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Thunderbird in Lost
Shot of Alan's eye opening, looking up at the bamboo. Overhead shot panning out to show Alan is lying injured on the ground. Alan sees a dog, slowly gets up, in pain. Finds a little liquor bottle in his pocket. Then he runs though the bamboo and ends up at the beach. People screaming. He sees the wreckage. People limping and calling for help. Shot of the engine still spinning. Kyrano is getting too close to it. Brains screaming. Penelope calling for Tin-Tin.]
Blue shirt: Stay away from the gas. Stay there.
[Gordon screaming. Alan looks up at the wing.]
Blue shirt#2 [trapped under the piece with the still moving engine]: Help. Help. Somebody help me. Ahh, my leg.
Alan: Give me a hand. You, c'mon, come over here. Give me a hand. [A group of Blueshirts (and Hood) gather around to lift the metal piece that's trapping the man.] On the count of 3: 1, 2, 3.
[Alan pulls the man out from under. One leg is bloody. Alan starts ripping the man's pants to get to the wound. Jack uses his tie as a tourniquet.]
Virgil: Help. Somebody please help me. Please help me.
[We see Virgil is pregnant and on her hands and knees. Alan sees her.]
Alan [to a Blueshirt and Hood]: Okay, get him out of here. Get him away from the engine. Get him out of here.
[He runs over to Virgil through a lot of wreckage.]
Virgil: Help me please. I'm having contractions.
Alan: How many months pregnant are you?
Virgil: I'm nearly 8 months.
[Alan looks over and sees doing CPR on John.]
Alan [to Virgil]: How far apart are they coming?
Virgil: I don't know, a few just happened.
[Shot of Hood and Blueshirt carrying bad-leg-guy away. Another guy starts walking in front of the engine and Hood sees him.]
Hood: Hey, hey, get away:
[The guy gets sucked into the engine and the engine explodes. Shot of people running. Alan sort of falls on top of Virgil to protect her.]
Alan: Listen to me, we're gonna: you're going to be okay, understand me. But you have to sit absolutely still.
[Alan looking at Scott giving John mouth-to-mouth.]
Alan [to Jeff]: Hey, you, come here. I need you to get this woman away from these fumes. Take her over there and stay with her. If her contractions occur any closer than 3 minutes apart call out to me.
Jeff: Oh, you've got to be kidding me. (Alan starts running off). Hey, what's your name?
Alan: Alan.
[Alan runs up to Scott and John.]
Alan: Stop. Her head's not tilted far back enough. You're blowing air into her stomach.
Scott: You sure?
[Alan starts giving her mouth-to-mouth. ]
Scott: That's exactly what I was doing. I'm a lifeguard. I'm licensed.
Alan: Yeah, well, you need to seriously think about giving that license back.
Scott: Maybe we should do one of those hole things. You know, stick the pen in the throat?
Alan: Yeah, good idea, you go get me a pen.
[Scott runs off to get pens.]
Alan [doing CPR]: C'mon, c'mon.
[John breathes.]
Alan: Big deep breaths, take breaths.
[Sound of metal. Alan looks up to see a big piece of metal high up (the wing) on some of the wreckage starting to wobble. Virgil and Jeff are right under where it would fall. Alan runs over to them. ]
Alan [as he's running]: Move, move, move! Get her up! Get her out of there!
[Alan, Jeff, and Virgil run out of way as there is a huge explosion. A big piece of burning debris lands near .]
Alan[to Virgil]: You okay?
Virgil: Yeah.
JACK [to Jeff]: You... [Jeff sort of nods lying on the ground]. Stay with her.
Jeff: Dude, I'm not going anywhere.
[Alan sort of stumbling around the beach, looks into the fuselage. Takes a moment to steady himself, almost crying.]
Scott [walking up holding out a handful of pens]: I didn't know which one would work best.
Alan: They're all good. Thanks.
[Shot of Alan going through a suitcase, and finding a sewing kit. Alan going to a deserted part of the beach and taking his jacket and shirt off. He has a big gash on his side. Parker comes walking by, doesn't know Alan is there. Parker rubbing her wrist.]
Alan: Excuse me. Did you ever use a needle?
Parker: What?
Alan: Did you ever: patch a pair of jeans?
Parker: I, um, I made the drapes in my apartment.
Alan: That's fantastic. Listen, do you have a second. I could use a little help here.
[Parker walks over to him.]
Parker: Help with what?
[Alan shows her the wound, and she grimaces.]
Alan: Look, I'd do it myself, I'm a doctor, but I just can't reach it.
Parker: You want me to sew that up?
Alan: It's just like the drapes, same thing.
Parker: No, with the drapes I used a sewing machine.
Alan: No, you can do this. I'm telling you. If you wouldn't mind.
[Alan looks at her pleadingly.]
Parker: Of course I will.
Alan: Thank you; [handing her the little liquor bottle from his pocket] It's for your hands. Save me some for the, for the wound.
[Parker picks up a little sewing kit.]
Parker: Any color preference?
Alan [laughing]: Standard black.
[Alan dumps the vodka on his wound.]
