>>But the opening music!!!!! What was that all about?!
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>I got used to it, but yeah it should have been the classic music.

Well ANYTHING but an American rack/ballad

>The greatest thing, no prime directive. They could meddle, mess about and actually shoot aliens. Nice.

That was something that never bothered Gerry Anderson and Stingray. One episode they went over tae bonnie Scortland tae investigate whether the Loch Ness Monster existed. On their first encounter with it, as soon as it showed ANY interest in Stingray, Tempest's first reaction was "Fire Sting missile" thus destroying it (which luckily turned out to be a mech. device). So if they hadn't gone to look for it it wouldn't have needed to be destroyed. And they were a bit trigger happy anyway. Ha Ha

Another episode (can't remember which series) a strange pyramid was discovered in the desert. On entering they fell foul of some non-human intelligent beings (the ONLY other comparably intelligent species on Earth). They got out and immediately destroyed the pyramid, on top of the beings.

Same went for any unfriendly species beneath the waves. Never any talk of detente just unilateral decisions to destroy.

It didn't do to have a pop at an Anderson puppet!

There's a moral in there somewhere.