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74. Thunderbirds - paulg235
https://youtu.be/a2n0widQ4nA

Unique: 5.5
Story: 0.5
Music: 5.75
Animation: N/A
Personal: 3
Average: 3.6875

I struggled a bit with the Unique score for this one. On the one hand, you dont see a lot of shows filmed with animatronic puppets or whatever these are. On the other hand, much of the intro is just random action clips and a conventional introduction to each of the characters. In the end, I decided this was above average on novelty, not simply because of the puppetry, but also the striking countdown at the start, and since the overall presentation stands out from so many other intros on the list (even if that is partly because its from the 60s).

The music starting at around 0:36 is pretty good. To me, it sounds like the score for the intro to some classic Western, but it still works for this very non-Western sequence.

Theres virtually no sense of story though. To be fair, Im sure its not easy to get much personality out of these kind of figures, but just showing stills of each of the characters certainly wasnt the best way to do it. And I dont have much of a sense of what this show is about other than puppets flying around in rockets.

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