From a secret island in the South Pacific, the courageous Tracy family run an organisation called International Rescue. When disaster strikes, anywhere in the world, they are always first on the scene. They go by the name they gave their incredible machines, the Thunderbirds. Five, four, three, two one. 'Thunderbirds are go! '
Sunday 24 January 2010
Lost is an American serial drama television series. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles, United States, crashes somewhere in the South Pacific. Each episode typically features a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character's life, though other time-related plot devices change this formula in later episodes
The series began development in January 2004, when Lloyd Braun, head of ABC at the time, ordered an initial script from Spelling Television based on his concept of a cross between the novel Lord of the Flies, the movie Cast Away, the television series Gilligan's Island, and the popular reality show Survivor. ABC had also premiered a short lived series about plane crash survivors in 1969 called The New People with the opening episode by Rod Serling. Gadi Pollack notes that some of "the influences of Lost came from...the game Myst."[16] Jeffrey Lieber was hired and wrote Nowhere, based on his pitch to write the pilot.[17] Unhappy with the result and a subsequent rewrite, Braun contacted J. J. Abrams, who had a deal with Touchstone Television (now ABC Studios), and was also the creator of the TV series Alias, to write a new pilot script. Although initially hesitant, Abrams warmed up to the idea on the condition that the series would have a supernatural angle to it, and collaborated with Damon Lindelof to create the series' style and characters.[18] Together, Abrams and Lindelof also created a series "bible", and conceived and detailed the major mythological ideas and plot points for an ideal five to six season run for the show.[19][20] The development of the show was constrained by tight deadlines, as it had been commissioned late in the 2004 season's development cycle. Despite the short schedule, the creative team remained flexible enough to modify or create characters to fit actors they wished to cast.[21]
Lost's two-part pilot episode was the most expensive in the network's history, reportedly costing between US$10 and $14 million,[22] compared to the average cost of an hour-long pilot in 2005 of $4 million.[23] The series debuted on September 22, 2004, becoming one of the biggest critical and commercial successes of the 2004 television season. Along with fellow new series Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, Lost helped to reverse the flagging fortunes of ABC.[24] Yet, before it had even been aired, Lloyd Braun was fired by executives at ABC's parent company, Disney, partly because of low ratings at the network and also because he had greenlighted such an expensive and risky project.[18] The world premiere of the pilot episode was on July 24, 2004 at Comic-Con International in San Diego.[25]
The aircraft used as Flight 815, although described as a Boeing 777-200ER, is actually a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, formerly flown by Delta Air Lines as N783DL. The plane was bought by ABC/Touchstone and was broken up, and all except the tail was shipped to Hawaii, fearing that the viewers might recognize the real identity of the aircraft, since the L-1011 was a tri-jet. However, with the plane broken up, it was seen as a Boeing 767-400.
The Thunderbirds TV series is supposedly set in the 21st century (which at the time of production was still over thirty years away). The specific time frame remains a contentious topic amongst fans, due to contradictory dates seen on newspapers and calendars in different episodes, ranging from 1964 to 2026 to 2065. As he has stated in a number of interviews (most recently for Fanderson's "FAB" magazine), Gerry Anderson's brief to the writers and designers was simply that the series was set "one hundred years in the future" (i.e. 2065). This intent was carried forward in all of the series' contemporary tie-in merchandise, such as the weekly comic strip in TV Century 21 and the Century 21 Mini-Album "Thunderbird 3", wherein Alan Tracy tells listeners that the year is 2065. The close-up appearance of a 2026 calendar in the episode "Give or Take a Million" was later admitted by production designer Bob Bell to have been an error on the part of the prop-maker. 1993 vintage champagne is discussed in "Alias Mr. Hackenbacker", although this only suggests that events in that episode took place after 1993. The date issue is strongly in favour of the mid 2060s, as in the feature film Thunderbirds Are Go the date is shown to be June 2066, and in Thunderbird 6 it is June 2068. In addition, the Zero X spacecraft from Thunderbirds Are Go subsequently appeared in the opening episode of Anderson's next TV series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, which was set in 2068.
The show depicts the adventures of the Tracy family, which consists of millionaire former astronaut Jeff Tracy (who was one of the first men to land on the Moon - which some fans feel adds weight to the 2026 argument, although it is never stated when man first landed on the Moon in the Thunderbirds 'universe', that event having still been in the future at the time of production) and his five sons: Scott (pilot of Thunderbird 1 and principal rescue co-ordinator), Virgil (pilot of Thunderbird 2), Alan (astronaut in Thunderbird 3), Gordonaquanaut in Thunderbird 4) and John (principal duty astronaut on the space station Thunderbird 5) - each named after a Mercury astronaut - Scott Carpenter,[1] Virgil Grissom,[2]Alan Shepard,[3] Gordon Cooper[4] and John Glenn,[5] respectively. (Two of the Mercury Seven, Wally Schirra and Deke Slayton, do not have characters named for them. Slayton did not fly as part of the Mercury program due to being grounded from flight status by a heart condition, although he later flew as docking module pilot on ASTP.) Together with Jeff's elderly mother called Grandma Tracy, the scientific genius and engineer "Brains", the family's manservant Kyrano and his daughter Tin-Tin, the Tracy family live on a remote, uncharted island. (
The location of this island is usually assumed to be somewhere in the Pacific (Tracy Island), but there are many inconsistencies in the plots that point to a possible location in the the Caribbean Sea. In the episode 'The Uninvited', Scott is returning from Tokyo and is shot down over the Sahara desert. If Tracy Island really was in the Pacific, he would simply have flown straight there from Japan (also located in the Pacific). But the fact that he is flying over the Sahara, from Japan, means he must be heading for the Atlantic Ocean and, presumably, the Caribbean. But wherever Tracy Island is located (the Atlantic, the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico), Scott is returning home by flying AWAY from the Pacific. They are, in secret, the members of International Rescue (IR), a private and highly advanced emergency response organisation, which covers the globe and even reaches into space, rescuing people with their futuristic vehicles, the Thunderbirds.
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