Tuesday 21 April 2015

Thunderbirds are Go - 'Crosscut'

"Help! My face is stretched across the inside of my visor!"
I joke about the uncanny valley a lot in regard to CGI productions, but it's especially apparent in this week's Thunderbirds are Go, as the visors on the radiation proof masks worn by Scott and guest character Marian van Arkel (voiced by Theresa Gallagher of Alphablocks fame) eerily distort their features across the available surface.

In the absence of the other brothers, Scott and Virgil set out to reseal an old Uranium mine in South Africa, before a storm front blows radioactive dust across Pretoria. The unsealing turns out to be the work of Marian, daughter of the mine's former owners, who were ruined by the death of the nuclear industry in and around the same conflict of 2040 that created last week's stealth satellite. She plans to restore her family's wealth by selling refined Uranium to the Hood, but comes good in the end during a daring escape from the mine in Scott's company.

She also tries to kill him with an aliens-style power loader, which is close enough to a forklift for my money.


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