End of the Road.

Fire Without Flint or Tinder: The opening bit reminds me of Tim the Enchanter.

Multi-National: I like that they used an Asian extra. Nice thought, even if his accent is slightly more cringeworthy than Kyrano's.

Steering Colomn: The tractor controls are very similar to TB1's. Have they done away with the steering wheel in the future?

"Rockfall! Reverse back! Reverse back!": As opposed to reversing forward, Eddie?

Beeg Truck: Love the huge fat road laying machine, but you've got to feel sorry for Bob Gray. The ladder down the side almost completely covers his name. Wonder which partner approved the design specs...

Beeg Truck 2: The immense coolness of the road laying machine. Wonder if they had to lay roadbed before they took it through...?

Copy: The tractor going up inside the the huge fat road laying machine. Very TB2.

Matters of Lurve: This is the episode that manages to bugger up my feeble grasp of the continuity. So... Tin Tin and Alan are apparently not doing naughty things at this stage, but Grandma is around to hint to Tin Tin and give Alan advice. However, in Move - And You're Dead, the episode in which Grandma comes to live on Tracy Island, the dialogue seems to indicate that they're together (Alan and Tin Tin, not Grandma and anyone. Thank fuck). Maybe this was just a visit... although she said she was going to go and cook dinner, which you wouldn't expect a guest to do. Maybe Tin Tin and Alan had an on-again-off-again thing going. But even so, you'd think Alan would have some cause to complain when Tin Tin starts going out with Eddie (we were on a break!). Ah well, it's Thunderbirds, it's not like they have an arc plot or anything.

Kill the Mutant!: Scott's knees bend backwards. How freaky is that?

Poser. Again: Virg draping himself over the sofa just as Eddie arrives.

Everybody Shoved Him/I Very Nearly Loved Him: I don't know what Tin Tin sees in Eddie, he's an ugly little bugger. And it can't be money, his company's barely above the water, and Alan stands to inherit plenty.

Cruelty: I love that scene where Alan's picking morosely at the piano and Virg and Gordon are out on the balony (which, from what we've seen in other episodes, is Alan and Tin Tin's little love spot) taking the piss. That's how you deal with a sibling's pain...

Cruisin': You can just picture it, can't you?
'Tin Tin, darling, would you like to take a sail around the bay?'
'Oh, how romantic, Eddie. We can look at the stars, and talk about old times...'
'Yes, dear, of course we can...'
Heads for the motorboat... BBBRRRRRRRAAAAAAOOWWWWWWWWW...

"Say, I wish you could see our outfit. Really looks great.": Really, Eddie? Did you sew all the sequins on yourself? (I'm going to stop doing the oufit jokes now. They're really not that funny)

Lester: I actually quite like him. You can tell that while Eddie and Bob are in the office arguing over the contracts he's out there doing all the actual work. Despite Eddie's cute little hat.

Pretty: Tracy Island by night.

Not Pretty: Tin Tin's dress. It makes her look pregnant. And what's with the cloak? Supergirl fantasies?

Photography: Actually, a decade on, Blake's 7 used to do this all the time. Black and white photos lying around. Is it an attempt to be artistic, or did the references to the Great Colour Film Famine of 2060-93 just get cut for time?

Men!: Eddie bails on Tin Tin with great comic timing.
"He's waiting for me downstairs..."
Plane zooms off into the sunset...

Silly Little Construction Puppets: If it's going to be such a hideous struggle to finish the road by the date you gave, why give such an early completion date in the first place? It's all very well lying to get a contract, but when you fail to do what you said you would, it's not really going to help business any. Should do the Mr Scott method of engineering and over-estimate, then everyone will be pleased when you do it under time.

Gray and Houseman: I like their argument. Some nice reasoning on both sides. I do like it whenever there isn't a clear-cut right and wrong. Although Eddie is a bit of an idiot...

