. They’re busy planning a trip to see the danger Bay theme park at Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure. And I mean, if you play mobile games like me, you’ve constantly seen that ad for that top grossing iOS game, where a baby dolphin suffocates on the operating table because the player can’t correctly do the match three puzzle. But I mean, this is an intro episode. So I figure I might as well get as much of a baseline as possible, just so we can move on from this. And you know, I’ve actually, this is a first for me, I’ve like written notes. I think about what I’m going to say and then I write it before I actually say it. And I’m sort of curious how this goes. So my notes start like this.
Will Riley
In 1984, Canadian TVs were lit up with something truly revolutionary. Nobody had realized it yet. But the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation like country’s national TV station, effectively entered its own Age of Aquarius decades earlier than anyone else, gracing the world with danger Bay, a half hour family action series set in Vancouver, which happens to be my own hometown. This epoch will shift in the televised arts was co created an executive produced by Paul Saltzman. Saltzman was the son On a Canadian television royalty, that means a weatherman. But he sought something deeper and more meaningful. Saltzman traveled to Rishi cash in India, where he met the Beatles. He met some of the greatest creative minds of his generation and had deep spiritual conversations. He also talked with Mike Love. Saltzman came back from India and settled back into a TV Korea, running a production company mostly focused on documentaries. But then word came down from the CBC. Canna Con laws demanded a show about Vancouver. Now, for you Americans out there, Canna Con is a portmanteau of Canadian and condescension. The locals get restless, you know, and you placate them with a program that tells them we love you very much. You’re very special. It’s a winning formula, you know, think about it, you’re living in Canada, you’re living someplace cold and wet. Your social services are slim, you can’t make rent, and your credit rating is going down for reasons you don’t understand. But then you turn on the TV and you go the viaduct, and all those bad vibes melt away. condescension keeps this nation from falling apart. well aware of the gravity of the task at hand, Saltzman walked into his room with nothing but 86 sticks of incense and locked the door behind him. What happened in that room would later become a subject of much debate, what mantras were spoken, what substances consumed, which sigils were drawn, and what muses demons or angels were summoned to open the wellspring of creativity. All we know is that three weeks later, Saltman opened his door looking like absolute hell, and then ask the question that would come to change the world. What if we shot someone punching somebody else on a boat, and then we cut to footage of an orca after some screenwriters works in plotting characters into the corners of that idea, in the end, the premise was a slam dunk, easy sell to the CBC, a wild animal expert and single father of two has action packed adventures fighting poachers and polluters across the Vancouver wilderness, learning about the power of family along the way. It’s incredibly clear cut. To illustrate, Among its many translations. Danger based title in the German dub was just a translation to adventure in Vancouver. And most people can figure out what the show will be about from just that name alone. Lots of shots of the ocean, lots of Pacific Northwest animals, and plenty of lions where characters simply say that whatever you are seeing on your screen is beautiful. Basically, a tourist brochure from British Columbia with a few more boat chases, Canadian condescension inaction. Parenthetically, though, some Germans did tune in after seeing the name adventure in Vancouver, expecting a procedural about the bureaucratic side of copper mining. And they were sorely disappointed. But I mean, you can’t really blame them for that. I mean, the ruler calls to these people, but I mean, I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s keep going.
Will Riley
After they figured out the premise, the next step was to cast the thing. And we’re going to go over a lot of these people as we get to them. But for now, the big name you need to know is the central figure in the role of Vancouver Aquarium curator, Dr. Grant doc Roberts played by Donnelly Rhodes. Okay, buddy,
do you have New Years? You better give it up mister, you’re in enough trouble already.
Will Riley
Donnelly Rhodes really is a consummate character actor, and he’s pretty quickly recognizable, mainly from His voice sounded very much like an AI was asked to conglomerate the voice of every uncle on the planet. Also, in this particular era of his career, he was a gleaming light in the struggle for representation for people who very obviously dyed their hair, just a gleaming brown oil slick right on the top of his dome.
Take us home, please. You got the wheel. Roads
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was definitely the most ugliest of the actors on danger pay with a long resume well before the show ever came to being. And while he hadn’t been the central figure in anything up till this point, he never really seemed to be out of work in the world of TV. The words made an appearance on show up in his early biography quite a bit. He had starring roles on the Alfred Hitchcock Hour in his youth. He was on multiple episodes of the original mission impossible TV show, as Well as a supporting role as the next door neighbor in Don’t be crude and ultimately failed sitcom where Elon all the balance of the single fatherhood in Pasadena with his job as an OPEC representative. I think it was ahead of its time. John Lee Rhodes was also in the first few minutes of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, although this is sort of makeup for a previous Western role. They’ve basically scrubbed it from the catalogs now, but he was also in an episode of Bonanza, and, well, modern understandings of representation don’t really apply. And the episode is very much of its time, Rhodes played an old Indian chi. This would have been bad enough, but then he also played a Mexican bandido in the same episode. He also played in both in both Chinaman there were conversations between each of these characters and shot reverse shot. Budgets were tight, and face paint was cheaper than hiring three different actors. It was either that or a clip show episode. Now to be fair to Rhodes he disavowed his appearance on Bonanza, I guess its appearances on Bonanza, though he did at times say it was a demonstration of his versatility as an actor. And well, I guess, talking about it from a totally morally distance sense, that is accurate.
I think I’ll go up into an arm and see if she went up there.
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So Donnelly Rhodes was still assure success for the show. But danger Bay was still a big break in relative terms when he got the roll. Since it was the first TV lead after decades of work. I’m sure not even he realized how big a break it would be though. And listen, I need this Okay. Seeing a walking bottle of just for men make his big break at his age is therapeutic for somebody at my age. I’m not gonna get too deep into it, but you look at him and go out hot damn, you finally made it. Just you with your skills and your wrinkles, and your four ex wives. That last one isn’t me being expressive by the way. He actually had been divorced four times before getting the job.
Well, you know how curious they are. Maybe she just went exploring.
