Looking back at Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons
Has shown us, marionettes are perhaps not the best medium to portray any sort of romantic involvement.Captain Scarlet is noticeably less camp than other Gerry Anderson series. The marionettes are more realistically proportioned, and they emote, bleed and die more horribly. The aliens can kill you from space, take over your body, and you cannot kill them. They can control vehicles. They will turn an avatar of you into a suicide bomber, and kill people you love. They've got an endearingly pulpy name, but they're still scary.
The crux of the plot is that the main character dies in every episode. There is absolutely no one in it as annoying as Alan Tracy. Yet it's still unmistakeably a children's show, plugged straight into the minds of anyone who likes gadgets and vehicles, Lego and Meccano, while also giving them a multi-cultural vision of a technologically advanced future. It's still got more than a hint of 60s atmosphere to it, in the design of the Mysteron city,