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into agreeing to do it.
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And if anyone disagreed, the peer pressure
from the other committees
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would be such that
they'd have to give in and relent,
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and in fact they did.
1:06:14
Originally in the script we had suggested that
maybe the Mole,
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which is coming out of Thunderbird 2,
as you can see,
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would hit one of the supports
of the London Eye
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and the London Eye would then
teeter over the Thames
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and one of the pods
that people take their rides in
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would be submerged and in jeopardy
for our heroes to then save.
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Unfortunately, the London Eye
is a terrorist target,
1:06:45
given the unfortunate state of affairs
in the world today,
1:06:49
and they, the London Eye,
would not approve a script
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that would put their property in jeopardy
1:06:55
or, obviously, suggest any way to get to it.
1:06:58
So this, what we euphemistically called
the Olympic Monorail,
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since the picture was set in the future
1:07:05
and we assume the Olympics
will be in London,
1:07:08
the Olympic Monorail was created
inside the computer at Framestore.
1:07:13
And that was where the MacGuffin occurred.
1:07:18
So The Hood recklessly puts lives in jeopardy
1:07:24
and fortunately for them,
1:07:27
the new Thunderbirds
are just arriving on the scene.
1:07:32
There were two or three Sunday mornings
where these plate shots,
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exterior shots of London, were done.
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Sunday, obviously, the least crowded
and least complicated day to shoot
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because not as many people are at work
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or not as many tourists are at the Jubilee Gardens.
1:07:50
Nonetheless, it wasn't the easiest shoot,
and the weather didn't cooperate.
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Most of the shots you see of London
in this end sequence
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had the skies replaced with
glorious blue skies from elsewhere.