>... I've heard of "Silverhawks", but never saw it.
From the people who brought you Thundercats...
-There's a definite "down" in deep interplanetary space.
-Space is apparently filled with breathable air. Either that or life support tech is universal and invisible.
-Humans can only survive FTL travel with extensive cyborg mods. ...Except that only applies to the main characters.
-Getting a cybernetic heart will dull your emotions.
-The setting, a smallish star system, is known as the Limbo *Galaxy*.
-Said system is simultaneously an out-of-the-way backwater and a vital hub of interstellar commerce.
-Said system is lit by an Artificial Sun. No problem with that concept? Consider that it's a -giant flashlight- and therefore shines in only -one- direction. I guess the planets must all be orbiting it at the same speed. Or something.
-The major villain of the series has, at its outset, been held imprisoned--by a starfaring civilization--on his home turf, quite near the dwarf star from whose radiation he gains temporary superpowers. And his cell is on the outer rim of the prison station, which spins in such a fashion as to occasionally place only one thin layer of hull between him and said radiation. -And they're surprised when he escapes-.
-There's a disintegrator ray. It's really a telekinetic machine-disassembler beam... that doesn't work on gold.
That was a cartoon of -very- little brain. I liked it, but I couldn't tell you -why-...
>Tigersharks ...
Again, the third after Thundercats and Silverhawks. It didn't last long at all. Something about human xeno-oceanographers studying a waterworld, which comes under attack by evil amphibian invaders, and since the natives aren't much good at fighting the humans transform themselves into sea-creature hybrid warriors...
>Spiral Zone
Megalomaniac scientist Dr. James "Overlord" Bent has created the Zone Generators, machines that broadcast some kind of telepathic field that destroys free will and reduces any humans within their boundaries to helpless slaves (and broadcast telepathic instructions as well). In a stolen force-shielded spaceplane, he manages to scatter generators across half the Earth (in a spiral pattern from pole to pole, hence the name) before a lucky missile shot cripples the plane (whose forcefield he didn't invent and can't duplicate). Overlord and his elite "Black Widow" mercs, all immunized against the Zone at the price of hideous physical mutation, organize an army of Zoners (no, not like THAT!) to expand their territory; at the last minute, scientists in England come up with a miracle substance that blocks the Zone radiation and can be incorporated into body armor. Unfortunately the scientists only manage to get one shipment of the stuff to Cheyenne Mountain before the Widows close in; they suicide rather than let the secret of "Neutron-90" fall into Overlord's hands, and now NOBODY knows how to make the stuff... so it's just one small band of "Zone Riders" equipped with the suits and able to make forays into the Zone. "Earth's Most Powerful Soldiers fight the Spiral Zone"...
Each side took ruthless advantage of the other's inability to understand their tech. Overlord's generators were all 100% booby-trapped--there was literally no way to open one up and maybe figure out how it worked; ANY attempt to open one, and any mechanical failure within one, would make it explode. The Widows had control of enough industrial capacity that they could just make more and drop spares in if one went boom.
It was a good concept, and they told some decent stories, but mostly it was yet another cranked-out-plot 80's toon. Shame.
>>Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
>I remember the title, and I almost kinda-sorta remember the cartoon itself. I don't remember being impressed...
I never said I was picking these shows for their -quality-.
>>Gilbert & Sullivan.
>Hmmm. Possibilities. Many possibilities. Much depends on whether or not the people native to G&S worlds sing their day to day lives the way the plays seem to imply.
In the aforementioned Marvin Kaye book, the hero is pulled into a world incorporating -all- the plays; there's a Universal Theme playing constantly (which John Wellington Wells, the Sorcerer, attributes to God--a world where humans can hear the Symphony...?), and people do indeed break into song at the drop of a hat. Even extradimensional visitors find themselves wanting to join in... and locals are puzzled when the hero, fearing assimilation, insists on making an effort to stick to prose.
--Sam Ashley
"I'll explain in two words: it's a beach party, and I'm Frankie Avalon."
"And I'm Annette Funicello!"
