Thunderbirds Sun Probe review

Here's what you need to know; things start to heat up for the crew of the Sun Probe when their rocket's retros fail to fire, and they fall into a collision course with the Sun, International Rescue is called to the rescue, but things only get worse from there.

This episode starts slow, with the Sun Probe launch taking up a good few minutes, yes the rocket launch is cool, but purely on the principle that it's a rocket launch and they're always cool, but this episode takes a noticeably long time to get interesting. On Tracy island it's cool to see Brains working on his new robot, and every time it spoke I couldn't help but think of the Daleks from the 1965 Dr Who film with Peter Cushing, does anyone even know that exists? Something I really liked is a very simple moment when Brains is watching the Sun Probe on TV and he says they're not going to make it, doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually pretty eerie. I also really like the rescue itself, which involves Thunderbird 3 and Thunderbird 2 trying to fire the rocket's retros remotely. And it's cool to see the 2 sides of the rescue, with Scott, Alan and Tintin in Thunderbird 3 flying towards the sun, and Virgil and Brains in Thunderbird 2 in the Himalayas. But then the big twist happens, and this episode becomes a lot more intense and cool in my opinion, not just because of the immediate rise in tension, but in the subtle emotional stuff, it really works, and while the finale lacks any real explosive punch, it reaches a peak of intensity this show hasn't reached for a while, and it really works. All in all, this episode is a bit of a slow burn, but as the temperature rises, so does the amount of fun this episode offers, it's got some real tension towards the end, and some subtle emotional stuff for added substance, so I'd highly recommend this episode, definitely worth watching.