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Gusset, I can see more time in the Agency's Research and Corrective Therapy Facility is needed for you. They aren't real palm trees. And they are mechanically operated when T2 needs to emerge. Rather like the walls of the Bat Cave - if you can even remember THAT!
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« Reply #151 on: 15:41:41, 24-07-2007 » |
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Report to Agent Mort at 21.00 hours for your treatment.
 I'm on my way. Thank you, sir. Oh, thank you. It was of course my friend who was confused, not me. But I'm quite prepared to take the corrective treatment on his behalf. Oh, I nearly forgot. I spotted this flying low over Hassocks as I came into work this morning. It's probably just the advance reconnaissance craft for an alien invasion, as most of these sightings turn out to be, and not what we are looking for at all. But I thought I should pass it on just in case.  And it's only a hunch at this stage, sir, but I've a feeling in my water that this may be one of those pieces of jigsaw that you in HQ are trying to put together.  |
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« Reply #152 on: 15:57:39, 24-07-2007 » |
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[quote author=George Garnett link=topic=1480.msg47803#msg47803 PS. A request for Info Dept, Agent Mort and Captain Martle and any other big green Thunderbird fans. You know, right, when lovely big green Thunderbird comes out, right. And you know all those palm trees bend backwards, right. Well, er, a friend of mine, not me obviously, but my friend, wants to know whether they are bending backwards to make room for lovely big green Thunderbird or whether it is the downthrust from lovely...BGT that is making the palm trees bend back (or possibly sideways, or even forward, my friend has just said). [/quote] Carefully analysing my cut-away blueprints of Thunderbird 2, I see that the angle of the vertical-take-off exhaust would make it impossible for a sideways exhaust blast to blow down palm trees. Obviously Brains' design takes into account that a sideways exhaust blast would be very dangerous and undesirable in any rescue operation. Therefore, I didn't even need to consult my cut-away blueprints of Tracy Island to deduce that the palm trees must be mechaniacally operated. --IgnorantThunderbirdsFan  |
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« Reply #153 on: 16:06:36, 24-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #154 on: 16:07:58, 24-07-2007 » |
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Ah, but were they moved by the woodwind, or shifted by the strings?
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« Reply #155 on: 16:16:57, 24-07-2007 » |
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Oh, I nearly forgot. I spotted this flying low over Hassocks as I came into work this morning. It's probably just the advance reconnaissance craft for an alien invasion, as most of these sightings turn out to be, and not what we are looking for at all. But I thought I should pass it on just in case. Thank you, Gusset. And well-observed; but as you can see, our people have the area covered already.  |
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« Reply #156 on: 16:29:41, 24-07-2007 » |
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Looks like you've got Brighton covered - but I'm off to Brussels in the morning and will keep 'em peeled - tricky chaps, those Eurocrats ...
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« Reply #157 on: 19:03:55, 24-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #158 on: 20:34:58, 24-07-2007 » |
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Ah, but were they moved by the woodwind, or shifted by the strings?
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« Reply #159 on: 22:58:28, 24-07-2007 » |
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Ah, but were they moved by the woodwind, or shifted by the strings?
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« Reply #160 on: 00:04:18, 25-07-2007 » |
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You're supposed to pretend you can't see the strings.
I'm not so sure about 'pretend'. It's a decision on the part of the audience that the strings aren't there and, as a result, they're not (c.f. the dezukai performance tradition in Japanese Bunraku theatre). That's why, IMHO, it was a monstrous mistake to try to reduce electronically the visibility of the strings in the most recent remasterings of Thunderbirds. If the strings are unashamedly visible the audience can decide not to perceive them. If, however, the strings are partially obliterated by electronic trickery the audience cannot fail to perceive 'failed obliterated' strings and the whole shebang loses theatrical reality. There's a moral in there somewhere.... I expect  . Deep Gusset |
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You're supposed to pretend you can't see the strings.
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If the strings are unashamedly visible the audience can decide not to perceive them. If, however, the strings are partially obliterated by electronic trickery the audience cannot fail to perceive 'failed obliterated' strings and the whole shebang loses theatrical reality.
The strings are all part of the charm. I remember how Thunderbirds was my favourite programme when it first came out and I was about 10 years old. Then it was replaced by Captain Scarlet which I could never warm to and I assumed it was because I was just getting older. But in Captain Scarlet the heads of the puppets are noticeably smaller because the technology had improved by then to make the puppets appear more realistic. But more realism meant that some of the magic had gone. |
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« Reply #163 on: 00:26:40, 25-07-2007 » |
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By the way, my favourite Thunderbird was number 3.  Sorry to have interrupted what is a serious thread. Back to the whereabouts of Oliver's CD (perhaps we should be looking in outer space). I wonder whether he found it a couple of days ago and he's too embarrassed to admit it, because it was in an obvious place.  |
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I wonder whether he found it a couple of days ago and he's too embarrassed to admit it, because it was in an obvious place. I'm sure wherever it is it's in a more obvious place than some of the suggestions so far! But the replacement should arrive soon which will doubtless winkle out the original, wherever it is. |
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