Talk:The Cham-Cham

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Why do you only have an article on four Thunderbirds episodes? You have articles on all the Captain Scarlet episodes, so have an article on all the Thunderbirds ones. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.147.222 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 14 July 2010

Plot summary: Olsen's "machine"
Currently, the plot summary states about Olsen's computer: "Skiing down the mountain to Olsen's private lodge, Penelope and Tin-Tin film him operating a strange device that is converting musical notes into a message stating the date and time of the next RTL2 flight."

Is that really what it is? In the episode, the computer screen first shows an enciphered message, and then the plaintext. I had assumed this was a message received from a collaborator being deciphered by means of the computer. Otherwise it would be completely unclear how Olsen could have information about the upcoming USAF flights.

Your takes on it? --Syzygy (talk) 09:07, 19 June 2019 (UTC)


 * I've re-written the plot to better reflect the dialogue, which strongly indicates that Olsen is indeed just an intermediary and not the actual source of the information. (Parker, before the chalet scene: "[Olsen] was saying something about expecting a message tomorrow morning." / Tin-Tin, during that scene: "[Olsen's] just been giving his orders for the next sabotage operation.") This is matched by the the plot summary in The Complete Book of Thunderbirds, which I've cited in that section. On the Cham-Cham itself, the book says only this: "[Penelope and Tin-Tin] see a message decoding from musical sounds." I've changed "converting" to "decoding" to match the source. SuperMarioMan (Talk) 18:22, 24 June 2019 (UTC)