Will Riley
Now, if you’re casting the consummate Dad, you also have to cast the consummate kids, Nicole and Jonah played by ocean Hellman and Christopher crab. Now I won’t get too deep into them, as I did with Donnelly roads right now. But basically, we’ll learn a lot about them over the coming show. And that’s kind of the point. They are child actors in a multi year project. They’re learning about themselves just as we’re learning about them. Now, at this stage, all I can do is defer to Saltzman. I mean, imagine it, you’re staring at a list of all these child actors, and all of them are similarly talented, by nature of when their parents pressganged them into acting. They’ve been doing it for literally more than half their life, and you’re paralyzed for choice. So you know, you contact the taro and you consult the I Ching again and again, and suddenly it hits you. You’re making a show about Pacific wildlife. A show that takes place more than 50% of the time on the ocean. You crawl through the list of the editions. And there it is staring at you point blank. Christopher crab ocean helmet is fake. It was meant to be you weren’t just picking the First Marine names on the docket that you see. Assuredly you’re following the will of the cosmos. And I mean, obviously, nominative determinism has some kind of hold over the whole danger Bay game. Obviously. Saltzman comes from the salt of the sea, but he’d already hired Chris had to write a few scripts, and Chris haddock would later go on to do a good deal of his own independence successes, but Saltzman had also hired Paul beluga as a cinematographer, as well as a lady named abalone Jones and the sound booth. Years later, Saltzman would have to fire a key grip named anemone wolf eel, because she’d falsified her name to get a desperately needed job. But of course, ocean and crab, they’re secure. They are the chosen. So with the main cast together, the filming was a productive whirlwind and on October 8 19, Navy for danger Bay production code 01 Dash 001 Episode The sea pop was on the air. People in Vancouver didn’t really know what to make of it at first, but you can’t really blame them. It’s a cliche that every movie and TV show is filmed in Vancouver now of course, but you have to remember that 10 years before danger Bay, the city didn’t even have electricity, let alone television. Before danger Bay Vancouverites had to entertain themselves with well, mainly manufacturing steel cable, I guess. It’s like how some people Whittle when they’re bored. You know, anytime a tourist comes to Vancouver, they see all these ads for sightseeing and all of these suspension bridges and they cross the bridges and then they realize there’s nothing really out in the other side. And I mean, that’s the trick Everybody was just so bored. They absentmindedly made all of these steel ropes and they they went, you know, well, I guess I gotta turn a profit on this somehow I guess I might as well make a bridge. Now, of course, that BC or ambivalence has all changed. In fact, it’s changed all over the world. Danger Bay is still to this day, the most successful media franchise there has ever been. Its momentum has only kept growing and growing despite having a time of recording 936 episodes. It’s one of the only works of fiction whose cultural reach is genuinely global. I briefly mentioned that the show has been translated into a wide array of languages. In fact, it’s been translated more than some religious texts. But that doesn’t quite do it justice, danger Bay runs on Cuban state television, it runs on Iranian state television, and it runs on the Disney Channel, all simultaneously. They say no to countries with McDonald’s have ever gone to war with each other. But that premise can’t really apply to danger Bay. It’s simply so widespread across so many conflicting ideologies, and so many religions that it’s really an impossible task. And of course, conflicting readings of danger bay itself have probably contributed to a war two, as the UN intervention in Port au Prince probably demonstrates. Danger bays made more money than the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series combined. Some of that comes from it being the only IP whose list of merchandise includes real estate, but it still goes just over the mark if we control for that. In Japan, the first episode of a new season of danger Bay is legally required to release on a Saturday to mitigate the risk of people skipping work and school to watch TV. In India, seasons are played in movie theaters with intricately choreographed laser light and flame thrower displays as accompaniment. No TV show has ever come close to its success. Some say it’s the greatest television show ever made. Others say in fact, that it’s the only TV show that’s ever been made. And in a limited way, I suppose that sort of accurate. For a few years here in Canada, it was the only show legally allowed to be broadcast. But I mean, I’m probably getting ahead of myself, it’s a long road to that point. In most people’s mind, danger bait doesn’t really get going until season seven. So for now, we’re just going to slowly watch a legend being built. And I mean, if we’re watching the legend built, then why not we just start at the very beginning. So here we go. I’m going to take you through the very first episode, episode one of danger Bay, this sea pop.
Will Riley
Okay, and we’re back. I’m sitting right in front of the TV. I’ve just watched the first episode of danger Bay again. And you know, I’m ready to go. You know, it’s kind of funny, I really feel relieved that all of that scripting stuff is out of the way. Now. I mean, obviously, if you are reviewing this podcast, and you’re about to do a four star review, having a script in any way. I mean, when you’re doing that, you gotta go, oh, well, this guy did a script. So it inherently has a plus one star, I better rethink giving this podcast a four star review, I better give it a five star review, because that’s what a script does. It adds plus one, but I mean, you know, coming up with ideas and writing them down and tweaking them and making sure that things are working out. I mean, really, that all runs antithetical to podcasting, doesn’t it? I mean, at least it’s antithetical to how I podcasts. So I’m glad it’s done. And now we can just talk about danger Bay, one to one. So an important aspect of this episode beyond being the first one that was ever aired, is that it is, strangely enough, a flashback episode. Despite being the first episode, they are taking bits of bits and pieces of the pilot that was never aired, and they’re cutting the bits that were important. We’ll get back to the bits that were important in a little while, and what bits they decided weren’t important. effectively. The episode is framed as a whole lot of present day sequences, which are structured by these flashbacks so that the premise is explained to you. But this episode doesn’t inherently need to come first. And I mean, that’s just the way that a lot of television shows of this era functioned. Because with television in the 80s, there’s no real guarantee that you’ve got a viewer base that’s going to sit down and watch every episode beginning to end. There’s no way to see it if it’s not getting broadcast. So what they do instead is construct every episode so that it could feasibly be the first episode that anybody ever saw. I mean, the premise is the prime mover, not the plot in and of itself. I mean, it’s it’s very pre prestige television. I mean, obviously, danger Bay goes on to invent prestige television as we know it. But we’re still a ways away from that. So something I never really touched on in my scripted intro, is that danger Bay is not necessarily a place nor is it actually referring to the abstract concept. Danger is the pet otter, of the Roberts family. And most of this episode is going to be constructed around searching for that otter and having flashbacks about when they first found them. It’s sort of a weird surprising, maybe a letdown for anybody who didn’t know this in the first place. But why? That is the actual premise that comes around out of this is blots anyone’s guess and it’s but it’s not my guess. So here we go. First episode. The first thing that we see is Nicole or ocean Hellman Forgive me if I use the names interchangeably. She is scrambling through the kitchen and she is searching for danger. We’re told that nobody’s seen this otter for about two days. And Jonah comes down from the stairs, he makes the comment. And so almost immediately off the bat, we’re given the the info that the Roberts are at the very least a family of means, and we’ll see a few more indicators of that as we go along.
