Thunderbirds are go!

[fatboy18]

MarkRSi said:

So how good/bad/terrible/"what-is-this-st?" was it?

Absolute sack of sh-t, Trying to watch it again to see if it got any better but its not for me its the episode that that presenter did the voiceover on

And as for Brains with an Indian accent.....Just No!

HATE THE GRAPHICS, (which ever way you cut it)

If this is what they call progress its not for me. Over and out

[MarkRSi]

Did have a watch earlier today on ITV player

Just seemed like standard Saturday morning cartoon fodder, pretty much forgettable.

[ecsrobin]

I can honestly say I'm glad that's the end of the series. It's just a shame they intend to release another series next year.

[onyx39]

As the series has now ended, should we change the thread title to "Thunderbirds are gone!"

[alc]

I thought the characters were good, the new guys looked very like their string counterparts! What I didn't like was the storyline - so complex, what happened to the "plane with no wheels" or "kid stuck in a lift" - the storyline was way too complex for me, never mind young kids!

[Hooli]

Vipers said:

callyman said:

Smollet said:

There's a new series of Noddy??!! I hope Big Ears is called something else or else the PC brigade will be up in arms.

He's now called wing nut.

My pal had ears like Martin Clunes, he was called wing nut.

I had a mate like that who hated being called Wing Nut, so he got renamed FA Cup.

[MarkRSi]

Seriously though, there must be more than one episode this season...?

TBH I don't mind the CGI/graphics at all (although I noticed it looked less "puppet/model" like this week), it's pretty much everything around it, the storyline/directing (too fast/complex, as above), the cheesiness of it all (seriously, Alan on a space surfboard?! ) etc. etc.

As also previously suggested, I suspect this will be all forgotten about in a few years time, like this previous attempt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvV0poJXdZc

[RosscoPCole]

Lady Penelope's car is not a Rolls Royce. There was a view of the front of the car and the radiator grill had a non RR look to it and the mascot certainly was not a flying lady.

[croyde]

My boys 9 and 12 have no interest in it and much to my disappointment they never liked Daddy watching DVDs of the olds ones

[Mopar440]

ecsrobin said:

I can honestly say I'm glad that's the end of the series.

Why is it the end of the series. According to the Radio Times, the next episode is on Saturday morning (April 18)?

[Vipers]

Bring back "Muffin the mule", "The flower pot men".

Remember that classic on air line when Ollie Owl ended with some time to go, and Muriel Young had to adlib, from memory goes something like this.

"Where have you been Ollie"

"I have been to the ball"

"I didn't know Owls had balls Ollie"

[fatboy18]

Vipers said:

Bring back "Muffin the mule"

Every Time I suggest that to the missus I get a scornful look and a thump!

[Matt_N]

Well it seems there is an ep 3 this morning and ep 4 next Saturday too.

[MarkRSi]

Just watched it, seemed a bit better - less cheesiness but still a little quick paced.

Plus, the Mole!

[telecat]

Something wierd going on at ITV. They started a new series with Griff Rhys Jones on episode four and Thunderbirds was touted as a three episode series which appears to have 5 at the moment. Wikipedia now confirms that there are 26 in the first season with a further 26 to come next year.

[Evangelion]

Vipers said:

Bring back "Muffin the mule", "The flower pot men".

Remember that classic on air line when Ollie Owl ended with some time to go, and Muriel Young had to adlib, from memory goes something like this.

"Where have you been Ollie"

"I have been to the ball"

"I didn't know Owls had balls Ollie"

His name was Ollie Beak! Philistine!


(Did you know that Ollie's mate Fred Barker was voiced by Ivan Owen, who later did Basil Brush?)

[Vipers]

Evangelion said:

His name was Ollie Beak! Philistine!


(Did you know that Ollie's mate Fred Barker was voiced by Ivan Owen, who later did Basil Brush?)

No. But I do now, cheers. Boom boom.

[ecsrobin]

telecat said:

Something wierd going on at ITV. They started a new series with Griff Rhys Jones on episode four and Thunderbirds was touted as a three episode series which appears to have 5 at the moment. Wikipedia now confirms that there are 26 in the first season with a further 26 to come next year.

Yes indeed everywhere was saying this was a 3 episode run then got a message this morning saying its on.

A very poor episode, they didn't cover how they will decontaminate both aircraft and the mole, how did they fill the hole the mole made, fingerless gloves in his NBC suit, and no gloves on hers. It's the future yet thunderbird 1 can't hold a hover yet a modern helicopter hardly moves in the hover and if in auto hover they don't move.

Again highly rushed, that countdown is definitely quicker than the old versions.

Also jumping into the aircraft like they do they're going to have dodgy knees and ankles by the time they get to 30.

[Evangelion]

Just watched all 3 episodes on ITV Player. Thought the sets, backgrounds, models and CGI were brilliant - but the people were AWFUL! I've seen better animation in 10-year-old computer games. Why didn't they just drop real people in and be done with it?

I see they also fell back on the old plot device of putting a timer display on a bomb - on the outside of a satellite where no-one was ever going to see it! And they're still labelling everything in sight!

I do love the new look TB2 though.

[LuS1fer]

Turning Parker into James Bond didn't really help.