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Thunderbirds Are Go! 2nd Episode HD Mystery
Robin McInnes
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Is it just me, or has something gone awry with the episode listing of the new Thunderbirds series on ITV?
I Sky-Plussed episode 1 (Ring Of Fire, Part 1) on ITV HD Saturday evening and, despite my innate low expectations of the re-vamp, I quite enjoyed it.
There is an episode 2 (Ring Of Fire, Part 2) scheduled on CITV, on Thursday afternoon I think, but, unless I'm missing something, there is no HD version of CITV on the Sky platform.
Episode 3 (Space Race) is shown with a strange title, 'Scrambled Thunderbirds Are Go!', on Saturday morning at 8.00am on ITV HD, which I've set my Sky+ to record. (I hope it isn't really scrambled...)
But I cannot seem to find an HD broadcast of Ring Of Fire, Part 2 anywhere on my Sky EPG. Has anyone else been more successful at all?
I Sky-Plussed episode 1 (Ring Of Fire, Part 1) on ITV HD Saturday evening and, despite my innate low expectations of the re-vamp, I quite enjoyed it.
There is an episode 2 (Ring Of Fire, Part 2) scheduled on CITV, on Thursday afternoon I think, but, unless I'm missing something, there is no HD version of CITV on the Sky platform.
Episode 3 (Space Race) is shown with a strange title, 'Scrambled Thunderbirds Are Go!', on Saturday morning at 8.00am on ITV HD, which I've set my Sky+ to record. (I hope it isn't really scrambled...)
But I cannot seem to find an HD broadcast of Ring Of Fire, Part 2 anywhere on my Sky EPG. Has anyone else been more successful at all?
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As for Saturday, Scrambled is the name of the the block of programmes on CITV that Thunderbirds Are Go is being aired in - similar to Milkshake! on Channel 5. As there's no Good Morning Britain on ITV on Saturday mornings, ITV simulcast CITV instead.
Ahh... that explains everything, thanks. (The way the Sky EPG preface the title like that is a bit unnecessary and confusing though.)
I hadn't spotted that the Saturday morning & CITV episodes are only 30 minutes long; I suppose I'd just assumed that, as it was Thunderbirds, each episode would be an hour long as per the original format. It doesn't bode too well for story development though, does it?
I wonder if they don't believe the kids of today have attention spans that long, or if it's just a question of economics? Retrograde step anyway.
First impressions are the thing looks horrendous.
Awful CGI makes none of the characters look like the old ones.
And there are no strings. :mad:
this weekend is the last weekend of scrambled so next saturday your epg will just say thunderbirds are go
I felt exactly the way you do about the re-vamp as you do, until I watched it.
As a long-time Gerry Anderson fan who remembers all his series from first time around in the 1960s I feared the worst, but I was pleasantly surprised. They have at least tried. The sets that the CGI characters are in are genuine physical models, made in much the same way as the originals were. And there are some nicely subtle allusions to the original as well, which will no doubt sail right over the current 'target audience's' heads. (They've even put a lemon squeezer on the wall of the TB1 launch silo, for example.)
Put it this way... There is absolutely no way it could be as good as the original, but it could have been a hell of a lot worse!
Unlike, say, Doctor Who.
I doubt that they would because the other Gerry Anderson revamp Captain Scarlet was similarly shat all over as they buried it in the Saturday morning TV show Ministry of Mayhem in 2005. They split it up into two bits and even showed the final episode out of order by showing it before the penultimate episode.
Without repeating the countdown, it wouldn't be Thunderbirds! Also the loading sequence and the take off sequence were regularly reused on the original.
I like the new Thuderbirds (not as good as the original), but please, they have updated the theme but it's not a patch on the original. They should have stayed with it.