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Thunderbirds are go!
Today's activities
Writing: Harry Potter fic
Reading: Stargate fic
Watching: Thunderbirds
Thunderbirds is yet another beloved childhood show that I never actually saw in childhood. My co-workers have been talking it up and one of them had a video of the very first episode which she pressed on me. (To everyone else's jealousy -- there's a queue to watch it now.)
If you've not seen it, it's the futuristic adventures of International Rescue, which is kind of like my three sons with a lot more sons and some rocket ships. Also, the actors are actually marionettes.
This ep involved some archaeologists out in the Sahara, looking for this legendary lost pyramid. Which they find. It's filled with treasure and with evil aliens. At least I think they're aliens. They look kind of like Kang.
Scott Tracy to the rescue in Thunderbird 1! Excitement ensues and the whole pyramid, along with all the priceless ancient Egyptian artifacts, is destroyed. Easy come, easy go.
This show is just as campy and cool as everybody told me.
Now I'm off to the mall to see how much they want for the DVDs.
F.A.B.!
Brains/Thunderbird 4
I watched this all the way through as a kid. There were bundles of these on the telly. Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Stingray (Stingray! duh duh der dun der dun!)
They are supreme viewing, and I begged pleaded and virtually prostituted myself at the age of 8 to get the Thunderbird 4 model. Of course, as T4 only comes in a T2 Pod, Mum had to get me a T2 as well. Thunderbird 4, being bright yellow is clearly much better than any other Tbird. T3 is the weak-cousin of the bunch, as it only appears in about 10 eppies.
The Tracy boys are all afflicted with strange eyebrows, which has coloured my later sexual preference no end! And it's also where I learned to dislike blonds. Gordon is *such* a wimp! I don't know why they let him drive T4. It's made for much more sensual hands!
Brains is the key character to the whole shebang. Without him they'd be working out of an old fire-station in NY, and be the laughing stock of the Animatronic community!
The Hood is muay cool baddie... "those eyes... those horrible staring eyes...
Rock on!