"Tourist Season" is a time-travel episode where people from the year 2000 (the year it came out) visit the stranded castaways on the plateau.
A family (nuclear: one father, one mother, one boy who hates them both, and a hireling pilot) land during a freak storm. The father seems to be looking for Club Med, the Ma is on the make for Roxton, the boy keeps putting Veronica on video. So would I, at that age. The delight Veronica shows at seeing herself is charming, showing at last Jennifer O'Dell can act and not just pose well in skimpy outfits (she also looks great when they go elsewhere, old castles and so forth, in costume).
Then Challenger is crestfallen when the pilot, the only newcomer with any sense, says he never heard of any of them. Obviously he's no reader of Doyle.
Worse than that, some bozo tribe that worships smoking birds wants the helicopter for themselves and they come to take hostages for a trade. The tribe doesn't seem to have any women but the show just did the Amazon episode so I suppose this is equal time. This tribe seems so infernally dumb, it's a head-scratcher they were any contest to the gang.
I won't give away the ending but the final tag had me laughing out loud, and I'm pretty cynical. The most they usually wring out of me is a wry, knowing grin.
Overall, not the best episode. Not even the best time-travel episode. When Veronica and the kid toss Frisbees it destroys the verisimilitude. Veronica is reduced to just another beach babe. What a pity!
But this episode does open the possibility of alternate timlines in the multiverse, since other time travellers are familiar with the famous Challenger expedition.
BTW, I hate the way people in 2000 dress. Give me the vests, pocket watches and other steam punk trappings of the castaways. And women in hats, like Marguerite. And women without hats (nor much of anything else) like Veronica. The newly-designed Veronica suit is great.
A family (nuclear: one father, one mother, one boy who hates them both, and a hireling pilot) land during a freak storm. The father seems to be looking for Club Med, the Ma is on the make for Roxton, the boy keeps putting Veronica on video. So would I, at that age. The delight Veronica shows at seeing herself is charming, showing at last Jennifer O'Dell can act and not just pose well in skimpy outfits (she also looks great when they go elsewhere, old castles and so forth, in costume).
Then Challenger is crestfallen when the pilot, the only newcomer with any sense, says he never heard of any of them. Obviously he's no reader of Doyle.
Worse than that, some bozo tribe that worships smoking birds wants the helicopter for themselves and they come to take hostages for a trade. The tribe doesn't seem to have any women but the show just did the Amazon episode so I suppose this is equal time. This tribe seems so infernally dumb, it's a head-scratcher they were any contest to the gang.
I won't give away the ending but the final tag had me laughing out loud, and I'm pretty cynical. The most they usually wring out of me is a wry, knowing grin.
Overall, not the best episode. Not even the best time-travel episode. When Veronica and the kid toss Frisbees it destroys the verisimilitude. Veronica is reduced to just another beach babe. What a pity!
But this episode does open the possibility of alternate timlines in the multiverse, since other time travellers are familiar with the famous Challenger expedition.
BTW, I hate the way people in 2000 dress. Give me the vests, pocket watches and other steam punk trappings of the castaways. And women in hats, like Marguerite. And women without hats (nor much of anything else) like Veronica. The newly-designed Veronica suit is great.