What’s all the rumbling going on down here?
Will Riley
The first thing that we see of Dr. Grant Roberts the ostensible star of this show, like it’s literally the first frames that we see of him for this start of the for the start of this entire program, is him coming down the stairs, looking very disheveled. He’s still in his bed robe. He is, well, I say that his hair is disheveled. But it’s TV disheveled, because they’re still trying to make you think that this guy actually has totally brown hair. So it’s disheveled yet, you can still see that he’s died at which is it’s an interesting premise. I think the idea of somebody putting in all their just for men first thing as they wake up in the morning without actually bothering to comb it yet. I think probably if I did start using just for men, that’s probably how I would do it. Effectively. He’s still sleeping, and his kids come up to him and they go, Dad, where do you think that danger? Where do you think our sea otter could have gone? And he just comes Lagos, you know,
I don’t know.
Will Riley
I don’t know. I don’t know. And then we immediately cut to the theme song. And this guy who has just been stumbling around in the night gown, he is shown to be the greatest man of action, he is just zipping around in his jeep, he is running around, he is vaulting over window sills. And the clip that you will see the most is him dodging a punch. And then immediately chaining that into a suplex on the guy who just tried to punch him. It’s very much in conflict with the few little frames that we’ve seen of this character if we were treating this as the first episode. But I mean, of course, the thing is that this indicates that these bits of danger bag were very indicative of the era of TV making. If you treat it as a show that you’re watching from beginning to end, you’ll basically go well, all we’ve seen is this old man stumble around in a in his sleeping gear. And then we’re immediately told that he’s a man of action. They’re effectively treating it as if well you’ve seen that this guy is a man of action because you’ve already seen I don’t know 20 episodes, because yeah, well this this isn’t the first episode. We we can’t say that this is the first episode. So we finished the TV theme song intro and And then we get a really nice 360 degree shot of the Roberts house. And we can see the pool, we can see that it’s right on the water. It’s very Pacific Northwest. But we also see that they effectively live on their own island, which is pretty amazing. This guy is running off of a single salary at the aquarium. And he is living in what is basically a five or $6 million home. The Roberts are already being shown basically like they live on Tracy Island. It’s it’s very Thunderbirds, if you think about it, but sure enough, you do see the pool like they were describing, you can see that he’s just got a boat docked right there ready to go. And I mean, this was very much in vogue, as far as being a person of means. This is always something that is visible in Vancouver, you know, people, you know, if you are wealthy, the first thing you want to do is buy an island, however small it is, and then build your own house. And I mean, people have means we’ll spend millions on a house where they don’t have access to centralized plumbing. It’s very much a status symbol that you’re not able to flush your toilet more than once a week. And I mean, I’ve certainly known a lot of people who are, you know, they really want to seem like they’re rich, and they go, Oh, don’t flush the toilet and I have to look at them. And they go Yeah, yeah, you’re you’re making 100k You don’t have the toilet flush every week salary, you got to flush it every 24 hours like the rest of us. Of course, I’m talking about this in terms of the 80s I mean, now all these rich people have these infinite flush toilets, and you’re just walking around and it’s like there’s a waterfall in their house. So from this multimillionaire house, we see the kids arguing with the dad going, Dan just been missing for two
and a half days dad somebody must have seen or couldn’t we just get one day of school dads, we can stay home and look for you know, Ben,
that Dad No, but that the school board’s gonna be here in about two minutes. So you to better get started. Don’t worry, I’ll take another look around for before I go to work. Okay. referencing
Will Riley
a school boat is does not work in Vancouver. I think that there is really only one place that actually has an official school boat now. And that is Galliano Island, which is off the coast between the mainland and Vancouver Island, which of course is separate from Vancouver. And it really only takes 40 People maximum. And you can tell that this is such an obscure thing because I had to find out about it on an American website. I know there are some people that took public transit ferries, but there’s no set in stone official school boat going on. So you can already tell that this show is basically being a tourist brochure of Vancouver, because they are constructing some way more aquatic themes that are actually present in the city itself, especially if this guy is going to be driving to the aquarium. And of course, if you live here, you know, it should go without saying if your primary and secondary education is going to be totally dependent on the reliability of the BC ferry system.
Eight sailings per day were canceled affecting 1000s of passengers, people were urged to leave their cars behind and walk on. So often this morning, people woke up in their cars still waiting on
Will Riley
standby. They took one car. Why did they sell us? I don’t know what to tell you. It’s University just isn’t in the cards for you. You’re not getting to school in time to do those tests. So the kids walk off screen. And grant Roberts sits there and just sits his coffee. He phones in to work and says yeah, I’m gonna be there at you know, about an hour from now. So we already see Oh, Grant, just it gets to come and go as he pleases. So the camera zooms in on his face. And he says
danger didn’t survive poachers just to be lost to us now.
