I rewatched them a few years ago and yeah, you kind of forget it was made in the 60s and then bam, it suddenly reminds you in the worst way. And I often felt it dragged at the beginning. The shorter running time of TAG feels much better to me.
Same! There’s a whole episode about bad woman drivers at one point. Bah! Plus, the treatment of the Kyranos gets really off when you flick through the backstory and realise that Tin-Tin was supposed to have degrees in maths and engineering but rarely got to use them, and her father was meant to be an expert in creating synthetic food or something but never got to do anything other than say “Yes Mr Tracy” all the time!
confidenceandparanoiasaid: The
first time someone tweeted about the show on my timeline I clicked on
the replies and only made it to the third one before seeing my first BUT
BRAINS ISN’T INDIAN comment. I was disappointed but not at all
surprised.
I feel slightly bad putting this out here since she is a lovely person, but when I asked my mother-in-law (well, soon-to-be mother-in-law) if she watched the show, she say, “oh no, because they’ve made the characters Indian now!” At my look, she reassured me that it wasn’t because of the Indian-ness, her complaint would be the same if they’d made anybody French, she just didn’t like the characters from her childhood being messed with. Or something.
-does anyone actually regulate the Tracys, or do they have a sort of Iron Man ‘privatised world peace!’ deal going on. who pays out in the very likely case of industrial accidents. do they have a good lawyer
-are wars and political turmoil all but extinct by the 2060s or do IR ever get themselves involved in that as well? rescuing refugees from war-torn countries for example. if so, where do the people go afterwards, what are the ramifications, do major world powers ever get pissed at a bunch of mostly-Americans sticking their noses in
-do IR have a large team of doctors and psychologists on hand, for both pilots and disaster victims alike? if not, that’s probably something they should look into. john, you have had no human contact for weeks and you’re talking to a bagel, etc
-why did they switch john and gordon’s hair colours. this unreasonably annoys me
-is it really just a handful of people maintaining ALL THOSE machines and keeping their paint jobs perfect? HOW. surely International Rescue should be employing upwards of 200 people just on the island, and that’s not even counting keeping the swimming pool clean
-logically wouldn’t more of the world be dubious about a organization that lets a teenage boy pilot a rocket
-logically wouldn’t more of the world be dubious about them anyway due to past and present american/western imperialism and the fact that every single one of those machines could be weaponised and/or cause a major incident due to sabotage or poor safety standards. what have you done, jeff
-what the hell happened to lucille tracy I’ve seen three different variations on how she died