Thunderbirds Then and Now – Part 2
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Oooh, I saw the reboot of Thunderbirds today! It was pretty good. I bet kids will love it.
I’m glad that they’ve taken out some of the iffier aspects of the original, i.e. Kyrano being the Tracy family’s “manservant” (come to think of it, I’m not sure he was even in it) and the ‘evil Asian mystic’ stereotype the Hood was. Also TinTin is played by Angel Coulby! (And she’s not called TinTin anymore but seems to have two different names? And is a main character now? Good!)
I hate the stiffness/uncanny-valley-ness of the CGI characters but everything else was fine. I always liked Thunderbirds (even the movie!) for its optimism – it’s nice to have a near-future story where there’s no nuclear war, things are generally Quite Pleasant, and rich people spend all their money on giant space machines to rescue people from earthquakes
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I’m v. bored and have more important things I should be doing. Give me a fandom I know and a character or ship, and I’ll write you a drabble. :)
Icons and mood theme
There’s quite a lot of stuff here. :p
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This works much the same as the Revenge of the Sith mood theme. :D
Teasers:
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Please credit for the mood theme, it took absolutely ages.
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Enjoy!
Brushes by calixa, booster_rocket and jeweledicecream
Screencaps by/from oxoniensis, gypsyjr, litt1er3d, here and rottentomatoes.com. Most of the ones from the first Spiderman movie by me. :D
Textures from Tre-xture
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Icons!
A multi-fandom icon post, the first one in a while. :) Comment, credit, please don’t hotlink!
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Wallpapers are available for taking, just please don’t claim them as your own or anything like that. :)
Brushes by calixa. :)
Spiderman screencaps by oxoniensis and goddess_raven
Thunderbirds screencaps by gypsyjr and litt1er3d
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I’ve got to stop going to the movies, because I inevitably seem to wind up in the fandom afterwards. That being said, the Thunderbirds fandom seems like a really nice one. :)
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Most of the screencaps by the lovely gypsyjr, and brushes by calixa
3- Lyrics from the Space song of the same name. :)
23- I’m liking this one less and less every time I look at it (the icon, not Scott) so will probably wind up changing it.
Oh yeah…comment and credit and don’t hotlink, please. :D
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Thunderbirds are gooooooo
So…anyway. Went to see Thunderbirds today. Yeah, bit late, I know…
-Y’know, just once, I want to see a geeky girl be a) a good guy and b) win.
-The kids were seriously sterotypical…y’know, hero/smart girl/nerd. (Incidently, this reminds me an awful lot of what Steve Kloves is attempting to do with HP, if you subsitute ‘nerd’ with ‘comic relief’) It’s a bit annoying, but eh.
-I can’t help but wish we got more backstory. I like backstory. And we didn’t really get very much…
-Heh, Lady Penelope ownz this movie. (although why did her and the smart girl keep holding hands and grinning at each other? o.O?)
-On the ending…I was sort of hoping that the ending would be Alan’s dad telling him he has to go back to school, but when he comes back he can be a Thunderbird, and this time he agrees…but that didn’t happen. Eh. I know he learns a lesson in the movie (namely saving Ben Kingsley from a grinding metal something despite not wanting to) but I’m not sure if it was the same lesson he was supposed to be setting out to learn. Especially since, as far as I remember, in the end scene he’s still not listening to his father, so I guess that hasn’t really changed much. Oh well. Will probably rent it on DVD or something when it’s out, so I can see if there’s anything I missed.
(thoughts edited in next day, because I do that all the time too)
-Thiinking about it a little more, maybe what the filmmakers were trying to go for was that Alan really just wanted the excitement of being a Thunderbird, and didn’t really think about the whole saving-people thing, but by the end he’s figured that it’s about the people (even if you’d rather not save them) and not about the nifty flying things. I think. Like I said, I’ll have to watch it again really.
-Speaking of the nifty flying things, aka the Thunderbirds themselves, I want one. We used to have a bunch of little metal Thunderbird toys. *sniffle* I think it’s possible that the little Thunderbird 4 met an early end in the goldfish pond.
-I wish they’d actually developed the other Tracy brothers. They didn’t really do much, and you can hardly tell them apart. It could’ve been really interesting…they could’ve taken out the whole Alan/smart girl suplot, since it really didn’t go anywhere, and made some room for the others…what I’d’ve have done was maybe have one of the boys (Okay, yeah, I’ll admit I know very few of the names) think that maybe the Thunderbirds should be seeking more glory since from what I remember no-one actually knows who’s flying those things, and then you could have whoever’s the second-youngest sympathise more with Alan while everyone else reckons he’s just a whiny teen, and…so on. It could’ve been interesting, and besides, just following the kids got annoying after a while.
-Although I did like that Alan and Brains’s kid actually started off as friends, because usually in those movies it’s all ‘hero doesn’t appreciate nerdy kid, hero picks on nerdy kid, hero and nerdy kid slowly become friends over course of the movie’ What was his name, anyway? Fermat? I’m going to have to watch the TV show eventually and see who was in the movie that wasn’t in that, and vice versa. I’m fairly sure the other kids weren’t, but I could be wrong.
-I really think too much about kid’s movies. I’m fairly sure this one no-one planned for anyone to think too much about. Heh.
Probably won’t buy it on DVD (dude, I won’t be able to afford it…current DVD want-list is POA, Spiderman2, and ROTK special edition) but I’ll probably rent it. And see if I can find the old videos of the TV show, since I know they’re around here somewhere…
So, in conclusion: it had a bunch of flaws but I liked it.
Random thingy: We used to go to Cleethorpes for our holiday every year. At the beach there, they had some blue amphibian trucks that would ride people out to the sea. They were called the Funderbirds. :) There were two. They were nifty.
I swear, I’m going to go back and redo all my movie reviews one day. This bullet-point format thing bugs me.