Whereabouts
is the landing stage mentioned by Number 2 in ‘The Schizoid Man’ “It’s just a
quick flip in the helicopter to the landing stage, and the jet picks you up
from there.” I suppose a “quick flip” would be about ten minutes away. As for
picking up a jet from there, a landing stage is not a runway for aircraft, it’s
a platform, usually a floating one, on to which passengers from a boat
disembark or cargo is unloaded. I would suggest that’s where the milk, the ice
cream, the potatoes, and aspirins are unloaded from a boat. Then flown to The
Village by helicopter, or then again, why not cut out the helicopter and bring
the supplies up the estuary by boat to The Village? That way it would be
possible for Curtis to have left The Village by boat, providing the tide was in
of course. Except in ‘The Schizoid Man’ that’s not possible, that fact the
atmosphere there being very different to what it was elsewhere, meaning they
are at MGM film studios and not Portmeirion!
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