Always loved the darker nature of this show. All around great concept. Loved all the designs too. Thunderbirds was a little before my time and frankly the oversized heads always freaked me out.
Always loved the darker nature of this show. All around great concept. Loved all the designs too. Thunderbirds was a little before my time and frankly the oversized heads always freaked me out.
Captain Scarlet was always my favourite, just by a whisker. It felt like a show exactly for me, the colour-coding appealed, I loved the vehicles, the stories were indeed a little darker and of course the music was brilliant. I could understand the motivation of both sides and always had a little sympathy for Captain Black.
In addition, I was old enough to know that indestructibility was also a curse, because you’d always be in the firing line, and being ”killed” would always hurt. There was a lot of pathos in that aspect of the show.
I loved the color coding as well. It appears many of the puppet makers and performers preferred the bigger heads. Understandable, but from a viewer perspective I prefer characters that were more proportional.
Scarlet happens to be my favorite color. Just look at my avatar! Which is from another character dressed in all red, Marine Boy.
Great show. Imagine the outrage if it was made today with the woke brigade complaining about the morals of a kids show that habitually (and violently!) kills the hero week after week. Mind you, at least it features women in senior roles so at least there is some wokie balance.
The opening credit scenes were really effective and scary, especially the jump cuts into Captain Black’s face - that stuff was frightening as hell!
Derek Meddings and Mike Trim really created some amazing vehicles for the show, especially the SPV which still looks cool today. Love the bonkers idea that the driver sits backwards!
Loved Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons on broadcast in the UK, as a 6-7 year old. Agree with all the positives expressed.
On the caricature Vs correct proportion issue, the argument is that if we're going to use puppets why go correct proportion and not actors? It's more forgiving to see funny puppets tottering around, but when we go to decent proportions it all looks very stiff, because movement then becomes UNITENTIONALLY funny.
Gerry Anderson hated being stuck with puppets but accepted up to a point that it was where his success was.
Anyway the production is superb. The visuals, music and the vocal talents are all top notch classic.
I remember The Golden Shot segment which featured Captain Scarlet. Sadly, the episodes doesn't exist. I ordered the Network Blu-ray release, which like their other titles, is stunning. Added bonus the release is region free. I would recommend the release to anyone.
I don't remember the exact quote in the video but someone said they really built up the drama in the series, like showing a close up of the tires of a vehicle grinding in the dirt before slipping and falling. Nowadays its just a bunch of quick cuts.
This so resonates with me! This is why I find modern action sequences so dull and boring, they don't build up the drama or tension. I also miss how films used to set the scene. Now they can't be bothered to set the scene or location. I guess that's considered to boring too.
I remember The Golden Shot segment which featured Captain Scarlet. Sadly, the episodes doesn't exist. I ordered the Network Blu-ray release, which like their other titles, is stunning. Added bonus the release is region free. I would recommend the release to anyone.
Great, thxs! Ive yet to get this. Since its region free I'll grab it.
Derek Meddings and Mike Trim really created some amazing vehicles for the show, especially the SPV which still looks cool today. Love the bonkers idea that the driver sits backwards!
I LOVED the SPV. The Dinky miniature was 1 of my 2 favorite toys (the other being the Thunderbird 2). Oh, the mileage I got out of those things! (I make no apologies for the size of the pic--for as long as the source is active, anyway.)
I remember The Golden Shot segment which featured Captain Scarlet. Sadly, the episodes doesn't exist. I ordered the Network Blu-ray release, which like their other titles, is stunning. Added bonus the release is region free. I would recommend the release to anyone.
Great, thxs! Ive yet to get this. Since its region free I'll grab it.
Like the other ITC titles Network has released, it's a stunning transfer. One of my favourites is Department S. I spent part of last Christmas watching this and UFO.
Derek Meddings and Mike Trim really created some amazing vehicles for the show, especially the SPV which still looks cool today. Love the bonkers idea that the driver sits backwards!
I LOVED the SPV. The Dinky miniature was 1 of my 2 favorite toys (the other being the Thunderbird 2). Oh, the mileage I got out of those things! (I make no apologies for the size of the pic--for as long as the source is active, anyway.)
It wasn’t especially accurate but that Dinky model was awesome. IIRC, you pressed the fin in the top to open the driver’s door and pushed down on the front of the vehicle to shoot the missile
Gerry Anderson hated being stuck with puppets but accepted up to a point that it was where his success was.
I was too old for this when it first aired (I started work around the "Four Feather Falls"/"Supercar" era). I remember reading somewhere, though, that by the time "Captain Scarlet" was made Anderson had come to really hate the stupid-looking gaits of the string puppets, so he started to make them more static and used more from-the-waist-up scenes to avoid the wires where possible.