Thunderbirds is to date the TV show that I can think of that has fans not only from it's original 1965 run but also from it's repeat viewings in the nineteen nineties and it's not hard to see why. As this show has action , suspense , romance and comedy all packed into a single episode of the show and well with the show fastly approaching it's sixtieth anniversary I thought that i'd take a look at an episode of the show and so then join me as I review the episode that is really a huge let down when compared to the shows first episode with the episode in question being called simply just "Pit Of Peril" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is during a military exhibition a machine carrying three men falls down a hole with the hole getting by the second and the crew almost out of air it's up to International Rescue to rescue them and safe the day. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented t us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue as this episodes plot wasn't that good either while it was a very entertaining plot t just wasn't as gripping as the plot to the first episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Peter Dyneley as Jeff Tracy and Lieutenant Ralph , James Bond star Shane Rimmer as Scott Tracy and Johnny and David Holliday as Virgil Tracy. Also starring in this episode is British voice acting great David Graham as Brains , General Peters , Sergeant Reynolds and Frank , Ray Barrett as John Tracy , Lieutenant Mead and Colonel Sweeney and Matt Zimmerman as A Helicopter Pilot and Charlie.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of the actors turning in some really good performances which for this show isn't all that shocking as this show from what I can remember anyway has always had some really good acting in it and what helps that cast out here is the fact that the script for this episode is so good that all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
This show features the debut of the fan favorite machine The Mole which has the ability to dig underground. This is a machine that I really don't remember all that given that it can only be useful in one type of rescue mission which means that the machine doesn't get used all that much which is a shame because it does look really cool and it must have made an impact on some people as it played a key role in the terrible 2004 live action movie Thunderbirds if only it could do more things that just dig underground which would make it alot more useful for other type of rescue missions bug as it is it is a fairly solid machine.
This episode doesn't feature Alan , Gordon , Parker or any of the shows female cast of characters which does make sense. As they really wouldn't ave been able to do much in this episode give that the episode mostly takes place in the forest and so all they'd be doing is just appearing in what would basically be nothing more then cameo roles ad that is something that wouldn't do the characters any kind of justice and while I would have liked to have seen them in this episode i'd rather not have them in the episode then have them in the episode but in a cameo role as these characters are only suited for certain stories and this episode just wouldn't suit them.
What i'm surprised that they didn't do in this episode is go hard on an environmental message as that would have been very easy to do. As at the start of the episode the machine that needs rescuing is seen trampling through a forest and destroying tree's and so nobody would have blamed the makers of this show if they instead chose to go in really hard on an environmental message as that is something that they could have tought the shows kid audience but no instead the message was rather suitable an not really very heavy handed and that made it all the more impactful,then if it was a very heavy handed message.
I'm just going to be real, this episode just didn't do it for me as it was a very boring with the titular rescue taking alot of time to really get going. This isn't helped by the fact that the episode is just downright boring with the episode lacking any of the thrills that you'd expect from this show which is understandable as every single show out there is going to have bad episodes in it but at the same time each episode of this show is basically a mini movie and in the case of this episode the story just isn't there to make to feel like a movie and there's no thrills or tension and so there's really no reason for anyone to watch this episode as all it would do is leave you feeling bored quite alot of the time when you should be on the edge of your seat with excitement.
Now then this episode has /had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty minuets and forty seconds. Which for this story isn't the right amount of time for this episode to have as there's not really enough story there to cover that large amount of running time even with the episodes first twenty or so minuets which was added to every episode to pa the episodes out to fifty minuets and even with that padding there the episode still just doesn't have alot of story to cover that really large amount with those first twenty minuets feeling like just that padding as apart from showing how it is that the machine in question fell into the pit nothing within those first twenty minuets plays into the rest of the episode but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episodes action being for the most part very entertaining but again t's a huge step down form the heart pounding action that we got n the shows first episodes and alot of that comes down to the fact that the machine that's being rescued is this big lumbering thing and that doesn't really lend itself to exciting action packed sequences in my freaking opinions anyway / at least.
Overall while this was a hugely entertaining episode it's an episode that could have been so much better then what we ultimately ended up with with the episode just being a step down interms of quality from the shows first episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very review from the official Thunderbirds fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the really wonderful the official Thunderbirds fandom wiki page as since all of the images that are currently up and featured to us up and on the really great and really wonderful on the official Thunderbirds fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being all really fairly freaking high in definition.