Will Riley
And then we hear a really beautiful flashback sound as a very in camera digital effect comes in to get us to the actual, original premise of this story. And when I say in camera effect, what I mean is, if you picked up a camcorder with a digital interface now, you could probably get a probably a much better looking fade in or fade out then what we’ve got here, which seems very, I don’t know, like, what’s the term rasterized posterized. So the flashback starts and we see an otter swimming around We cut to an on location shot of some poachers in a boat. And you can see from the cutting that obviously the otter is in a pool, and then they cut back to people who are on location. I mean, it’s it’s very flipper in that way. But then things escalate immediately one of the poachers who looks very strangely like Dave Coulier, a from full house goes, that otter is biting at our nets, and immediately escalating the situation pulls out a hunting rifle and immediately start shooting three or four times. Missing every time in a way that seems to not really be intentional. And when I say the poacher goes, that otter is biting at our net and then pulls out the gun. I’m sort of expanding on it. That is just an assumption on my part, what we actually see is zero dialogue. The poacher sees the otter pulls out the gun starts blasting, and that’s it, just sea otter shoot gun. The other poacher, the one with a moral conscience sort of grabs at the gun. And because of a problem with the sound editing, it sounds like he’s grabbing the barrel, the hot barrel as he is in the middle of firing it and, you know, stops him and lets the otter get away is either fish so we’re establishing worldbuilding here, we are seeing that the poachers are there not quite Captain planets villain level just yet. But you can see that the poachers are in this world, not just inadvertently killing all of this wildlife. They are willing to just pull out a gun and start blasting and willfully kill Stop it not just as an after effect as a little extra. Because the otter and the poachers are never in the same shot together. It’s very difficult to judge just how bad a shot the Dave Coulier a poacher, actually is. Because he’s shooting three or four times and I like to imagine that he’s just a really shitty shot. But I mean, there’s no way of telling if this otter is five feet away. 10 feet away. Maybe it’s 50 feet away and Dave Coulier a psycho poacher just has really great eyesight. What is it? I don’t know. So now we cut to the heroes. We’ve got doc Roberts, Jonah and Nicole because we’re recovering from the pilot. There’s a bit of unintended realism. Jonah and Nicole are noticeably younger than they were in the modern day segments. And they are just doing a routine expedition around what is to me quite obviously deep Cove which is a place that I visited quite a bit. It’s not quite in the most populated area. But it is a portion of it that I’ve seen firsthand myself. And an interesting note here. Doc Roberts has made sure that his kids are wearing life preservers the entire time. Meanwhile, he is just totally unprotected, which is a very dad move. I gotta say they find the otter Nicole pointed out to dock Roberts. And then they walk around and they show some very cute shots of this otter being taken care of and brought into a little carrying pan and brought away is still alive. Jonah go get my first aid kit shot
is he gonna be all right? He is a she shouldn’t be all right, if I can get the bullet out and the basic
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biological facts of this otter so it’s a river otter not a sea otter and grant is able to immediately go oh no, that’s a female river otter. Now while the shots of this otter are very cute, it does strike me that maybe they’re holding on to that otters pelt a little too hard. I mean, the otter is supposed to be in a foul mood because you know it’s been clipped in the leg but I don’t know what the handling what the animal handling rules for an otter are I’m guessing that there’s some sort of professionalism going on here. But if that otter looks as mad as it is in these still kind of cute shots, and the reason that it looks so mad is because it’s being grabbed too hard, then I don’t know I don’t feel so good about that. So things escalate. Pretty quick. Again, they’ve found this otter, they’ve brought it into a pen. And then grant Roberts immediately calls on a radio for effectively a hello, lift.
We’re gonna have to get it to the aquarium right away.
Okay, come on. Look at I’m already set. Let’s go. Rusty, can you just give us a cast off
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yeah, this otter has been shot, we got to take it off to the we got to take it off to the hospital. And in a very speedy and very ad yard scene, they just go from one boat cross over this very thin dock flies off. So already expanding the powers of the Vancouver Aquarium of that era by a good few degrees, the idea that you could just find an error, find an injured otter, and then immediately call for an airlift just for this one for this one little animal. So a few notes on this shot that came to mind for me, I guess truth in shooting, they get in their boat and they cut to where the pontoon plane is. And it is legitimately like a minute and a half by boat to get to those places. It is in the most popular part of deep Cove, it’s the most touristic area. I’ve seen this view myself in person pretty often because it’s actually a pretty short bike ride from where I am right now to to get there. It’s very demonstrate of of the difference between what Vancouver was back then and what it is now, because I keep on being reminded that this was filmed a good few years before I was even born. I suppose the biggest difference now is that almost none of the trees in deep Cove are real. If you’re a tourist, deep Cove is a nice place to visit and look at and have some slightly expensive coffee and donuts. But if you’re a Vancouver native, deep Cove primarily exists as a place to buy and sell real estate papers just sort of trade and back and forth. It’s not really a place for living in, it’s a place to look at. So if you are buying up all this real estate and you don’t have the wherewithal or time to actually take care of any of these trees, you just replace them with some fake ones that look just as good. So I mean, I’m it’s not like this process wasn’t already in process. I’m looking at this 1984 shot and you know, just by my eyes, I’d probably say about about 50% of the trees that I’m seeing are fake. I’d say that nowadays, it’s probably I don’t want to overshoot it but you know, probably like, you know, 90% of the trees in deep Cove aren’t real anymore. I mean, it makes it a lot more efficient for what deep Cove really is about which is trading leases back and forth at each other. So anyway, the sea plane lifts off and the same fuzzy Cameron effect comes in and the flashback sequence ends. One more other thing. That’s another way that this show demonstrates a past Vancouver that I was never around for I don’t think that there is ever any chance of a seaplane landing or docking in deep Cove anymore. There would just be too many noise complaints. I mean, nowadays, it’s all just like one man submarines. But anyway, as the pontoon plane lifts off, the flashback sequence ends on Grant Roberts, his big old face taking up the whole screen, and he decides to finally go to work. And so we have an establishing shot of him going into work at the Vancouver Aquarium where he is what they call a curator. And this sort of is an unintentional bit of character development. It shows very much what kind of guy he is. He works at what is basically an office job, but his choice of vehicle to get there is a Jeep with an open top. Now I know that this is supposed to be in action, a show and Jeep with an open top obviously is an action a seeming vehicle. But the fact that that’s his choice to go to his office job with it. We’ll find out later that grant Roberts is a single dad because he’s a widower, but this is a very divorced choice. And I mean maybe this is just Donnelly roads sort of leaking through in a little bit of what bit of a way into this character. but it is very much a character development point for me. So he walks into the aquarium and he talks to Donna who is one of the medical staff. And she apparently already knows that danger is missing as well. This is apparently the biggest news throughout the entire Vancouver Aquarium office. And as grant walks away, then it is Donna’s turn to have the flashback. Now, the thing is that if you remove the commercial breaks here, the time a differential between the end of the last flashback, and the start of this next one is basically less than a minute. But they’ve decided to have somebody else do the flashback to try and mask that a little bit. With the start of the new flashback sequence. The Roberts family just come straight down into the basement basically of the Vancouver Aquarium. And the next scene that follows is very part and parcel with a lot of us medical dramas, there’s a lot of walking up and down hallways really quickly, and just listing off all of these different medications that they’re going to administer. Let’s
start off with 125 milligrams of ampicillin IV, she’s in shock. So we’ll do a cortisone series and go for the vein and the right front leg
IV coming up.
