New CG Thunderbirds Are Go Trailer – Better Than the Original?
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Like Rob Bricken’s persistent phobia of E.T., this is a drum I’m going to keep beating: for all the talk about “uncanny valley” and CG characters that we hear nowadays, nothing about digital cartoons is remotely as creepy as Gerry Anderson’s marionettes were. NOTHING. Thunderbirds may be a property that does not belong in live-action, but with glassy-eyed puppets it’s only good for nightmare fuel of the wrong kind, as far as I’m concerned. I have always believed this and I stand by it.
So this new CG version? It looks a million percent better to me. And if that makes me sound like George Lucas, so be it. I’ll dig out my one and only plaid shirt for solidarity.
via ComicBook.com
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