Women!: I don't understand why Tin Tin is blanking Alan, or why she gets so pissed off when he's mildly critical of Eddie. Personally, if someone'd run off on me (without even saying goodbye. Or asking one of the others to say goodbye for him. Jeff knew why he was leaving, so presumably he'd spoken to him. And Tracy Island has an intercom system, he could have called up...) and then a cute multi-millionaire's son who I happened to quite fancy (I'm assuming she does fancy him as she ends up shagging him) came along and sympathised, I'd be quite pleased. Besides, even if she is madly in love with Eddie, he doesn't start in on him until about the third exchange. Why is she being so bitchy straight off? Daft poncho-wearing fool.

Ancient Women!: I bet Alan's Grandma's favourite. I bet he gets all the best presents, and she did the thing of saving him sweets. Bitch.

Sad...: And why is Alan going to his Grandmother for love advice in the first place? Because his dad doesn't give a shit, and his brothers are all as socially inept as he is. Poor thing, no wonder he's not doing so well...

Seismograph: I bet someone had fun drawing that. Makes me want to dig out a spirograph...

"Find him! Whatever you do... find him!": I'm not sure exactly what's with this line, but it sounds so wrong...

Puppet in the Rain: Eddie hanging off the side of the cliff, and the blatant watering can (or whatever. Doesn't look sprinkly enough to be a watering can) above him. They should have used a plant mister or something. That would have looked cool.

Science Bit: What exactly are nutomic charges, anyway?

Whatever...:"International Rescue... we need your help!" Why else do you call a rescue organisation, dingbat?

"Okay, Mr Gray, we're on our way.": John's been experimenting with poetry to pass the time. Sweet.

Timing: Saving who's needing to be rescued until last. John's just deliberately trying to wind them up this time.

Pretty 2: Full launch sequence, TB1.

Pretty 3: I like the boulders with all the dust.

Tactics: Why send Alan with Virg? (Well, yes, so that Grandma can be an evil manipulating bitch-cow from the lower reaches of hell, but why from a practical standpoint?) Poor Gordon...

Operators Are Standing By: Why can't Lester raise International Rescue? Has John given up and gone to bed? Which brings up a rather confusing point, what happens when John/Alan does need to sleep? Is there a huge alarm that goes off if a call is received? Brains should invent Braman #2 to man TB5. Failing that, utilise Lady P to get another Tracy brother and have two of them working on shifts (Or Gordon could do it. God knows, he's hardly ever needed). That way they could keep TB3 stationed at TB5, so it's already in space with a pilot (or astronaut, if you're going to be picky) available, in case it's needed for a rescue.

Grandma: Manipulative old baggage. If you need to lie to Tin Tin to convince her she cares, there can't be much in the relationship in the first place. She (Grandma, that is) should stick to cooking and sewing. It's what she's there for.

Pretty 4: TB1 doing swoopy turny thing.

Pretty 5: The little darts.

Magnetic grabs: Bit of a wierd design. The boxlike shape restricts the size of things it can pick up, and it'd have difficulty picking up anything that isn't square. Why not just have a big flat electromagnet on the end of a rope?

Pretty 6: TB2 dwarfing TB1.

Actuality: I like the jets actually having some effect. However, considering the way the TBs can usually hover without using the jets...

Communication Problems: It's nice they don't actually bother telling Eddie what they're doing. If Scott hadn't spotted him getting ready to jump, he could very well have ended up at the bottom of the chasm along with the tractor and the nutomic charges. If they were worried about him recognising their voices, they could have relyed messages through Lester.

Self Preservation: It was an excellant idea to jump, given the absolute arse Virgil (and Alan) made of getting the tractor to level ground.

Flappie: When the tractor's being waved about in the stratosphere, the tracks look awfully loose...

Communications Problems 2: Hmm... 'Get the tractor to level ground,' = 'drop the tractor down the side of a mountain.' Yes, I can see the logic there...

Sharing: Isn't that Alan's shirt Gordon's got on?

Manipulative Old Bat: That's some good quick thinking on Alan's part when Tin Tin starts spouting nonsensical pants. I wonder if he realised Grandma had been lying her wrinkled old arse off, or whether he genuinely didn't know what was going on...