XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
      
   In article , Starshine   
   Moonbeam  wrote:   
      
   > In article <220720041648116974%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com>,   
   > "Anybody"(anybody@anywhere-anytime.com) dropped a +5 bundle of words...   
   >   
   > > In article <5%GLc.11433$Qu5.1984@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Bo   
   > > Raxo"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > "Straker"  wrote in message   
   > > > news:210720041743220859%sky.diver@moonbase.alpha...   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Frakes is going to need International Rescue himself, because I predict   
   > > > > the Thunderbirds movie is going to BOMB bigtime. It'll do worse than   
   > > > > the original Thunderbirds movies forty years ago, compared to their   
   > > > > respective budgets.   
   > > >   
   > > > I disagree. It's summer, it's aimed at kids, it has lots of sci-fi   
   > > > gadgetry.   
   > > > It'll be this summer's Spy Kids.  Probably come out at number 2 or 3 it's   
   > > > opening weekend and easily to $70 million in box office.  Given the cast   
   > > > list, it probably didn't cost much to make.   
   > > >   
   > > > Expect a sequel.   
   > >   
   > > I hope not. Frakes and the writers have already totally screwed up the   
   > > Thunderbirds franchise with this ridiculous movie ... just like Beavis   
   > > & Butthead have done with Enterprise and the Star Trek franchise.  :-(   
   >   
   > The thunderbirds franchise?   
   >   
   > Dude. What kind of franchise do you think that Frakes is destroying?   
   > This was not a high powered cartoon. You're lucky they dragged it out of   
   > mothballs for big screen fodder.   
      
   You may not like the show, but it IS a franchise. There's not only the   
   TV show, but also a proper movie, DVDs / Videos, toys, books, comics,   
   etc., even a ridiculous stage show and a Japanese cartoon show (I   
   think), just like any other franchise. Obviously not as big as Star   
   Trek or Star Wars, but it is still there and does have MANY, MANY fans.   
      
   And yes Frakes HAS destroyed the franchise by making the same idiotic   
   mistake that Beavis & Butthead have made with Enterprise - he ignored   
   the original background and history (what extremely little he managed   
   to work out AFTER being given the job and watching a few episodes) and   
   decided to make up his own story ... as usual with Hollyweird these   
   days.   :-(   
      
   "Lucky they dragged it out of mothballs"!? The ORIGINAL show has been   
   very popular in Japan for decades and has been going through a revival   
   in recent years in England, US, Australia, New Zealand, etc. It's never   
   really been "in mothballs" with repeats in many countries being played   
   over the years since they stopped making it. Judging by today's over   
   abundance of Poké-digicrap cartoons shoveled at kids, Thunderbirds is   
   the high art of children's entertainment, so it's no wonder it is still   
   popular.   
      
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