Episode 7.5

In what must surely be both a suicidal (the ship is called Icarus II, after all) and also scientifically illiterate mission – to restart the sun using a very large bottle of coke and a packet of mentos (whatever they are) – Alan is sitting in the observation room protected from the brilliant sunshine™ merely by a gossamer thin ‘umbrella’ of precious metals. Although he suspects that the guest director, a national treasure forgiven even for throwing the Queen out of a plane, may introduce some unpleasantness when Alan has to deploy the ‘bomb’ into the sun (the script seems mysteriously to have omitted the standard actors’ union requirement of retro-boosters: Alan loves a retro-booster), he can be entirely confident that this film at least won’t have an inexplicable murderous psycho creeping up on him from behind. It’s certainly not that sort of film.