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** As Alan notes, using his power [[PowerAtAPrice makes him weak]]. He could escape, but he’d probably be exhausted and not get very far.

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** Jeff mentions an anti-detection system that Alan forgot to turn on when he and Fermat nearly activated Thunderbird One, so that probably accounts for that.




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** It's probably a blanket "zero-tolerance" policy to ensure that nobody can get anything from photos.

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** However, in an earlier script for the film that wasn't used, anytime a camera was pointed at one of the Thunderbirds it would just stop working.



** I believe Bill Paxton did [[HandWave mention something]] about an "Anti-Detection Shield" or the like when Alan and Fermat accidentally begin the launch sequence of [=TB1=].
** Yeah, he did. We can infer from the name that the craft have some kind of technology attached that blocks any attempt to track or detect them via methods such as radar (which is why The Hood needed that AppliedPhlebotinum stuck to Thunderbird 1 to track the craft back to the island).



** More importantly, why did he choose to get in zero-x when it was taking off? Surely it would be easier just to sneak in at night, not when billions of people are watching?
** He was in one of the lifting bodies and they would have returned to Earth. Perhaps he intended to jump out when they were low enough.



** It varies, obviously, but something can usually be gleaned, especially if combined with other gathered information. It may not be ''much'', but every little bit could help give an R&D team a leg up.

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** It varies, obviously, but something can usually be gleaned, especially if combined with other gathered information. It may not be ''much'', but every little bit could help give an R&D team a leg up.
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!!Fridge Horror
* From the 2004 film: Hooray, the Hood is going to be locked up! Except that there's no mention of {{Power Inhibitor}}s, meaning that unless he's going to be constantly sedated or in some other way kept from using his abilities, he can always just break out again whenever he wants. Hopefully, the Traceys will come up with some way of containing him.
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** It varies, obviously, but something can usually be gleaned, especially if combined with other gathered information. It may not be ''much'', but every little bit could help give an R&D team a leg up.

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* The original series episode ''The Impostors'' shows the downside of International Rescue's 'no photos' policy. Because the public hadn't seen any photos of Thunderbird 2, the villains were able to pass off their replica as it. Had photos of the Thunderbirds been published, the impostors would have been spotted right away.
* Incidentally, I never really understood the 'no photos' policy. How much technical information can someone get from a photo?
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** I believe Bill Paxton did [[HandWave mention something]] about an "Anti-Detection Shield" or the like when Alan and Fermat accidently begin the launch sequence of [=TB1=].

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** I believe Bill Paxton did [[HandWave mention something]] about an "Anti-Detection Shield" or the like when Alan and Fermat accidently accidentally begin the launch sequence of [=TB1=].
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* Why does the guy up in Thunderbird 5 have a ''JerseyShore''-like tan? All that un-filtered sunlight!

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* Why does the guy up in Thunderbird 5 have a ''JerseyShore''-like ''Series/JerseyShore''-like tan? All that un-filtered sunlight!
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** He was in one of the lifting bodies and they would have returned to Earth. Perhaps he intended to jump out when they were low enough.
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* Why does the guy up in Thunderbird have a ''JerseyShore''-like tan? All that un-filtered sunlight!

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* Why does the guy up in Thunderbird 5 have a ''JerseyShore''-like tan? All that un-filtered sunlight!
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** More importantly, why did he choose to get in zero-x when it was taking off? Surely it would be easier just to sneak in at night, not when billions of people are watching?
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* In "Thunderbirds Are Go", what would have happened to the Hood had he not caught his foot in the Zero X's elevator control. He surely would have had to remain in the craft, since it looked like the craft was nearing the Earth's atmosphere at that point. I'm not sure he would survive a parachute jump from that height.

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* In "Thunderbirds Are Go", what would have happened to the Hood had he not caught his foot in the Zero X's elevator control. He surely would have had to remain in the craft, since it looked like the craft it was nearing the Earth's atmosphere at that point. I'm not sure he would survive a parachute jump from that height.
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* In "Thunderbirds Are Go", what would have happened to the Hood had he not caught his foot in the Zero X's elevator control. He surely would have had to remain in the craft, since it looked like the craft was nearing the Earth's atmosphere at that point. I'm not sure he would survive a parachute jump from that height.
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* Why does the guy up in Thunderbird have a ''JerseyShore''-like tan? All that un-filtered sunlight!
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** However, in an earlier script for the film that wasn't used anytime a camera was pointed at one of the Thunderbirds it would just stop working.

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** However, in an earlier script for the film that wasn't used used, anytime a camera was pointed at one of the Thunderbirds it would just stop working.
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** I believe Bill Paxton did [[HandWave mention something]] about an "Anti-Detection Shield" or the like when Alan and Fermat accidently begin the launch sequence of TB1.

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** I believe Bill Paxton did [[HandWave mention something]] about an "Anti-Detection Shield" or the like when Alan and Fermat accidently begin the launch sequence of TB1.[=TB1=].




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** Yeah, he did. We can infer from the name that the craft have some kind of technology attached that blocks any attempt to track or detect them via methods such as radar (which is why The Hood needed that AppliedPhilebotinum stuck to Thunderbird 1 to track the craft back to the island).


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** Yeah, he did. We can infer from the name that the craft have some kind of technology attached that blocks any attempt to track or detect them via methods such as radar (which is why The Hood needed that AppliedPhilebotinum AppliedPhlebotinum stuck to Thunderbird 1 to track the craft back to the island).

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** Yeah, he did. We can infer from the name that the craft have some kind of technology attached that blocks any attempt to track or detect them via methods such as radar (which is why The Hood needed that AppliedPhilobotinum stuck to Thunderbird 1 to track the craft back to the island).


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** Yeah, he did. We can infer from the name that the craft have some kind of technology attached that blocks any attempt to track or detect them via methods such as radar (which is why The Hood needed that AppliedPhilobotinum AppliedPhilebotinum stuck to Thunderbird 1 to track the craft back to the island).

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\n** Yeah, he did. We can infer from the name that the craft have some kind of technology attached that blocks any attempt to track or detect them via methods such as radar (which is why The Hood needed that AppliedPhilobotinum stuck to Thunderbird 1 to track the craft back to the island).

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\n** I believe Bill Paxton did [[HandWave mention something]] about an "Anti-Detection Shield" or the like when Alan and Fermat accidently begin the launch sequence of TB1.

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* On the subject of things requiring *too* much suspension of disbelief in 2004, did the movie address the matter of how International Rescue managed to operate in total secrecy without any of their craft ever being detected on launch, or indeed simply being tracked on the way back home?


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* On the subject of things requiring *too* ''too'' much suspension of disbelief in 2004, did the movie address the matter of how International Rescue managed to operate in total secrecy without any of their craft ever being detected on launch, or indeed simply being tracked on the way back home?

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*On the subject of things requiring *too* much suspension of disbelief in 2004, did the movie address the matter of how International Rescue managed to operate in total secrecy without any of their craft ever being detected on launch, or indeed simply being tracked on the way back home?

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* FridgeLogic: The series is prone to it due to Tracy Island's continued secrecy and International Rescue's policy of not even allowing their aircraft to be ''photographed''. The 2004 movie basically had to throw the latter idea out because in an era of mobile phone cameras it simply wouldn't be workable.

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* FridgeLogic: The series is prone to it due to Tracy Island's continued secrecy and International Rescue's policy of not even allowing their aircraft to be ''photographed''. The 2004 movie basically had to throw the latter idea out because in an era of mobile phone cameras it simply wouldn't be workable.

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