HL is alternately gloating and telling his men to find the Phoenix.

The team attacks and pounds the Black Hawks into next Thursday. Any explanation why G-4 uses a stick on a Black Hawk?

Ace blows up the computer controlling the Brainwasher. HL is furious. Ace is smug.

Galactor calls in and chops Ace down to size, explaining how while the Hawks and the brainwashed citizens kept G-Force busy, he carried out a mass looting of Calamar’s resources. All Ace can say is that Galactor isn’t getting any more of the resources.
Galactor then says that he is going to blow up his base.

The Hawks are like, “But what about us!?!”

Um, guys, Galactor really doesn’t care about you. Even if you are a specially trained force that would cost a mint to replace. And Galactor wonders why he’s surrounded by fools and backstabbers…

The team moves their tails outta there. But they don’t quite clear the building.

Ace digs his way out. (Of course he’s first.) He calls out: “Hey, is everybody all right?”

Pewee (practically next to him): “Right here!”

Dirk (a few feet over): “Over here. A few bruises but nothing serious.” (Yes, that’s G-2 talking.)

Aggie (a foot or so from Dirk): “So far so good, but where’s Hootie?”

Hootie (lifting a small pillar off himself): “Nothing to worry about. Present and accounted for.”

Ace: “That was too close to comfort, but we all made it. Thank goodness.”

Dirk, looking but not really sounding furious, talks about how they stopped Galactor’s plan even if they didn’t get their hands on him. (Couldn’t they have given him a different line? He does NOT sound like a Condor, nor even like the Dirk that appears in other eps, or earlier in this one.)

And the base blows up some more. Must have been storing volatiles on site. It’s a good thing OSHA doesn’t inspect Galactor bases.

Ace and Aggie discuss whether Joey found his mom and dad.

Yes, he did. And his parents are back to normal. His mother looks astonished when Joey mentions his friends in G-Force and how they kept their promise.

The Phoenix is flying away, and Joey waves at it, calling out: “Good-bye G-Force! Good-bye! Remember, we’ll be friends forever!

The last scene is of the team on the bridge of the Phoenix. Ace tells Hootie to head for home so they can give Brighthead their report. He thinks of how someday they will get Galactor.

Why doesn’t Ace just contact Dr. Brighthead to give at least a summary report? Well, let’s review:

Their protection assignment is dead. The citizens took at least two hits from Galactor’s brainwashing device, basically becoming enslaved for a time. Galactor robbed Calamar blind. The team only saw him on a telescreen. And G-Force nearly got killed. Twice.

G-Force got pasted. No wonder they don’t want to report sooner than they have to.

I wonder if the scriptwriters just liked the name Joey, or if they knew of the original Gatch and a little boy who did lose his parents.

I’d give the Hawk Leader a 9 on the Galactor Intelligence Scale. Except for the matter of the cane, he handled his part of the job very well –amazingly well, considering the usual level of Galactor incompetence. He’s a case of a reasonably intelligent flunky being overruled by an egotistical leader. Maybe his intelligence is why Galactor blew him up.

And the Brainwasher is just silly.

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Hollywood is a land of money and cowardice.

-Henry A. Lee, Cracked.com columnist

Wow, it's amazing how close that was to the original episode! Gotta give thumbs up for that!

And coffee, beef tea, or hot chocolate... I think I would have been most tempted by the hot chocolate! Of course, all 3 were poisoned...

And LB, according to Wikipedia, Fred Ladd was born in 1927.

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Candi

Hollywood is a land of money and cowardice.

-Henry A. Lee, Cracked.com columnist

I'll agree that Black Hawk is a better name. But I think in the original Gatchaman Blackbird works well, because the implication is that the Gatchaman Team are birds, and these are Blackbirds... in other words, evil birds. In BOTP they never called the Blackbirds by names (thank you, James, for determining that for me! ) and they never actually referred to the Team as birds, so Balck Hawk could have worked better.

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