Fitting that the OP named himself after Dr. Durand Durand’s superweapon. Someone should send Mr. Positron to the Fourth Dimension.
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[NOW, A RANT ABOUT AN OLD MOVIE AND IT’S ENDING]
Slightly off - topic, but I was a big fan of that Barbarella movie. However, after repeated viewings, I realized how grim it actually was. Sure, the bad guy is defeated and evil vanquished, but everyone that needed to be rescued (like the poor souls in the labyrinth, including most of Barbarella’s allies) got zapped into the 4th Dimension (which is something treated as terrible rather than, simply being sent to another universe). Also, Barbarella was less an action heroine and more of a naive bimbo who just found herself in weird situations.
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MY REVISED BARBARELLA ENDING…
I would have changed the ending to this. Durand Durand uses the ray to start zapping the labyrinth but the Black Queen AND Barbarella unleash the Mathmos, which swallows everyone… but since the Mathmos can’t absorb / eat good people, the surviving Labyrinth prisoners, Professor Ping, Dildano and Barbarella (with the Black Queen in her bed by virtue of being in the same proximity of Barb) are all safe in bubbles (Pygar is flying above the whole mess).
All the evil SoGo-ites and Durand Durand are destroyed, the Mathmos sinks into the ground and everyone else is saved (even Dildano, the cute, awkward, adorkable, unfortunately - named, Good SoGo-ite and Rebellion Leader, played by a then - much younger, slender and pretty David Hemmings. I liked that character and hated that he got zapped by the Positronic Ray. He was funny and cute).
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I just HAD to get that off my chest. I love that movie with its groovy 1960s style, camp, costumes, sets and music… but that ending just bothered the snot out of me.
Anyone familiar with that movie agree?