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If you didn’t know that this was all for an otter, you’d be a little confused because they’re just talking about where the bullet entered where the bullet exited. All in, you know, sub one second snippets, you get to watch this hyper competent medical staff just come in and administer everything. No worries beyond the idea of well, we got to keep this otter alive and we got to make sure it makes a steady recovery. Now for the American listeners. This is just what Canadian healthcare is like. I mean, this is how it works for whether you’re a human or an otter or an orca whale or anything like that. It works just great. Granted, this discounts the PharmaCare thing if this otter was prescribed an antidepressant, of course it would have to make some very difficult decisions. I want to leave the next exchange here, practically untouched.
Another one, yeah, George, take a look. She’s definitely been shot as a 22 caliber, just like the others. I’ve taken these out of three sea lions to seals and now these otter
Well, it is legal for fishermen to protect their nets, shooting them
is not the way to do it.
They can be lifted out to the net dropped. Tuna fishermen say 4%. Grant,
if you keep bringing in the wounded animals, we’ll be running out of
room. Well, then we’ll have to expand this isn’t a hospital and expansion costs money. But
George at your job
there you go level one.
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I’m keeping the sequence intact more or less because it demonstrates just how casually bizarre danger Bay can be. I mean, all of this dialogue basically come straight out of American cop dramas and medical dramas. I mean, this whole segment about like, Well, I found this 22 caliber bullet, and I found it in all of these places. Except it’s all animals like this is a law and order dialogue. But it doesn’t really fit. If you are a guy who works at an aquarium. But all of these tropes. I hate the word tropes, but they are tropes. All of this dialogue convention insists upon itself into whatever show exists. It’s like we’re listening from television directly. The context in which this dialogue makes sense and works has disappeared from this, but they’re still talking in the same way. And this becomes even more clear when the next character that we see on screen is Dr. George Dunbar, who is played by Hagen bags, which is oh my god, it’s just a chef’s kiss like such a great name Hagen bags.
If you keep bringing in the wounded animals, we’ll be running out of room. You’re
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walking around every day. You’re an actor and you just rhyme with bacon and eggs. But his character is effectively the equivalent to a gruff police chief. He’s the guy who’s going damnit Magara nickel you are a loose cannon. I want your gun in your badge, except he’s the chief of Police have being at aquariums, he just comes in and he says go and, you know, damage grants, we don’t have the money to afford you doing all these otter surgeries. He’s basically calling grant Roberts a loose cannon. And he’s going like you can’t do this. In a police drama, this scene plays out basically in exactly the same way. Except for that point, you have the police chief, getting mad at a cop for doing all these break ins are doing arrest without warrant even though it was the right thing to do here, you’ve got otter surgery, he’s going you can’t do this otter surgery. You’re a loose cannon, you got to stop, you know, given all these sutures to these purposes. I mean, even this exchange of we don’t have the room for all of these wounded animals. To which he responds, well, I guess we’ll have to expand. That is basically the What about the rights of that little girl of this episode. But the surgery anyway is a success. And they resolve to try and do something about whoever’s putting all these bullets in all the sea lions. And then there’s a quick exchange of Jonah and Nicole going, can we keep it? It’s a very, you know, it’s a very cute, we found a stray puppy, can we keep it except it’s, you know, a water rodent. And we keep her for a while.
You’d only get attached when she’s well, she’s out of here. Maybe be shot again.
I know he appealed Jonah. But she deserved a chance to go back to their own world.
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I am a conservationist, we cannot have an otter hanging around all these humans, it needs to be able to live off of the land. And at the time, that’s that. And then flashback sequence ends, we come back to Donna again. And grant walks in from frame and he goes, Oh, man, I am still feeling bad about this missing otter. I’m gonna go out.
Why don’t you go home danger may have come back. I’ll take care of things here. Okay,
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and he basically comes into work decides he’s too sad about this otter and he gets to go, that really just shows off how many shows and TV are just so crazily nice, especially in the 80s it really does beggar belief. I’m thinking about when I had a job where I got fired because I had a notebook that I wrote all of my thoughts in. And because a lot of those thoughts weren’t work related. They can to me because I was taking away time and resources for the company by writing in a little journal. Meanwhile, this guy gets to skip work out entirely because he’s too sad about an otter. Thanks, Donna.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Danger, danger.
