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  • Awesome Music: The opening score by Crispin Merrell is suitably epic.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Lieutenant Green, Harmony Angel and Symphony Angel are all voiced by Jules De Jongh.
  • Special Effect Failure: The character models have not aged as gracefully as the sets or vehicles; they don't look bad (in fact, they're accurate to the source material), but like many other CGI shows of its era, they're plagued by stiff facial animations, and in the first series, people just blankly stare at others even when giving heartfelt speeches or urgent orders. The second series did improve this aspect with better lip-sync and emotions coming through better, but the technology of the time really got in the way it seems.
  • Strawman Has a Point: Captain Blue's weariness of Captain Scarlet in "Instrument of Destruction" Part 2 seems pretty understandable when you consider that Scarlet attacked him twice in the previous episode (and both times Scarlet was not under mind control). While Scarlet was trying to escape Sky Base in order to find Captain Black, Blue's reactions is rather understandable in light of being assaulted by a close friend.
  • Tearjerker: The fact that Captain Scarlet and Captain Black were Heterosexual Life-Partners prior to the latter's death and subsequent mysteronization will be enough to make any bawl their eyes out.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: The CG sets used for Mars and Skybase hold up very well, as do the vehicles people use; there's even several instances of accurate reflections on shiny surfaces (something very difficult to do even today).
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The show aired at 11am UK Time as a Saturday morning cartoon back in 2005, and features decidedly not kid-friendly deaths and violence, many aversions of Never Say "Die", and by episode 4, there is a death count already in the double figures, many of which the viewer is not spared in seeing. It matches the mature tone of The Incredibles (which also came out around the same time) really well. There were several complaints about this by parents in 2005, and especially by the the clearly blindsided hosts of M.O.M (the show it aired on), with them repeatedly having to apologise for the violence on display.
  • The Woobie: Lieutenant Green in "The Homecoming", where she's forced to kill her mysteronised father.

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