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Memories are scary...an example
May. 23rd, 2011 08:15 pmThe other day I watched the movie Thunderbird Six for the first time since I was pretty young - I'm guessing around seven or eight years old.
It was rubbish, frankly. Thunderbirds are Go! stands the test of time much better (and even that couldn't be described as good), T6 is just dull and silly. Just getting that out of the way, but it's not what I really wanted to talk about.
The thing is I had really clear memories about some of the things that happen in the film.
Most of them, it turns out, are completely false.
Okay, so my memory of the plot is something like this: An old friend of Jeff Tracy's turns up on the island with his Tiger Moth biplane. There's an emergency and they have to try and mount a rescue operation without Jeff's friend finding out. Eventually they end up using the Tiger Moth in the rescue and it is later declared as Thunderbird 6.
The only thing that is right in that description is that the Tiger Moth is used in a rescue and becomes Thunderbird 6. The friend of Jeff's doesn't exist. Instead, it is Alan Tracy's plane and he flies it to England with Tin Tin.
I've scanned through an episode guide, wondering if perhaps I'd conflated two Thunderbirds stories, but only one bears any passing resemblance - a late episode where a young boy finds out the Tracy's secret. So where my memory of the story comes from, I have absolutely no idea. But I would have put money on it before re-watching the film.
The scary thought is what other memories of that age might be total fabrications...
It was rubbish, frankly. Thunderbirds are Go! stands the test of time much better (and even that couldn't be described as good), T6 is just dull and silly. Just getting that out of the way, but it's not what I really wanted to talk about.
The thing is I had really clear memories about some of the things that happen in the film.
Most of them, it turns out, are completely false.
Okay, so my memory of the plot is something like this: An old friend of Jeff Tracy's turns up on the island with his Tiger Moth biplane. There's an emergency and they have to try and mount a rescue operation without Jeff's friend finding out. Eventually they end up using the Tiger Moth in the rescue and it is later declared as Thunderbird 6.
The only thing that is right in that description is that the Tiger Moth is used in a rescue and becomes Thunderbird 6. The friend of Jeff's doesn't exist. Instead, it is Alan Tracy's plane and he flies it to England with Tin Tin.
I've scanned through an episode guide, wondering if perhaps I'd conflated two Thunderbirds stories, but only one bears any passing resemblance - a late episode where a young boy finds out the Tracy's secret. So where my memory of the story comes from, I have absolutely no idea. But I would have put money on it before re-watching the film.
The scary thought is what other memories of that age might be total fabrications...