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So grant Roberts leaves work, we cut to him searching around behind an ocean backdrop and a lot of trees just calling out for danger a whole bunch of times. And we see that Jonah and Nicole have joined him I guess that school is over. Now. Something I noticed here is that these kids are not really dressed as children so much as stock photographs of children. Jonah is wearing a letterman jacket. Despite being nowhere near high school age. I think the search is fruitless. We go to commercial break with Grant Roberts hugging both of his kids. Fortunately, the kids are savvy enough to turn to three quarter degree angles directly towards the camera so that we can see that they’re all very sad. We come back from break and then we move almost immediately into another flashback sequence. Grant Roberts makes breakfast for the kids. They say they’re not hungry. They seem very sad. And then immediately Jonah starts thinking about that time that they had to deal with those poachers. We see Jonah in the cold hanging around in a boat of their own accord with Dennis. And just this guy Dennis just shows up in the middle of this without really any introduction. And I think I mean, we’re not really going to find out much about Dennis this guy shows up for one more episode. He’s roughly the same age as John and Nicole. And as you watch it. I feel bad for Dennis because it’s very obvious that he’s been cut around in some way. Like, I think the reason that this is a bunch of nested flashback scenes is probably because they are taking footage from an unaired pilot and then re cutting it into the proper final premise of this show. And that proper final premise of that show is very dentists free if they can help it. You’re going after the hot barbecue, but they’re going around. And then we see the poacher boat that shot down the otter danger in the first place. And now that we’ve got a better view of it, we get to see that the boat has been named ravage, which is very lovely. It is, like I said, we’re very close to Captain Planet territory here, but we’re not going over the edge just yet if we can help it. We’ve been spotted. We’ll pick it up later. Jonah says it looks like they’re doing salmon fishing. And then Nicole, who for some reason knows all this stuff goes. They shouldn’t be because the salmon is out of season. We’re seeing a bit of a Bart Simpson Lisa Simpson thing going on here where Nicole seems to know the immediate sort of fishing by laws and what time you’re supposed to drop your gill nets. Now, these poachers immediately go oh my god, we’ve been spotted despite the fact that it is three kids in a boat who don’t really shouldn’t really know anything about fishing. But I guess through some sort of poacher ESP, they recognize immediately that these children are, you know, marine life experts. So what they decide to do is basically play chicken with this boat, this leaky little, tiny motor boat. And they start revving their engine and going straight up to the boat, which they’re not able to start and basically try to scare them. And then the psycho Dave Cooley a poacher immediately escalates the situation and pulls out his gun again.
Will Riley
And then he just starts pointing it at children. And then they they just float away. They just drive away as if nothing happened. I mean, one of the poachers goes, Man, what the hell are you doing? You’re scaring me. But then they just sort of go away from that without really actually going, Oh, this, this guy is actually a psycho? Because I guess like, when you’re already fishing out of season, you might as well throw in some child endangerment. I mean, they’re roughly roughly the same level of criminal activity. Are you crazy?
You’re scaring me, you keep this up, we’re gonna wind up in jail.
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So they, the kids, they immediately drive their boat off, they find their dad in the boat doing his own sort of work. He’s in a scuba gear, and they don’t really explain what he’s doing. But they start you know, screaming. And he’s less totally baffled. He doesn’t. He doesn’t believe him at first. And then they describe to him directly.
Some coaches are blown out and tried to run us down. And one of them pointed a gun at us
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and then dead as poor Dennis looking for something to add to that goes, yeah, they’re pulling up a salmon. And that’s the points. Were in the audio track, they have to drop the suspense thing. And it’s kind of funny, because it’s like, obviously the least important out of all of those, you know, they were pointing a gun at me. Oh, and also they were fishing at CCC. He’s not even contributing new information here. Joan already said that it was a gill net or and I mean, for all intents and purposes in Vancouver, a gill net is a salmon. But those two things have to be treated as equal by the audio because of the order in which those ideas were presented. Dennis just really can’t catch a break. There’s everything in this show seems to be working against him. Especially the fact that yeah, this show seems to be so many flashback sequence so that they don’t have to have so that they can have as little footage of Dennis as possible. He still has to be in one episode, but they’ve decided just not to happen. They end that flashback sequence, and then they just move straight into another flashback sequence just like that.
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So now the otter has been recuperated they’re sending them off into the water. The kids still want to keep the otter as a pet but A Grant’s does not relent. They have the otter go into the water, and then they discover that it is going off into the wrong direction, because they don’t know it yet. But this otter can basically telepathically understand where these poachers are, and it is seeking revenge. Just going
where instincts tell her to go, don’t worry, she’s old enough to be on her own.
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And other confusing detail here. The boat is marked with the words danger Bay BC on it. And this is a little odd, because there isn’t actually a place called danger bay in the real British Columbia, and there doesn’t appear to be a place called danger Bay, British Columbia in the show itself. The show is called danger bay because they’re calling whatever Bay this otter was found danger bag because that’s the name that they called it. And yet retroactively, This boat has changed its name. And so there’s a weird sort of time fluctuation going on in this in the early stages of this show as they’re trying to work out where things are going. Now, the moment that they released this otter off into the wild, they decided well, now it’s time for us to set up our police style stakeout to keep an eye on these poachers so that we can ambush them. And it’s pretty amazing that that’s sort of the itinerary for the day. But I guess the Roberts are just like really eco conscious, they want to expend as little gasoline as they can. And I mean, they tell you you got to make you got to make everything into one big trip if you can. But turning this into one big trip does kind of beggar belief beyond television convenience, we’ve been spotted. So the captain of this poachers boat, the captain of the ravage, apparently has heightened superior poacher instincts, because all of a sudden he sees the glint of the binoculars off of one of the Roberts family members, as if he’s seeing a sniper in World War Two, and immediately just snaps into action tells both the psycho poacher and the the ethics poacher that they have to get out of there. And then the action of the series actually starts to ramp up and some of the tension. Importantly, Jonah is off the scene. For the moment.
Dawn is off looking for the honor.
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We hear basically, from off screen that Jonah has left the boat and is immediately putting himself into harm’s way, because he is following danger the otter to make sure that she goes off to the proper she is she’s a river otter and she keeps insistently going into the sea. Jonah, of course is unaware that this otter with its preternatural abilities is making sure that justice is meted out to these scum of the earth fishermen out of season.
