Thunderbirds Terror in New York City review

Here's what you need to know; while returning to base from a mission, Thunderbird 2 comes under attack from the US Navy, and is badly damaged. Things don't exactly get better when development in New York goes horribly wrong, trapping Ned Cook and his camera man underground, with Thunderbird 2 crippled, International Rescue are forced to get creative.

This episode is almost certainly a favourite of mine purely for the first 10 minutes or so. After a pretty sweet sequence with the Firefly and Thunderbird 1 chasing Ned and his cameraman, there is one of the coolest things that happened in the original Thunderbirds. I absolutely adore the sequence in which Thunderbird 2 is under missile attack, from beginning to end it is just brilliant, there's some tension when TB2 goes into a dive, and then there's the crash, which is just nuts. First off it's a very violent crash, it's not the happy ending crash from Thunderbirds Are Go, TB2 comes in on fire, slams down on the runway, and slides along the runway, still on fire, billowing thick black smoke, it just  looks like a painful crash, and that, as I've said many times, is something the new CG Thunderbirds will never do, this crash has some real weight to it, and I love it. For me personally though the episode kind of drops of after the awesome crash, you see the Empire State building collapse, which is pretty cool, and towards the end when the finance building is leaning things ramp up again, but there's some down time in between with Ned underground and the water coming up, and for some reason I'm just not as interested here, Ned Cook is a character that doesn't interest me, and while the US Army and Air traffic control actually made rescue attempts, most of this episode is Thunderbird 4 hanging onto the side of a ship while the water comes up in Ned and his cameraman's underground tomb. Like I said though the episode picks up when the finance building starts to collapse, because I don't think the finale of this episode would be anywhere near as intense as it was is there wasn't the added threat of the building collapse, I liked the finale of this episode, and it does have a good amount of tension, but it doesn't make up for the rest of the episode, especially considering the awesome first 10 minutes.

This episode has one of my favourite sequences in Thunderbirds ever in it's opening, and it more than makes up for an otherwise underwhelming episode on it's own. That said, the rest of the episode is still a bit underwhelming for me. But I loved the first 10 minutes and the finale, just not everything else, still, it's worth a watch.