Thunderbirds City of Fire review

Here's what you need to know; an experimental new gas developed by Brains is about to get it's first field test when a 3000 foot high mega tower goes up in flames, and a family get trapped in the underground car park, with the temperature rising and timing running out, International Rescue must go all or nothing.

I'll start with something that grabbed my attention immediately, the tower itself, it's a really cool idea, and something I've seen a few times in science fiction, what sprung to mind when watching this a few hours ago was Dredd, the idea of a self contained city inside a single, massive building, it's cool, sadly what also came to mind was the 1993 attack on the World Trade Centre. This disaster had nothing to do with terrorism though, just an idiot driver, but this episode does a really awesome job of showing just how big this disaster is, of course it could have been more, but like the atomic explosion in The Mighty Atom, with what they had, they did a great job. It's not really an issue as such, but I still feel they could have better represented the size of the disaster more still, it is a kids show however, maybe that would be a bit heavy. Again though, as the fire consumes the building, it's actually pretty frightening to watch, notably when it takes the car park and when the firefighters are forced to leave, the white hot ferocity of the fire is really unsettling to me for some reason. The family in question are serviceable in their role as trapped family, but their situation isn't as gripping as Fireflash or Sidewinder, they are overshadowed, quite literally in this case, by the inferno above them. When International Rescue show up, this is the most intense Thunderbirds has been for a while, having established that the gas isn't safe, they are now going to use it in a rescue without any further testing, how does that not sound nail biting, and it absolutely is as the smoke gets thicker, the temperature goes up, and the ceiling gets more and more unstable, it really is good shit. All in all the weakest element of this episode; the trapped family, fades into the background with how enjoyable the rest of the episode is, with an awesome and frightening disaster, and a really intense rescue, and without fanboying, more Firefly, and more Mole, icing on the cake, definitely worth watching.