You’re seeing that come on. I’m not gonna lie. Don’t you know you’re a river otter die swimming in this corner.
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And the motivations for this are actually kind of interesting. I think I mentioned earlier on that. Jonah and Nicole very easily fit into this Bart Simpson Lisa Simpson dichotomy. And I mean, this dichotomy predates the Simpsons, obviously, I’m talking about a show that was on the air before the Simpsons even came out. But it is it is interesting, there is some adherence to that dichotomy, because Jonah is being brash and being reckless. And Nicole is being thoughtful and being fisted Yes, and knows all the factoids, and can say offhand that a fisherman is out of season. But the motivation for Jonah to follow this course of action is and to put himself in harm’s way is basically wanting to care for an injured animal, which really is the most Lisa Simpson sort of thing that you could come up with. But here we are, there’s a bit more depth to this. than you’d initially expect, I do need to spend a bit of time talking about how much I love the look on these poachers, and all those stupid cats again. I mean, obviously, if you’re working in a boat, you’re not necessarily gonna look 10 out of 10, just based on the fact that you are going to be sweaty, and you’re going to be not fully shaven, and everything like that, and your clothes are going to get wet and ragged, and all of that. But you really have to admire the makeup workers on danger Bay, given that they’ve made sure that every member of this poachers crew looks like they’re gonna go, it’s the bat, anytime that they’re on screen might scare them off. It really is something. So Jonah gets this sea pop back in his cage yet again and goes into his boat, and the poachers immediately catch up with Jonah. And they immediately put him at risk. Now something that is kind of funny about this scene is that in the previous encounter that these kids have had with the poachers, the tension came from the fact that the kids kept on pulling at the string of their motor, and they couldn’t get to get it to start as this big, imposing, looming poacher boat keeps coming at them. To keep getting taken over the edge, of course, by having some guy just literally point guns at children. The thing is that there’s basically a repeat of that same tension building premise. The gun only shows up a little bit later. But there are two scenes in this 30 minute TV show, really this 24 minute TV show where there is a child who is trying to get an engine to start and is unable to do it. You know, you think that they want to, they’d want to fix that you think that grant would have seen that there was a problem with that motor, and he go well, okay, I’ll fix that motor there. And, and he just doesn’t, because this TV show needs those tropes to keep functioning. And other interesting scene happening simultaneously here is that grant is on the radio calling the the ocean police, I guess you call them launch experts who will be there in 20 minutes. But really, they are fishing by law enforcement, they are not quite the Coast Guard because they are more municipal. But what’s interesting about it is that he is calling this in to effectively the cops. And he gets a response saying, Okay, we will be in the vicinity in 20 minutes. And grants. The aquarium guy just shouts into the microphone, make
it 10 minutes my son’s in that same area, North Star out. And
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what’s interesting is that it seems like that actually works. This guy who works at the aquarium gets to tell the cops what to do. And they listened to like they follow the orders of the aquarium man. And I think that danger Bay won’t tell you this right off the bat. But it really does consider the Vancouver Aquarium to have roughly the same or even more power than either the cops or the firefighters or any actual public service. The aquarium comes first it is the lifeblood of all law and order. In this this entire city, this entire province. And as we move on, we’re going to see grant Roberts show up in a whole lot of places where in real life he would not be but by being somebody who works at the city aquarium, he has access to the same places that a police officer. I mean, he just gave orders to the cops right now. We’ve already seen that he’s able to requisition basically an aeroplane or a heavy lift whenever he wants. He has all the power over the city that he could possibly desire. So grant arrives right at the nick of time, and he manages to shoe off the poachers off to one side. The boat that Jonah is in by the way, despite being safe, immediately hits the wake of of the poacher boat and the boat really does go like 90 degrees upwards and I don’t think that it was intentional because there Phil Let me get out a wide faraway angle, maybe to hide stunt doubles. But I don’t think that they were expecting that boat to actually nearly capsize the way that it did. But anyway, there’s a very actually quick change as Jonah jumps into the boat, and they head off and start chasing after the poachers again. And the poachers are held down by this net that they keep on putting in and pulling out of the water
we’ve been spotted come on Yo guys, we’ll never get that he will never get we’ve been spotted. Hold on, let him
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it’s the main thing that is keeping a drag on it that makes it impossible for them to get away. And the actual, the actual visual premise of this action scene is that they find an anchor, they jab it into the net so that the boat can’t move. It’s very straightforward, very visually clear. What happens next is sort of interesting, because Dave Coulier, a the psycho poacher immediately grabs his gun, as we’ve seen him do twice in this show. And then the conscience poacher has enough, he grabs the gun away, they start fighting, he knocks him out, and you get a very good shot of him falling in the water and tumbling. But the moment that that happens, Grant shows up on the boat, he immediately grabs the net, throws it at the good poacher, and then immediately arrests him and takes down the entire operation.
Okay, buddy, a few years.
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So the viewer doesn’t even necessarily get the satisfaction of seeing the categorically bad poacher, the one who is more than willing to commit murder, in service of getting a bit of extra fish. He just gets knocked off the boat. And nobody thinks about him after that. But the good one gets the whole visual embarrassment of being arrested tied up with his own net. And I mean, I guess that, morally, what they’re saying is, yeah, that guy’s a murderer, but this guy is fishing out of season. And I mean, those are roughly equal crimes. So now the primary conflict of the flashback sequences are basically done. But there’s one last thing to do. And maybe as a viewer, you basically have predicted what’s going to happen. Grant Roberts takes the otter and we have a repeat of the scene where he is trying to set this otter free into the wild. The kids insists to keep them around, and they even put him into the water and he’s swimming around. And then he finally has a change of heart and decides well, we’ll bring the otter in
danger to herself, Dad,
I suppose you could be a danger to us too. Because that’s gonna be your name. Danger.
guy doesn’t have a chance.
