You know, there was one big opportunity that the Thunderbirds reboot didn’t take and I really wish they had: finally actually doing something with Kyrano. I know everybody remembers him as a slightly problematic stereotype, and I guess to some extent he was, but he was one of my favorite of the puppets because he was usually the only one who actually got to show some emotion when his child was in danger. (Aww, tiny puppet tears!)
Anyway, I don’t think it came up even once in the original show, but apparently in the comics his backstory was that he was a genius-level botanist who created synthetic foods for astronauts, and when I read about that I was like DUDE THIS GUY IS A EXPERT FOOD SCIENTIST WHO YOU’D REALLY WANT IN A SCIENCE LAB AND INSTEAD HE’S THE MANSERVANT WHO’S ONLY THERE TO SERVE DRINKS AND SAY ‘YES MR TRACY’ I KNOW IT WAS THE SIXTIES BUT SERIOUSLY. So I really wish the new show had brought him back, not as a servant, and had him doing space botany. (I hear it’s very in right now.)