30 Minutes After Noon.

But Before We Get Started...: Just a thought... On the opening credits, John is listed as the space moniter. Sounds like Jeff's running a private school or something. Wonder who gets to be blackboard moniter? (Sorry, I've been re-reading The Fifth Elephant.)

Fingersmith: The hitchhiker guy... You just wouldn't, would you? Even if you were really nice and sounded like Alan. He looks incredibly evil, and he's wearing too much eyeshadow.

Owses: Pretty futuristic houses. Nice detail.

Opinion Poll: I really really like this episode. It's one of my all-time favourites. It's got a great structure. Not perfect, but then nothing is, really...

Huh? What's with the Irish cop? I thought we were in America.

Womyn: Christine Finn and Sylvia Anderson may have been great at voicing nice girls (and Lady P), but all the scuzzy women sound... well... a bit crap.

Happy Vertical People Transporters: If there's nobody in the building, why is the lift way up on the four millionth floor? Was someone up there working late? Did they get blown up?

Strings Attached: The puppetry's really good in this episode... The caretaker scratching himself, Prescott rumaging through the files... They move beautifully realistically.

Lift's On Fire...: In fact, I blame my hatred of lifts on this episode.

Set You To Burn: Mmm, another automatic fire suppression system that's about as useful as a condom machine in the Vatican.

"If that's not a call to action, I don't know what is.": No, love, that's a news bulletin. Not very encouraging, is it?

And Today's Phallic Symbol Is...: Squirty cranes!

Future Events: I like Tin-Tin's headphones. They're quite reminiscent of those one we have now that you stick in your ears (they probably have a proper name. Buggered if I know what it is...).

Darker With The Day: Hey, it's a night shot (well, a shot through a dark filter) and TB2's got the cabin lights on!

The Cage: The Dicetalene (spelling? Can't find it anywhere... Would probably help if I got off my arse and looked, but that ain't gonna happen) cage rocks! And it's so very very Freudian...Especially when it starts to run out of dicetalene.

Moles: If the evil gang people could get into the building to sabotage the extinguishers, why didn't they blow up the files themselves?

Direction: The MI5/FBI (at least, I assume that's who they work for... It's all a bit hush-hush...) conversation's a lovely idea. And further proof that somebody desperately wanted to make Thunderbirds into a spy show. Fortunately, this is early series one, so they actually used a bit of imagination, rather than have Lady P blow up random things.

Highlands: Yey! It's the Anderson Scottish castle! Again.

Direction 2: The shot of the human hand (Southern's, messing around with his pen) in the foreground with the other puppets in the background is gorgeously done. It looks perfect.

Class Distinction: You can tell Southern's not a real bad guy. He's too posh.

Aw...: Poor little robots...

Set Dressing: Nice they left a set of bagpipes on the table, isn't it? We might forget they're in Scotland, otherwise.

Follow The Leader: Southern: "So we're going to meet you at last?" The Leader: 'Good morning, Angels...'

Aw...2: It's the way they flail their little shiny metal arms around...

Capture Technique: So, these dangerous robots incapacitate any nasty people who might want to get their hands on the entire nuclear arsenal of the UK (or was it something about nuclear power stations? Evil radioactive stuff, anyway) by hugging them? See, they're not evil, they just want hugs... And the evil gang people made them die horrible flaily deaths...

Mission Statement: "I don't know if they'll do that. They're strictly a rescue organisation." I wish they'd remember that...

Value System: How happy does John sound? I told you, man, he completely gets off on other people's pain. I bet he wanks to the news, the sick twisted bastard.

Lady P: Shoot Brains. Shoot him now. As if Jeff needs reminding about Lady P anyway...

Countdown: And if she's so damn short of time, why is she driving? Doesn't she have to get to Scotland or something? (Oh, and it's nice how Scotland is now apparently being used as a toxic waste dump...)

Podlings: Again, the pod vechicle is ridiculously slow... Maybe it was to try to make them look bigger, or something...

CBT: Okay, Lady P's dramatic slamming through various things - it's all very well, but how do you even know there's any road left behind the huge 'Road Closed' sign? FAB 1 is many things, but an off-roader it ain't.

Pretty: Scott draping himself all over the laser cutter. Mmm, puppet thighs...

Through Time: I like that shot of Southern through the mirror-image clock. There's some really good direction in the episode.

Big Badaboom: I'm very surprised they managed not to hit either Southern or the fuses with those doors... A little more cautious approach would perhaps have been better.

"Now all we have to do is escape to safety. And that should be quite a simple matter." Some things just don't deserve to be commented on.

Spy vs. Spy: Lady P and Southern. Poor deluded man. It's a good thing he's getting kicked out of MI5, he's crap. Gentle? HAH!