Thunderbirds Are Go Skyhook review

Here's what you need to know; things go wrong for a research team aboard a high altitude weather station when a malfunction sends them rising into space,  International Rescue dive in to save the day, but they may have finally met their match with this rescue.

I got a similar feeling watching Skyhook to when I watched Runaway, after a disappointing episode, we get this, an episode that's good. First off this episode actually is interesting, rather than the typical tomb raiding of Tunnels in Time, the weather station is gaining altitude and cannot be stopped, this episode has some sciency stuff going on, and it makes for some of the best moments in the entire series so far, one in particular with Thunderbird 2 that is just entirely awesome. All 3 of the main Thunderbird machines are used in this episode, and each one runs into complications that make for said awesome moments, and Thunderbird 5 plays a very important role in this episode, as does it's gravity ring, a technology that I'd do an idiocy post about if I had anything worth writing about it. This episode's finale is brilliant, as Thunderbird 5 goes into uncharted territory as a makeshift rescue vehicle, and things literally start to get heavy. The character of Fischler is an interesting character, but perhaps not in the same positive way I usually use that word, I like some things about his character, I like his insane recklessness and complete lack of responsibility and awareness, but it is somewhat extreme, even for a kids show, the guy is a cartoon, and it's impossible take him seriously. Also there's a reasonably important plot point that is brought up and then completely forgotten, this could be minor if it wasn't important, but it was, and it was just dropped, which makes no sense.

I really like this episode, it's easily as good as Space Race or Runaway, it's sciency and it has some really awesome moments with the Thunderbird machines. The episode isn't perfect, it has a plot point that goes nowhere and makes no sense, and one of it's main characters is a cartoon that can't be taken seriously, but that is more than made up for with some awesome Thunderbirds action and a brilliant finale, I'd say this episode is worth a watch.