Thunderbirds Are Go - 2015 Series

Excellent - Stephen, have a hug!

And yeah, looks good. Neato on an actual space hotel, something that is rarely used in sci-fi.

Mark

 

I prefer the original TB2 design too and that's why I like the new design because it's kept fairly close to the original.

TB5 is way too big for my tastes.

 

Spoiler: Spoilers

The Hood appears to be stealing Thunderbird 1 (or at least trying to) in an upcoming episode.

 

Saturday's episode had a nice bit of meta-Anderson stuff, with Shadow/SHADO Moonbase Alpha having the big sphere of the the SHADO Moonbase, and the wider layout of the Space: 1999 one.
As an aside, the dialogue establishes that this Thunderbirds is set 100 years after 1969, so maybe five years or so later than the original series.

 

Here's the next Thunderbird...I hope
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/11/skreemr-hypersonic-passenger-plane.html

 

The original FAB 1 makes an appearance as FAB 0

 

Liked this week's episode. It was good finally seeing Thunderbird S in action.

 

I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable landing and taking off in Thunderbird S - one slight mistake and you're a smear on the rocks

 

It's certainly a different way of launching/landing. The landing gear/legs did remind me somewhat of Terrahawk as well.

 

Pretty good ending to series 1. And The Hood, like the old show, is working for some other unknown organisation. They even used his 'Agent 79' alias too.

Also, loved the multiple vehicle launch sequence; especially the sweep down underwater to see Thunderbird 4.

 

Apparently the second season might use even more physical models for certain sequences, most notably the vehicles themselves:

 

Haven't seen anything majorly wrong with the CGI versions so I wonder why the change.

Though perhaps this time around TB2 won't come back a different shade of green after each trip to the model shop

 

It's likely another nod to the original, I doubt they'll use it all the time.

 

Whoa, that totally gave me chills. The stock footage launch sequences in every episode are arguably the only parts of Anderson(esque) shows that never get old.

And I've been missing several episodes it seems. Time to binge!

Mark

 

Amazon Prime ordered more episodes beyond the already aired 26 episodes. I think the production design of TAG Thunderbirds vehicles and Tracy Island are an excellent revision of the original '65 Gerry Anderson series, unlike the disappointing 2004 live-action movie.

 

How does that work? As far as i am aware, this is an ITV show (and ITV has ordered a second series - so it's not cancelled). What agency has Amazon beyond a licence for digital distribution?

 

I suspect it's more a case that Amazon Prime has renewed it's contract for S2. As for why the production team has done a better job than the disappointing 2004 movie.

No doubt a fair few of those invovled grew up on the show either during it's first run or re-runs. So they wanted to make it in the spirit of the orginal show. Perhaps part of the reason of the failure of the 2004 movie is that it strayed to far from the source material, nothing wrong with trying to reinvent something for modern tastes but what we in essence got was a young persons movie, when what we should have got was an action movie aimed at a wider audiance.

 

I like both the original '65 Thunderbird 2 design and the TAG 2015 Thunderbird 2 design, but I did not like the 2004 live-action film Thunderbird 2 design.

 

They all have their place.

 

True, like all revisions/reboots of all franchises. I am still grateful for a live-action Thunderbirds 2004 film being made.