(The Pirate King and Samuel, from -The Pirate Movie-)
From the people who brought you Thundercats...
-There's a definite "down" in deep interplanetary space.
-Space is apparently filled with breathable air. Either that or life support tech is universal and invisible.
-Humans can only survive FTL travel with extensive cyborg mods. ...Except that only applies to the main characters.
-Getting a cybernetic heart will dull your emotions.
-The setting, a smallish star system, is known as the Limbo *Galaxy*.
-Said system is simultaneously an out-of-the-way backwater and a vital hub of interstellar commerce.
-Said system is lit by an Artificial Sun. No problem with that concept? Consider that it's a -giant flashlight- and therefore shines in only -one- direction. I guess the planets must all be orbiting it at the same speed. Or something.
-The major villain of the series has, at its outset, been held imprisoned--by a starfaring civilization--on his home turf, quite near the dwarf star from whose radiation he gains temporary superpowers. And his cell is on the outer rim of the prison station, which spins in such a fashion as to occasionally place only one thin layer of hull between him and said radiation. -And they're surprised when he escapes-.
-There's a disintegrator ray. It's really a telekinetic machine-disassembler beam... that doesn't work on gold.
That was a cartoon of -very- little brain. I liked it, but I couldn't tell you -why-...
>Tigersharks ...
Again, the third after Thundercats and Silverhawks. It didn't last long at all. Something about human xeno-oceanographers studying a waterworld, which comes under attack by evil amphibian invaders, and since the natives aren't much good at fighting the humans transform themselves into sea-creature hybrid warriors...
>Spiral Zone
Megalomaniac scientist Dr. James "Overlord" Bent has created the Zone Generators, machines that broadcast some kind of telepathic field that destroys free will and reduces any humans within their boundaries to helpless slaves (and broadcast telepathic instructions as well). In a stolen force-shielded spaceplane, he manages to scatter generators across half the Earth (in a spiral pattern from pole to pole, hence the name) before a lucky missile shot cripples the plane (whose forcefield he didn't invent and can't duplicate). Overlord and his elite "Black Widow" mercs, all immunized against the Zone at the price of hideous physical mutation, organize an army of Zoners (no, not like THAT!) to expand their territory; at the last minute, scientists in England come up with a miracle substance that blocks the Zone radiation and can be incorporated into body armor. Unfortunately the scientists only manage to get one shipment of the stuff to Cheyenne Mountain before the Widows close in; they suicide rather than let the secret of "Neutron-90" fall into Overlord's hands, and now NOBODY knows how to make the stuff... so it's just one small band of "Zone Riders" equipped with the suits and able to make forays into the Zone. "Earth's Most Powerful Soldiers fight the Spiral Zone"...
Each side took ruthless advantage of the other's inability to understand their tech. Overlord's generators were all 100% booby-trapped--there was literally no way to open one up and maybe figure out how it worked; ANY attempt to open one, and any mechanical failure within one, would make it explode. The Widows had control of enough industrial capacity that they could just make more and drop spares in if one went boom.
It was a good concept, and they told some decent stories, but mostly it was yet another cranked-out-plot 80's toon. Shame.
>>Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
>I remember the title, and I almost kinda-sorta remember the cartoon itself. I don't remember being impressed...
I never said I was picking these shows for their -quality-.
>>Gilbert & Sullivan.
>Hmmm. Possibilities. Many possibilities. Much depends on whether or not the people native to G&S worlds sing their day to day lives the way the plays seem to imply.
In the aforementioned Marvin Kaye book, the hero is pulled into a world incorporating -all- the plays; there's a Universal Theme playing constantly (which John Wellington Wells, the Sorcerer, attributes to God--a world where humans can hear the Symphony...?), and people do indeed break into song at the drop of a hat. Even extradimensional visitors find themselves wanting to join in... and locals are puzzled when the hero, fearing assimilation, insists on making an effort to stick to prose.
--Sam Ashley
"I'll explain in two words: it's a beach party, and I'm Frankie Avalon."
"And I'm Annette Funicello!"
(The Pirate King and Samuel, from -The Pirate Movie-)