I'm a forty-something female, living on the west coast of the United States. And, as it seems with everything else in my life, I came to the Thunderbirds backwards. I saw the 2004 movie first. And I really enjoyed it. I was fascinated by the premise - a family, living on an island, running an anonymous rescue operation.

That sent me to the Internet, searching for fan-fiction on the Thunderbirds. Which in turn led me to Boomercat's writing. She and I began to correspond, and one day, her Thunderbirds DVDs appeared in the mail, carefully stacked in chronological order. After that, I was completely hooked on the original Thunderbirds!

What can I say? You have six handsome men living on an island, performing acts of unsung heroism. It's the stuff dreams are made of.