The Triads

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Supermarionation: Fireball XL5: The Triads
By D.K. Henderson on Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 8:07 am:

Another pretty interesting episode. I liked the notion of friendly giants. Makes sense, if you think about it. After all, no one is going to be able to hurt them, so why not be friendly?
I also liked the way they showed the trio interacting with all the oversized equipment, especially when Professor Matic bounced as a full flask was set down beside him with a thud.

When the Professor kept yelping that they wouldn't have enough fuel to escape from the planet, Steve should have snarled at him, "If we die in the crash, we're not going to be leaving anyway!"

It was Steve's turn to tone his thigh muscles in this episode. As they're riding the hoverjets, you can clearly see open space between his rump and the seat. (And considering the heavy gravity, that must have been a real workout!)

Everything was three times Earth normal size. Shouldn't the "human" giants themselves have been frightened by the lion? And how could they have pulled the trio so easily from the trees, considering how tall they were compared to the lion? (The trees, not the people.)

Earth had just recently named the planet Triad, yet it was the same name that the giants used for themselves.

Proof positive of the similarity between Earth and Triad--if those poor giant scientists didn't make headway on their space project soon, the government was going to shut them down.

You'd think that by this time, Zoonie would have learned how to open cupboards and forage food for himself.

It was rather fun listening to the trio mimicking Zoonie and Robert.


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