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And a scene that is kind of heartbreaking, I think is there is a shot in which the kids all hug their dad and they’re so happy that they’re going to keep danger, the river otter this wonderful, affable Pat. And then Dennis right from the side of the screen comes in and tries to get in on this side hug family hug action. And they just give him like a little pat on the shoulder and they go Yeah, okay. Thank you, Dennis. But he’s not part of this. They already seem to know. Dennis is not really a pillar of the danger Bay program. I mean, does Dennis really want to be a member of this family or get treated like an equal member of the Roberts clan? Or is this kid just realizing that he has time is short for this series? And he really wants to get everything in to try and insist upon Paul Saltzman Can I please be one of the main characters of this show? To which there was a resounding no. Evidently they created this show. And they edit it so that there was as little Dennis content as possible. All that Dennis. And with that, the flashback sequence finally ends. Having thought about all of these memories, all three of them decide, You know what, fuck breakfast, they immediately leave the table, they go and start searching for danger one more time looking around. And then I mean it hardly bears referencing because they go searching. They don’t find anything. And then just pure deus ex machina. They hear some clattering around in their kitchen, they walk in and all of a sudden danger is there. And he’s creating some very visually interesting pictures of this odor just rampaging through this kitchen knocking over mugs and plate
you came home danger, grabbing
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into other people’s breakfasts. And it’s never explained exactly where she went, or what she did. It’s basically as if simply remembering the existence of this river otter, she reappears.
She’s a lot of interesting places.
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And so you can really see that this episode was sort of stitched together, they came up on the 24 minute mark. And they said, Well, we got to end this thing. And so they did. Now, it may seem like I’m being harsh on this episode. But like I said, This show doesn’t really get going until probably season seven. But I think that there are some really important things that are established in this episode, regardless, that I think are kind of important topic. Number one, the Roberts family is of means they are effectively living on their own little version of Tracy Island. Point number two, the Vancouver Aquarium has more power than any other civic body in the entirety of Vancouver. Number three, Dennis is not to be talked to you. And number four, which I think is really ultimately the most important. The Roberts are nice people, they are nice to each other, they care about the environment. And there’s maybe some thin plotting here. And maybe there’s some stuff that functions basically like a television on autopilot. Which is precisely why the show is so intriguing to me in this era. But at this stage, really. Danger Bay is about a nice family who is nice to each other and does nice things. And I think that that’s really worthy in and of itself. And with that we roll credits on Episode One of danger bank. So there we are one episode in the tank. Hope you’ll stay with me as I make my way through this epic of Canadian television episode by episode. Before I go, I just like to make one more segment. For posterity sake. I’m just going to recap the most recent episode of danger bay in the modern day. You’ve probably already watched it I know. But of course, I think it’ll be a good demonstrator of how far this show has come since 1984. These old episodes shouldn’t just be consumed in a vacuum. So here we go. I’ll bring up another note. You’ll remember last episode, Jonah finally arrived at the secret submarine base under what remains of Horseshoe Bay. Now standing at 10 feet tall Malekith till hockey the fourth poacher K is already waiting for him laughing maniacally. You may have murdered my three regal predecessors, Jonah Roberts, but they were weak sentimentalist, the souls of the auditors I have harvested here have already multiplied my strength tenfold. I thought about making a code from them. But as you can see, the procedure has already increased my physical size beyond that of petty humanity. No matter. I’ll simply harvest more. You can’t do anything about it. Roberts, you know, the Treaty of Campbell River gives me immunity as a dignitary Jonah Roberts unsheath as the sonic glade the 10,000 year old blade that attuned to his genetic signature, he scratches his five o’clock shadow. Too bad mallet cat You fucking son of a bitch. The poacher Council has refused to ratify your decree. They always thought you were enough. Think about a climber and a leech. Frankly, I’d like to see all of your kind with a stake through their head. But they’ve given me the direct request to make an example out of you entirely off the books of course. Malekith protests what No, that can’t be How could those traders before he can finish, Jonah Roberts has sliced the self appointed King and half the long way then slices what’s left at the neck horizontally. As his tradition, a crucifix is superimposed over his body just show where he cut. Guys use a blood rocket across the submarine base, painting the wall. The splatters, bathe Jonah in crimson, but of course as we all know by now, he loves how it feels. He lights a cigarette and says his famous catchphrase Fucking A. Jonas sometimes voiced regret for making a blood packed with Arthrex the greater Archon of Taurids but you can guess the days like this and make it worth it. But as Jonah prepares to wipe down his ancient weapon, he clutches his temples as he receives an urgent telepathic message from the genetically modified orca whale that enlisted his service. There are strange tremors coming from the ocean floor, leave immediately. Then, from one half of the poacher, King sliced head, something like a laugh escapes. You fools Jonah hears him say you never understood. I was holding them back. Cut to the ocean floor, as the Earth’s crust rips apart as Luke sir as god of the sea urchins slams his spikes up from underground, finally emerging from his banishment of beneath the earth’s mantle. Before any of the oceanic guardians can do anything, oops harass, tears opening interdimensional portal disappearing to somewhere beyond human knowledge ready to plot against Jonah and the entire Roberts clan. So there’s that I’m really excited to see bookstore as does back. I’m looking at my books arrest figurine on my mantle right now. And there was just so much that they tantalizingly left on the table with the sea urchin God the last time they had him on the show. And I gotta say, John Leguizamo does a really good job playing him. I know some people were griping that the CBC went back to the poacher King Ark way too soon. But I mean, I gotta say, Malik, Kathy otter. Devourer was way more nuanced a character than some people would like to give him credit for. So Well, that about does it for me today. Again, I know that there are probably 10s, maybe even hundreds of danger Bay podcasts that you could pick. So I’m really grateful that you subscribe to mine. Thanks for giving me a listen. Follow me on Twitter, of course I’m at chasm cave and that spelt Mortal Kombat style. And as always, danger is always coming from below. I’ll see you next time. Anyone in danger?
Danger. Danger, danger. Danger hasn’t come along yet.