Analogue Boy
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I'm guessing 8am Saturday.
Turns out he's meant to be Indian (fast becoming the go-to ethnicity for fictional super-bright nerds.) Bizarrely, it also transpires he's voiced by Kayvan Novak, who's brilliant at voices, esp south Asian ones, so what's he playing at here?.. what in the name of all that's holy is going on with Brains? That accent? Punjabi, Welsh, or South African? Or all three in one sentence..
The last episode featured a Supreme Hadron Collider
Duly nicked and Facebooked.
Now that I MUST see!
I was very impressed - I was ready to hate it, but it was witty, self referential, followed the puppet aesthetic very well, had some nice updates and followed the spirit very nicely. Mind you in this world everyone knows about IR, so why still all have those contrived launch methods?
It contrasts nicely with New Captain Scarlett, which went down the realism route and was, basically, fantastic.
As an aside has anyone ever noticed that Thunderbirds and Terrahawks are in the same universe, whereas Captain Scarlett cannot be?
That's a real effect. We for the most part are designed to see the past as rose-tinted and inevitably one has to reach a certain age to be able to look back on anything.I suppose the web is boiling with the disgruntled fury of middle-aged blokes moaning 'It's not like the old days'.
But it's worth remembering that nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Ha! Guessing that like me you sat there and went "Aaahh! Bloody hell......"...And Richard Osman pointed out that Parker is a very appropriate name for a chauffeur - all these years and I never got the pun...
I recall her being on Blankety-Blank and Kenny Everett ragged her so hard about her voice being put on, including mimicking it, she eventually told him to 'something' off in a normal voice...he got her.Sandra Dickinson was on Pointless Celebrities tonight, and mentioned Thunderbirds! She said she does a deeper voice for Granny Tracy, and she did sound more like her helium-voiced self on the quiz. But why hire Sandra Dickinson and get her to do a deep voice?!
Ha! Guessing that like me you sat there and went "Aaahh! Bloody hell......"
I recall her being on Blankety-Blank and Kenny Everett ragged her so hard about her voice being put on, including mimicking it, she eventually told him to 'something' off in a normal voice...he got her.
Parker is a very appropriate name for a chauffeur - all these years and I never got the pun...